Poetry Round Two

Yet another week of only Poetry in Sweeney's English Class. I do not particularly enjoy poetry. I find it is most of the time hard to comprehend and rather boring in fact. Poetry is definitely good for everyone, it just is not easy to sit through. We all need to learn the facts and forms about poetry. Everything in English is important but that does not exactly make it any easier or make anyone want to learn about it. This week we had to read "After great pain," "Death Be Not Proud," "Dulce et Decorum Est," "Do not go gentle," and three poems by Robert Frost. All of the poems were extremely short and for the most part easy to comprehend. Each poem was about something different but I will not go into all their little details because after all you read them right? Probably not. We are slowly making are way to the end of the semester. I for one can not wait because I am just trying to be done with school all together. Hope classes are going well for everyone and I wish you luck on your final exams.

Poetry

This week in Sweeney's English 102 Class we began talking about Poetry. We read a couple of different readings throughout the week. We read "The Rape of the Lock," "We Real Cool," "Harlem," "Hard Rock Returns...," and "Facing It." "The Rape of the Lock" was an extremely long poem but it wasn't to difficult to read. The story was about a young man who cuts off a lock of a woman's hair off and it turns into a huge deal. The other poems were about life, dreams, criminal legends, and Vietnam. All the poems were pretty decent; none in particular really caught my interest though. The poem called "We Real Cool" was only seven lines long and very simple but I thought it was unique how something that simple could be published. The poem "Harlem" was also extremely short and just simply talked about what happens to dreams when they are deferred. "Hard Rock Returns" is about all the tales of prisoners; that poem had a little bit more length to it but nothing too bad. The final poem we had to read this week was "Facing It" which was about Vietnam; that one was about the same length as the previous poem.

Spring Break is Finally Upon Us

Well everyone, its here. The moment we have all been waiting for. SPRING BREAK! That might be a little bit too enthusiastic. Especially on my end because my plan for spring break is working all that week. I hope some of you have amazing plans for the upcoming break; maybe like going some place warm! Sweeney's English classes this week have been slightly more strange than usual. Monday we didn't go due to the weather but on Wednesday, Sweeney decided he would not talk the entire class.I feel as if he has just completely given up and does not feel the need to waste his breath anymore. We are still on the topic of "The Glass Menagerie". Sweeney just typed on the computer what we discussed out loud. Even though there was only a total of three people discussing, we still covered just about everything we needed to cover. Tomorrow is supposed to be the best class day ever tomorrow so I am interested in to see two things. One: how many people will actually be there due to the upcoming break. Two: what this amazing, wonderful surprise of a class Sweeney has for us.