Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Joyce Van Drost Week 3 Analysis

In my audio recording, I responded to a few concerns. I first responded to my feelings I had after I finished reading the two works and to how they both appeared on the page. Additionally, I responded to what I felt the authors were trying to get across to the reader through their word and appearance choices. I decided to respond solely to the works for this response because I felt they were intriguing, not only by the ideas and themes the readings were trying to get across to the reader, but also how they appeared on the page and what role that played in the meaning of the work. I felt I would complete one of my audio requirements for this response because even though I had poems and paragraphs marked to talk about, I just wanted to say what I felt about the works as they came to mind to kind of mimic how I felt when I first read the works. One limitation of just talking, without having a complete thought already planned out, is having pauses and breaks in sentences while talking. I know especially for me this happens because I usually think much faster than I talk so sometimes I don’t always say exactly what I’m trying to get across, or I’ll change the wording of my thought mid-sentence to make my thoughts clearer to the person who is listening to me. Through this response, I learned that I do attempt to understand why authors, writers or poets do things in the way they do to better understand the meaning of their work. I was rereading pieces of Zong over and over again to try to figure out why he had placed certain words and phrases in specific positions on the page, so I could further understand the poem as a whole.

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