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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Josephine
10/13/2016 06:41:59 am
Hi Drew,
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