Upon speaking with Singaporean poet, Angeline Yap, I was able to learn a lot about the crafting and messages of her poems. In particular, learning about her creative process of writing poetry was fascinating. When I have personally written poetry, I have found that I am very conscious of the poetic techniques I use and … Continue reading Insights from Angeline Yap
This is my Sestina assessment task. I think that this sestina was able to be personal to my experiences and hopefully add some humour at the same time. One thing I think I did well was selecting 5 words that best related to my theme and what I was trying to say. By putting the … Continue reading Sestina Assessment Task
This week, we focused on Sestinas and in particular, ‘The Book of Yolek.’ It focuses on the idea of the Holocaust and how we must remember each and every one of the deaths in the Holocaust as significant, rather than simply just looking at a number, we need to empathise and understand how it affected … Continue reading ‘The Book of Yolek’ Annotations
This was the first assignment we did on poetry where we got 2 different poems about identity and had to explain the meaning behind linguistic techniques of both poems to each other. Manaka and I got the poem ‘Mistaken Identity’ while my other partner, Anoushka got the poem ‘Dear John.’ The following recording does … Continue reading Poetry on Identity – Mistaken Identity