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i'm having such issues. i'm all poemed out. i've been staring at the screen for HOURS and nothing is coming to me. i have to have something to turn in today, with enough time to go get copies made and get to school. so that basically means i need it done before roswell at 3. and now it is almost noon. i've come up with something retarded taken from my language journal, but it means nothing and i'm damned tired of meaningless poetry. mayhap i need to consider a different course of study???
Feb. 27th, 2003
ok, needing some advice here.
Feb. 27th, 2003 11:59 pmalright, after much struggle today, i finally came up with a poem worthy of submitting to class tonight. you can read it, if you like ( here )
so because i had so much trouble with it, i asked for it to be workshopped in the large group, that is, the whole class. Everyone gets a copy, everyone is invited to make comments verbally, and on their copy which they return to me after we finish workshopping. generally this whole thing is a very positive and enriching experience, you learn the way other people perceive a poem, which is quite usefull. some people have constructive criticism, some people just say "great" which is good too. I've never had anyone be downright mean, hurtful with NOTHING constructive to say who actually returns the poem to me. Sure, i've thought poems i have before me to comment on have been crap before. but i respectfully say nothing, or leave a non commital comment or something.
So, keeping in mind that this is a GRADUATE level class, i got a poem back that had six separate parts of my poem circled (i don't think it matters which ones, and honestly i don't wanna look again). next to each part is written "bullshit" (that is, it's written six times). The title is crossed out and in it's place is written "Preaching" and the lovely comment at the end is (ok, i have to look to get the wording right) "don't buy your 6 axioms". Nice, huh. So you'd think the asshole who wrote the lovely comments would have mind enough to not sign the page and tell me who he is. Well not so. He initialed it. By looking thru the poems of my classmates (we get a copy of everyone's even if we don't workshop them that week) I've found out his name. What's frustrating is that i don't know him. i can't recall him by face. he's never been in a class with me before.
so, i'm understandably (i think) enraged. We workshopped my poem at the end of the night and i didn't get a chance to look at my responses till i got to my friend's house and sorted them out. so i didn't get a chance to talk to the professor about the situation.
so the question is...do i do anything. i mean...i don't wanna go be a tattle tale, cuz then the prof will talk to this student (hollie, if you're reading this it's dean young, do you know him? can you kick his ass for me if you do?) and then...well...things would be awkward. OR she'd tell the whole class about it (in nonspecific whodunnit ways) and that would be just as embarassing for me, cuz he would know i told on him. again, i stress...GRADUATE class. should i tell the prof (via email) about what happened and omit the name of the student and ask what should be done? that's seems like a good course of action. but i'd still feel like i'm tattling, and like i'm in grade school again. should i just do nothing? can i? i have to find out who he is by face so i can glare at him all semester, at least. and write 'asshole' on his poem if we ever workshop it.
but i'm very perterbed (sp?) that this happened at all. My poem is SO not preaching...it's not making any statements at all...and certainly no prescriptions for the way anybody else should live. i realize god is a touchy subject, but COME ON. i can't even tell if this person is religious (christian, i'd imagine) or no religious. it doesn't make any goddamn sense.
so. any advice?
so because i had so much trouble with it, i asked for it to be workshopped in the large group, that is, the whole class. Everyone gets a copy, everyone is invited to make comments verbally, and on their copy which they return to me after we finish workshopping. generally this whole thing is a very positive and enriching experience, you learn the way other people perceive a poem, which is quite usefull. some people have constructive criticism, some people just say "great" which is good too. I've never had anyone be downright mean, hurtful with NOTHING constructive to say who actually returns the poem to me. Sure, i've thought poems i have before me to comment on have been crap before. but i respectfully say nothing, or leave a non commital comment or something.
So, keeping in mind that this is a GRADUATE level class, i got a poem back that had six separate parts of my poem circled (i don't think it matters which ones, and honestly i don't wanna look again). next to each part is written "bullshit" (that is, it's written six times). The title is crossed out and in it's place is written "Preaching" and the lovely comment at the end is (ok, i have to look to get the wording right) "don't buy your 6 axioms". Nice, huh. So you'd think the asshole who wrote the lovely comments would have mind enough to not sign the page and tell me who he is. Well not so. He initialed it. By looking thru the poems of my classmates (we get a copy of everyone's even if we don't workshop them that week) I've found out his name. What's frustrating is that i don't know him. i can't recall him by face. he's never been in a class with me before.
so, i'm understandably (i think) enraged. We workshopped my poem at the end of the night and i didn't get a chance to look at my responses till i got to my friend's house and sorted them out. so i didn't get a chance to talk to the professor about the situation.
so the question is...do i do anything. i mean...i don't wanna go be a tattle tale, cuz then the prof will talk to this student (hollie, if you're reading this it's dean young, do you know him? can you kick his ass for me if you do?) and then...well...things would be awkward. OR she'd tell the whole class about it (in nonspecific whodunnit ways) and that would be just as embarassing for me, cuz he would know i told on him. again, i stress...GRADUATE class. should i tell the prof (via email) about what happened and omit the name of the student and ask what should be done? that's seems like a good course of action. but i'd still feel like i'm tattling, and like i'm in grade school again. should i just do nothing? can i? i have to find out who he is by face so i can glare at him all semester, at least. and write 'asshole' on his poem if we ever workshop it.
but i'm very perterbed (sp?) that this happened at all. My poem is SO not preaching...it's not making any statements at all...and certainly no prescriptions for the way anybody else should live. i realize god is a touchy subject, but COME ON. i can't even tell if this person is religious (christian, i'd imagine) or no religious. it doesn't make any goddamn sense.
so. any advice?