The fiction readings where much more interesting to me, I feel like I understood what was going on better in this unit. With fiction you still have to try to interpret what they mean but it is not as hard to get the feel of fiction as it is poetry so I liked that alot. One reading that I found quite interesting was the letter from home not only the meaning was interesting but they used words such as I churned the butter and I brewed the tea. It's almost as if this whole story was passed tense but then sometimes it also confused me as well like when it said are the children ready yet? This reading was so different to me because at times I really didn't understand what they where trying to say, but the structure and word choice of this reading made it pop.
   Another story I really like was the one about the wallet by Allen woodman he used some very good detail in his story. Also used metaphors similar to the ones we have talked about in class. One line that really stuck out to me was "trying to act feeble and childlike and he overdoes it like stage makeup on a community theater actor". In this line you just think of how much make up these people wear then you draw the comparison, it is very cool actually. Not to mention the whole moral of this story is to not let greed over come you by stealing other people's things because looks can be deceiving.
   When talking about fiction stories we have to make sure we use lots of details be that is what draws a reader in. Like in the reading The Colonial he says "on the windows there were gratings like those in a liquor store". When thinking of this line you just picture what the run down liquor store look like and that is exactly what the writer is wanting you to imagine. These are some very cool skills that make our writing a little better

    This weeks poetry reading was a little easier considering I knew a little more about poetry and different styles. Not only did I like some of the writings by Jennier K. Dick but I also thought the way she set up her book of poems was very unique. To start off how she did different sections for the first half of the book and then some poems had titles, some didnt and etc. Flouresence was alot easier to comprehend in some parts rather than the shakespere poetry and such we read last week.
    One poem that I found quite interesting was called "I want to take back". Not only was the content in this poem very interesting but the set up of this poem was unique to. In some lines of this poem there are big spaces in between the next word, im not sure why it is set up that way but it makes the poem more eye opening and something people would want to read. The way i interpreted this poem was basically this guy misses the person he used to be and would like to go back but is not sure if he can go back. By this phrase " I the light back refigured in the man the room, taken" you can tell what Jennifer means by this is the guy tried to go back to what he used to be but couldnt so he came to terms with the person he is today. I liked this poem because I found it very relatable to life because we will always be changing.
   Another poem that i found interesting was part 4 in flouresences, you could tell that this was a very sad poem for her. The way I interpreted this poem was pretty much the pressure of life was getting to her and she tried keeping hope but it was doing no good for her. You can tell this is a very depressing poem and I'm pretty sure it is about her wanting to commit suicide because of all these pressures of life. Just the way she explains her self such as " the feeling of pain which is accompinied by silence" is so unique because by reading this line I know exactly what she means and it is probably a feeling most of us have encountred. Like if you are feeling hurt you just stay silent because you don't know what to say.
 

     I found the poetry packet to be very interesting and I learned alot of new things about poems that I did not know before. Poetry can have so many different meanings and I feel like that is the exact definition of creative writing, giving people the room to put the different writings in any perspective they want. I am not very familiar with poetry so that is why these readings where so different to me and at the same time they were very hard to analyze because words in some of the poems could have completely different meanings than you would normally recongnize them as. But that is what makes poems so unique because there are so many diffenrent types and styles and that is truely how you make a writing your own piece.
    One poem that I found particulary intestesting was known as a shakespeare sonnet, it was sonnet number 130. This poem was so interesting because, pretty much the whole poem he is downing on this girl he is talking about saying things like "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and "Coral is far more red than her lips". But by the end of the poem if you read the couplet he wrote it pretty much explains no matter what I love this girl for who she is because she is beautiful to me. So I think its cool how he describes his love for this girl even if he is giving her a few back handed compliments.
    Not only was it the meaning of this poem that made this reading very interesting, it was the word choice that was choicen too. He used such descriptive words that would make you feel like you could make out a mental picture of this whole poem in your head. Not only did he use words that were talking about her appearence he also used words that talked about her personality and scent to so you could get a full picture. I thought that was very neat because the word choice is would made the poem so unique and that is creative writing. So all and all this week went pretty good and the material we covered was at time difficult to understand but very interesting when it was comprehendable.

Hi my name is Katelyn Trombley I just finished my freshman year at Eastern Michigan University, and now I am taking a few summer classes to lead me into my sophomore year. I am from Swartz Creek, MI which is a suburb five minutes outside of Flint, MI, I have decided to get an apartment with a few friends this summer to take classes and work rather thank go home. I work at Teddy Bear Daycare in Ypsilanti and I love it because I am working with kids everyday my major is social work and I am 19 years old.