Response to Course Materials

This week ended with a poetry assignment from chapter 7 in our texts, which I actually kind of enjoyed doing. The poems were interesting to try to dissect (the questions definitely help give me a start on which parts of the poem I should be seeing as sticking out from the others, and which parts I should be commenting on) and I really liked the Lord Byron poem. Earlier we did 2 poetry forum posts, one for The Importance of Being Earnest and one for Woman Hollering Creek. I felt better about these poems when it came to the forum posts. I felt like finally these two pieces were ones I understood and could dissect by myself, and it's helpful with the forum posts to see the posts of my peers, and to see how they see the works and what they've responded to in comparison to my posts. We started on Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, which I have to say is a book for school I actually don't mind at all, and in fact look forward to getting to read (and even to annotate!!) Coming off of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, I thought the play was an extremely dense piece of work. I was wrong - Ceremony is definitely the more dense work. It's very culturally diverse to everything else we've read in the class, and Ms. Holmes told us to pay attention to things like direction, wind, rain, and colors.