GO YIELD STOP Analysis

GO (I like this):
I really like the idea of blogging about the books we read. I think writing about them forces us to actually read the literature rather than stare at words until it is time to flip the page. It is like hearing someone talk without listening to what they say for there is no reason to pay attention.

I really liked both plays we read: Glengarry Glen Ross and The Glass Menagerie. The complexness in simplicity was enjoyable. Forcing me to think deep about something with a meaningless surface was atypical and intriguing.

I wanted to start Chris Offutt's Memoir before I passed off judgement because I have not once read a memoir without putting it down after the first page, but his first page forced me to read his second, which convinced me to read his third.


YIELD (things we should do more often):

I really feel a lack of necessity to be present in the classroom. I find my mind wondering and roaming more often then it should as it does in most lecture-based classes. As I have the mind of a typical human, I have an inability to focus on the constant speech for an extended period of time. At the beginning we did such like write our own poems and answer questions and such, requiring active participation and acuity to the material at hand.

The humor you bring to the classroom brings a nice breeze that cools a rather lukewarm interest to a topic. The humor garners attention that little else could. However, as subjects switch to topics either more serious or thought-provoking, the humor ceases and interest dwindles.

STOP (please, no more!):

I really didn't enjoy Lolita and it takes up the largest percentage of the class's reading time, I feel like I have missed a good bit of credit.

Recent poetry has never been a favorite of mine, favoring order over chaos. Poetry such as Allen Ginsberg's is wasted on me. Its effect lost in the experimentalism.

I really would have liked Music of Chance to have been kept on the list. It looked like an interesting book and, being written in recent times, would far more appeal to my thoughts.