Blog 3 of 12

What I really think about the writing space that twitter affords is that it's an excuse to get attention. People tweet all sorts of really really really stupid things. "Brushing teeth, now flossing" "I'm at work" "What is life?" Twitter is just an excuse to say things you don't feel comfortable saying out loud to your self. Normally these things should be left unsaid. Very very very unsaid. Yes some use it for comedy and others for charity but when you boil it down it is just one giant mess of the "look at me factor" Many pro athletes and celebrities are told by there agents to comment on current events in order to get there name out in the press.

Blog 2 of 12

I'm not sure why so many people wear texts on their clothing and on their skin. Perhaps they feel that such portable writing serves to make them more individual and unique. If everyone wears text it could be said no one is individual but its not so much the act of wearing it but what it says. If two people see each other wearing the same shirt on the same day they give each other a polite nod but deep down they're saying, "He's wearing MY shirt!" It's almost alike to when two girls where identical prom dresses to the same prom. That is a pressure cooking ego situation waiting to explode. The more varied and different the text, the more individual the wearer becomes. Wearing text can be used to stand out but also to fit in, when you go to a a major sports game everyone is in team paraphernalia and if you aren't you frankly don't belong.

Problem With Describing Trees

What is going on in this poem?

What's going on is Hass offers forth beautiful descriptions of trees yet decides at the end of the poem that words are not sufficient in describing trees. "There are limits to saying, In language, what the trees did" He uses many different words that personify the trees, dance, threw, capitalized. His line "It is good for poetry to sometimes disenchant us" which is an interesting statement considering poetry is there to enchant and entertain. When reading poetry, especially that of trees it is all about creating the image in your mind which is beyond words when your mind runs rampant, your mind can create a tree that is far more beautiful than any can exist in reality. In this case, words are just a launching point for images that cannot be described. There is no single word for "capitalizing" and "dancing" but every image of a tree shows it capitalizing and dancing.

The Dance with me, dancer. Oh, I will line is a conversation between the poet and the tree that the reader is privy to. Giving the tree a personality creates another layer in the characterization of the Aspen. This quote is a conversation but it is up to the reader to decide who speaks which part. If the Aspen is the one asking to dance then it becomes more of a teacher. But if the author is the one asking to dance than it is as if he is cutting in and the stress is on the dance with me.

First Draft of 4 letter word project

First Draft!
http://youtu.be/8OGsdv53VZg

Girl and Boy Words

Girl: Lass, Mam, Lady, Woman, Doll, Dame, Wench, Broad

Boy: Lad, Bro, Dude, Sir, Man, Guys

Do visuals speak more than words?

The answer is yep. If you pick one picture and one word, the picture is more complex hence will bring more emotion from the observer. In order to process and describe the image words must come to the mind, the pure amount of the words regardless of their power trumps that of a single word.

Readbility

Basically the major comparison is that readers are all competing against each other, like the two dance gangs, and that they sometimes use each other's weaknesses or moves to evoke a positive response (such as cheering) from the public audience. This hurts the writer who's "signature move" was stolen.

(take note that I do not endorse gangs)
(take note that I do not endorse dance battles)

First Thoughts about project 3 Revisions

I keep thinking about my project 3, and I'm pretty sure my next rhetorical move will be to clarify the transitions between topics and eliminate sentimentality. I'll also need to add in evidence from the texts we've been studying. This should help me slow down the cyclone of descriptive metaphors that I use in my project 3.