LAST BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reflection #10

This is the last blog we have to do for this class and we were asked to do it on what we learned on the semester and write our opinion about it. It was a really interesting semester we read a lot of poems, short stories, did many essays, quizzes etc… When we got to the part of the poems it was interesting how simple short poems had so much hidden in them. The way they are written can be describing a certain part of the poem, the comparisons made indirectly, the messages they are sending, the way it can be interpreted in many ways but you want to see it by the author’s eyes because you want to find out what his real purpose was when he wrote it. The only thing I really don’t like about them is all the rules they have for them. For example you have to count the stanzas, see if it’s a trochee, figurative language etc…things that well for me don’t make sense. Maybe if I understood them they would make sense but frankly I don’t in English. In Spanish I understand it a little better.
I liked reading the stories because in “The Boy without a Flag” he fought for what he believed in, in “The White Elephant” how everything was symbolic of an abortion, and so many others read in class. I like that in class from what we read we discuss it and we have the liberty of expressing ourselves no matter what the professor actually knows about the stories. He doesn’t take our comments for granted and opens his mind into seen them in our perspective or point of view.
My opinion: Liked the class except for the part of looking for the different parts of the poems. It was a pleasure taking the first and second part of this course with you. I didn’t like the quizzes too much, but its part of the course, so it’s ok. Take care.