poems as essays?

scrapiron215
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:37:57 +0000

I wrote a poem for the Langston Hughes essay prompt. It was a darn good poem too . The question was essentially “Who am I?” I find that it is often easier and a lot more interesting to answer such a fundamental question in poem form. So I wrote a poem in which I tried to encapsulate who I am and what I feel passionately about. I modled it slightly on the Hughes poem, and it reads like a list of the things that make up me. I got in so someone must have liked it.