Prior to this class I was unfamiliar with blogging. I always thought blogging was something people did to complain, or naysay a product or person. However my view of blogging has changed since taking this class. Blogging is a way to express your emotions through a continuous thought of a specific topic. Blogging to me is less formal and more emotional. Blogging seems like a public journal, which is both good and bad I think. The good side of that is other people can come into agreement with your thoughts. As well as elaborate on your thoughts to help you understand a different perspective. Blogging also opens avenues to express yourself, and show your personality. That journaling does not offer. The bad thing about blogging, well not bad, just different, is journaling is more intimate.
I think that blogging with an emphasis on literature certainly helps with understanding the literature being discussed. In order to fully complete the blogging prompt, a reread of the text is necessary. This reread helps develop a deeper understanding to the text. I am starting to understand that there is a method to Professor Corrigan’s madness. As weird as it is reading to trees, painting, visiting a graveyard, they all force me to think deeper in to the meaning, and feeling the author was feeling. The literature experiment is the catalyst for my change in feeling. In a similar way, commenting on another person’s blog help me connect with their feelings.
Sometimes I feel like these blogging assignments are just busy work. Especially when I remember I have a blog due by midnight and its late Sunday or late Tuesday night. My work usually shows my rushed efforts. However, for the most part I have really enjoyed blogging my opinions. It put a new spin, yet again, on my outlook towards literature.
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