Spring & Fall

Annotating and commenting on the poem seemed to be really easy for me because it was all perspective; what we think the narrator is saying and what it may mean connecting to the whole poem. I liked the poem overall, it had short and choppy lines so it was easy to read. Annotating/writing what I thought was happening was key because breaking it down makes one understand it more. What I was thinking while reading each line was what I wrote down, so it flowed with my thoughts and I could get all my thoughts out and at the end be able to connect them altogether.

3, 2, 1

3 important things I learned or previously learned:

-The use of setting is always useful in reading analytically; a setting is purposefully chosen.

-For maintaining control of this process (reading analytically), us as the readers, need to annotate the text; connecting it to our society, or asking questions that we are wondering about throughout the text.

-Writers invent their own structures to stress what they might be trying to tell the reader.

2 questions that I still have or skills I feel I still need to learn:

-Does the author’s biases/opinions contribute to what they want the readers to see, or infer?

-A skill I still need to learn is how to use or point out high or elevated diction.

1 skill that I feel I know so well I could teach others:

-I think that I’m pretty good at pointing out the details in texts, and how these minor details can contribute to the text as a whole.