Metacognition: Writing a Poem

To me, poetry is one of the most beautiful forms of writing that there is. It takes a lot of talent, time, and patience in order to write a good poem. In English class, we have all been going through the lengthy and fascinating process of creating a poem. I feel that in order to really appreciate good poetry, you have to experience how difficult it is to actually write a poem. By now, we have each written at least three drafts of our poems and are starting to understand what professional writers go through (on a much smaller scale, of course). Looking a the poem I began with and looking at the poem I handed in as my third draft, there are drastic differences between them. One of the most interesting things I discovered while writing this poem is that things that I wrote and felt really confident about sounded dumb and out of place when I read them again in a week. This taught me that not every creative impulse I have will be a great one, but some of them will be, so I just have to be patient and wait for the good ones to come along.