This blog is a great deal of my portfolio introduction. Since only Matt will be looking at my portfolio I wanted to publish this for the whole class to view.
Over the course of this Spring 2009 Poetry class I have learned a great deal about poetry and myself. I have learned that poetry is in the eye of the creator. Poetry can be anything that evokes an emotion or remembrance. Often times I find that the piece of work is only good in the poets’ eyes, which is perfectly fine. As a songwriter, I write for the satisfaction of myself and most of the time I don’t even care what the listener thinks of my music, because to me, my music is the most personal channel to evoke emotion possible.
Workshopping was a very new experience to me. I have never sat in a room and had people critique my work like that. At times, I found that most people didn’t have a clue what they were talking about but the fact that their grade depended on participation meant they had to speak their mind. This is why I workshopped with a grain of salt. Like I repeatedly stated in class, I am no English major so why would I give punctuation advice. I wouldn’t and didn’t.
The mood in class was mostly very serious. As a comedian I felt that a good way to lighten the mood was to use humor in my work. Musically, my music is a great deal more serious than my life mentality. When you get screwed often in life, it’s hard to keep a straight face. With my poetry I took kindly to dry humor, which was a nice mixture of my lyrical and mental background. I always found joy in making the class laugh at an irony in my work.
Overall my work is deeply ironic. The biggest irony I used was in my poem “No Question Too Small”. Whereas everyone kept repeating that they wanted something more profound and serious at the end I confided in the fact that they didn’t see that one coming. In my mind I was successful.
All in all, my general theme is of the religious nature. As a man who is strongly bible believing, I get a lot of my inspiration from my favorite poet, Kind David. King David was a military man who wrote about a lot of the daily struggles that you and I can relate to. I guess, other than Jesus, he would be the guy I would want to have lunch with.
As I already stated, poetry focuses on an emotion or remembrance. The most profound thing I took from this poetry class was how to use eloquent words to describe how I feel. This is a useful skill for poetry and its cousin, songwriting and one that will serve me in any facet of my life. How ironic that I am a communications minor but learned how to best communicate in poetry class.
I really enjoyed this class and I want to thank everyone for their input and hospitality. Good luck in your futures.
-Jay
jaywoodward.com
Friday, May 1, 2009
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