Poetry Goals

1. Understand more poetry terms.
2. Learn all the different types of poem forms.
3. Be able to understand why the author wrote the poem, the author's purpose for writing it.
4. Learn how to analyze poetry better.
5. Grasp the attitude of the poem more quickly.

I chose these goals for my poetry skills because after working through the practice poems I realized how long it took me to fully understand them. I also realized that my vocabulary really needs some work and that I would really like to work on not only my poetry terms but my vocabulary in general because I think that a person's vocabulary is very important. I said that I wanted to grasp the attitude of the poem more quickly or the mood faster because I think that once you understand the feeling of the poem it is easier to analyze the rest of it.

Diagnostic Test Experience

My experience taking this test was not bad at all. I did not know what to expect going into it but after taking it and going through the questions I discovered that it was not too difficult. I personally love the book Pride and Prejudice so I was pleasantly surprised when we had to read a section of it and answer questions about it.  I also thought that the section about the Aftermath of The Civil War was an interesting addition to this test because it was very different than the other sections we had to read.  Unfortunately I did discover that poetry does not come as easily to me as I thought it had in the past. I wish to become better at interpreting poetry because I find it very interesting and easy to  relate to most of the time.