Sunday, March 1, 2009

Reaction to Friday's Activity

Friday when we were asked to write about a specific place that we loved or hated, I thought for a few minutes about where to write about. I knew for my poem to be successful I had to try and create a poem that had an extremely good image that could be provided with it. My decision was to write about the beach that my family and friends would travel to while growing up; to Wildwood, New Jersey. I decided on Wildwood because I remember specific landmarks and restaurants that I would visit every time that I went down.

I had never attempted to write something like this because I usually try and write about a specific story and not about an area. At first, I found it to be challenging to try and find so many specific parts that had to be mentioned within the poem. However, once I decided to try and have some fun with it and stretch the truth as well as my imagination I really enjoyed writing my poem and felt that the ideas were easy to come up with. Instead of a regular stop sign I wrote about how the stop sing that we would pass on the way to Wildwood was covered in graffiti that consisted of various different colors. In addition, I attempted to think of the last possible thing that one would expect to see at the beach in the summer...any reference of winter came to mind. I thought something original was to have a sign in the middle of town at the "classic, crazy, old person's house" that said "yield to Santa and his reindeer." These two signs provide the reader with something extremely different, yet with a creative and easy to remember image.

I really enjoyed this activity for numerous reasons. Especially because it was able to provide me with a great flashback of the glories of summer as opposed to the snowy winter that we are in right now. In addition, I really enjoyed being able to write about a place like a beach and being able to put such vivid visuals into the poem. I hope to be able to have more assignments like this in the future.


--Perry Wertheimer

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