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Today when I got home from my study group and my shopping, I sat down with Lindy and read some poetry to her---not because she wanted to hear poetry, but because it's easier for me to comprehend poetry if I read it aloud. We read Book of Isaiah by Ann Carson. I really love this poem. Every time I read it, I feel like it's the "key" to unlock the rest of her poetry in Glass, Irony and God. And since I'm studying it for my MA exam, I figured it would be very important to understand it.
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gigglestheblood recognized a few of the lines as direct references to the Book of Isaiah, and so I started making footnotes. Then I figured, "Well, why not try to find some more? It can't be too hard!"
It wasn't hard. It was time-consuming. By the time I was done, I had 40 endnotes, and 10 footnotes. The endnotes were the quotes from the Bible, and the footnotes were other random notes and cross references. I had 3 different online Bibles open, 2 wiki tabs, the OED, two Google windows, and a chat window withagnespennyworth. Yes, I suckered her into helping with this mad project.
It was a huge amount of work, and now I don't know if I even accomplished anything. There's no way this much work is going to make a huge difference on my exam. I sent it to everybody in my group, but I doubt it'll be a huge help to them. I sorta just feel like I wasted my time. Plus, it's not like I'm a Biblical scholar. Hell, I'm not any sort of scholar.That's why I'm so anxious about this exam. So how will I even know the references I found and the cross-references I made are right?
gigglestheblood recognized a few of the lines as direct references to the Book of Isaiah, and so I started making footnotes. Then I figured, "Well, why not try to find some more? It can't be too hard!" It wasn't hard. It was time-consuming. By the time I was done, I had 40 endnotes, and 10 footnotes. The endnotes were the quotes from the Bible, and the footnotes were other random notes and cross references. I had 3 different online Bibles open, 2 wiki tabs, the OED, two Google windows, and a chat window with
agnespennyworth. Yes, I suckered her into helping with this mad project. It was a huge amount of work, and now I don't know if I even accomplished anything. There's no way this much work is going to make a huge difference on my exam. I sent it to everybody in my group, but I doubt it'll be a huge help to them. I sorta just feel like I wasted my time. Plus, it's not like I'm a Biblical scholar. Hell, I'm not any sort of scholar.That's why I'm so anxious about this exam. So how will I even know the references I found and the cross-references I made are right?