Evaluation

What has improved about your writing since the beginning of the semester?
I don't really know if it has improved, but one thing I took from it was finding a solid thesis statement and rolling with it through the points.

What strategies have been the most helpful?
I find finding the elements in the stories are the most useful.

Which paper was the easiest for you to complete? Why?
I would probably say my Dr. Faustus paper was the easiest because I actually understood it and could write my paper from a solid book.

Of all the lessons we did, which one was the most beneficial to you as a student?
Being able to create a thesis statement and trying to go off of that through out the paper.

Do you feel more prepared than you were to write college-level papers?
Yes, I feel like I have a firm understanding of what to do and what is expected.  Catchy intro, solid thesis, analyze points, don't summarize, and finish strong.

Poems read thus far

As I read these poems it seems like most of them are thought of in a sexual context.  Not all of them of course but it seems like most of them have some form of sex in them.  Like you said in class, if a symbol is shaped like an I and a symbol is shaped like a U then theres a great chance that is has something to do with sexual content.  Also, in reading some of these poems I don't really think outside the box like I should when reading these.  I think more of what it actually means and get confused on to what I should take literally or look at in a different way.  Sometimes that gets me in trouble, but the extracting deal helps me out alot so I have other things to keep in mind while I read the poem.

"The Flea"

One flea has marked 2 different fleas, they suck up the bload so that the bloods "mingled be".  With that blood they make a kid, "one blood made of two".  Supposedly they do not do it so it must be a dream or a situation.

Now theres 3 lives (mom, dad, baby), where they are "almost" married.  The fleas stole the baby from another family, and the parents want to grudge.  Want to kill the parents and the baby, because it would be "three sins in killing three".

Could the parents now feal guilty of taking the baby, they kill the baby and the fake parents because they are weaker without the kid.

Experience with Poetry

I have very little experience with poetry.  I think we read maybe two poems in high school and I could not even tell you what they were called.  I know for me reading them is kind of tough because of the old english language.  I'm definitely going to have to go through and summerize what I read for each stanza to help me comprehend it easier.  I'm hoping to further my understanding of poems and what the real meaning of poems are.  I believe poetry is a way of literature that is understood through stanza's by a way of speaking differently than the norm.

Proposal

I started out with one the questions you said in class because I thought it was a really good one.  I'm having trouble with a couple things though.  My thesis statement ALWAYS kills me when I write papers, Does it look like that thesis statement could lead to good information?  Also, I think trying to find a source can be hard.  The one I have helps a little bit in the first couple of pages, but does not give me any substantial evidence to what I'm talking about.  I'm thinking I'll talk about the people who have changed him along with his hierarchy that he lives by.

Scenes 6-10

I find what Faustus is doing is that he is taking pure advantage of his magic and everything that has to come with it.  He wants to rule the world and everyone in it, yes but I think theres a way he should go about it.  Like what his hiarachy consists of should also be involved in there.  There is a way to take control of everything and its not by going invisible, changing people into animals, or by bringing spirits back from the dead.  He has religion next on his list and there is nothing "religistic" to bring spirits back or any of that magic that he seems to be doing.  It all just seems like he's doing it because he can and wants to take full advantage of everything.  Which in the end will probably put him on his ass because he will no longer have friends or family or anything that will want to be associated with him.

Dr. Faustus

Scene 4
In scene 4 Wagner wants the clown to be his servant for 7 years.  The clown does not want to be a servant so Wagner says he'll fetch 2 devils, Baliol and Belcher to come and kill him.  The clown runs and cries, and then agrees as long as wagner teaches him magic.  Wagner wants to be reffered to as Master Wagner in the end.

Scene 5
Good and Bad Angel enter and try to sway Faustus one way or the other.  Good angel wants him to think of Heaven and heavenly things while the bad angel wants him to think of honour and wealth. Faustus cannot write because his blood congeals.  Meph goes to get some fire to heat up the blood.  Faustus asks himself questions as to why his blood will not write and wonders if it is a sign. Meph comes with the fire and now it writes again.  Lucifer has Faustes's soul.  They agree to Fuastus's deed toward lucifer.  Then Faustus wants to know where hell is, and he thinks is a fable.  Faustis insists he will have a wife and watns Meph to go and get one. Meph gets a wife with a Devil's name who Faustus says lookslike a whore.  Faustus wants all the books so he can have all power.