Discussion 15, Vincent Maldonado

My most successful work during this semester was when we were doing the poetry portion of this class. I was honestly very surprised with how well I did on the essay since I got a 95 on it, which was the first time in my life I ever got a good grade in something to do with poetry. Something I could’ve done much better on was putting more time and focus into the discussion boards, since many times even though I may have given an answer, I wouldn’t go into depth and use a lot of details for my answer. A skill I learned taking this class was specifically in poetry, when it was reading beyond just the words. Poetry isn’t a straightforward type of reading, as not everything is meant to be taken literal, and the message may not always be understood by the reader unless they almost put themselves in the poem themselves and really compare their life to the poetry they are reading. In real life, many times like poetry not everything is just black and white, and sometimes you have to put yourself completely in someone else’s to understand the decisions they may choose to make regardless of how illogical that is, and that is a skill I learned in this class during the poetry portion.