Already the unintentional writing class rebel

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I didn't even mean to rebel.

My teacher said we could write any poem about the subject of place.

I wrote a poem about not fitting in and about someone who is inspiring to me who doesn't fit in and how it's because he has all these cultural places and I feel a bit like that too. My family has six countries in us, recent countries not distant things, he has four countries in him. I love him for that.

My teacher just sent us something confirming that our poem has to be about a specific place.

But he never said that to start with.

See how I don't fit in?

And I'm trying his assignment now and it's really weak, dull and uninspiring. Typical workshop style stuff.

Should I write a whole new poem over this?

just home school and online school or community colleges and sat preps ..

k12 is a waste of time .. its full of ..

Um I'm 30, British and in adult education so did you reply to the wrong person?

Personally I think your idea is great. Shame your teacher isn't more inspiring.

I wish he'd get back in touch and say if my idea is ok or not.

If I had been told write a specific place I'd write a specific place.

I'm doing another one now but it's just really something silly, intentionally so. Just to see if I can write something about a specific place before class begins.

It is what it is. Tell your teacher to lighten up and not be such a fascist. Isn't the point to get people writing? Not getting used to pleasing an editor?

You could argue that your poem is about a specific place, your place in this world, one that you just haven't found yet.

The teacher might think you're being cheeky, though.

^^

That's what I thought. Look at some of the locations WPers use on this forum, for example.

I might say that.

I don't think he'll think I'm cheeky. Not at my age and stage in writing career.

I think he likes my weird outlook.

It's just I was wanting to set out to be a rebel, chose not to and ended up there anyway

OK he's officially being annoying and I hope the relatively experienced writers/the people who have lived long lives in my group know it too.

Every single time someone references something which is outside of his personal knowledge area he says 'the reader won't understand this'.

For eg there was an old guy who talked about a toy tank. No, I didn't get it at first so I googled it. I did however understand that it was about a kid playing wars.

I enjoyed the goggling process. And it added concrete weight to what he was writing about where putting 'toy tank' wouldn't root it into 1950s London.

It's just allistic nonsense, the way I understand things as an autistic person is to google them, not to rely on some sort of fake 'common sense' or 'general knowledge'.