1. What text you used and why you felt
that this offered a different perspective to studying literary texts.
“The
Brook” is a wonderfully lyrical poem with beautiful poetic devices such as
personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors etc. I felt this poem
offered a different perspective to studying literary texts.
It is a beautiful poem to
read aloud, very well flowing and musical. The poet has used beautiful words to
bring the different sounds of the brook as it flows: sometimes chattering,
sometimes noisy like people bickering, sometimes bubbling and babbling, and
sometimes gently murmuring.
2. How
well you felt your paper prepared you for delivering the content of your
seminar.
When I prepared the poem to deliver, it gave
me some kind of inner excitement and aspiration. I could feel it singing. I
could feel it growing. I could feel it maturing.
3. How
studying this text enhanced your learning about analysis and interpretation of
texts.
The
poem shows the permanent nature of the brook as against mortal existence of
man. The poem leaves us a message to have a strong will-power and move forward
crossing all our hurdles in life to achieve our ultimate ambition. It is a
personification!! A beautiful parallelism drawn between life and the brook! It teaches me to face the highs and the lows, ups
and downs with equanimity. It reminds me that there are the twists and the
turns in our journey.
4. How this seminar has aided your
colleagues in the seminar group to learn about your specific text or the use of
analysis and interpretation.
My colleagues got a chance
to experience the poem with exquisite imagery and perfect metaphor. Through the
poem, my colleague could capture the beauty of the stream passing through the
countryside and the sounds that connected to landscape.
They had learnt that there
are ups and downs in the life of a brook and likewise we have. The brook is
sometimes sad, happy and angry but accepts its life happily. Similarity, we
should also do the same thing through difficulties to achieve our destination
without being afraid of hardships.
5. Evaluate the quality of the discussion that arose from your
literary text
It is important to learn something
from discussions for presenters and attendees. Through the quality of the
discussion, all my colleagues have developed their understanding about the
beauty of the poem and literature. My literary text explained about the brook
to my college. It explained about the brook comes out from the mountains, its
movement is very noisy and quick and it is in full vigour. It
is in a hurry to reach its destination. This is similar to human beings in
early age, when man is very energetic, lively, enthusiastic and full of vigour.
In this poem, the poet has used personification. The idea that stands out is
the permanence of the river. The brook says “Men may come and men may go. But I
go on forever”. It compared to the life of man, the brook in ageless and
timeless.
6. Which area of text or discussion did you find controversial?
After discussion, we all agree
that the poem is a very good one which was concise in conveying its intent and
wonderful imaginary. The only controversial we found was when the poet, Alfred
Lord Tennyson exactly wrote this poem.