Thursday, May 3, 2007

A reveiw of my personal tragedy:

My reveiw is on my english class. It's been an agonizing end to the year. Don't get me wrong, I used to love english. At one time, actually just a few months ago, it was my true passion. I love to read, write and study literature. What I diddn't know, was that eventually, engilsh would posess no creativity or freedom of expressin. Last year I was in regular english 12. This year, scince I loved it so dearly, I took english 12 AP. By the end, which is now, it has significantly lowered my dedication and appreciaion of this subject. Essay after essay, expressing perceptions that don't belong to me. I lie to myself and to the poems I analyz. I cannot stand (Im sorry if Im ranting) that we are to read something and come up with not our own interpretation, but the teachers, and everybody elses. Why can't I read a piece of work and come up with a new answer that's not like everyone elses. I truly thought english was about interpreting things according to your own beliefs and experieces. My heart is broken. English and I have parted. All I want to do is write, and thats what I thought this class would do for me; I guess thats what writing class is for. How can the teacher place a poem in front of me and expect me to come up with her opinion or the same interpretation every time?

6 Comments:

Blogger soup. said...

I find even regualar english 12 a bore. I too...rock it...but there is no joy in doing it. I couldn't imagine going on to do literature though...i've always been interested in the writing creatively aspect of english. Don't let one bad class stop you from persuing litereature. Try one class in college...see where it brings you. DON'T KNOCK IT UNTIL YOU TRY IT!! :)

May 3, 2007 at 11:08 AM

 
Blogger ice princess said...

you say it best, good job

May 3, 2007 at 11:17 AM

 
Blogger Peter said...

that's heartbreaking, but I agree creativeness is lacking in that class.
I guess tha'ts what writing class is for.

May 3, 2007 at 11:21 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The only thing I hate is that we are expected to figure out the widely-held interpretation of some poem and write an essay on it in under 40 minutes.

AP Exams = death

May 3, 2007 at 11:21 AM

 
Blogger Janelle said...

This makes me sooooooooooooooooooo sad. English AP really turned you off that much? (Dang, Im almost glad I ended up deciding against that path). I do agree that the reading something and writing an essay on it would be dull. (I am doing a short stories unit in my class and it doesn't matter how good the story is, writing an essay on it becomes more and more tedious,and eventually rvolting. But there's so much awesomeness about english!!! Have faith!

May 3, 2007 at 11:22 AM

 
Blogger joywhite said...

haha, so glad i didn't take that course.

ps. the glaring spelling errors distract from the major theme of being an english 12 AP student.

May 3, 2007 at 10:40 PM

 

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