The poem I struggled the most with was the shakespearen sonnet, although I spent the most time on my hypertext poem. I had difficulty with the sonnet because it has so many rules and restrictions— and it's the only one where the topic is predetermined. Love. What type? How do I write about a specific feeling and also fit it into to shape of a sonnet? It took a while to figure out, and a lot of looking up rhymes.
There's no requirement to reflect on my favourite poem for this assignment, but I'm going to do it anyway because I love how my hypertext poem turned out. Using hyperlinks to tell a poem that kept branching off into more poems was the first thing I thought of when I saw the lesson, before I even clicked on it. I'd heard of neocities and tries using it once before, so when google docs proved frustrating making my own little website was the first thing I thought of. Turns out learning basic html is pretty easy! My original hope was to have each poem link to at least one other poem in a never-ending web of thoughts. Even though I didn't manage that, I love how I was able to use the hypertext format to dive deeper into my thoughts in the branching way I tend to think about things. It didn't have to be one thing then the next, it could be this but also this and also that and I have things to say about one of those too. I think it was the only way I could have written a poem about my relationship with my parents, because it's so complicated. Even with everything I wrote (929 words!), I wish I could have spent more time on it. Unfortunately I absolutely spent far longer on this poem this poem than I should have, so I had to cut it off somewhere. I may return and work on it more when I have time, but I'm very pleased with how it turned out as it is.