November 2010 - Literature

<p>I hate poetry. </p>

<p>Moving on... discuss! What did you think about the passages? </p>

<p>I didn't omit any, but a lot were a guess between 2-3 options. I think I did well, but the poetry passages were definitely difficult (at least for me).</p>

<p>that was very, very difficult.</p>

<p>can someone explain the 1st poem to me? I couldn’t get what the final two lines meant.</p>

<p>I hate poetry!! I spend too much time trying to figure those two out and didn’t get to the whole last passage! </p>

<p>Awful</p>

<p>is the first poem about the stars?
i just thought i did not have enough time to finish the test in the end i finished and skipped 2 questions…</p>

<p>Yes, the first one was about stars. But it was pretty hard to figure out what the hell the narrator thought about stars…</p>

<p>The first poem was about finding meaning from the stars. The whole test was difficult, for sure. I didn’t like the last passage at all, it was horrible.</p>

<p>Yeah, the last passage was very hard. The only one I liked was the script-format one… the one about the ship wasn’t too bad, and the one about farming wasn’t bad either… the others were pretty rough.</p>

<p>last passage? what is the last passage? wasn’t it a poem about blues empress or something?</p>

<p>i didn’t like the ship one because i saved it to the last…so basically i scanned the passage and guessed some of the answers. yeah the script one was pretty easy</p>

<p>what was the stella part supposed to mean</p>

<p>It was the solar system. Stellar = stars.</p>

<p>The boat one - Was that out of Moby Dick (pequod!) or was it a short story metaphorically using the same boat?</p>

<p>PS, the woman musician at the end wasn’t a poem, rather a short story</p>

<p>i just looked it up. its from astrophel & stella, which makes me feel even worse because I just learned about a sonnet from the same series in ap lit last week. </p>

<p>and yeah, that means stella was actually a woman. he was talking about stars though. just not at the end.</p>

<p>what were the “rules” that he discusses may be broken… i put atrological laws or something but i wasn’t sure if he was going off on a seperate tangent there/</p>

<p>Are you sure? That doesn’t make sense at the end. The author was talking about telling the future through stars</p>

<p>yes, he was talking about the stars in a large sense. but the entire series of poems refers to “Stella,” a woman he was courting. some of the other questions asked about this i think… like one about a prediction or someting gah i barely remember</p>

<p>Stella was only mentioned once at the end?</p>

<p>^ yeahhh</p>

<p>for the ship one, who was the section referring to? just the ship, or “all ships at stormy seas and men of deep thought”?</p>

<p>This test was ridiculously hard. I don’t even wanna talk about the answers lmao. I just have a question - what do you think the curve will be?</p>

<p>Just the Pequod. It said “that ship…” it was a slight clue. Crazy huh?</p>

<p>Back to the stella, for the laws, i answered maxim’s of the astrology. Correct?</p>

<p>I put down maxims too. How about for the one that was like “how did he prove his knowledge…” or something similar to that? I don’t remember the exact phrasing, I just know I put down something about Stella’s eyes.</p>

<p>^YAY!!! :smiley: I’m so glad haha</p>

<p>Wow, that test was really hard. Some portions were confusing (not going to mention specific ones… or specific answer choices). I skipped a lot. I’m only hoping for a 600+</p>