From Analyzing Poetry to Making My Own
As someone who used to write a lot of poetry as a hobby and a coping mechanism when I was tired of Kdramas on Netflix during COVID-19 many years ago, I would certainly say that writing poetry is easier for me than writing about poetry. However, that doesn't mean that writing about poetry wasn't also fun and creative, especially as I wrote about "Jabberwocky", a fascinating nonsense poem. I would say that writing about poetry first definitely helped a lot with writing poetry, as learning about the different types of poems and reading them definitely helped with making the poems. By doing research on my poem and learning about the intentions of my writer/poet, Lewis Carroll, it definitely helped me get into the mindset of trying to be a poet. I would say that even if I were to write poetry first then write a paper about poetry, the former experience would still be very helpful as then I could better resonate with the poet I was writing about. There is freedom and...