Blog Portfolio 3

1. Coverage

Here are the links to all the blogs assigned this quarter based on our readings and novels. There is a total of 10 blogs, all of which have been completed

Blog 1: Sartre’s Essay on Existentialism

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-yam-what-i-yam.html

Blog 2: ‘The Distraction Society’

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-you-have-bbm.html

Blog 3: A Hunger Artist

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/hungry-kya.html

Blog 4: Hunger Pastiche

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/ylayali.html

Blog 5: Knut Hamsun’s Christian Perversions

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/susceptible-souls.html

Blog 6: Hunger Mind Map

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/hunger-mind-map.html

Blog 7: Analysis of an Aspect of Metamorphosis (Part 1)

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/his-happy-makes-me-sad.html

Blog 8: Formal Interpretation of a Passage

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/interpretation-of-passage.html

Blog 9: Kafkaesque

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/kafkaesque.html

Blog 10: My Plan of Action (Essay)

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-plan-of-action.html

2. Depth

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/kafkaesque.html

For this blog I included a great depth of discussion. Not only did I include the New Oxford English Dictionary definition of ‘Kafkaesque’, but I also went greatly in depth with my own definition of what I thought it meant. I focused on four elements that comprise this ‘Kafkaesque’ nature, and used examples from both the movie ‘Kafka’ as well as ‘Metamorphosis’ for evidence.

3. Interaction

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/01/hungry-kya.html

For this blog I read several of my peer’s blogs before writing my own. I was fascinated by a lot of Monique’s and Nina’s ideas, and elaborated upon them in my blog (including links to their own posts). I talked about both of their ideas, and then shared my own in accordance to what they were saying.

4. Discussion

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/02/his-happy-makes-me-sad.html

This blog post seemed to have sparked a very heated discussion between my peers and I. The topic of Gregor’s submissive nature brought upon a debate about synthesized happiness, and whether that shows strength or weakness in a character.

5. Xenoblogging

http://whamiltonthegreat.blogspot.com/2011/01/knut-hamsun-pastiche.html#comments

Comment Primo: I was the first to comment on Wesley’s pastiche, and I discussed how well his writing correlated to Hamsun’s voice. I analyzed his paragraph quite thoroughly, noting how he captured the voice of the author very well, and pointing out certain words or phrases that didn’t flow very well with the rest of the pastiche.

6. Wildcard

http://poojasivhlenglish.blogspot.com/2011/03/waiting-women.html

With all of the books we’ve been reading about women and power, I decided to write a poem called ‘Waiting Women’. This was inspired by the passage in The Handmaid’s Tale that talks about ‘Falling Women’. Instead of writing about how women are falling, I wrote about how women are endlessly waiting for something, something that we continue waiting for even though we are unaware of what it may be. 

Waiting Women

It is the eternal conquest to stop waiting
To stop wondering when something'll happen
To stop caring when something doesn't

Why is it that we're waiting women
With every endless tick or chime of a mocking clock, we wait
With every cup of coffee that cools off, we wait
With the sound of rickety tires on a worn down driveway, we wait

But waiting my friends is not the same as anticipation
With anticipation comes excitement, comes lust, comes life
With waiting there is just a dull sense of nothingness
Of knowing you are alone
Of facing the endless path of accepting this loneliness

With waiting there is a certain death
Death of the mind, death of the spirit
Its not the death of two lovers encurled in a grave
Or death with meaning
Or death with passion
It is death of one's soul
Nothing more and nothing less

The only question we waiting women face
Is what are we waiting for?
Are we waiting for anticipation
Are we waiting for death with passion
Or are we meerly waiting for the next meaningless tick of a clock
For our cup of coffee to cool down
For that car to finally come down that worn down driveway?