Fiction packet 3

I have enjoyed reading the fiction packet 3 more than any of the other poems and short stories thus far. In this packet my favorite story was "The fifth story". The writing was original and plain. There was no big words and/or phrases to compliant the comprehension of it. I looked at this story as being a dream. It seemed as if these events didn't literally take place but rather it was dreamt. In the first story the character says that he complained about the cockroaches and a lady tells him what to do and he's does it. Then the next story the character says he complained, he got help and they died then he adds more by saying he only complained in abstract terms. To me this seems like a movie with alternate endings. It seems as if the author adds more and more in each story while beginning each story in the same context.

"after Ed Robertson poem"

The freeways clear during evening times as people pass with a blind eye to the obvious. The bridge lays quietly with dirt and dust praying to one day be used less frequently. A man walk under the bridge quietly with out noise. He then lays down and is unnoticed as a the sun is at night. Night, a time where many sleep, others are up and death is on its job. We look with a blind eye as death does as it swallows you hole and without remorse. A man sleeps on bricks and stone as a bed. He lays under concrete as a quilt to a child to gain rest. We pass by as the freeway clears during evening time as people pass with a blind eye to the obvious.

City Eclogue reading assignment blog

Reading city eclogue gave me new approaches to comroehending and writing my own material. They way he uses his words and compounds his sentences is unlike anything I've ev read before. I've come o notice that he structures his sentences different than most poets. He sometimes start and/or finish his sentences in the middle of the page. Maybe to put an exclamation point on certain words and/or phrases to signify a more important or deeper meaning. I just thought that he was trying to keep the readers attention by mixing up the structure of the sentences. I also noticed he way he uses metaphors and/or analogies to get his point across. On page 18, in the poem called "Sequoia Sempervirens," he's uses squirelles, a tree and the city to show how people go about their everyday life collecting nuts and taking them to the city. This phrase could mean a number of things such as going to work and getting paid, or even doing good deeds. I think that his poems are some of the easier poems to dissect and get different meanings from.

Intro Blog

My name is Curtis Hardwick. I'm a freshman here at Eastern Michigan University and my major is in the Criminal Justice field. I love the piano and hopefully by the end of the semester I will have loved this class.