reflection on essay 2

The essay 2 prompt made me realize that there is more to know and understand to literature writing and poems. It showed me how much someone can connect or relate to someones writing also people all have different means to the same writing. In the prompt one think that was hard for me to do the most was to try to connect the canon to the prompt. But once I got help from fellow students of mine I realized it wasn't as hard as I thought.

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