Blog Post 8: Reduction (from Sonnet to Haiku)
Writing poetry never seemed as difficult until I there were different restraints that I felt like I was up against. I’m not sure if that makes sense but when I used to write poetry years ago, I just poured my emotions onto the paper. I didn’t focus on key elements with the level of focus that I had to now. Thankfully, I learned a lot along the way and gained a greater understanding of different kinds of poems that were out of my comfort zone. While every poem did not always turn out the way that I may have originally envisioned, they still were something to be proud of.
The sonnet poem was definitely one of the hardest! While the rhyme scheme was easy, focusing on the syllables was mind blowing!
I would have in my head the perfect next line but it would have too many or not enough syllables. I would get so frustrated because I had to keep changing words and I felt like I was losing my imagery.
Although the sonnet was challenging, the haiku pretty much wrote itself. It was easy to condense the sonnet to create a meaningful haiku. I do think that writing the haiku alone may have been a struggle though. However, having the lines already written and just condensing it was great.
