I have always been mesmerized by language, coming from a family where word choice is very important. Using a particular word could be the difference between having and argument or not having one.
However, when it came to the written word I was not particularly good, and my grades in English class suffered. It wasn’t until high school that I was able to begin to articulate my self a lot better. I began to fuse the poetry that I wrote into my formal essay writing. My poetry has always been my saving voice. In high school I was always interested in different theorist and vaguely understood them. So in college I hoped to be enlightened.
Of course by college I had gone over Shakespeare, Blake, some American poets that I can not remember. We went over pretty much what would be in the cannon along with some popular novels that would be relevant to our Regents exams. When I came to college my idea of what a book could offer broadened. I started see how great novels like The Never Ending Story depicted life. I believe that I began to learn how to truly pick apart a novel and delve into the different layers that hid beneath the plot line.
I hope that more modern books will be admitted into the cannon, because the modern world has changed drastically and my generation views this world with a different lens than previous generations. This is why I have become interested in theories in general, because they are the basis or the blue print of how literature depicts the ever changing world.
