I never realized how important a title was when it came to poetry. Last semester, in a class with Dr. Sill ,we had a class conversation about titles of chapters in novels. Some of the students did not feel a chapter title was necessary, while others liked it as a form of foreshadowing. I fell […]
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Throughout the reading of Leaves of Grass, I repeatedly came back to two thoughts; that Whitman was a radical and that his writing was a metaphor for America. Over and over during the reading I kept coming back to these ideas. Additionally, I feel that our class discussions over the last two weeks support these […]
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Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell […]
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My image gloss is taken from page 45. I chose a set of lines that both spoke to me and included a word I wasn’t entirely familiar with in the selection. I picked my image gloss not just because I wanted to know what ‘mica’ was, but also because I really loved the passage. After looking up […]
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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten […]
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