Reflective Essay: Understanding My Writing Style

Before taking this class, I had little to no interest in poetry. One of the reasons is that it was hard for me to understand its language and writing style. Writing for me requires a lot of time, because I need to think about the development of the essay. Although making an outline before writing a draft is helpful, I find it difficult to follow an outline, so I rather do brainstorming and freewriting for my first draft. Frankly, learning about poetry and drama was a challenge, and it change the way I approach any piece of artwork such as song, movie, drama, poem, and any novel in general. The literary elements helps me to further understand the underlying message the art piece. Discussing about the readings with my class was insightful experience,
I found that assignment to be the most interesting one, because my greatest challenge is following a strict guideline for writing academic essay. I realize my writing style requires complete surrender to my thought process, otherwise I would always ended becoming overwhelm. In the beginning, it was difficult to comprehend about the poem, because it creates a conflicting images in my mind as compare to the hidden message of the art. However, like many artistic endeavors, it requires literary elements to address different aspects of spectrum. After discussing the poem with my class and rereading it a few times to discover it underlying message, I find it easier to read the poem by its literary elements.
After taking this class, I learned how to appreciate poetry at its own beauty. For instance, in the story Othello by William Shakespeare, it is amazing to learn how one piece of writing could elicit both political and personal confliction of issues such as racism, sexiest, morality, and religious. I used to find it difficult to read his poetry, which is the reason why I avoided reading them. However, this class completely changed my bias against poetry and