The beauty of literature is that it takes everything you think you know and flips it upside down. It was around this time last year when I began contemplating, “should I do literature or English? Is it worth it?” Here's my line of thinking: “If I do English, I can only do English in Year 12. If I do literature, I can either continue or do English in Year 12.”
Will I miss something if I don't choose literature?
After a little thought I decided to go with literature. The main benefit here as far as I was aware was that I'm keeping all the doors open for the future. Thus began my journey. I had no idea what to expect, whether or not I'll pass, or even if I will enjoy it.
The first step was Form and Feeling by Elaine Hamilton and John Livingston, a collection of poems focused on poetic form. It was like dipping your toe in the water to test its temperature. In other words, it was a transition period from English into literature. Yet, it was enough to confuse me. I didn't understand what was so important about a form. Or what appropriating that form meant. Or the significance of the generic conventions of that form. One poem that stays in my memory even today is Wole Soyinka’s free verse ‘Telephone Conversation1’ because of the content and its use of block letters. It was straight forward and blunt.
It was poem that was easy to understand but one that I initially found difficult to explain, especially in relation to form.
The poem flowed like a natural, normal
The second reason I chose to take World Literature is because I have always enjoyed the reading and creative
The poem is written in free verse, offers no type of rhyme scheme, and in one long stanza. This contributes to
The most visually noticeable part of this poem is the format. It isn’t written in familiar stanzas with any kind of meter or complex
My English Literature major has helped me to achieve an outstanding level of appreciation, enjoyment, and knowledge of both American and British Literature. As a high school AP English student, I struggled through great works like Hamlet and To the Lighthouse. My teacher’s daily lectures (there was no such thing as class discussion) taught me merely to interpret the works as critics had in the past. I did not enjoy the reading or writing process. As a freshman at Loras, I was enrolled in the Critical Writing: Poetry class. For the first time since grade school, my writing ability was praised and the sharing of my ideas was encouraged by an enthusiastic and nurturing professor. Despite the difficulty of poetry, I enjoyed reading it.
3. His eyes widened and, accentuated by his __________________________________, you could tell he was sickened by the sight of his wife in the room. 4. The __________________________________ philosophy is to use a practical approach to problems, rather than theories. 5. She __________________________________ conversed with her friend on phone. 6. The room was hidden behind the __________________________________ green curtain. 7. He and his __________________________________ hung out at the bar smoking. 8. He could feel __________________________________ anger building inside himself. Matching: Match the antonym to the vocabulary word. _____ 1. concerned _____ 2. compliant _____ 3. clear, truthful _____ 4. ornate _____ 5. tiny _____ 6. beneficial _____ 7. harmful _____ 8. ideally A. austere B. equivocate C. mulish D. cynically E. benignly F. colossal G. apathetically H. pernicious
English in its entirety can be simply described as author, biologist and physician, Lewis Thomas had once said, “We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other” (Thomas 120). The impact literature can bring onto others is simply amazing and is a gift that should be shared with everyone. This spring semester has quickly broadened my perspective. Being that this is my freshman year in college I prodded around ideas of what majors I had interests in. I
In preparation for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition exam, high school students must read many kinds of literature during the year-long course to familiarize themselves with different time periods, movements, philosophies, and genres. Advanced Placement students must learn to think critically, and be ready to find, analyze, and express literary connections through written analysis. The biggest challenge of teaching and learning Advanced Placement English is the difficulty covering the entire scope of literature in two semesters. Twentieth century literature often gets neglected. The pace of the curriculum can also limit
From start to finish, English this year had been unlike any other I had. From start to finish, each and every book had a deeper meaning than I, before, could possibly resolve from the text. The exposure I had to this deeper level of thinking forever changed the way I see literature. Less about “what” than “why”, Literature distinguishes a meaningful story from another. While what makes a book “good” is different for everyone, what makes a story meaningful is what it teaches. Each book I read this year had a story and logic behind it. Every story was real enough to have actually happened because the plot points are supported with real speculation backed up by the nature of humanity. I, personally, have never gone as deep into literature as I have this year, giving me a new appreciation for the genius behind the speculation these books present.
Currently, whether it is any course that necessitate me to turn in literature, I use the opportunity as a way of becoming better at communicating through my papers. Unfortunately, a dramatic change in my writing hadn’t took place, but I wish had the chance to find a passion for it and pursue it. After all, at no time did I overcome my writing and still feel lost in a
It’s funny how certain memories stand out in your mind. You replay them over again and say to yourself “that was a learning experience”. But how often do you look back at the education you received and say the same thing. Those memories helped shape my education and made it what it is today. Literature was always a tough subject because I was and still am less than motivated about reading and writing, but throughout my life it has been a learning experience. It has taken me many years to understand why is was so hard for me, but you can’t grow until you know.
Throughout all of time, literature has played an important role in people’s lives. Books are more than just stories to laugh at, cry with, or fall asleep to, but books can teach. Literature
Reading and writing have played monumental roles in the game called my life. For as long as I can remember, I have been reading or writing, whether it was showcasing my reading skills to my grandparents when I was six, or teaching myself calligraphy when I was thirteen. English literature and all the things it encompasses has always mattered to me, and (almost always) has been a source of my happiness. According to Dana Gioia from “Why Literature Matters, ” more and more young adults are starting to feel the opposite—that reading literature is not interesting and doesn’t matter. “During the past quarter century...the interest young Americans showed in...literature…[has] diminished.” To support this claim that literature matters, Gioia
Literature is very important from the start of your life time all the way to the end of your life time. You use literature in all career fields the career field I will use it in is CSI law enforcement. Also literacy is important to everyone I will explain how later.
The poem is structured with 26 lines and each line is of nearly equal length. There is fluidity
I majored in English in the Humanities and Social Sciences college at Rowan University. At the same time, I studied a number of courses in the discipline of secondary education. I enjoyed studying teaching but early in my undergraduate career I determined that teaching English at the high school level was not my desired life path. Rather, teaching English Literature as a professor was my life's purpose. As an undergraduate, I have taken a deluge of class varying from children's literature to Toni Morrison studies in an attempt to further understand literature. Concentrating on the ways in which modern literature apprehends the American experiences within the written word. At the point of graduation, I accomplished a