Hello, welcome! My name is Karen Rodriguez and I am Fashion Merchandising student at TCU, and I have created a poetry anthology in the form of a blog! Click on the “Poems” tab & enjoy!
The fifteen poems selected were chosen based on my progression of reading poetry over the course of this semester. Looking back, I enjoyed poems that were about feelings, specifically poems about love. The theme of love inspired this anthology. Every poem in this collection is not only about love, but revolves around what each writer thinks love is to them, whether this may be modern poet Matthew Yeager’s definition of love through his experience with a girl and the love that they shared and the things he wished he could have experienced, or Elizabethian era Christopher Marlowe and his definition of love through asking this one person to come stay with him and the promises he makes if that person decides to. These definitions of love may not be what everyone thinks because everyone’s experiences with love are different, but it is interesting to see the patterns of how people reference love or use the idea of love to evoke some sort of emotion and or experience for the reader. I thought it was interesting that some of these poets did not have to use the word love in order to communicate that is what they were talking about, some used dialogue, some nature, some human elements, etc.
I used WordPress to create a blog as the format for this anthology because I knew that it was something that was familiar to me, and although I know I am good at MS Word and MS Powerpoint, I knew that doing something that took a bit more effort and time would be worth it and I could gain more from it instead of just typing things onto a document or into a powerpoint. I think a blog as the format was fitting because it seemed that every poem being different was almost like a different blog post and almost like head supporting headnote was a review or critic of some sort, sort of like a fashion blog post.
Overall, I personally feel as though it did not turn out as well as I thought it would, looking back at it I wish I had chosen to divide poems by something other than theme, maybe by era or by structure. Although I was successful, I think I could’ve done something more creative being I am a fine arts major, I think time got the best of me, as I put this anthology on the back burner. Looking at it complete, something is missing and I think reading the headnotes and the poems help communicate the theme of love, however I should have done something to communicate that further and my goal of trying to incorporate different meanings of love. I think maybe incorporating more pictures or graphics of some sort would have been more fun for the viewer, of course. Or perhaps I could have created a story of love and maybe have made each author a character and their view on love, kinda inspired by the Valentine’s Day movie that features different couples that are in different places doing different things, however all on Valentine’s Day. Not sure if this is might have been a stretch however it could have been cool. I think I did a great job, its very pretty and I think a general format might’ve made it boring.
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