As a forward note, I was never good at writing poems. so this probably not be the best one you wrote.

 

The story I chose was “Lamb to the Slaughter”, By Roald Dahl. It is a story about a woman named Mary Maloney, who has just killed her husband. The story tells about how she outsmarts the policemen and tricks them into thinking that she’s innocent and leaving no trace of her involvement.  The main conflict that I chose to use is a Person versus Self conflict, which changes into a Person versus Person, as she kills him.

I chose to highlight some of the phrases that could be easily connected to other words from different sentences. I paired this with some negative adjectives, and now I have my words. I made my poem in chronological order so that the words actually come from their place in the text. This, at least personally, to me, makes the poem flow a bit better. I didn’t know what to add after that. So, I found words that made the poem, at least to me, more dramatic for better appeal. Finally, I made it a simple black and white background, because I didn’t want the background to take away the reader’s attention to the poem.  This is how I got to my poem. I chose this book because I had read it before, and was already fimiliar with the conflict and didn’t have to read again it to find it out.