Carnival Post

After reading through the class’s posts on this section, there are a few themes that come about.  For starters, I would say the majority of our class is not big fans of poetry (myself included).  Many people commented that Frost was hard to understand and that Stevens was boring.  Also, a lot of people just chose to stay away from posting about the poems we read focusing instead on the short stories and Their Eyes Were Watching God. 

Many of my classmates wrote posts on A Rose for Emily and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.  In A Rose for Emily, the theme of modernism was brought up a lot in how the town changed while the woman stayed the same.  In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, many classmates wrote about how it made them think about how they would handle death.  It seemed to me that both short stories were a nice change from the poetry we had to read earlier. 

I would say that the majority of the class liked Their Eyes Were Watching God; although our class does consist mostly of females which may have something to do with it since it kind of feels like a love story sometimes.  Posts on the novel mostly consisted of gender issues that the book brought up.  Also many people mentioned that the dialect was hard to get used to but eventually became easier to understand.  The class also seemed to like Hurston’s style of writing that she used in the novel.

Hughes was the last assigned readings for this section and many people posted comments on his pieces.  I think as a whole, our class rather enjoyed reading these poems, especially I Too and Theme for English B.  Most would agree that Hughes’ poetry was a lot easier to understand than previous poetry we have read for class.  Many people commented on Hughes simplistic yet meaningful approach to poetry.