Although I find it easier to analyze poetry than writing it, analyzing poetry has allowed me to better understand how I can use poetic elements in my own writing. Before writing about poetry, my poems lacked structure and although I would categorize them as free verse, my poems lacked elements that would give them a poetic feel. After writing about poetry, I realized how using certain elements in my poems have helped give them a deeper meaning than just simple words describing an event would. It also gave me an awareness of language and how poetry that is being read aloud tends to flow and reflect a tone that either gives the poem a deeper meaning or simply gives it a structure. When writing my own poem for class, I reflected on the type of people that become I.C.E agents and how most of them have applied simply because of money. In addition to money, the simplicity of my poem comes from the idea that only uneducated people become I.C.E agents. I wanted my poem to seem simple, and reiterate the idea that the actions committed by these people are not because they care about the law but because money drives them to become puppets for the government. While my poem might seem like a homage to these agents, the title and structure reflects how I truly feel about what they are doing and how their lack of humanity is seen in how they treat others and view the law. The process of writing about poetry, to then writing my own poetry is a structure I can use in my teachings because it can help students understand poetic elements. In learning to recognize these elements, students will be able to analyze poems and later use these elements to enhance their own poems.
Here is my poem:
F*CK I.C.E
Fuel me with money and see how quick I run.
Use me to hunt, and I will get the job done.
Cash me out, and you will see what I’m about.
Kids, rodents, families, criminals, whatever it is you want out.
Insert money in me and watch me attack.
Constitutional rights I don’t know anything about that!
Evacuating, terrorizing, and tyrannizing the innocent is what I am good at.
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