<p>I self-studied and don't think my essays were good at all.
Even though my content was decent, they were unstructured completely.
I wrote 4 full pages of rambling for the first prompt, 3.5 pages for the second, and 3.5 for the last prompt. I don't think my essays made sense at all.
However, would I get a decent score, even it wasn't properly organized? I think I wrote about important things.. it was just scattered around alot :( </p>
<p>Apparently people thought the MC was easy, but I thought it was tricky... </p>
<p>The question about the pony's ear being soft like a girl's wrist.. What did you guys get for the answer to that question? I was really confused about it. </p>
<p>And the pony ISN'T described as wise, right? </p>
<p>On the question about how the speaker sees Marius the artist, I picked "a minor talent" but I'm not sure if that's right? </p>
<p>I thought that the Poverty passage was good but the Grief passage really threw me :( If anyone remembers anything about the grief passage.... discuss.</p>
<p>The question about the pony’s ear was actually the one question that I wasn’t really sure on. I picked the one about fragility but I can’t say I’m confident about it.</p>
<p>I got the same as you for the other two questions.</p>
<p>For the pony thing, I picked the answer choice about human feelings :[</p>
<p>The grief poem was utterly confusing. </p>
<p>Speaking of utterly. There was a question that I had trouble on that used the word utterly. (It was asking about what would serve as an adequate replacement for a word). Anyone remember that question? </p>
<p>One of the grief questions was about what silence represents. For a second I wanted to pick remorse but then I didnt. I wasn’t sure</p>
<p>On one of the first few questions, they asked what hopeless grief is. What did you guys put for that one?</p>
<p>I found the poem online:</p>
<p>I TELL you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death–
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.</p>
<p>I actually liked the poems they gave us. It was an interesting read and if I had time to actually savor it, I would have fully understood it. Of course, I was rushing.</p>
<p>But that cute little poem with the father and son was so sad. It made me so depressed when writing my essay. :(</p>
<p>Ah man, I bombed the exam. Ran out of time for the MC. Filled in the last 6-7 questions with random letters ><
I found that Grief poem and Marius prose to be nasty.</p>
<p>The poetry essay was brutal. I liked the prose though. Nice and clear cut. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>@Anders157 I actually laughed out loud at that. The kid next to me thought I was crazy. I wrote next to it, “Yeah, I’ve been seduced by a pony, too.”</p>
<p>ahh. i didn’t particularly like how frq1 and frq2 both had to deal with point of view. And i’m not that great at analyzing structure either. I wish it could have been more figurative language intensive. i’m good at analyzing that.</p>
<p>I thought the Lee poem was super easy. I mean, after the poems by Keats and Donne we had in class, that was so straightforward, I thought. Did anyone else pick up on the increasing number of lines per stanza symbolizing the child’s increasing age?</p>
<p>The prose passage, I didn’t like as much. I felt like there wasn’t a lot to work with and it was just SO LONG.</p>
<p>I feel like with the analyzing poetry essay, one can pick out anything and then somehow connect it back to the main theme to ‘further the poets meaning’</p>