Three blogs that I think are my best work? Well I think my
Villanelle was one of my better works. Only because I finally wrote a piece of
poetry for the first time in a very long time. I am not even sure if it
qualifies as a villanelle. But it just felt nice to finally put some poetic
words to paper. And I seem to have this thing for writing about clams and
pearls. Weird right?http://meaganweybright.blogspot.com/2012/04/tales-from-sea.html
Another that I thought I did
pretty decent with was probably when I wrote my ideas on question five from “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”. I felt like I really got into that one. I had
several ideas and I actually had quite a few examples from the pages that I had
read right down to whether or not it was at the bottom, middle, or top of the
page. All of the concepts O’Connor was trying to convey in the story I felt
like I was picking up as the reader. Which felt nice to understand on a
different level.http://meaganweybright.blogspot.com/2012/04/5.html
I loved
the “Dream Songs”, Berryman was so interesting. With his whole life being based
upon trying to deal with the deaths in his life. Like his father’s suicide and
his friend dying of cancer. Through his
writing he spoke about different pieces of himself. But then when he committed
suicide himself it really blew my mind. Then when my contextual presentation
was based upon Confessional poetry I was able to bring Berryman into my
presentation. Ah! Berryman! http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=662916276407537088#editor/target=post;postID=8800727103266436433
Overall I would say that my
performance in this class was a bit more than average. I will admit that there
were nights that I didn’t read the entire text, or that I made very educated
guesses on the quizzes. Although, overall I would have to say I really was more
active in class conversations and way more willing to voice my opinion.
Normally I get annoyed with the students that talk way too much and control the
entire class discussion so I rarely speak. But I did manage to get my thoughts
out there and I think some of them may have been pretty insightful. Somehow I
think that all English majors think that they have some great insight into
whatever reading they are discussing, even though it may be very average and
probably not as amazing as they see it in their heads. Sad but so very true,
and I do not think I am above that statement hahaha!
Weaknesses as a writer? I do this
thing where I will say something like “She seems almost excited by the idea by
his advances…” (Like I said in my Midterm essay) But I never gave anything to
back up why I thought that. It’s little things like that make me miss out on
some major points. I could really beef up my essays by rechecking my silly
mistakes. Ah!
I really don’t like the idea of
giving myself a grade based upon what I think. I feel like that’s kind of
selfish? Greedy? Whatever the right word might be. I feel that I deserve a
grade based upon the requirements of the class. Obviously everyone is going to
give some long explanation about why they deserve to have a passing grade. Just
makes me uncomfortable. Hah! Silly I know right?
