So this week we focused on a poem called “Elegy in X Parts” by Matt Rasmussen. This poem, comparatively, was fairly easy to analyze, but because poetry just isn’t my thing in general, it kinda sucked. When people point out things in poems it really easy for me to see them, and I suppose I can pick out the occasional rhyme and easy stuff like that, but knowing why the author used those ‘poetic elements’, (which is kinda the important part), is just a whole 'nother ball game. Like even after writing the paragraph of crap that I wrote for the essay on Friday, I still don’t really know why Rasmussen wrote the whole poem in two lines except for the end, other than that he was trying to convey the non-existent ending of a relationship. But, like, how that helps convey meaning? Beats me. Earlier in the week when we watch a TED Talk by a woman that talked about the stories behind paintings, that was when I was like oh, hey, this class is pretty cool because I probably wouldn’t have watched that just on my own, and that was super cool. When the women, I can’t remember her name, spoke about the relationship between the girl and the painter in the painting The Girl With the Pearl Earring, I found it interesting because it brought a new perspective to art for me. I’m a fan of art I guess, like I can dig a pretty painting, but I’ve never really thought about it any deeper than that, a pretty painting. But now after watching the TED Talk and doing the Art as a Window into Literature activity, I might try to dig deeper.
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