My "Poetry History"

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My history with poetry is fairly a new thing. Throughout most of my life I have always been a little distant from poetry. I was first introduced to poetry last year in English113. Our class spent 2 weeks on reading different poems from the text book and creating different activities with poetry. In Eng113 I had to create 3 different poems and present them to the class. In these poems I had to illustrate the significance and importance that they had to me. After really examining all of the different contexts that you can receive from poetry I became very interested in poetry. I've always had a belief that all poetry was hard to understand and had difficult wording, but in Eng113 I realized that poetry does not have to be that way. I look at poetry very differently now, I see poetry as being open to interpretation also I think writing poems allows us to be free in our minds and express our thoughts that have significance to us. I am very glad that I have become more open to poetry, because it has allowed me to open up in my writing and poetry also gives me a great appreciation to all of the very talented poets that have ever lived