There were a couple things I really noticed change over the course of my drafting. First off, was the word choice for describing different elements going on in my poem. I had to think of different words to represent time moving or seasons changing. Throughout my drafts I explored different words in different places to see what felt right. I also added to certain stanzas or took away others. Each version of my poem reads slightly different and provoked a variety of emotions. What guided me the most was the concept I chose to focus on and how that could be represented. That nature is changing, but also the emotions I felt about the situation did. It was something I had to keep in mind while altering the multiple drafts.
I had actually decorated my book for the first round of drafting because I thought it was required. But, as I sharped my poem, I had to redraw or draw over what I had previously made. This had me frustrated slightly because it disallowed the book from being as clean-lookin as I wanted. The first drawing s I made also didn’t correlate very well with what my concept was. The redrawingI did on the over the second round, I felt, spoke much more to what I was trying to do. I wanted to represent the changing of seasons in a simplistic but meaning way. That is why I put the four divisions to represent the change and difference between them. Then, I included one representation of each season on the cover. The intention in this was to represent that with each season, the speaker feels different emotions. From summer to fall, and then to winter, they have forgotten who the subject was.
Season change, and so do you
White petals prepare as the sun shortens its days
The wind breathes life
into them, signaling their migration.
Soon,
they will have departed,
leaving crestfallen snow
to assume the position.
For forgotten are the petals
and you.
