The format that im thinking to deliver is a personal essay. I feel that the essay is a expressive way for me to explain the poem. In addition I feel that writing is a format that I can go further in depth with my analysis. Such as providing examples and quoting the speaker to provide examples and back up what I’m saying. A personal essay would be beneficial for me because I like to write. Sometimes a person can explain a full thought in a few words or sentences. While for me it takes me writing a full length paragraph or page to explain a point. Writing an essay would help me analyze the poem further because I could give analysis of the poem but also add my personal insight of what was being said by the speaker. Also writing to me makes its unique because everyone has different ways of expressing a thought and what a person writes uniquely makes it there own. Furthermore writing about it makes me think and goes in depth of the poem that I’m writing about. For example going back to the text and reading it several times to share what the speaker is trying to say in my own words.
Assignment 1
The concerns that I have often is been starting of the paper. Sometimes I have so many thoughts in my mind I often struggle with which to use to carry out my point. Also getting those thoughts down to paper. Questions come to mind of how should I start? What words should I use? It takes awhile for me to start but once I get it going then it’s gets easier from then on. The excitements that I have is doing the research and adding my own personal insight to the writing. I feel that sharing a experience in the writing makes it more unique.
The pieces of the poem that I would like to analyze would be based on dear mum of how he shares and adds the personal insight of his mother. I would like to further in analysis of what he was sharing of how is mom would have sleepless nights worry about her child. It makes a person think of there own personal life and things that their regretful that they have done toward their mom. It leaves a person thinking and also teaches a lesson along the way. So I would go in analysis of what the speaker had shared to my own life and in a way what I learned from it.
A queer love poem the analysis that I would further go into is her sharing that her mom calling her a “dyke”. The effect that it had on her and also analyze the feeling she has when taking about her partner.
Sandep, this is so exciting! I love that you’re talking about about #DearMum and Baby Dykes: do you think you’d want to look at them as a unit, or separately? You certainly can examine both if you think that putting them together in your personal essay can yield a unique set of insights, but you also don’t have to analyze both if you don’t want to (you can pick one, that’s okay).
As for how to start, oh, that’s an age-old question! So difficult! For me, I love writing along with music. What about you? What things help you write best? Set yourself up as best you can so you can be as generative as possible. Then, if you’re still stuck, for me, I would re-watch/listen/read the poem I want to analyze again, with a pen in my hand, and take notes on what things really stand out to me, what things really move me, what I’m noticing that I didn’t notice before, what questions come up for me, etc. From there, I would build up my notes into sentences, and those sentences into the seeds of analysis. Remember that you’re generating a rough draft — it’s totally okay if your process is messy! All of our processes are messy in one way or another!
Basically, I guess in terms of starting, just focus on feeling inspired by the material and dive right in, trying not to worry about “is this right?” or “is this good enough?” Just go for it, and see where you wind up. We can always edit later! You got this!