A Very Beneficial Workshop

I found the past few weeks of workshops very enlightening. I find that beginning the critique of any persons poem with what they did well, is really helpful for them. It builds confidence in what we wrote and allows us to feel better about our personal creations. Following the praise with gentle criticism is also very helpful in that it also builds confidence and understanding of the mistakes we made in our papers and what can help us get better. I also think that passing around feedback from every student in the room is great in that we can read the small yet big errors in our poem that they saw. The friendly feedback that my peers gave me back really helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses. My beautiful language and extreme use of metaphor, yet my lack of specificity caused my paper not to be as efficient as it could be. I thoroughly appreciate the helpful comments I received from my workshop. I look forward to applying them to my revamp of the poem.