Optimus2g

I could have reviewed more, but fell asleep due to sheer exhaustion from Parent-Teacher conference night at Francis Lewis High School, the night before the exam. I managed to get 5 hours of sleep and made it to the exam about 20 minutes early. I felt while I was taking the identification part of the exam that I was going to do well after immediately identifying the pasages of Sir Gawain and Beowulf. I then proceeded to find passages from "To the Lighthouse," by VIrginia Woolf and then one from James Joyce's "The Dead." These 4 got me even moe excited when I spotted the Whitman excerpt from "Song of Myself." I think I got one with Transcendental aspects to it, that I attributed to Thoreau. The good news ended there though for me. I misidentified the poem by Andrew Marvell titled, "To His Coy Mistress" as being by Kipling! Woops! I saw the Ganges river line and thought of the amount of time that Kipling spent in India, which completely threw me off. I also mistook the Sylvia Plath poem at the beginning as being by Phyllis Whatley, which also completely threw me off. I think there was a Donne poem in there too, which I might have messed up on, but I can't remember at this point anymore.

On Part II, with the essay, I think I did relatively well. I used the 3rd and 4th poems, respectively. The 3rd poem was by Emily Dickinson and the 4th was Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." I concentrated on how both poems focused on nature and emotion. I contrasted them by stating that the first poem used nature to diminish emotional sensation, whereas Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" used nature to heighten emotional sensation. I wrote about the depressed mood of the Dickinson poem and contrasted it with the vibrant tone of the Coleridge poem. I hope that this made up for the mistakes on the first part of the exam, but I'll just assume that my work was in the C+/B- range for now. I tend to undergrade myself, so I hope the pattern continues,hopefully meaning that I did better than I think I did.