This is my common assessment task 2, I definitely think this one was not as articulate or as insightful as my last CAT, especially as I realised I was mostly repeating my points, rather than developing them. This is something I really want to work on, especially while still keeping my expression clear and writing […]
Sestina Assessment Task
This is my Sestina assessment task. I think that this sestina was able to be personal to my experiences and hopefully add some humour at the same time. One thing I think I did well was selecting 5 words that best related to my theme and what I was trying to say. By putting the […]
The Great Gatsby – My Initial Response
This is my initial response to reading the Great Gatsby, linguistic techniques I recognised and things I personally found interesting. I think this was an interesting exercise because it allowed me to fully reflect on the text that I had read without the pressure of trying to find the larger meaning or trying to overanalyse […]
‘The Poet and the World’: My Thoughts
Reading Szymborska’s Nobel Lecture ‘The Poet and the World’ has allowed me to consider the world concerning poetry in relation to the purpose of life. As Szymborska says, poets “publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly as if they were ashamed of it.” Is this due to the way we perceive jobs which have regular […]
‘The Book of Yolek’ Annotations
This week, we focused on Sestinas and in particular, ‘The Book of Yolek.’ It focuses on the idea of the Holocaust and how we must remember each and every one of the deaths in the Holocaust as significant, rather than simply just looking at a number, we need to empathise and understand how it affected […]
‘Advertisement’ Poetry Analysis and Reflection
The ‘Advertisement’ written by Wislawa Szymborska that presents the view of drugs taking over human thought, emotions, and eventually human soul. In my analysis, I focus on how the use of personification, metaphor, and tone specifically emphasizes this and highlights the power and control drugs can have. Something I think I did well in […]
Common Assessment Task 1
This is my first English Common Assessment task. Through doing this first assessment, I learned a lot about myself and how I respond to writing essays in a given time frame. Some things that I noticed immediately was that my expression and language was not as specific or succinct as it would be when I’m […]
The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 Analysis
This is my third act analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest. I think this analysis, in particular, focuses on two contrasting characters and the central ideas of fantasy within social norms. It was interesting to analyse not only the text and literal meanings, with dramatic techniques but also relate this with beliefs and […]
Poetry on Identity – Mistaken Identity
This was the first assignment we did on poetry where we got 2 different poems about identity and had to explain the meaning behind linguistic techniques of both poems to each other. Manaka and I got the poem ‘Mistaken Identity’ while my other partner, Anoushka got the poem ‘Dear John.’ The following recording does […]
The Importance of Being Earnest Act 1 Analysis
This is my first act analysis on the Importance of Being Earnest, I chose to include this because it shows a good starting point of my knowledge and hopefully can be looked back on to reflect on some of my growth in the subject. I think what’s interesting about this analysis in particular, is the […]