Anthology Reading One

The poetry reading was very interesting to me. I never looked at poetry’s effectiveness; I always just thought that it was a pretty and interesting use of words. I thought it was interesting that the author spoke on how it wasn’t important to know certain things as long as we can understand why it was mentioned. For example, when he says that it isn’t important to know how the man died or important to know whether the character knows how the man died. But what was important is knowing that the death shook the character’s world. Also the other reading began to make me think about why writing is always a creative process. Even if I am writing a history paper I never know exactly how the paper will end up, or even how I will get there.