Poetry Writing

In the summer of senior year, we students were assigned to analyze a hundred poems and annotate each one to practice the ability to analyze poetry. I chose this artifact because I could study and annotate deeply a poem that correlates to my culture; it is called The Colonel by Carolyn Forche. This poem details a dinner during a civil war, particularly the Salvadoran Civil War, which my parents relate to. I was able to acknowledge a person's emotions throughout the inhumaneness of a fight. This eventually inspired me to write my EE for IB and my personal statement.

This is the first revision of my first draft of the analysis piece of Digging by Seamus Heaney. Throughout the use of Digging, I reflected on my writing and how I used the poem to correlate to the big significant theme in the real world. No student or individual is perfect; this is why I used this revision as a demonstration of growth as a student and a writer, and this is why I chose it as one of my artifacts for my poetry writing.

This is the final draft of my analytical essay called Admiration and Passion, which correlates to the poem Digging by Seamus Heaney. I would argue that this is one of my best writing throughout my IB English career because I could use many rhetorical devices and literary devices to interpret the writing and structure of the Digging poem. This is the main reason I chose this artifact, it conveys a side of my writing that I have not reached before, and it demonstrates my deep analysis and the hard work I put into writing and revising it.