Post 11

The blogging project in Intro to Lit has revolutionized the way I think about and respond to literature. The idea of combining modern technology with poems and works that’s are maybe hundreds of years old I think is amazing. I feel that it also ours generation to utilize what is natural to us in society and use it for educational purposes. In the original blogging instructions Professor Corrigan assigns his student to think creatively and draw from the text in a new and unique way. Finding insight through the authors words and applying you own thoughts and experiences has been a must in order to succeed at the posts. Our in class assignments have really given me an example of how I am suppose to apply these techniques in my blogs. I really enjoyed the painting project regarding Joel. I felt that being able to explore Joel through paint and creativity helped me to understand the ideas better than just reading it did. I also loved being able to go outside and read Joel to nature. And truly get a feel for what was recorded in the book of Joel, by experiencing it all around me. Like Joel, many of the themes expressed in our reading have been about life or death. These two topics are unavoidable for any human. Life has many different meanings, and for some of us life feels as if it is death. Why if both life and death are opposites, how do they so closely interconnect? Throughout all the readings we have done this common theme is seen. Being able to blog has allowed me the place to further my reading and explore how I feel about any given text. I think I have been able to do this fairly well, I think that through blogging I have successfully dug into our reading and learned and critically thought about them as assigned.