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For as long as I can opine, Ive love to engage short stories, fiction, nonfiction sometimes, even philosophy if nothing else were available. This verge Ive been given more education assignments than I can ever remember having to negociate with. This term has been extra special because we studied no slight than common chord types of literature short stories, poetry, and drama. While I was in gritty school, a short story was a book with less than three hundred pages. This term I learned that even though a short story may be only a few pages long, there are chapters of interpretation, ambiguity, and symbol to understand. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, I found a story teeming with so much symbolism that I had to read the story twice before I tacit half of it. In Araby by James Joyce, I learned to aspect deeper than just the surface of the original wording to find new meanings to the story. Poetry, on the other hand, has been like a curse to me. I felt as if I were out of my depth when forced to read it. I could read the words, but comprehension was beyond me. Then, just last week I discovered poetry is indeed a foreign language. Ive always picked up languages easily, I thought. I then knew that all I had to do was realize the dead language of poetry into terms I could understand, then, with a glary flash, comprehension dawned. E.E. Cummings is really just a dirty elder man. Carlos Williams is a political activist, and Dylan Thomas is incredibly grief stricken more or less the loss of some loved one. The emotions of the poems were almost similarly overwhelming to deal with. Once I was told that as we evolve, so to does our language. I thought my teacher had been in the sun too long when she told me that. But when I started reading works by William Shakespear, I found just how right she was. The belles-lettres of Shakespear also have the added benefit of being like poetry. For me drama is tedious, boring, and too hard to keep track of.