Sunday, September 25, 2011

Response to Course Material

What we have covered in class so far has demystified the interpretive process for me.  Concepts like the DIDLS mnemonic and close reading have given structure to my analysis, and have helped me notice the subtleties of the works I read in a more efficient way.
The essay formula seems natural.  My main problem, however, seems to be lack of time caused by slow analysis.  In our in-class essay, it took me too long to come to a conclusion about the poems on Eros, and my essay suffered as a result.  I attribute this to my inexperience interpreting literature under time constraints.
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  1. FrancescaSeptember 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM

    I have the same issue, I think, with time constraints.

    I've already said this on the other two people in our group's blogs but...how do we analyze a personal response?

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  2. BillySeptember 28, 2011 at 7:46 PM

    I think a large part is that we never really write essays based off of poetry. Poetry is hard to intrepert compared to a document because it not straightforward. I wished Holmes gaves us paragraphs from a story instead. Something we are all use to.

    You should talk about the stuff we learned from our chapter 1 notes too. Also talking about the more specific examples of DIDLS wouldn't hurt either like repetition.

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  3. Margy MannSeptember 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM

    I am totally with you on the time constraints. It throws me off and I still never feel like it needs to be as good as a final draft.

    But I guess you could talk more about DIDLS? I don't really know how we analyze someone else's personal opinion.

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