Final Whitman Project

The notation on this one should say "Whitman's speech goes where..." I goofed.

Now go and Release your Barbaric YAWP!!!!!

Final Thoughts:

What can i say, i mean what can i say? I don't really know. I wish i had had more time to go to virtual office hours but, unfortunately, they were during another class i had. Umm. Shit, Well i like the format of blogs.I think being able to say what you think in a less-academic environment was really beneficial to our learning process. I wish it had been more cohesive and more community based. Group work is tough i know, but the feedback i got from other students throughout the semester was awesome. When someone reads your blog it feels like you were offered the last slice of pizza at a birthday party: it feels fucking great.

Smaller class size. Wow, i know that aint happening. But i think with a class like this that is set up in a way to have a great community potential. A smaller class size would rock. Maybe even make it a seminar course. OOOOH, that would be slick.

I woulda liked maybe more time on other american poets (not frost though, seriously, frost is more played out than that Gotye song right meow) . Sandburg was cool, levine was cool, ginsberg is always cool. Its not that Whitman doesn't have a large enough body of work to look at, and its not that he is so simple that we plowed right through it but it is more of a matter of fatigue. His lines sprawl across the page and his lists are sometimes tautologically numbing. Still love the guy, but serious.

More twenty five dollar words. Here is one for free from me to you. Aposiopesis: When  a sentence is deliberately broken off in the middle and left unfished.

Thanks for the Great Semsters Hanley, have had some great classes with you. I graduate to morrow. See you all in h....