W9. B2.

Last night I had read Rossetti Sing Song and had got through them painfully and didn’t find them very fun to read at all, especially after reading Stevenson who is so upbeat and playful. Sing-Song seemed dark and sad, nothing I want to read to my children. As a child my mom read Stevenson’s verse to me all the time. I made sure when I got the books for this class I found the big book version of his poems, the one just like I had when I was a child. Rossetti I had never even heard of.

Today when we started discussing them I was not very excited. I had read over the handout but not studied it in depth and once we started discussing it I was thoroughly surprised. These verses weren’t near as bad as I had made them out to be. Once I understood the context that these verses were written in it made them seem much more acceptable and fun to read.

Still not as fun as Stevenson though.