Reading Response Week 5

Chapter 8

This chapter was very helpful. Because I have taken many literture classes and we are always forced to analyze everything in what we read I tend to try to write poetry that has a meaning. Instead, I should focus on writing and not stress over if it has a meaning or not. I never thought about the differences between signs and symbols and how they are used in poems. Signs are what we can analyze, but symbols only have a singular, universal meaning. A writer can use concrete signs to describe an abstract concept.