Week 6-Literature

This week, I feel like we kind of trailed off into a more philosophical path. We talked less about events that happened and more about what was the thinking behind these events, and why these events happened. For this reason, instead of focusing primarily on American Studies and finding connections with American Literature, I will just talk about literature. I actually am really enjoying this poetry unit that we are doing currently in American Literature. I like trying to analyze poems, not stories, for their emotional meaning or appeal, because I feel like poems are more meant to be that way compared to stories. With novels and stories, mainly you are trying to tell a story that can entertain an audience. With poems, you still are telling a story at some level, but the emotion of the poet can show through more evidently and the intended message is more obvious. I also feel that with poems in contrast to with novels, we can pull out more of a variety of interpretations in comparison to novels. More people can come up with different things that make it, at least for me, more engaging to hear these different ideas, rather than just hear several people repeat the same things over and over when analyzing a book.