2nd Day of Apologies

Kevin
-Channeling the Barman Poet
-Why are you doing it man? To Graduate, but so much more.
-Channel Arnold Keats and Pater now to tell why all is so important
-Using Don Quixote for apology!
-English students know the benefits of studying poetry while others (outside) remain oblivious.
-Beyond the greater good.

Gabby
-A Sudden Manifestation of the Divine
-Science Class - Wanted to be Nurse
-The Pig-In-A-Bag was her future!
-The Pig recited lines from Frye!
-She incorporated the semester into her story. It was sublime. ;)
-They never will get it.
-"A fool that persists in his folly will become wise."

Ben
-40 year old illiterate man
-Began seeing with poetry seeing eyes in his hometown, and became an English Major.
-Talked of center and circumference, he said that a person would never be happy in the center of their lives until they engage in the circumference of it too. Those that don't engage in poetry are only waiting to die.

Rosanne
-4th class with Dr. Sexson
-She feels like she needs to read classical mythology over and over and over.
-She wrote a poem for her apology.
-Many incorporated themes and stories from semester (and past semesters) in poem. It was sublime. ;)

Kyle 1
-Personal explanation of why I am an English Major. He's stressed :) but he loves stories.
-"If stories are not important, why have we not quit making them?"
- For millenia, stories have been fun and diversion.... this has now poured over into movies and video games.
-Why are they important? A world of nature that is olblivious to our wants and desire. We want to turn this world into a better representation of what we call home.
-Don Quixote understood this better than them all.
-I would lose my ability to make the world what I want it to be if stories and the ability to make them was gone.
- Haroon and the Sea of Stories!

Jake
-If a major does not offer high salary and many job offers after college, it is considered worthless. Literature falls here. But literature is the major of passion.
-Literature is emotion. Building a bridge is not.
-Cruelty is just a word but it becomes more, it becomes real, when we read of it from Harriet Beecher Stowe or Anne Franke.
-As long as there is love and suffering, we need literature.

Kayla
-Words whisper to her in her sleep.
-Words teach her to live, love, observe, write, and embrace her forever companion, her imagination.
-As a reader I can only visit other worlds, but as a writer I can create.
-It is the mirror that makes that which is distorted beautiful.
-People burn books because they are afraid of the power within them.
-Proud to be a part of that power.

Erica
-Personal story: English teaching major - Parents not surprised by her decision to teach, but were surprised by decision to go to grad school for literature.
-All literature teaches us, even if it is by seeing a new word in a crazy poem.
-Don Quixote is not just a satire of chivalry, it's a beacon for those people who need to be inspired to do what they want!
-Self-proclaimed romantic. Only she, a literature lover, can be amongst the gods.