1) Write about your experience was like reading it the first time (what was the initial experience like) and then the second time around (what changed, if anything.)
When reading Since There's No Help by Micheal Drayton I gathered a general conclusion to what was happening, however not what was meant. Initially I understood someone was suggesting to break up their relationship but then wanting to still stay in the relationship at the end of the poem. In the second time around I figured out the meaning of the poem as I noticed the shift of time and attitude, as in the present moment as they were breaking up the speaker became enthusiastic about keeping love present revealing a greater theme of how once you begin to give up love it is difficult.
2) Write about answering the questions, speaking to patterns: what kinds of questions were not so hard for you? What kinds of questions do you feel like you need more instruction about?
The easiest questions to answer were the questions asking about tone and shifts. The question I had the hardest answering were the connotation question and the question asking to reexamine the title as in poems I find it hard to be interpretive and find sound elements, figurative language, etc because poems are written differently than stories, which I can easily connote.
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