Reflection

The process I used was to check out some YouTube videos that explained finding meter and how to hear the stressed unstressed sounds. After reading the poem out loud a handful of times, and watching youtube I realized you can't read it without hearing the stressed sounds. It was a neat realization that the whole time it was right in front of me. I selected the option I did because it was words I understood and it was easy for me to read. I selected to do the voice because I really hate hearing my voice. I thought maybe if I forced myself to listen to me read it over and over I wouldn't be so self conscious about my voice. My biggest challenges were really just letting the poem flow out of my mouth and listening to what I am saying. I tried to be lazy and read it in my head over and over, but it wasn't until I said it out loud that I could really scan it and hear the stressed syllables/words. An insight I gained by doing this exercise is that once you scan the poem, find the meter, or feet, the poems are that much easier to read. You don't have to worry about it once you have it figured out. The words just flow out and you can focus on the speaker and meaning of the poem instead of how I was supposed to read it.