Eliza's Reflection on Literary Analysis 1

If I'm being completely honest, I was a little bit lost when we started reading Ozymandias. I liked the poem a lot, but there wasn't a lot of depth in it for me right off the bat. But after I read through my final essay, I realized that I learned a lot about so many things, just through this poem! And what made it more intriguing to me, was that I learned it all through general resources. It wasn't thoughts that well known scholars had compiled about their experience of the poem, or what they thought about it - it was all things that I had learned about the poem, and insights that classmates had shared. It was fun to be able to put together an essay that was comprised completely of my own thoughts and thoughts of others in the class. And I was able to see these thoughts form throughout the prewriting process, and then all of them came together for the final essay. Hooray!