• Memorise more quotes
• I think that I need to have a more organised flow of argument in my bullets to help myself have a better train of thought such that I don’t have to pause so much.
• Prepare for some of the more commonly asked questions.
• Practise / memorise thesis.
• Have shorter but more insightful bullet points

I think my combination of sapphic poetry and JHAT was strong for the topic which is chose to talk about, religion. However, I found it relatively difficult to relate the specific poem I chose with other aspects of JHAT which limited the amount which I could expand my thinking. One reason for this is the poem I chose was only 3 lines long, and despite being very rich, it was only related to my topic of a higher power. Instead, next time I may choose to pick either a longer passage or a combination of 2 or 3 similar passages.

 

Last lines are commonly viewed as the conclusion or summation of the whole poem, leaving the everlasting thought which the whole people had leading towards. They can often either expectedly conclude the poem with a strength enough to draw the whole poem’s power into the final line, or it can strongly contradict or go against the general pattern and feeling of the poem, both with equal power. There are many techniques used to craft an engaging or for filling last line, such as drawing it back to the title, first line, or a pattern within the poem in order to bring it together. For me, the time in which the last line of a poem is most powerful is when it’s unexpected or contradicting to the general flow of the poem, mostly because it leads you thinking about why or what was wrong with the rest of the poem in the first place, which further emphasises the power of the poem beforehand.

We were tasked to observe and analyse the somewhat counterintuitive relation between the detail in each of the comic panels with the amount of words necessary to support it. Interestingly, we find that the more detail in the pictures, sometimes the more text you need to support the drawing. For example, in this relatively simplistic comic panel, in which my drawing has definitely overcomplicated, the simplicity of the panel makes it obvious to see that the father’s attention is drawn away from the child, despite the child being in pain. And so, the writer can use the bubble “My arm’s falling off” in order to put emphasis and elaborate on the fact that the father is ignoring the the child, through the child’s discomfort, which we can perhaps foreshadow to suggest the father’s ignorance towards the child’s issues and concerns from a young age.

• When learning about a person, in order to fully understand them, I believe that it is important to seek information in a combination of both their biography and their autobiography. This allows you to gain the perspectives of what they were thinking, enabling you to have insight as the thoughts and ideas behind their actions, as well as their intended effect of their actions. Whilst also allowing you to see the actuality of their actions, and it’s effect on different people. A biography will likely also provide less biased opinions on the persons life as a whole, however an autobiography will give less biased opinions as to the more minute details to their thinking.
• I think we all have the right to tell another person’s story, however it is imperative to acknowledge the likelihood that details will be missed and lost in translation between a persons thoughts and actions, as well as remembering as a reader or outside observer, understanding and knowing that the retelling of any story will always contain bias.
• If the particular person that the story is being written about was ignored, or struggled to have their voice hear, I think this is a brilliant way to further emphasise what you believe in. However, with this power, comes responsibility, as it could be used manipulatively and end up with the writer claiming credit for what may not have been their idea. That being said, this can always be a great tool, as for example, many popular historical figures such as Shakespeare and Einstein had their work rewritten after they died and it was only until then that their works were truly acknowledged by the world.