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Thursday, January 30, 2020
Journal Two-Max Balderson
Hi, I'm Max Balderson. I'm English major here at OSU: Marion, and this is my 4th year on this campus. Previously I was a Japanese major, but I recently made the switch. I guess I really like languages. Another fact about me is that I play the bass guitar. I don't play it well, mind you. I've only had it for a few months, but learning to play it has been a great creative outlet for me. I'm taking this class to sort regain some creative aspects in my writing. I've been working purely in academic writing for the greater part of my college career. It's definitely been helpful to strengthen my academic writing, but I feel like I've gotten out of touch with creative writing.
One concept that has been really helpful in my poetry writing is meter. Before when I would try to write poetry I really had difficult giving my poems rhythm or beat. I had no idea that certain syllables could be stressed and utilized in different ways for poetry. Even when I composed lines that had beats that I liked, I really had difficulty replicating. In Four Genre's In Brief, we read that, "If you have written rhyming poems before, you probably composed in meter, even if you didn't realize it at the time." (29). Giving me certain meters to apply to my own poetry (like iambic pentameter) has vastly improved my confidence writing poetry.
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Max I absolutely agree that the concept of meter has been eye opening. Prior to this class I would hear teachers mention something about the meter of a poem and would have no idea what they were talking about. It is interesting to try and challenge yourself by writing a poem with a specific meter in mind.
ReplyDeleteMax I encourage you to keep pushing yourself to keep playing the bass and to get back into creative writing.
ReplyDeleteHi, Max. I find is really cool how you are also able to know the Japanese language. From the past and what I’ve looked at, the Japanese language looks so intricate and particular to learn, I do not think I would be able to even begin to learn it.
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