After class today, I feel even more stressed out about this essay. First of all, I realize that I probably made a C on the first paper, which wasn’t as hard as this one. Second, I’m pretty sure I will have to do a lot of revising of this paper to make it better because I don’t know if I looked at my poem the way we did in the groups. I read into the poem, but maybe not as much as we did in groups.
When I initially wrote it, my thoughts were so scrambled that I didn’t really know what I was writing. The argument I presented seems sound, but I have to change it to make it sound better. I’m struggling with expressing my thoughts of what I think the poem is about. Basically, I think these poems are extremely hard to decipher. It’s like walking through a jungle without the slightest clue of where you are, and you can’t see the horizon. I feel stressed to the max, but hopefully I can channel this energy into writing a better paper.
What are you writing about? I wouldn’t worry so much about the groups or peer readings–what’s important is what the poem says to you and how and why it does this.