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Absolutely no problem. One general thing I’d recommend, not just for this class but any class is dropping by your professors’ office hours maybe once a month or every couple of weeks. Come with a question about the reading or get some feedback on an assignment in progress. Make an excuse if you need to. You will have a much more collegiate relationship with your professors, they will know you more as a person, and it will very much come in handy if you need to ask for a recommendation or something

Okay, so I took a look and overall, I don’t think this professor is targeting you or grading you unfairly. I did take a look at the original poem, as well as your arguments, and I do agree that a queer lens could certainly be applied to the poem. However, the way you’re talking about the story makes it sound like an explicitly homosexual text, which it isn’t. I think a lot of that is a product of the assignment being a short response that doesn’t really give you the scope for what is ultimately a pretty complex argument about the text that needs a lot more breathing space, or maybe your research on other scholarship about the poem giving you the impression that a queer theory reading of the poem is a settled fact rather than one interpretation. However, it is also true that there is no explicit homosexuality in the text. I also think he’s right in that it’s difficult to follow your line of argument about what was asked in the prompt re. the view of human nature in the poem. You’re pointing at some different ideas about Adam and Eve, the Old vs. New Testament, a third reconciliation beyond the two. It’s ultimately too overambitious for what the assignment is.

I also look at the professor’s feedback, and it’s critical while being encouraging. He’s appreciative that you tried something here, although it didn’t quite work and acknowledges some of your writing strengths. If I got this from you, I would think that you were a strong, but still developing academic writer with a lot of interesting ideas that needs some work on the underlying structure and fundamentals of argument and interpretation that will support the more complex analysis you’re trying to do (and a better sense of what’s possible within the scope of the assignment).

I’m an English teacher with a background in literature if you want me to take a look

I’d also need to know what the assignment was in the first place

Thank you for sharing your burdens with us

Solidarity with you and yours and hoping for better days ahead. What brought you to Hexbear?

You should have traded Grindr for an Altimetr

Most IATA posts are fake, but idk maybe I just want to believe this one

Babes I only sucked a dick because of mountain fever. This is simple science

Somebody has a case of the Mondays

they are not coming from a place of evil with their choice

To the pure, all things are pure

That’s not a principle dipshit

Name any principle you hold so dearly that it would prevent you from voting for Kamala Harris

I’m going to exercise restraint right now and curb my gut reaction to beat you to death with a tire iron.

“On one hand genocide. On the other hand Harris might actually get the border wall finished.”

B-b-banger thread

It’s lib scratching time

You have to understand that most of the ones you see online them are the worst Californians imaginable that have moved to Central Texas to not pay income tax and because they think it is less woke