Mid-Brief Reflection
My whole project is based on my creative response to every single piece of Pacific literature. I have written three pieces of poetry and one prose by now, the inspiration is mainly picked up from the original reading in paper A Pacific Reader that I’m currently taking. I analyzed the literature from paper A Pacific Reader, and I wanted to write creative writing for this paper. For the weekly posts, I have my analysis, and creative writing reflected the original reading as well as the reflection after all. I can’t promise that I have been improving every week, but I did try my best to create my piece of literature. I have to clarify that I am not a poet, so my poetry won’t be the Shakespeare type. I just did what I felt and what I wanted my readers to know.
When I’m writing the creative response, I found many challenges of the word choices, the rhythm, and layout. It is challenging for me as a second language learner, but it won’t be that difficult. Because I wasn’t looking for a perfect poetry that needs to be done by months. I only have one week to write one poem, so it won’t be perfect as what you will possibly read from the famous poets. I have visited many poems websites to get certain inspirations as well as the dictionary sites to find the right vocabulary. Pacific poetry isn’t really hard to understand, that’s what I felt most relieved.
What’s really hard to comprehend is the Pacific vocabulary the poets used, I need to find the meanings and to get to know the poetry better.
Most importantly, I’m doing the analysis and creative writing about the Pacific poetry at the same time, I’m actually improving myself because I have double opportunities to reflect on the literature. Even my teacher said my analysis is improving every week; I have to say creative writing is really helping me to understand the writing and the writer. Because I will be writing a response to their works and I felt like I can get into their minds. Every time when I’m writing my creative response, I get to think about the reasons why the writer wrote it and why or what I’m going to write.
I wrote a short poetry for the first post in week 5; it was a strong creative response to a Pacific Islander’s poetry named “I am not sorry anymore.” The original poem is written from the slave’s point of view and how the author felt about the boss he had and how he missed home. The original poetry portrayed the racism about how the white disdains the black, this is still happening in our society now. Many white people discriminate the Asians and the brown. I wrote my poetry from the boss’s point of view, so it is what I felt about the employees that I hired. This is just using a contrary way to portray my hate to the ignorant and unamiable bosses. The other poetry I have written are fine works, but I still feel like the first one is the strongest and most powerful one I have ever done. I think it’s because the first poetry is what I felt the most and I can completely relate to it. Maybe it’s because I loved the first poem or I have fulfilled inspiration to write. Not that my other poems are not strong, they are strong, and I do like it. But I still particularly loved the first poem that I have done.
For the next four posts, I will still try my best to accomplish it and try to find another favorite poem to be my last accomplishment.