This week I achieved my goal of being in class for the whole week, but beyond that we did not do very much. The two main things we did were look at art as a window into literature as well as analyzing a part of the poem "Elegy in X Parts" by Matt Rasmussen. I’m not going to sugarcoat it - looking at art as a window into literature was not very interesting to me. I already do not particularly enjoy analyzing literature, even with the steps taken in this class, but adding analyzing art into the mix just makes it even less bearable. I do not think that I gained anything from the art, but I suppose that the best lessons might be the ones that you do not even realize you learned. I am open to looking at more art and literature, but I would prefer if it was only one day rather than being spread throughout the week. The poetic analysis was once again okay given the TPCASTT tool, but it seemed a bit dry. The poem was interesting enough and the logical analysis was fine, but I seemed to find myself sort of “faking” the subjective stuff (the “what does this poem mean to you” sort of stuff). I don’t mean this in the sense that my ideas were not my own, but I did not put nearly as much time into my thoughts as I had tried to let on. I think if I would have tried more at the subjective stuff my analysis could have been even better. One suggestion I have for the future of the class is to perhaps try analyzing some music instead of paintings. There’s a webpage about it here.
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