My Artifact

Create and Communicate: What did you learn during this assignment or task and how did you grow in your writing, speaking, or representing skills? 

During this assignment, I learned a significant amount about myself. I explored topics I generally don’t like opening up about and poured my entire soul into it. It taught me that I can find another way to cope and relieve myself of everyday troubles. I showed significant growth in my writing. I was able to express myself in a style of writing that was completely unfamiliar with me. I believe I grasped the concept exceptionally well and I will certainly pursue this as a hobby in the future.

Share the experience of creative thinking for your artifact (Consider how you formed or developed your ideas, built upon others’ ideas, any strategies that helped with generating new ideas, and what you would improve on for next time). 

During this assignment, the ideas from my poem were compounded off each other. I took the struggles I was facing at the time with my own identity and used that to express my feelings on the topic. When writing something so personal I found that the ideas kept coming. Metaphors kept revealing themselves in the writing as I was constructing it. I believe in the future I could work on sharpening the flow of the poem better so it is easier to consume.