Blog Portfolio Quarter 2
Coverage:
Depth:
- I feel that in this blog I looked in depth at the parallels between Brett and Circe, using a variety of sources as a basis and then making my own interpretations. I believe I did a pretty thorough job, and it helped me (and hopefully others) to understand Brett and Hemingway's use of allusions.
Interaction:
- Here I first picked a passage from The Sun Also Rises, analyzed it, and then shared it with James. Reading his response to his own passage and mine, I looked at his analysis and opinions. He disagreed with some of my interpretations, and I his, but I think we helped each other widen our view and see things that we hadn't seen before. I know that I learned a lot, and in this blog there was quite a bit of interaction.
Discussion:
- Elizabeth commented on my blog, and she helped me out with two things- one, developing my analysis of Owen's Greater Love, pointing out things that I hadn't necessarily connected, and two, showing me that I need to make my thoughts clearer. I hadn't expanded on what I meant on an idea, and so when I replied to her comment, explaining what I meant, I realized that I tend to write a lot in a not so clear way at times. Also, the fact that this was my only comment also made me realize that sometimes I need to make my blogs a bit shorter, because lately I have been "babbling" a bit, making it tiresome for others to read my blog... Which is not what blogs are for! So next time, a little more clarity.
Xenoblogging:
- This is Elizabeth's blog about Sassoon's Repression of War Experience. I found her analysis pretty good, with interesting interpretation. While I had similar ideas, in reading her blog I realized how the war poems, especially this one, paralleled with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. I brought this up, and I hope she found it interesting as I did.
Wildcard:
- Since this is my English blog, I tend to blog about things that relate to what we're doing in class. After reading Regeneration, my mind was filled with a myriad of epiphanies that I just had to write down. They helped me understand The Sun Also Rises a lot better, and so I hoped that other people might find it beneficial as well.
