Kurt Malkames - week 4

Once again, another surprisingly enjoyable week of poetry. It’s always a nice break from organic chemistry readings that’s for sure. It’s almost like being able to take a break and relax a bit when I sit down with some of these poems – although not all of them. Some are pretty easy to comprehend while others I think someone could think about for their entire life and come up with a multitude of potential meanings for it – none of which are necessarily right or wrong. I liked the bluebeard comparisons on Monday – it’s amazing how one story can have so many takes. Some of them follow the plot very explicitly – while others simply use its main themes as a basis for their writing. As for this week’s assignment I wrote about the game between the teachers and the students in class. I think part of being successful in college is “playing the game”. Knowing what a professor likes and dislikes – and where and what a professor tests on. Although this class doesn’t have any exams there is certainly going to be things the professor is going to be looking for in papers and whatnot. Maybe the game isn’t quite as intense as my poem made it out to be – but I had to create tension somehow.