Mental Health Resources:
Extremely important especially in todays generation, I'm glad you put this here for the students who may need it!
Mental Health Resources:
Extremely important especially in todays generation, I'm glad you put this here for the students who may need it!
Please note that I do not commonly check email between 6 pm and 8 am
Thanks for putting specific times in which we can contact you incase of questions we might have, that will help me to say the least.
I will expect you to treat your classmates with kindness, respect, and understanding
Wouldn't want it any other way, and I probably can speak for the rest of my classmates as well especially considering how important a safe working environment is especially for poetry.
In this course I need you to be brave. You will read things that may make you uncomfortable
This is exciting considering I'm so eager to learn new things. This statement also provides us with the knowledge before had so we have time dwell on each topic given to us.
Does it have a beginning that builds to a compelling middle?
This statement is true considering it creates structure in which helps develop a rhythm for learning all of the complex themes and or feelings throughout the poem.
Strong, descriptive verbs
These words create vivid imagery for our minds, in which they help increase the knowledge we retain about any particular poem.
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new idea
Our intellectual temptation for new knowledge is contrasted with the word "drugs as if in this case they are bad which they are not considering the more information you know the better. We sometimes see learning new things/ideas as hopeful projections considering sometimes there might not be any room for real world change.
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives
Scrutinize is critically examining a body of work in which this case its poetry coexisting with each and every one of our lives. The "quality of light" refers to the depth in which this self examination is looked into, which usually is achieved alongside some creative expression, like the words being used.
Tomygreatsurprise, whatIstartedwritingwaspoetry. Iwasalreadydeeplyattractedtowords, inanunreasoned, almostshamefulway. Ilovedthemfortheirownsakes, forthevariousthingstheycoulddo, andforthemeaningsthatcouldbemadewhenIputthemalongsideonestheyweren’tordinarilynextto, orfarfromonestheyareusuallynear
I seek knowledge as well, and throughout this poem you can tell that many lines describe hidden passions for the language being used. This insight in how the words are being utilized are usually positive and in this case they are, almost a feeling described as paradoxical.
Poetrywassomethingyoudidinschool. Itwasoldandboring
I used to think this especially since I was taught it only in school, but the more I educate myself on the matter and find what suits my needs/characteristics I find it easier to read poetry on my own time.
The Exaltation and the Hymn are both addressed to Inana, and they combine a celebration of the goddess with an account of Enheduana’s own troubled life, though in the Hymn, the “auto- biographical” section has unfortunately been lost
Unfortunate that some parts of biographical section was lost especially since she was the first known author ever recorded. Many things can be learned from her and what she went through (her experiences).
Enheduana lived around 2300 BCE, and it can be hard to grasp the gap in time that lies between us and her: J
That goes for any historic figure, but in our case its extremely important to know how influential Enheduana was.
Wouldnotspeaktoeachother.Becausethelinesofapoemarespeakingtoeachother,notyoutothemortheytoyou
Being an observer of any sort of poems "internal dialogue" will have each and every last person who comes across it perceive it differently, that being the lines itself, or even the imagery possessed within the beginning of a line to the end.
Noteverypoemisfinished—onepoemisabandoned,anothercatchesfireandiscarriedawaybythewind
There are many different fates regarding creativity, both simple and difficult but both intriguing. This poem has a sort of "creative encounter" for perfection type ambiance to it.