Understanding Art

Image by Pexels from Pixabay      Given that we are almost finished with the semester, I believe all of us are losing motivation to keep on going especially with finals around the corner. I am feeling the exact same way. I have noticed that this week was harder for me than all the previous weeks and I feel as if I barely got things done. I am currently working on the critical analysis of the 3rd poem. One of the published poets reached back and gave me permission to use their poem. I was meaning to finish the analysis and revise it last week but I gave myself a breather and I thought this week would go better. I am currently at a loss of motivation however my goal for this week is to finish it. I don't think adding that connection would be necessary only because I most likely will reach the word count with the rest of the critical analysis on poems 3 and 4. I have added on my website a page that links to a Google Sheets document where I will be updating it when I finish ...

  Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash     This week I felt that I wasn't productive however I was. I started analyzing poems already. I had two authors respond to my messages, they were the authors who wrote the unpublished poetry. I think at this point it would be better to look for more unpublished poetry rather than published. I have already embedded the Tumblr webpage onto the first two poem pages of my website. I have yet to publish the analysis for both poems. I have already finished editing and revising my analysis for the first poem and have yet to see what the author of the poem thinks of it. I will start writing my analysis on the second poem today and edit and revise it tomorrow. I shocked myself at seeing that I wrote so much for my analysis of the first poem. The analysis ended up being 687 words which I saw that if I keep up the word count the same way, I would only need to use 4 poems and probably write a connection to each other. I have so far writ...

  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay     This week I looked over my original timeline and saw how I left things vague. I decided to set up a list on my sticky notes app on my laptop and listed all the things I needed to complete. When I made the list I needed to edit and revise my Romanticism and Postmodernism critical analysis posts and I had looked at my current word count. Now that I have finished editing and revising them, my word count is 2,865 words. I now have the trouble of deciding how to divide the word count between the poems. I had distributed the word count between different options as seen below. Source; Author     I have decided to add another poem to my project to help distribute the words better. I had thought about adding a connection page to add each of the poems together to show that they all hold a common theme. This would mean that I would need to write around 523 words for each of these pieces. On Monday, I had searched for the poets whos...

  Photo by Negative Space from StockSnap     This week I managed to edit and revise my Enlightenment critical analysis piece. I have since updated my website to have that version. I added my Enlightenment critical analysis piece to my revision document, which I mentioned in my first progress update post. I made sure to change some things around from the feedback I was given and ended up with a version I felt was better than the original.      I also changed how my main page looks and the theme for my website. I decided that purple was not a color that I felt should go with the poetry I will be covering on my website. The poetry I will be focusing on are the obstacles LGBTQ+ individuals face and I felt that grey better suited the topic. It is not a color that appeals to the eye but a color that does would not go with the poetry. I added my introduction to the project on the main page. I was tired of looking at a blank main page so I decided to add my introd...

  Photo by Igor Miske on Unsplash     So far I have found two more poems that could be included in my final product. Instead of poems that were published by poets, I went to search online poems that were written by ordinary people and posted them on Tumblr. I know that Tumblr is a creative platform where many post art and regular posts. It would be interesting to mix in officially published poems and those posted online.      I added more to my Modernism Critical Analysis and added that version to my website. I have also changed a little bit of the layout for my critical analysis pages. I felt that they looked better the way I have them now. I also added new pages that will hold the poems I will be including in my final product. I intend to work more on my website during the weekend to make sure I have a clearer vision as to how I want my website to look like in the end.      I would say that I am currently feeling well as to how I am moving...

  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay     In terms of how I am doing with my project so far, I will say I am doing good. I so far have found 2 poems for which are candidates for my final chosen pieces. I was originally planning on finding poems and then find a common theme, I found that harder than expected. I managed to narrow down what I wanted to work with and I thought why not work with LGBTQ+ poems. Thinking about how there have been so many changes to become more inclusive during our current time, I found that it was fitting.     I have looked over the feedback I have received so far and made a document specifically to revise pieces that will be included in my final product. I organized it in a way that it has a table of contents that way I can easily find which piece is on what page. I included a page with bullet points for suggestions I have received in the feedback that way I don't need to repeatedly read so much. I have so far added more to my  Th...