This week I'm just going to talk about my PoW because the only other thing that we worked on is our This I Believe videos, which sounds like it would be interesting to talk about, but really it was just looking up things on Google Images.
The poems that we covered this week are London, and London, 1802. At the beginning of this week I disliked both poems. One of them was just complaining about how bad life in London is, the other was kissing up to John Milton. But as I talked with other people about them, I was able to gain new perspective on them. In fact, if you look at my essay almost none of the ideas from it were originally mine.
I'm actually pretty proud of my essay this week. I decided to do the "screw it, let's see if doing something new gets me a 9" approach. I didn't do an intro or a conclusion, and took really solid stances on the poems. I exaggerated the first one, and talked about how it says London is basically the worst place ever. I then took the the liberty of summing up all of the gushing about Milton in the second one as the speaker expressing hope for London. Even though the poems were very similar, I focused on the differences, and portrayed them as having essentially opposite views. Maybe it's because most of the beliefs I wrote in the essay this week portrayed me as way more into the poems than I actually felt, but it felt a little forced. Either way, I'm pretty happy with how the PoW turned out and feel that I pushed my writing style this week.
The poems that we covered this week are London, and London, 1802. At the beginning of this week I disliked both poems. One of them was just complaining about how bad life in London is, the other was kissing up to John Milton. But as I talked with other people about them, I was able to gain new perspective on them. In fact, if you look at my essay almost none of the ideas from it were originally mine.
I'm actually pretty proud of my essay this week. I decided to do the "screw it, let's see if doing something new gets me a 9" approach. I didn't do an intro or a conclusion, and took really solid stances on the poems. I exaggerated the first one, and talked about how it says London is basically the worst place ever. I then took the the liberty of summing up all of the gushing about Milton in the second one as the speaker expressing hope for London. Even though the poems were very similar, I focused on the differences, and portrayed them as having essentially opposite views. Maybe it's because most of the beliefs I wrote in the essay this week portrayed me as way more into the poems than I actually felt, but it felt a little forced. Either way, I'm pretty happy with how the PoW turned out and feel that I pushed my writing style this week.