John Keats

I just finished reading "Ode to a Nightingale." It seemed that the speaker of the poem was wanting to die, so that he could be immortalized through his poetry. Several of the stanzas refer to sickness and in line 24 I could not really figure out if this line was specifically referring to a hospital, or just the world in general. Was John Keats sickly? I wasn't sure, so I started to research him a bit. I read several of the letters he had written in hopes of learning more and was captivated by his simple prose.
I think that I will go and read more about him.

Oops

The funny thing about online classes is.....you have to really watch what you are doing. I found out only a few hours that I was supposed to be posting on this site at least once a week. Oops.

I am having a fairly difficult time with the material we are studying in this class. I think this is due to the fact that I am taking an advanced composition course. When I look at one of the poems I have to fight off the instinct to begin bracketing all the clutter that I find. I know that they are poems. I know they follow different rules. But I still want my red pen anyways.

I am eager to move on to prose. I want some concrete images and solid facts. I want to know what is going on in the things that I read.

I find it hard to keep up with the lofty and literary language that many of the other students are using in their posts. I imagine that it sounds like a literary response is supposed to, but the amount of actual information could be put into no more than a few sentences. When I look through my previous posts I find the same thing to be true of myself.

January 8

I am glad that this blog was easier to make than I thought.