The habit that I will choose to give up is biting my nails, all my life I’ve been a nail biter, which is a nasty habit( I know) but I never do it purposely, the moment I catch myself doing it, I try and force myself to stop. I mainly bite my nails when i’m bored and have nothing else to do, which is crazy cause I always have work I should be catching up on, the only other times I bite my nails is when i’m nervous about something. The reason why I chose this habit was so that I can finally let my nails grow out like I always wanted to, and because its nasty lol. I Don’t think it’ll be THAT hard to change this habit, I’ve tried many times before and actually went over 2 weeks without biting them….. but now that I think about it, two weeks isn’t that long and the fact that I relapsed so many times must mean something, during those two weeks I’ve done before, I’ve mentally fought myself and was so tempted to break the streak, it isn’t easy to change something you’ve been doing your whole life, hopefully i’m able to do this. ;-;
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In the part of Jonathan Cullers writing “The nature of literature” the angle I find most interesting was where Jonathan defines literature as “fiction”. One beautiful thing about literature is that you can take it however you want to, you can use your own life experiences or imagination to understand it, which goes the same for fiction itself. In this part culler states “we can relate hamlet to the world in different ways at several different levels. The fictionality of literature separates language from other contexts in which it might be used and leaves the works’ relation to the world open to interpretation”.In this quote Culler explains how Hamlet is related to in different ways and not just one, the fiction of it allows people to interpret it however they want to. The reason why this was so interesting to me is because I never saw it this way and yet I agreed with it so quickly.
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- One idea from this chapter that striked me as interesting was the idea that language is nothing, rather than just words that help us share things we already know. On page 59 culler says “At one extreme is the common sense view that language just provides names for thoughts that exist independently, language offers ways of expressing pre-existing thought’s”. This quote really caught my attention because it’s something I have thought of before. It also makes me think deeper on the concept of language because if what he said really is the truth, Are there things we know but just don’t know how to say?
Blog Post #1
In the poem “I sing the body electric” by Walt Whitman , the writer talks about the human body and questions if whether or not the body is connected to the soul and if not, then what is the soul? Not only that but he also describes the human body, female and male as a beautiful thing that makes life, life. The tone that the writer uses to explain the human body and soul is very passionate and powerful, which conveys the idea of this poem being a piece of literature. In the writing “What is literature” by Jonathan Culler, it is stated “some texts are taken to be richer, more powerful, more exemplary, more contestatory, more central, for one reason or another. But both literary and non-literary works can be studied together and in similar ways.” This quote from the writing shows how some pieces of literature are being described as admirable, debatable and strong, Which is how I would describe the poem made by writer Whitman, “Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?” This is the second stanza of the poem which justifies my opinion on this poem being powerful. Not only that stanza but the whole poem includes aspects of literature that Culler describes in his writing when analyzing the question “what is literature?”. I also see literature as something one can’t give a solid definition of, you can describe it but there will never be an exact signification, which is something I will also use to describe this poem, it makes you think deeper than what you already know, you can describe it but there is no solid meaning to it.
