Wednesday, October 17, 2012

in a rut.

I can't stand my LTEL 120F "Post World War II Poetry" class...I'm learning absolutely nothing new, I'm constantly bored, and my attention span diminishes within the first 2 minutes of entering the room. This class's curriculum or reading list doesn't interest me in the slightest bit, I have no desire to be in here, and the only purpose this course is serving for me is that it fulfills one of my major requirements. Other than that, I feel as though I get nothing out of it, and it depresses me. I usually pay rapt attention to other English classes in the past, feverishly scribble down notes as though my life depended on it, and even led some discussions about the reading, but in this class, I feel my passion going away. Maybe it's just a bad case of senioritis, but this isn't something graduation is going to fix. The professor isn't terrible, he's actually quite intelligent, and leads quite captivating discussions but it doesn't captivate me. Maybe it's because this class's reading list is full of material I've already read, and that is why I feel as though I'm not learning anything new. We spent 2 days last week analyzing "Supermarket in California" (which I wrote my final thesis paper on last year for LTEL 155B San Fran Lit) plus shattered on the midterm when it asked to analyze the poem. I'm not saying that literature or poetry can only be analyzed once and in one single way but c'mon. I've gone through my Beat-obsession phase already, can we move on from Snyder, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti already?

I feel so apathetic.

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