Sestina+Reflection

1. What big ideas of English I do you see in this piece? What does it have to say about those ideas? Do you still think this? How have your ideas changed?

For this poem I had to use a lot of creativity. The poem format proved to be difficult in that, that we repeated the same 6 words at the end of every sentence. I had to be creative to find new uses and ways of using the same words. You have to be creative, in order to keep things interesting and not repeating all the time. Personally, I would never keep reusing the same words over and over. I would just find new words so that I wouldn't have to change the complete meaning of the sentence.

2. Compare this piece of work to another piece of work. Do you notice similarities? Differences? How has your thinking or writing or reading improved between the two pieces?

The similarities between this piece and the other piece of work are that they are both the same type of poem. They both have the same set up with the repeating words per verse. The words that do repeat are compleltley different from each other though. Also the voice of the poems are completley different. I chose to write about the ocean and life. The tone is very happy and hopeful. The other poem wrote some that is totally different even though it has the same basic layout format.