blog 2

I think by annotating with different colors it became much easier to for me to separate out the different parts of the paper out mentally. For example I would color all of the example metaphors (not just all of the metaphors since there was a lot of them hidden in there) the same color to separate them form everything else than I would separate things like references I didn’t understand in a different color and so on. One thing that organizing my annotations like this made me realize was how packed full of content and ideas this paper was, usually when you read something you don’t necessarily have to hang on to every word but organizing the paper by color in a way sort of highlighted the outsides of the puzzle pieces for me (if that makes sense) which allowed me to see the structure of the paper more which in turn let me kind of digest each point into smaller bites which definitely helped. I am still a bit critical of all the complexities of metaphors he was talking about a lot of them made sense but it still felt like he was talking a lot of hot air with not much support for some of the points he made. One thing I had to gloss the text to find out was who Rilke was, I found out that he was a poet who was known for powerful imagery in his writing which led me to conclude that the purpose of using him as an example actually was to say that metaphors aren’t just for passionate and intense writings that are made like art but they could also be designed like machines and be a little more mundane and useful.