While reading and discussing the Middle Generation Poets unit, I found the importance of analyzation when it comes to realizing just how the author wants their work to be perceived. This being said, many of the works this unit could be perceived differently by other people, but I most certainly put energy into trying to figure out just how it should be perceived by wants of the author.
Another thing about the works of this unit is that all of the authors are not the same. By this, I mean that the authors all come from a diverse background and none of them are the exact same. We have authors of different races, different sexes, different backgrounds. This helped lead us to having a broad understanding of the impact this unit had on literary history.
While I did not understand the intent of this while reading, after discussing and analyzing these works I have come to an understanding of the reasoning behind this. While it would be easy to understand the intent behind a few works of extremely alike writers, it is much harder to when the writers are all different and diverse. However, the understanding and the education behind this is much greater and is much more useful. Trying to read through the writers eyes gave me a deeper understanding of the work and applying this to future units will be beneficial for me, as a reader, as well.
sydney poynter 