I thought the persona poem would be difficult. I sat there and thought about it for hours before I came up with my character. I couldn’t make sense of writing poetry or anything as someone else. How I chose my character is actually funny; at least to me. I was sitting at my kitchen table and my 14yr old asked me what I was doing for homework. So I told her about the persona poem and how I needed to choose a character or mythical creature. This opened a conversation about how much she enjoys Greek mythology. She started telling me all these stories about the Gods and Goddess, and how and why. I found one particular story interesting and decided to take notes as she spoke. We talked for a while and when she went to bed I began to research my chosen character as well as the others in the story. Originally I was going to write from Cronus’ view but then decided it would be more interesting to tell the story from Titaness Rhea’s point of view. I decided this because the story is about him, even when my daughter was telling the story she spoke about him not about her. This was truly an interesting assignment. I would have never thought about this on my own because I was not very interested in Greek Mythology. In the beginning I did not understand or even believe that we needed to research to do this assignment but I was wrong. Research was very important so that You can add the necessary details to write as someone else. I mean, how can you pretend to be someone if you don't know anything or at least basic information about them.
 At first, I let him get away with it
I could not bear another one,
 The prophecies. The reason
why he did not want his sons,
his daughters to outlive him.
 The possibility of being overthrown,
The way he did his own father.
 Giving life to this infant, with hope.
having a different outcome unlike his previous siblings
seeing him again, in the near future.
 To save him from the man eater.
He should have brought no harm.
 With help I saved My baby.
The sky God and Earth Goddess,
helped avert his would be end.
 The man eater indulged in what would be Zeus.
Instead a swaddled boulder.
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