Sunday, September 9, 2012
Response to Course Materials - Number One
So far in the class, we have mainly done literary terms. Looking at sonnet 20, many of the concepts we have gone through are included. First, there is personification in the second line. When he says "you are as pretty as the wind" he is comparing her to it, but putting human like qualities on the wind. I also noticed that every sentence is end-stopped. Without going through the terms as a class, I would have never seen this as anything important. Now, however, after looking at all different kinds of poetry, it is something that should be taken into consideration. The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing would agree, having stressed punctuation. While there is a difference in between college writing and poetry, when there is punctuation... it is probably important. After reading the poem, I also began over thinking it, too. How would this connect back to Foster's book? What does it mean? After some consideration, I related it to the bible. After all, everything comes from the Bible (... or Shakespeare). The narrator is talking about loving his wife, regardless of all the flaws. While she has a bad side, there are also good qualities. The bible talks about loving people unconditionally, which is something that can be seen in this piece. Also, speaking of How To Read Literature like a Professor, I can now relate that book back to the rhetorical situation. Each chapter is a different argument, using elements of the rhetorical situation to make a point. He also uses the structure of an argument to form a point. Overall, this week has been full of knowledge. Which... looking back at my first sentence now... I see I was wrong. So maybe I'll keep it. Just to prove that I have learned a lot more that I thought.
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Alexis, I liked how you related many things back to the poem that we read over the summer! You make some valid points, but there might be even more to think about. For example when you related the poem to the Foster book, is there any other ways the poem is related to the Bible? I'm a little confused on how they are related besides that and its a little broad.
ReplyDeleteI do have a another question, like was there any examples of the punctuation in the poem that related to The Nuts and Bolts of College? Maybe when Neruda writes "Ugly: where did you hide your breasts?" there is a different meaning behind it too? What do you think? It seems that Neruda is directly addressing ugly as if it were a thing.
I think it's interesting that the literary terms stuck out the most to you, and that you can relate the terms to a lot of the literature, because I thought the power points (rhetorical situation, and etc...) were the bulk of the week. Like Mackenzie said I like how you took what we learned and related it to the poem you read over the summer and I've also started looking a lot more into punctuation. I think you should go a little more in depth about how punctuation can impact a piece and a reader, maybe give an example or a quote that you read in Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, or even from a piece of literature that had important punctuation. I also think you should give more examples throughout the post rather that just telling us what you learned, maybe you could relate another literary term to a book you've read, or give an example of how you see a certain piece of literature differently after reading Foster's book. My favorite part of your blog post is the last sentence, not only because it's funny but it just shows how much we've actually learned in the first week!
ReplyDeleteI liked how you talked about poetry in this! That's one thing I think we will work (and have been working) a lot on. I always have trouble with it, so I'm glad you mentioned it. I didn't think literary terms were the bulk of the first week, so I'm glad you disagreed with yourself. My favorite part of this is how you relate the poem to the Bible--it really does make sense, and you could have gone even further with that.
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