Hot and Cold

This essay is proving to be a bit more challenging than I had assumed. At my previous school I took a children’s literature course where our paper assignments were composed of  choosing your own topic while incorporating one or two readings from class; similar to our first assignment. It seems that I may have developed a liking to that type of writing because I am having a severe case of writers block and scattered thoughts with this paper. I thought with this assignment, that analyzing a specific poem and creating an argument around it would be a much more fluid process. It seems I made an error in judgment.

Initially I was struggling to choose between the poem by Alvarez  or the poem by Mayakovsky. After going back and forth and thinking of the themes for each paper, I decided to go with Alvarez because I felt there was a stronger argument. With revising I’m struggling with my thesis statement and determining if it is strong enough or if it even makes sense. When reading this poem so many ideas go through my head and I need to figure how to incorporate and communicate them. In addition I’m questioning if I should write about Mayakovsky’s poem and just start over (though I have a strong feeling that I will end up right back here). At this point I need to stop and try to put everything in perspective with respect to the theme I am trying to communicate. I am anxiously awaiting that moment when the light bulb goes on and I have the ultimate “OHHH” moment. Until then, I’m going to concentrate on these scattered thoughts and figure how to come back from this wall I’ve encountered.