ars poetica

Before this class, I had never even heard the words  "Ars Poetica". So, this concept is pretty new to me. I have written two very different ars poeticas. I wrote one that was more of a biography about myself than a reason I write poetry. It talked about this semester and the events that have occurred and how everything has affected my person, myself. The other one I wrote in class when we had the last half hour to do so. It talked more about my poetry and who my poems were meant for. It talked about the things I find important in my life and why I write about what I do. Now that I have looked over these, it is difficult to decide which ars poetica to use. How do you know? It is really hard to capture everything you want to about yourself in only thirty or so lines. But, at the same time, it would not be a better poem if it were to be one hundred lines, I think it would just ramble. So, I need to decide what I think makes an ars poetica important and what would benefit reading my portfolio. Tough call.

Good luck everyone on the last week of class and finals!