It seams to me that the point of this class is to learn about critical thinking through literature. If one reads a book, then they will learn about the book. If one watches a movie, then they will learn about what the movie tells them. If one reads poetry, then they do not just learn about what is on the surface but things that are underneath. He/she would have to use the skills that they have to figure out what is going on and to find meaning behind the poem.
The one thing that I did not like about this class was the blog entries. This is because I prefer to just have journal writings. Yes the Internet is cool, but this was just unnecessary.
I liked a lot of the work that was shown to us throughout the course of the semester. The one that stood out to me was “Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought.” This was very interesting to me because I am a strong Christian. Most of the allusions I knew about and read. It was just interesting how the poet depicted heaven as this wonderful place. He related it to the world in a way that reminded me of my childhood. What I thought heaven would be like as a child, he had captured it in his poem. It just took me of guard when he did this, which made the poem mean that much more to me. This poem made me re-think about how I should view heaven. After all my experiences at church, it just seams that heaven should be like a child’s playground.
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