Sunday, March 10, 2013
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.
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I totally forgot about the poetry assignment. Wow, thanks for reminding me. I too enjoyed it. It was a different mood from a lot of what we've been reading, with the idea of relationships and love. I agree with your assessment of the forum posts; they help us come up with our own analysis and give us into insights on other ways we could analyze things, which is useful.
ReplyDeleteCeremony was incredibly dense, yes, and I was really impressed with how much it had in there. I'm not sure if I can say I particularly enjoyed annotating it (it was too long) but I enjoyed being able to look for different symbols and connections in the text.
I think you did a good job covering a variety of material. What you said about some things were pretty brief though. I wonder whether going into slightly more detail would help you remember them better.
I think this has a nice structure to it. Even though it was just one paragraph, everything flowed really well. I would just try and elaborate more when you talk about different works. Maybe what you did and did not like... just go into more details
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