Human vs Lobster

In the discussion that was held in class on the poem "Lobsters", there were many ideas introduced that I had never previously thought of. One such idea is that the lobsters described in the poem are being compared to humans. The color of their shell is described as a dead person green instead of just plain green, or bruise purple instead of just purple. Also, the last line compares the human curiosity of what unknown object lies beneath the earth to the pot that boils the lobsters. When I think of lobsters, the first thing that comes to mind is food...not human beings.

When this is idea was introduced to my mind, I began to run away with it. I thought about the poem in a new light, and consequently came up with an individual idea about the poem. I started thinking that some of the actions in the poem could be compared to our government. How the government will take people out of their environment and place them in one that is nothing like what they are used to. They would do this just for their own, selfish purposes. For example, when they moved the Native Americans off their own land and into a polar opposite piece of land just so that more room could be used for settlers. This idea I got from a poem about lobsters...what a crazy world, poetry is.

5-Part Paragraph Mistakes

It's amazing how people can spend so long on something and still manage to misunderstand certain aspects of that topic. For the 5-part paragraph, we spent awhile learning the structure and detailed rules we have to use to create a good paragraph, but some small and silly mistakes were still commonly made. For example, people tended to forget to cite the quotes correctly (including me). They would forget to put pg. before the page number, or they would just forget the page number itself. Our class also tended to leave out a sentence here and there for commentary and the like. This caused the paper to become more chunky when read...it loses the flow that should be present in all good writing pieces.



I also committed these mistakes to a certain extent. I did a lot of stupid mistakes like spelling a word wrong here and leaving out the citation for the quote here(even though I swear I put it into at least one of the drafts), and other nonsense things that would be easy to fix if I read through it with enough attention to detail. Then there's the fact that I write waaaaaaaay too much. I do this with everything. I remember my fifth grade teacher talking to me about it once, but I never thought it would become such a negative thing. I think I do this because once I really get into what I'm writing, I don't stop until I've poured everything out of my head and into the paper. But that is no excuse, this is still a mistake and I need to work it out one way or another so as to make my papers the best possible.