Week 6 of class dedicated to finishing up our work for the marking period. Throughout the week, I spent quite a bit of time reading, trying to finish my independent reading book, Catch-22, so that I could write a good essay over it. I also spent much of the week working with my small group to create our presentation over humor and fantasy. We worked very efficiently, and in no time at all, we have already finished most of our presentation. While working on that, I began to realize how lucky it was that I decided to read Catch-22. After all, Catch-22 is basically just 460 pages of humor used to look at World War 2. Reading a novel focused mainly on humor really helped me in being able to analyze humor and analyze other stories to look for humor. http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/david.james/engl2328/humorous-purposes-sources-and-methods/humorous-purposes-sources-and-methods
Aside from working and reading, we also focused on finishing our creative writing works. This turned out to be quite a bit of fun, as it allowed me to express my own ideas and opinions without worrying about some prompt. It was fairly easy for me to identify which of my creative pieces I wanted to choose. I just picked the two pieces that focused on what I am most passionate about; family and politics. To conclude, the last week of the marking period was pretty good. I worked hard, and I am happy to see that my efforts did not go without reward.
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Week 5 was another week consisting mainly of working and analyzing. Our poem this week was Bright Star, a beautiful love poem by John Keats. I was very struck by the sheer love radiating from the words in the poem. I loved how the speaker compared the beauty of the Earth to his lover. So far, this was my favorite poem we have analyzed in class. Usually, I am not a romantic sort of person, but I truly felt touched by the love conveyed in Bright Star. I am even somewhat sad that, because of the fog day, we could not take another day to look at the poem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
The other part of the week was dedicated to working. My group and I spent most of the week simply figuring things out, plotting how our presentation will go. The themes we picked, fantasy and humor, are very much different than how we normally perceive them. Humor, for instance, is mainly a tool used to convey emotion more powerful than what could be conveyed using direct wording. We also discovered that humor and irony tend to go hand in hand. I enjoyed working with my group, and I am glad that we were able to have fun while at the same time get work done. Overall, this was a decent week. The best part was analyzing Bright Star, because in doing so, I felt myself thinking deeper, while also reading a poem I truly enjoyed. Our week was shortened by the fog day, but I still feel that we accomplished quite a bit. |
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