I am not very experienced with understanding poems. But this will give me some practice at it.
In the first line of "In a station of the metro" is think that Pound unexpectedly sees a large
number of people who are getting prepared to board a train. The word apparition in the first line
was unfamiliar to me. I looked it up and found it means: an unusual or unexpected sight. My first
thought after I saw that this poem was written in the late 1800's was that possibly the people
at the station may represent America as a whole recovering from the Civil War. People are trying
to get used to working together again.

I really enjoyed the poem "Photograph of My Father In His Twenty Second Year". My first impression
is that this is a son who's father was not involved in his son's life. In the second line in the
first paragraph I notice that the son is studying his" father's embarrassed young man's face." I feel
like this tells a lot about the father's outlook on life. Instead of working like he should be at 22 he
is drinking beer and fishing. Probably throughout the son's life this is how his father would act. I see
In line five of the second paragraph "All his life my father wanted to be bold." I take that is as
the father knew what was right for his family but was too scared and weak to actually be a man and
fulfill his role as a father. Now again in the last line of the third paragraph the son states
"don't even know the places to fish?" This is something that shows how frustrated the son was with how
his father had raised him. We know that fishing and drinking were very important to his father, but yet
his father didn't even take the time to teach him these things.

After thinking about this poem I see much of America portrayed in this work. The males in this country
are too weak and instead of making a wrong decision they just run away. I was fortunate to have a
strong father how taught me almost all I know. There were a couple of new words that I don't see very often.
The first is in the first line of the poem, DANK. This means unpleasantly moist or wet. The second was POSTERITY.
This means all future generations. This proves that the father was unsure and fake and he knew it but still
wanted to put on the attitude that he was a strong man.

Letter of Introduction

Since high school I have been most interested in biographies of prominent male examples. I particularly like Robert E. Lee and president Garfield. These are some of the books that I have read on my own. Periodically I will read the magazine Popular Mechanics because I am in Mechanical engineering and like to keep up with the latest developments in the industry. At this moment I am reading an autobiography about Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier. I am not a fan of reading books that are fiction. But the last fiction book that I read was the Davinci Code by Dan Brown and I really enjoyed it. My favorite book and the most frequent read is the Bible. This is the only book that I read consistently.

For works that I was required to read in high school I vividly remember Moby Dick by Herman Melville. For some reason I really enjoyed this book. This is probably because I love the ocean and being on the ocean as well as fishing. But since I have come to college I have had very little required reading. But being an engineering major I have been required to write dozens of technical documents portraying an experiment or project. These documents don't require much creativity because they basically explain a procedure and solution to a particular problem. I don't IM, facebook, twitter or any other fake form of communication with other people. I prefer face-to-face conversations.

My reason for taking this class mainly is because it meets the literature requirement at Clemson. But additionally I felt like I would enjoy newer works as compared to older works of literature. As I stated before I am a Senior graduating in May in Mechanical Engineering and I am always excited to take classes outside of my major. So I am very excited about this class.

I will attempt to write a poem but not entirely sure how to but here is my best shot.

To Clemson I rode five years ago
Not realizing how much engineering would blow
Through continually working on my studies
I managed to befriend many buddies
Now I am ready to graduate with a sob
And begin my first real job