This week was a tough one for me. I feel like I haven't focused the entire week. This is crazy because that's five days that I could have been learning something life changing and wasn't. This isn't due to lack of class content, it's simply because my focus was elsewhere. I have no one to blame but myself.
The poem of the week ("Cross" by Langston Hughes) didn't stick with me like "The Eagle" did last week. With last week's poem, I found myself thinking about it and sharing it with people outside of class, out of the school setting entirely. I really enjoyed reading it and digging for a deeper meaning within it. This week was really rough in comparison. I really struggled to find a deeper meaning, and even now, after hearing what others had to say, it's still not clicking with me.
Don't get me wrong, I see where people could see the deeper meaning, I do. But is the deeper meaning really just that the writer is confused about his place in life? Because that's all I'm getting from it. I think I'm struggling so much because I keep comparing the two essays. "The Eagle" had tenfold possibilities as to what the underlying meaning is and so I found it difficult when we only came up with three or four meanings for this one.
I'm hoping that next week gets better because I don't think I'll survive if each week is like this was. I don';t know why I wrote that. Of course it's going to get better. We're still in the early days.
The poem of the week ("Cross" by Langston Hughes) didn't stick with me like "The Eagle" did last week. With last week's poem, I found myself thinking about it and sharing it with people outside of class, out of the school setting entirely. I really enjoyed reading it and digging for a deeper meaning within it. This week was really rough in comparison. I really struggled to find a deeper meaning, and even now, after hearing what others had to say, it's still not clicking with me.
Don't get me wrong, I see where people could see the deeper meaning, I do. But is the deeper meaning really just that the writer is confused about his place in life? Because that's all I'm getting from it. I think I'm struggling so much because I keep comparing the two essays. "The Eagle" had tenfold possibilities as to what the underlying meaning is and so I found it difficult when we only came up with three or four meanings for this one.
I'm hoping that next week gets better because I don't think I'll survive if each week is like this was. I don';t know why I wrote that. Of course it's going to get better. We're still in the early days.