I could write a boring critical paper, but I'd hate every second of writing it which would make reading it even more miserable. So that just leaves me with a creative piece. (That was my attempt at deductive reasoning.)
That still leaves a wide range of choices, but since I'm incapable of finishing a fictional story, and I'm kind of over creative non-fiction - my finally choice is poetry. How, exactly, I'm going to work that into the class work we've done, I've yet to figure out. I'll probably focus on why/how the author choose which poems get published together, and come up with my own theme for my selection.
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I experienced a similar problem when deciding on a topic, except I ended up settling on a critical piece for the same reasons you settled on a creative piece. Even though the critical piece is primarily mental drudgery, I have found that I seem to be inclined to mental drudgery. More power to those who are confident about their original creations, though.
ReplyDeleteWill this collection of poems have direct relation to the focus of the course? In other words, do you intend this collection to be, for lack of a better term, meta-poetry? Writing about writing? Poems about poems?
ReplyDeleteI honestly hate poetry written about writing. So I was thinking of doing something with our discussion of plagiarism, by playing with old stories or myths to write the poems. Kind of like Sexton's Transformations collection.
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