Lines Revisited

Lines was a very strange poem. Even after class, I still do not understand what it is about or the purpose of it. I realize now that it is about a guy who does not like people but loves nature. The nature is his fallback when he gets angry or mad. Even after class I still just don't understand the purpose of the poem. I feel like it was just talking about the beauty of nature but didn't really talk anything of it. I don't know, poems just confuse me I guess. I feel like I would need to read it 20 times to even start understand any of it and that is way to much work for something I don't like doing in the first place.

Lines

This poem sucked! Of course this could be because I do not like poems a whole lot but I just never understand what it is talking about. So really I don't have alot to say about this poem other than I really don't get it. I am also really trying to give this literature thing a chance because I never liked it and the poems that I don't understand make it really tough to keep giving it a chance.

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

This story completely lost me. I didn't know like how there was different languages in it. I felt like the whole time I was trying to figure out who was who. The old man kept telling storys of his past and I could not depict what the difference from the present in the story and the past in the story. I continued to read even though I was not understanding it hoping maybe it would clear up but it just got more confusing to me. Hopefully during class I will be able to understand it more.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

This story was odd to me. I am not sure I get what the main point is in this story or what the author might be trying to get across. I feel like, if it was not for the begining conversation between the wife of the Seymour and her mother; the way Seymour was acting was not all that pecular till he gets on the elevator then he gets all weird. Besides acting a little goofy sometimes I would have never expected him to shoot himself. I guess it the begining conversation really foreshadowed what was going to happen because the mother was being so over bearing about her daughter being careful.

The Road not Taken, Mending Wall, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Some poems are weird to me. I feel like most poems don't make any sense. When they do I don't feel anything from them because they don't have anything to do with me. Like the Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. I feel as though it was kind of a pointless poems. Like someone just wanted to write about something with woods but didn't want to write a whole story. I didn't get the Mending Wall at all. That WAY over my head. The first sentence was even too much for me, I feel like the author just through some words together. And The Road not Taken I feel has some kind of meaning behind it that I am missing but can't quite desipher it.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

This story was extremely weird! I have to admit that I didn't like it at all. After I got finished, I felt like there was no point in reading it because as fast as the story started, it ended. Just seemed like there was not a lot of story that went into it. I thought it was wierd how the grandmother said they used to do everything so much better in the past and than right after she started calling the little black kid a nigger and a pickaninny and talking about plantations that now are tough to hear about.