What have you now learned about analyzing literature?

After taking extensive notes on the email handout we received i have learned new, useful information. When researching, you are essentially making an argument. When people read your research paper you want a valid point to come across to them. Also, one must always have a detailed thesis statement, which I personally struggle with. The best research topics are ones that come out of your own reading of a work of literature. Some good places to start research are the Internet and the library, but I already knew that. All literature research papers use the MLA format, which I thought was interesting. Pre-writing steps are free-write, review, research and evaluate. I usually skip over these initial steps, which could ruin my wriritng process. Overall I have gained knowledge after reading the handout and I will read it again so I can get more information I may have skipped over.

Two Poems

The two poems I chose are Poetry and Ars Poetica. Both are describing how to read poetry, but Ars Poetica has rhyming and a pattern. Poetry has many stanzas that are confusing to understand. I enjoyed reading Ars poetica because it is guiding me to understand poetry more and how poetry should be. Some people like having poetry written in a confusing way, but I would just like it straight forward sometimes.