Second Year

When I last wrote about Uni I was at the frantic end to my second year, which is why I found it difficult to update about anything at the time. Now it's all over I felt the need to provide some closure on my modules.

Literature

My last assignment for this course was based on the book The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon. It's a post colonial text from the view of migrant workers from the Caribbean living in London after the war. It was probably my favourite book of the whole course because of a combination of things. Firstly the language is brilliant. Selvon uses a Caribbean/English throughout the story, narrator included, which really makes the characters and the story come alive. In an interview Selvon wrote that he tried to write in standard English but it just would not flow.

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

I also had an exam for this module which went really well. I managed to write sixteen or so pages in three hours and got a 2:1 for the entire module. (:

Creative Writing

Towards the end of this module I loathed creative writing with a passion. I felt that all my creativity had been drained from me, as I felt the module either needed to be extremely tight on guidelines, prompts or genres or completely free. Because of this, my main priority was my Lit module, so when it came down to my final assessment (instead of an exam) I spent a rushed three nights completing it. I chose to do 100 lines of poetry and wrote about three cities, personifying a woman s the city. It's hard to explain but I will post them on here. Overall I graded a 2:2 for this module which isn't what I wanted but I didn't put enough work in to get a higher mark.

The all nighter

That's all there is to say really. In September I'm doing 20th Century Literature and Children's Literature which I'm looking forward to, aside from the fact I have about forty books to read before then.

LB