Category: ENGL204 Blogs
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Peer Review 8.
Link: https://ngaireale1.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/the-nature-of-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Hi Ngarie, What a beautiful poem, you have done an excellent job in showing the contrasts between each family members way of dealing with their grief. There was only one correction I could find in this post, please see below… “But the answer isstill untold.” If you add space between “is” and “still”…
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Summative Entry – Life Changing Literature.
Featured Image from: https://drkimfoster.com/2012/05/10/when-this-doctor-became-a-patient/ American Literature helps me to expand the boundaries of my own experience. American writing was a journey that shook my emotions and broadened my understanding of the complexity literature can hold. Each week our learnings contrasted, personally, there were three particular subjects that became vital to me. These subjects were, Native American…
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Blog 9 – Why Am I Not Calm
My poem is inspired by Frank O’Hara’s Why Am I Not a Painter… I am not calm. I stress. How come I stress? Being a calm would be much easier. Take Atonio for instance, I come home and he is playing his PS4. “Hey, you look stressed, you want to talk?” he asked. I…
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La Familia
Create your own topic that draws on As I Lay Dying and that also brings aspects of your own experience into the writing. As I Lay Dying was helpful for me as it gave me a greater understanding through demonstrating that every family has unique dynamics and each person deals with grief in their own way.…
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Peer Review 7.
Link: https://literature36384.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/american-writing/ Hi Zarha, Your blog expresses an important aspect of the sustainability of nature, however, it is quite a short entry. I would recommend to elaborate on this and add a further argument. Another suggestion I would make for you is to consider the layout of your blog. To receive marks, the layout should…
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Peer Review 6.
Link: https://lilychesterblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/art-gallery-visit/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Hi Lily, Great start, I am really happy to see that you have linked this painting to the texts you have been reading in class. My suggestion to you would be to add some pictures to your posts to compliment what you write about. Also, your last paragraph is one whole sentence. I…
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Blog 7 – The Waste Land. (Critical)
Image from: https://www.julianmidwinter.com.au/2015/10/traditional-advertising-a-wasteland-for-professional-services/ Topic: Select the one modernist poem or text that you found spoke to you most directly. Quote the text and tell us how the text moved you. The Waste Land by T.S Eliot, focusing mostly on the first stanza, is a classic poem about life and existence post WWI. This poem moved me through…
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Peer Review 5.
Link: https://natalie4820.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/dear-mr-baldwin/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Hi Natalie, What a powerful letter! I love how deeply you were impacted by Going to Meet the Man. Your letter conveys a clear and respectful message. My suggestion to you would be to double check your work before posting. Please see below for the mistakes that I found within your work; “The…
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Blog 6 – Hearing Wind. (Critical)
Topic: Write a paragraph that says succinctly which of the two Roberts you preferred and for what reasons. Robert Frost took my mind back to a time that I was in Bavaria, Germany and Lucerne, Switzerland. These two places were my favourite places to visit and left me feeling completely and utterly in love with Nature.…
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Peer Review 4.
Link: https://daniel4946.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/blog-post-3-week-5-2/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Hi Daniel, Firstly, your site looks great! I found it really easy to navigate and find what I was looking for. Secondly, great post! My only suggestion would be to try and break down this sentence as it is very long. “I think that Walt Whitman referred to Abraham Lincoln as “O Captain!…
Rachel May 