Post Reading - as I grew older

Post Reading

Everybody has good days and bad days. I had ups and down in my life like every other normal person. I had a difficultly in my life that I had to overcome and break the "wall".

Last year was the first year I started to take the Matriculation exams. On my first Matriculation exam I was really nervous and I was afraid because all those years I had studied in the elementary school and the Middle School I was prepared for those exams. I overcame my fear by learning perfectly all the material and I can pass this exam easily because I studied all year long and studied for this exam for a week. I went to the exam with confidence.

To conclude, it was difficult for me to overcome but I eventually did it. My "sun" was my self-confidence I was sure I knew all the material and my "wall" was the Matriculation exams. But after I passed the first exam I was confident again.

Reflection - as I grew older

Reflection:

1.     I enjoyed reading the poem, because I liked the way the poet wrote the poem. He makes the reader read it with an intensity of emotion. Moreover I have enjoyed reading As I Grow Older because I liked the way Hughes uses an un-materialistic timeline to his “Dream” journey. The poem makes you read it with an intensity of emotions, by Hughes’s use of repetitive words, punctuation marks and exclamation points.
Furthermore, the poem is relatable by dealing the subject of changing perspective of the growing human being- innocence, then knowledge of the wrongness, and in the end- acceptance and resolution.

2.     I found the poem encouraging because after all the "walls" that stood in the poet's way, he didn't give up his suppressors and he fought his way to be free.

3.     The skill of Distinguishing Different perspectives adds to my understanding of the poem by understanding the poet writing about his dream from a perspective of a child and how it changed as he grew older.