Today's Reflection

For my online class today, I read selected poems by William Blake. Fun fact I learned today: the band in the Russell Brand movies Get Him To the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is actually named after the poem "Infant Sorrow." I found that the rhythmic breathing that occurs when one meditates helps set a sort of internal metronome, perfect for reading poetry. The focus on slowing down let me catch every word, the slant rhymes, the allusions and other tools Blake uses to create vivid philosophical pictures.

The commentary left by my professor however, couldn't be helped by any amount of meditation, slowing down my reading or any other technique. After reading the poems, I spent the next half hour reading the commentary. I only got about half way through what seems like endless amounts of words, but hopefully tomorrow I can recharge and push through the rest of the commentary and get the assignment done.