As a class, we spent a lot of time this week analyzing The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson. I am exited to write about it because I had a lot of ideas that I did not get a chance to share in class that I want to be able to put on paper. However, I am worried my essay will sound a little scattered and not flow smoothly because I want to get all my ideas down. I really appreciate how much depth Tennyson was able to encapsulate into such a short poem. At first, I was slightly annoyed by how often we were rereading and reanalyzing the same poem; I was frustrated that I could not see more each time. But, as soon as I found something deeper, uncovered another layer or another way to view the poem, my love for The Eagle grew. It is so exiting to be able to find the hidden meaning in literature. Uncovering different layers to literature is like finally being told the secret the author was hiding. Or, even more exhilarating, you found your own secret within the poem, one that the author did not write purposefully.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's name sounded so familiar to me so I began to research him, so that I could remember where I had heard it before. Then, I came across another one of his poems that I really enjoyed, entitled All Things Will Die. Here is a link to it: emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/09/26/all-things-will-die-by-alfred-lord-tennyson/
Alfred Lord Tennyson's name sounded so familiar to me so I began to research him, so that I could remember where I had heard it before. Then, I came across another one of his poems that I really enjoyed, entitled All Things Will Die. Here is a link to it: emilyspoetryblog.com/2013/09/26/all-things-will-die-by-alfred-lord-tennyson/
Additionally, we spent a lot of time this week working on our comparative essays. My group and I thought of a lot of good ideas of how The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Fall relate to each other and ideas in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. It is crazy to think that while I was reading the books I did not notice any of these similarities, even though I read them right after each other. Once I took a step back and compared them to How to Read Literature Like a Professor, I noticed a countless number of similarities.