Lobsters.

There were many ideas brought up in the discussion about "Lobsters." Some I had already thought of, but many were new to me. One that stuck out to me was that the poem was relating lobsters to people. I hadn't really thought of it that way. Sometimes it's hard to think beyond the literal level, and go to the next one. It was brought up in both discussion, and it really made me think of the poem in a different way.

After hearing that the poem was relating lobsters to people, and thinking about that for a while, it helped me understand the symbolic meaning of "Lobsters." To think that the lobsters were "dreaming," like how people do. You don't really think of lobsters as having thoughts, and they may not, but people for sure do. We are constantly thinking, a never ending chain of ideas going around in our heads. When the author said that lobsters are hollow shells of dreams is like saying that they are just bodies, filled with dreams that they all want. Like people.

Paragraph Critique.

In my class, the thing that needed that most work was point transition sentences. Some people had transitions but no points. Some people had points but no transitions. Some people didn't have either of them. If you don't include these, your paper sounds really choppy and people might not understand what you're saying. Along with the same subject, a lot of people had weak transitions. You don't want plain transitions that 1st graders use. You need transitions that flow with the paper and fit the topic.

I haven't read my paper to the class yet, but there were a lot of things I changed from my first draft to my final one. A big thing was my quotes. I have good quotes and I didn't choose new ones, mine were just really long. I didn't know that you didn't have to use the entire quote. I also changed the embedding for my quotes. Embedding makes everything flow more, and if your embedding doesn't fit with the quote it doesn't make much sense. There are plenty of other things I'm sure I need to work on, but I need another persons point of view to see them.