When I initially heard the term “digital essay” last semester, I was so confused. Do we write an essay (one in hardcopy), make a video, AND write an essay (typed)? Upon being informed that I misinterpreted the term, I was relieved, and I came to like the assignment very much, especially because I was able to pick a topic I had true, strong interest in. (I also really enjoyed watching other people’s videos; they were so well-done!) This semester, picking a poem as a basis for the digital essay/paper #3 doesn’t appeal to me the way last semester’s topic did. In general, I don’t really enjoy poems. I love song lyrics and maybe sometimes a poem might capture my interest, but I wouldn’t purposely read a poem, you know what I mean? However, the poem that I intended to base my digital essay and paper#3 is “Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap” by Audre Lourde. Out of the poems we read in class, the lines of this one caught my attention the most: “And the fault in a mirror slaps back, becoming what you think is the shape of your error. And if I am beside that self, you destroy me. Or if you can see the mirror is lying, you shatter the glass.”
Everyone wants to be happy, or at least we all think we do. But, what is happiness?
