• What was the hardest part of the task?

I found it more hard to analyse Sappho’s poetry as it was definitely more implicit than Wilde’s play, in terms of connecting ideas to the global issue. I think that in the moment (during the IO), I was quite nervous so I was hesitating quite a lot and I felt that I was repeating a lot of my ideas.

• What do you feel was the most successful part of your effort?

I think that I was able to effectively compare both texts and show how they use different techniques in order to convey similar messages. I was able to point out how both author’s convey beauty in different ways.

• In what ways was your outline incomplete? What did it leave you to keep track of in your head? 

In my outline, I left my main starting points with the quote below in order to guide my train of thought. However, I felt that I focused too much on close micro analysis rather than connecting my ideas to the global issue.

• What did you “leave out” that you wanted to say (or wish you’d said)? 

Something that I wish I focused more on (and prepared more for) was the global issue in itself and how both texts show this idea. I wish that I also commented on the societal differences in both texts as they were written in two completely different time periods.

• How do you feel the questions went? Were you taken by surprise? Able to speak well? 

We only managed a couple questions, but I felt that I could grasp the idea of the question but I was not able to clearly articulate a response that fully showed my knowledge of the texts.