• These are, according to Gioia and Lehman the "best" poems of 2018. Can you generalize about what it takes to write a "best" poem? What did you learn about poetry over the last few weeks? How did these readings confirm, or challenge, your previous feelings about poetry? I learnt that poems are difficult extremely and it takes a open mind and a dictionary to understand what its saying most of the times. I believe it doesn't take much to write a "best poem". It was a challenge to read most of these poems it was very hard.
• Which poem was your favorite? My favorite poem was love poem: chimera
• Which poem did you struggle w/ the most ? I struggled until we had an open discussion to hear others view on the poem yonder, a rental
• Kay Ryan's poem, "Some Transcendent Addiction to the Useless" quotes from critic George Steiner's The Poetry of Thought in her title. It's my understanding that Steiner argues that truly great art is bound up with "useless" skills (like writing poetry). This brings us back to our discussion on the first day:
• How useful is it to read poetry? It is very useful so you would be able to understand what others are saying 
• To write it? So you your self can let others know your thoughts 
• Why are you required to do it in 102? To get us ready to deal with real life people 
• Are you glad that you had to read a book of poetry? Not at all 
• Or was it annoying? no I wasn't 
• Or both? 
• What questions do you still have about poetry, or about any of the poems in the anthology?  I really don't have a question 
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Anthology

As we come to an end of this anthology section, I don't want to say that I am happy because I really learned about interpreting poems, understanding the styles that poets use and how to interpret what the poet was trying to convey. I must however state that some poems are difficult to interpret and sometimes this can be a turnoff.

Collection

Writing a collection has been very useful. It helps you learn how to put a whole story together. You learn how to include the necessary steps in a story that help you to tie a story together. You learn the basic skills you need to write at length. It shows that writing at length is as easy at it comes. You learn how to connect one idea and write a whole story on it. Before you know it you have 15 pages with just one idea.

Group Critique

I find group critiques very important. They give you an opportunity to improve your writing. When writing there are times when you write something but when you read it out loud it sounds different from what you intended. Getting another pair of eyes on your writing can only help. They can make sure that you have no errors and all of your thoughts are organized. It will make sure that all of your writing is easy to read and comprehend.

English 102 has given me a different prospect on poems because I'm so use to composing regular writing entries and papers. Its good to discover about something that you don't do on a regular basis. At first, I was kind of skeptical of writing and learning about poetry but then I started to realize it's not so bad. Looking forward to being able to write excellent poems.

Doing the group check gave me some very useful feedback and showed me what I can improve on in my writing abilities. Having a second opinion from someone else always assists with writing because the person will probably see something different than you. Doing Group critique has supported me a lot to improve and further my skills helping me become the best of my capabilities. Having help is always a good thing so when it provides in front you why not make use it.

We're  done with poems but it was lovely reading about the poems in class.
I am having trouble to find the questions that were up about the poems not seeing them dont know why.