Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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I’m not allowed to blog about places to eat so I guess I’ll start talking about poetry like everyone else. My experience with poetry has been the worst. I’ve never been able to understand and interpret it. I really hope at least our collection project will be more fun and creative than blogging about poetry. One reason I feel like I dislike poetry is because it’s written in a style where you have to figure out what the writer is trying to say. I like reading works that can be understood just reading instead of having to spend time to figure out what the author is really trying to say.
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Can you say more about what it means to figure out what a poet is "really trying to say"? Why don't you trust your abilities to understand? Most of the words aren't complicated and the ones that are, we can look up. So what's the problem?
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