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I have done the same thing with every poem I have ever read, until we read and digested the poem of the week the Eagle. With all other poems I have read the poem to comprehend it and then set it down because to be honest poems just never interested me. But with The Eagle we read it many times and each time I got a different meaning from the poem. The first time I read it I related it to the current situation in our government with words such as "crooked hands" making me think of a corrupt government. The second time we read it I thought of it as an actual eagle getting weaker. But the third time I read it I connected it to a monarch or someone very influential who got to where he was by cheating. As the week went on I realized that I did the same thing with reading. I never read to get a deeper meaning from a book but to finish the book or to entertain myself. As we were working on our comparison essays for our summer reading books I started to be able to connect different symbols in the Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and it felt as if a whole world opened up in my idea of the book. I was intrigued to see how the other people in my group were able to do the same thing. In the beginning of the week when we had to answer the questions about the both of our books we had a difficult time being able to answer some of the questions, but as the week went on we were able to go more into depth about the thoughts in our minds. http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html
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Andy Schoenborn
9/25/2016 04:08:36 pm
Hi Lindsay,
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