Second Entry

My Five goals are:

• Read the title every time and keep it in mind
• Know how to identify what type of poem it is
• Better understand the themes of poems
• Learn the literary terms and be able to recognize allusions 
• Re-read the poem several times to get a better understanding of what the poem means and all of its characteristics

These goals are definitely attainable for me. The first goal will come out of habit, after i remember to do it a couple of times. The reason I have this goal is because, when I read "The Chambered Nautilus" I didn't read the title and was completely lost on the multiple choice. I went back, and re-read the poem and was still confused, until I finally noticed the title. My second came from the multiple choice questions that asked to identify what type of poem it is. I know how to identify a sonnet, like "Sonnet 55" but that ones pretty obvious. This can cured with simple memorization, which I'm sure won't take very long. The themes of poems is something I have always struggled with and will probably take some practice, until I get good at them. I am sure at one point during last school year I knew all or most of these terms, but then summer came and I have forgotten that they existed until recently. I had to guess on the questions that asked "what figure of speech is found in this line?" and sometimes I even got them right. I didn't recognize many illusions in the poems that I read and when a question came up that asked about it, I was completely lost. The fifth goal is one of the tips I read in Peterson's AP English and I think this would be very helpful if I am not being lazy.