Luch Talk

I know this is a little late but I wanted to blog on our lunch talk we hade last week. I tend to learn more from conversation type learning as compared to lecture or reading type learning. So having lunch together and talking out the literature we brought was a great experience for me. I sat with Aubrey, Adam, Alicia, and Shantel and we had a good conversation. I will say I was a little worried that conversation would be dead and we would have to ask awkward questions and call on people to answer them. But our conversation actually flew by and went well. I brought a poem from our lit book that was very confusing to me and wanted to talk it out. Thankfully everyone else did not really get it either so I felt better about myself. It was not until professor Corrigan came by and explained it then I got it. Alicia brought some song lyrics that were really good. I think that is where I got one of the best thoughts in my head. Something about literature clicked. The lyrics of that song could apply to different people in different situation and that is what literature is supposed to do. I think I always look for a black and white explanation. I want to know exactly what something means. But one of the beauties of literature is that it is expandable and reaches people on different levels. That conversation can go back and forth and it does not ever really come to one specific conclusion. But rather multiple conclusions that people can see from different angles. Aubrey brought a book that she had been reading that had a very confusing statement about literature that we all seemed to circle around in our mind for a while not really coming to any conclusion, but once again, our good professor came and cleared things up for us. I believe I will ever understand literature like Paul Corrigan does but I do think through this table conversation I took a big step in understand literature and letting go of the desire to understand every text to complete fullness.