The Poetry Analyses Are Revealing!
- Show the references
- when you are writing that “something” happened, you need to actually make reference from the poem - by line, in quotation, etc.
- ie making reference to the Third World line - you need to give me the quotation and then:
- Explain the things that you’re saying
- if you are going to say that you noticed X in the poem, and then you make reference to the line or whatever, you then need to explain in some detail WHY and HOW
- SHOW THE CHAIN OF LOGIC
- what is the thinking by which you arrived at that conclusion?
- you need to show A (the thing I read) + B (this idea I have) + C (this thing out in the world) + D (this way of connecting these things together) = E (this conclusion)
- this is how essays are written
- this is how good paragraphs are written
- this is how arguments are won
- Don’t ever refer to yourself - no me, no I, no you
- simply state your point without saying “I think” or whatever else is like that
- You need to figure out the meaning of things at a deeper level.
- when you’re looking at a symbol or an idea, you need to go a) this is the obvious and then b) this is the meaning
- you don’t have to do this on paper, but you need to think this way
- this will then fit into that mode where you explain that deeper meaning (point 2 above)
“one fine day a Third World struck back”
- what is the Third World? - answer
- that group was responsible for 9/11
- and then you could move on
We need to dig in - struck back? - the history of American war on poor nations
Third World - First World - the relationship between America and poor nations
reasoning behind their actions - Al Aqaeda is doing something that they think is right
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