So, this is my first poetry class and really my first time blogging, as I've never really done it before.  I have to be honest: I took this class because Poetry was always a class I had wanted to take since I was a freshman, but have always been hesitant and afraid to take for the longest time.  I never ever considered myself a poet, and I don't read poetry at all because I never understood it.

Throughout high school and my English Composition class I had to take here as a freshman, the teachers/professors always had us read a poem and force us to say what we thought it was about and what the poet meant or was trying to allude to.  I never understood it then and I still don't now, but teachers forcing me to come up with a bogus meaning I probably just made up on the spur of the moment always left a sour taste in my mouth.  So, naturally, I never really pursued taking this class.

I really don't know if I am ever going to be good at this or pursue some sort of career in writing poetry (being a creative writing major), but so far, I really like the class and Professor McCoy.  Out of the assignments we've had to read, I still don't understand most of the poems we've read, but I'm sure all it takes is patience and practice the more I am exposed to it.  I do, however, like the way Yeats' poems flow.  I have no idea what any of them are about, but they sound really nice when speaking them out loud.  As Koch says: like a music.

As far as the Muse writing goes, I don't really know how I feel about it yet.  I don't know if we have to write about our reflections, or to try and come up with some kind of connection, or if it's okay to kind of tell a story.  So far, I've been writing as if I'm telling a fiction story... but I don't know if those work or if the Muse writings have to be about us and how we feel.  But in either case, I'm sure I will get better at it as time goes on.

I think that is all for my first post for now, I'm sure by the time I put up my second one I will have a lot more to say and a difference in opinion for sure.

Thanks for reading!!!