poetry

during the class we spent a little time on poety, and i greatly appreciated it. i really enjoyed looking over the prose poetry that we studied, after understanding how to write it used my knowledge in my creative writing class, and had good results. not only that but by doing the unpack a poem, i discovered another way to interpret poetry as well. with that i was able to fully appreciate the writers and their works.

streetcar

finally, there is "streetcar named desire" by tennessee williams, which is in fact my favorite story from this quarter. not only for the bold and well thought out characters and storyline, but also the issues that were discussed in such. williams, being a homosexual in a time where being such was similar to having the plague, in this story he discusses the issues with such, but also speaks of addiction and a woman's insanity. after doing my final presentation on williams i am going to be biased in thinking anything negtive about him, because he was such a great playwright, and explored ideas that none other would think to mention. even though some were forwned upon, he never lost his audience, and still has them today!

end of quarter #2

alright, so the next text that i greatly appreciated is the "open boat", which is a realistic novel of four men trying to survive in a row boat. even though most focus upon the storyline, my interest went to the way Crane took men from all seperate societal levels, and had them work together for one goal all wanted, survival. the way that the men interacted with eachother at first was to be expected, however as the story went on, all the men started to understand eachother. they knew that off that boat none would ever speak to one another, that this circumstance was on of odd proportions. i believe the idea and storyline were magnifcent especially for the time that the storywas released.

the end of the quarter

ok, i definately have not been keeping up with this blog, because i completely forgot about it. however i am going to talk about all of the texts in one posting. starting with the yellow wallpaper, which was one of my favorite stories this quarter. i deeply appreciated the idea of this woman suffering from post pardom depression, sitting in a house with nothing to bide her time by except for this yellow wallpaper. this story surrounds itself around this romantic protagonist, whom has even tricked herself into believing there is another world behind this paper, and its sad that her husband has witnessed her insanity, yet he continues to choose work over his loved ones, which ultimately leads to his death. however, the dialogue and actions taken by the protagonist in this story, are so outrageous, one can do nothing but love this chracter.