while listening to everyone present their papers today i obviously start thinking about mine and i know that my paper will circular.... after talking to Dr. Sexson about what i am to write about... Stations along the way.... i found that what made me want to be an english major is what i discovered at the Baxter last week. the music in literature... the art of the words that are written down and read. Although i hadn't thought of this until i took the weekend to really think about what i am going to write about... all the classes that i have taken and all the professors i have encountered... good and bad... and all the lessons i have learned through my years here at msu. i didnt realize at first that what i have come to love about literature was there all along. i feel as though through the years of 'learning' how to read like an english major, and being a critical reader rather than a reader just for the joy of reading... i lost the music of literature.... i have gotten to a point where when i pick up a book for class i seldom get totally lost in the words because i am thinking about what is 'really' going on in the text. especially this semester... all that i have been reading i feel like i have a protocol of how to read and what to write about. but there is one text that i don't feel i have to read a certain way or get a certain meaning from... and its the Four Quartets.
i love the fact that the poem was written in the form of music... because for me literature is music.... and it seems just natural that i end my english classes with a piece of work that not only moves me in words but moves me musically if that can even make sense... like i had said in my last blog... listening to the words of eliot is even more moving than reading them.... at times i don't really know what eliot is saying in his poem... but isn't that the point? aren't we as readers and listeners just supposed to find the music in the words?
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