Though this week we didn't really do much in terms of lessons and stuff like that, I feel like we still learned a lot just from doing our revisions for our essay that is due this Sunday.
Through the 7 weeks of taking this class I've found that I have gotten better at making an introduction and making it more cohesive. I feel like the amount of time given to us each week to just do creative writing has better prepared me for this, and other essays to come. I completely enjoy doing the Creative Writing stuff just because I get to just be myself without any filter on what I say. This has helped me state my opinions on my essays better and structure them in a way that makes sense. Before starting this group project I've always thought that I was the only one having trouble in writing essays. But as I worked on it with Eric and Bryan, I find that they have trouble writing an essay too. This means that through working on this project together we get to not only improve ourselves in our own writing, but also help each other in this project.
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This week we continued to work on our Creative Writing piece revisions and edits, along with a new poem of the week that we of course TPCASTT-ed.
To start with my creative writing piece, I have gotten farther in my editing and revisions to the point that all I have to do now is to just rewrite the whole thing all over again and actually implement everything that I have commented on my old draft. It's hasn't really been that hard to revise and edit my piece just because, like I mentioned on my last blog post, I have a very distinct connection to my piece. This is because of how personal and real it is to me and how everything I say in it is very true and actually happened in my life. So now, I just have to finish the piece so that I can send it to Ben on Sunday, which I'm pretty close already. We started to talk about a new poem of the week. It was titled "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. Just to talk about the poem itself, at first glance of the whole thing it seems to be just about a child remembering how his relationship with his dad was. But upon further inspection we can deduce that it is actually about how a child had to deal with his drunk father one night before he went to sleep. Of course this could mean a lot of things and could lead into a lot more discussions, but I'ma leave it at that. I feel like I've definitely gotten better at analyzing poetry, definitely more than before I started this class. So I'm glad to say that I'm happy about these improvements and that I can't wait to improve even more as the class goes on. This week we started off with Ben introducing us to Ross Gay, a very interesting poet whose poems tend to have a big switch of tone towards the middle almost every time. Sometimes even if you expect the sudden shift, you would still find yourself caught off guard by how he does it. That's how I see it anyways. Being exposed to Ross Gay was a very eye opening experience. The fact that he delivers each poem that has written in a very enthusiastically comfortable manner helped me connect to each and every word he says even more. This in turn just helped me understand the main message of each poem a lot more.
Moving on from Ross Gay. We also worked on our revisions with our creative writing pieces that we have been doing every week. I personally chose to revise and look at my "I remember" piece. Just the fact that it had me going through my own memories and living through a very specific one that is quite literally the point in where my life took a huge turn resonated with me a lot more than my other pieces. It spoke to me in a deeper level and this fact gave me the drive to want to improve the piece even more. I might even think of finishing it. I didn't get the chance to actually implement any of the comments I left in my document, but I had the chance to write down the revisions that I wanted to add in a later date. The week also marked the "beginning" of our "What is Literature" project. My group, BEB (Bryll, Eric, & Bryan), chose to work on structure and humor for our project. For structure we had to pick just one of the short stories presented to us and we chose "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud. For humor we had to choose two of the four short stories presented to us. We chose "Rape Fantasies" by Margaret Atwood and "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. Then we just chose which one would read which story. I got "Rape Fantasies," Eric got "Bartleby the Scrivener," and Bryan got "The Magic Barrel." I already finished reading my story and I found it very interesting. It does have some humor in it, but it also dealt with something dark, which intrigued me to read on more. |
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