Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2. Response I really enjoyed reading this article about how the author really has a passion and understanding for reading. This is probably the most in depth piece of writing I have read about the philosophy of reading. Ricky Moody uses very educated language and supports his claims with quotes from well-known people, one being Nietzsche. He ends his essay with a strong quote that uses personification, “I believe in the freedom to see literature, history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.” With this quote said, it is very apparent that the author has a passion for reading.
This style was constructed by using sequential pairs of rhyming iambic pentameter lines. Similar in theme, but differing in style, Dante’s The Divine Comedy and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were, and still remain some of world literatures most renowned works. I feel there are two possible underlying themes of the Iliad. They are; the blind need to achieve a goal at all cost and the bitter sweet result of achieving that goal. Although the story is centered on the events surrounding the siege of Troy, the subject of this poem is the anger of Achilles.
Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing. I learned from the other unit one authors, Joseph M. Williams and James E. Porter, that when an essay is read by someone who is looking for grammatical error or plagiarism instead of content, they will often find the error and ignore the content. Although I do still know the importance of grammar and originality, this class and the grading style has let me put those constructs in the back seat until the editing process, instead of making them something I had to constantly worry about. I don’t believe that good writing revolves around grammar, but rather how well your words can convey a message to the intended audiences.
I learned that I should try more prewriting strategies to find the one that will give me what it is that I need instead of staying focused on the one that is not working well for me. Next time I start to write I would think of things that I like do so I can write freely about those things. Writing Process My purpose for writing this essay was to be informative and that is where my problem came in. How can I be informative not using references or stating where I got my thoughts. My audience was society as a whole and I did fulfill my audience by addressing a subject that we deal with everyday and not realize how much of it is influenced in our everyday life.
The poems in this section have to do with “Ars Poetica.” This means The Art of Poetry in Latin. The poets of this collection of poems are actually using poetry to answer the questions of what poetry is, how it should be written, and how it should be read. There is one poem specifically that I felt agreed with my views of poetry and that is Billy Collins’ “Introduction of Poetry.” In this poem, I feel like he is trying to say that people try too hard and over-analyze poems. They sometimes try to force a meaning into a poem because they think that there has to be a reason that poem was written and it has to have some kind of deeper meaning of an issue going on in the world. I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it.
He believes that what he knows of the world is only a semblance of the truth at best. Reality exists and he is able to intuit its existence, but it is finally beyond his grasp. Despite Bronk’s asceticism, he was constantly sought out by readers and many poets who would journey to Hudson Falls to visit; for young poets, this trip was something of a rite of
Christian Biggers Beginning Again The “Beginning Again” is a free verse poem. This poem has a lot of great symbolism in it and is really deep. It’s not written for a child’s mind, one could say, but rather an intellectual’s. I liked this poem because it forces you to think, the reader has to read closely to find out what Franz Wright is really saying. The first line of the poem, “’If I could stop talking, completely cease talking for a year, I might begin to get well’”, tells us that Franz most likely gets in trouble with his mouth a lot.
When I look at what I need to focus on, I still need grammar work. Sometimes, I use the wrong tense of a word and I will go back to read it and realize that the meaning is opposite of what was intended. I found out that when I do that I need to make sure that I correct it so I do not distract my reader. I will continue to read my paper and look for mistakes over and over again until I feel confident in the draft. Though I know there are still some mistakes in my final draft I feel good about them typically.
This poem is my favourite poem due to the double meaning of the poet’s words you could read one thing but it truly means something else. That is why I chose this poem for my Culminating Activity. Shel Silverstein is a children’s poet who wrote “Where the Sidewalk Ends” as a child’s poem but was really intended for adults. In the poem he is hinting that adults need to take a step back and put themselves back as children to find joy and passion again. I feel that this message is important in everyday life because people take life too seriously and later regret not had enjoying themselves more.
Transitions are generally used effectively. The essay identifies the name of the poem and the author, but it may not do so at the beginning. The essay presents a thesis but it may not be in the introductory paragraph, or the essay may have a concluding paragraph that does not restate the thesis. Most of the body of the essay contains paragraphs that support the