Artist Statement
My poem has been a long process from start to finish. It went from an idea that I thought would be easy to one of the biggest mental challenges of my life. At the beginning of the project I started thinking about what I wanted to write my poem about. I had no idea so I switched from power to violence. I was thinking that I was going to stay with violence but then my Teacher, Lori, was doing a lesson about peace. We learned that the full definition of peace is “the absence of violence” which wasn’t that difficult. Then after that we learned about violence. We learned how there are multiple different types of violence. So many, that you can be doing multiple types of violence at once. So after that lesson I decided that peace was something so challenging to think about, that I could get my idea through about it. Knowing this, I had to actually think about how I was going to write it.
When writing my poem I had the same problem as I have always had. I could not decide how I was going to write it. I didn’t know if I wanted to build up my poem or if I wanted to make mine strong at the beginning then end soft. After a long, annoying process, I decided to use a more unique method and decided to use a mystery theme. Where I would build up the poem and make it so the reader wouldn’t know what the poem is about till the end. This way the poem is more suspenseful and the reader can get more into it. after figuring that out I started listing my ideas that I wanted to get though to the reader. Once I had my ideas on the list I had to find out what poetic devises I wanted to include in my poem.
The first poetic devise I knew I had to include was repetition. Repetition would help keep a theme in my poem and help add a tone to it. Some other poetic devises I knew I had to include were similes and metaphors. I have always been a fan of making comparisons so I knew I had to include them in my poem. With them I could compare peace, a “myth”, to something in reality or even a real Greek myth. I added lots of symbolism later when writing my poem. This is because symbolism makes a deeper meaning in a poem. So instead of people actually raising olive branches. It means that they want peace over violence. After adding some more small poetic devises I knew my next step was to put all the pieces together and write my poem. After lots of critiquing and revising I got my final poem.
When writing my poem I had the same problem as I have always had. I could not decide how I was going to write it. I didn’t know if I wanted to build up my poem or if I wanted to make mine strong at the beginning then end soft. After a long, annoying process, I decided to use a more unique method and decided to use a mystery theme. Where I would build up the poem and make it so the reader wouldn’t know what the poem is about till the end. This way the poem is more suspenseful and the reader can get more into it. after figuring that out I started listing my ideas that I wanted to get though to the reader. Once I had my ideas on the list I had to find out what poetic devises I wanted to include in my poem.
The first poetic devise I knew I had to include was repetition. Repetition would help keep a theme in my poem and help add a tone to it. Some other poetic devises I knew I had to include were similes and metaphors. I have always been a fan of making comparisons so I knew I had to include them in my poem. With them I could compare peace, a “myth”, to something in reality or even a real Greek myth. I added lots of symbolism later when writing my poem. This is because symbolism makes a deeper meaning in a poem. So instead of people actually raising olive branches. It means that they want peace over violence. After adding some more small poetic devises I knew my next step was to put all the pieces together and write my poem. After lots of critiquing and revising I got my final poem.