Strategy Week 2

First of all, I would like to say (again, apologies for my incompetence) that I guess I went in the wrong direction with last week's strategy exercise (which is a shame because it was my favorite entry of mine from last week. thank god for bad reading - sometimes.) but I got it now, I think.

The strategies Gary Jones incorporated to create the piece "Run of Weld Before Lunch" rang as some of the more valuable in the work discussed thus far. By sorting through his natural junkyard and freewrite phrases, Jones found an unexpected direction to follow; his intention was not to write a draft about "machine-shop workers" but as that seemed to be the main subject of his freewrite, he found a topic of interest and researched it further as to create a new conversation between the poet and the past. Instead of just being satisfied with the images Jones's free-write summons, he searched for more real-world images to create a historically accurate, more rounded topic which gives his draft more depth and meaning. Being aware or having a "historical consciousness" illuminated a new path on which Jones could travel to make interesting and meaningful poetry. Another vital factor Jones incorporates in the creation of his later draft was the expansion, contraction exercise explained earlier on in our text.