OK, not a proper sentence, but, a proper feeling!
I had so much homework to get done, I thought I had changed professions - to lawyer or doctor!
I re-realized my weak link in my Content Area - poetry. Yes, poetry. If it isn't written by Poe or Chaucer, I have one heck-uv-a-time figuring out what the writer is exuding. For instance, T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land". I read it, read it again, and still felt as if my brain was a jumbled mush. So, I did some Internet research and I'm still at a loss as to where the poem went (to). I get that it is about isolationism and written as a stream of consciousness of many "readers". But, I just don't get it!
What happens if I find out - like in my last semester - that because I don't understand Eliot - or enjoy Hemingway - I cannot become an English Teacher! Ack! What a scary thought!!
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Have faith! =)
I spent a lot of my younger years on a website called allpoetry.com and some of the little tutorials there teach you to critque others work; to see what's in the the writing, and what's between the lines.
Best of Luck.
The poetry thing is a matter of learning different expectations from verse than you do of prose. Think state of mind rather than narrative.
Poetry is all about your own interpretations, remember. =]
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