After rereading both poems, it was clear that this essay would be brimming with comparisons between the two. I want to focus primarily on the similar language use and the different extended metaphor's that John Donne uses in both poems (the compass and the armies). I also noticed that, in different parts of the poems, there are different references to virtue. I am going to analyze how John Donne uses virtue to further his ideas and make his points.
1/18/2016 12:12 PM:
Being exposed to the aural form has offered more points to consider. Hearing it read out loud I was able to notice more of the rhymes at the end of lines and in the middle of lines as well. It also helped me to understand how smoothly the lines flow and the mastery it required to create. I was also able to recognize a few more literary elements that I had not noticed before. I will be focusing greatly on John Donne's language and the devices that he uses.
1/18/16 4:51 PM:
1/18/2016 7:45 PM:
It took me about 2.5 hours to write my essay. And, as I generally do with my writing, I am getting a good night sleep and rereading, editing, and, basically, revamping the whole entire thing tomorrow. I will update the time it took tomorrow!
1/19/2016 11:30 PM:
After editing and looking over my paper again, my greatest concerns lay with redundancy, successful analysis, and flow. I am having a hard time delving deep into a topic without feeling as though I am giving extremely redundant and shallow analysis. I did feel that I found a lot of material to work with, however! The longer I studied, the more things I found to analyze!
The first thing that I thought as I read your post is that your prewriting is just way too cute. It also seems like you are good at going back to edit your paper and taking a lot of time and concern with it instead of just going through once and calling it good. If that's a habit, then you'll be fine at doing analyses in the future.
ReplyDeleteRedundancy is a big problem of mine too! I feel like I have a really hard time writing conclusions because I feel it's impossible to not be redundant throughout it! But I feel just reading about the time you took on this that it will be a super paper :)
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