Poetry and E-mails

One of my great friends and I have been discussing poetry lately. She is an English major too, so the conversation is really interesting and Shel Silverstein is nowhere to be found. I have always liked poetry, but after discussing it in a casual setting, where I wasn't being graded on what I said, or how I interpreted the imagery, I found out I love it. I think that if people started discussing things from academic arenas in a more casual environment they might discover that rather then loath it, or hate it, or just not care one way or the other; they might discover they love it. Except for Algebra, I can't see myself laughing through equations with friends on a Friday night. Anyway, back to poetry. I used to think that poetry was nice, just something from English class that you could talk about to feel superior to other people, particularly those whose talents lie in the sciences. But, after really talking about it, I found that it is really something I like, and that is great discovery. (Especially before my next round of English classes.) Which brings me to the e-mails. Because of my later registration date and the apparent and sudden influx of English and French scholars, I could not get in to two of my classes. In fact the two I most need to take, French 202 and English 291. So after spending around two to three weeks checking to see if anyone dropped, I wrote some e-mails. to top it off I asked Dad to help with the composition (I wasn't sure how one composed said e-mails) so we went to work writing one to the 291 professor, Zina Petersen. (Her emphasis is the medieval period and she is a good friend of dad's.) So by the time we were done the title was in Old English and we had made several jokes and references to Old English literature and Prof. Petersen's own life. Needless to say after dad pronounce the masterpiece of electronic mail finished, I added a p.s. stating that he had helped with the various facts and language. (i didn't want her to let me into her class and start speaking to me in Old English and think I was already a medieval scholar.) All in all these two experiences have gotten me ready to get back into school and the English program. I just better get an A.