Blogging

In our intro to Literature class, blogging has pushed me to take literature and expand beyond simply reading it. It acts as an “extension of the reading.” I think that I have always believed that whatever you got out of reading something through one time was simply all there was to it. However, the blogging, the activities we have done in class, the lectures by Professor Corrigan, and the discussions in our small groups have all connected together and taught me that I had not even been seeing the mere potential of what literature has to offer. There is so much meaning behind a text that does not necessarily present itself in a clear way, but can be led to by allowing yourself to ask questions. 

I love how the blogs are not required to be formally written. I love that we are actually challenged to take risks and not be scared to fail because of it. The purpose of blogging is to take us into deeper engagement with the text, and we have the freedom in our blogging to explore that in our own creative way. For example, painting, cutting the onion, and the cemetery have helped us engage deeper into the text which we then can get deeper and express what we feel through blogging about it. 

I feel that blogging has been working for me. It helps me read more critically because I have the intention of finding something meaningful and relatable to myself to write about. I read with more of a purpose and desire to read past what is simply written. I found that having a conversation with the text while reading it has been most successful. I write down questions and comments which helps lead to new ideas that go beyond the main theme or original intention of the text.