Monday, September 29, 2008
Writing
I hate critically analyzing author's work. I don't know why I took a class that requires me to do that. (Its not this one, in case anyone is confused). All the English classes Ive taken here have been fun because Ive gotten to make up stories, allow my personality to flow into my writing of true people and places and events, and Ive even gotten to try my hand at writing some pretty bad poetry. But Ive enjoyed myself immensely doing all of that. However, when I'm asked to critically analyze work, I find it so much more difficult. It takes me such a long time to do, and I often feel like I'm missing the most obvious things right in front of my face. I actually haven't had to critically analyze anything since high school, and even then the expectations weren't as high as they are here. Its good for me to try something new, but damn, I'm glad I'm taking at least one creative writing class. Even though I still need to work on my poetry skills, I think I'm getting better. My sister got sprayed by a skunk this weekend and I wrote her a pretty sweet poem about it, so I suppose things are looking up.
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I feel the same way about critical analysis. It is one thing to read and react to literature, that comes pretty naturally. But when you are told to use different techniques and strategies to break down certain texts, I feel like the reading becomes more of a chore than it is fun. I mean, really, why do we have to write papers on someone else's paper just to highlight different literary techniques and styles the author used. Criticism, to me, is definatley more challenging than writing the original work. It is a lot more than editing too, which is not the worst thing ever. At least when your editing something you can create something new rather just state what has already been writen.
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