Original Completion Date: March 7, 2019 This is the third poem I wrote in my Spring 2019 poetry class. This type of poem is called a couplet, which means there are two lines in each stanza. I was assigned this type of poem in February, and in March, we each had to pick one of our poems to revise. I chose to revise A Forest in Flames because I felt like this was the easiest poem for me to make changes to at the time. I was inspired to write a poem based on t

Original Completion Date: February 26, 2019 Many of us know what it's like to drive in the Bay Area...especially in rainy weather! This poem describes what that was like for me. I was driving home from a friend's house and it was a little scary, but I thankfully didn't get into an accident. This poem is called a quadruplet, which means there are four lines in each stanza. Here's what Professor Gubernat had to say about it: "This clearly struck a cho

Original Completion Date: February 19, 2019 A Nap on the Beach is one of the most difficult poems I ever had to write. This form of poetry is known as a metric poem, which means that the words must stick to a particular beat. For instance, this poem maintains a 4-beat rhythm. If you read it carefully as if it were a song, you should be able to notice it. My professor found it impressive that I located the setting of this poem in a specific time and place an