Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Critique on "Whoever Claims It Hardest, Remembers It Most Obsessively"



Sara Angela Rodriguez
A415-002/Chambers
Student Critique/ Whoever Claims It Hardest, Remembers It Most Obsessively
31 January 2013

Question: if your first sentence your title, part of the piece, or both? I assumed that it was the title because it was the first line and the structure in which you have the first section of the piece resembles a poem (and you know the rule for non-title poems). I think that presenting your title like this is an excellent idea. It brings you right to the middle of the action, which I assume is thinking. What you are thinking about is clear—at least to me (you are remember different circumstances you’ve experience in bathrooms, right?). What I had a problem figuring out is where you were and why you were remembering these specific events. From you last section I kind of got the feeling that you were in a bathroom (“The circumference of cold porcelain brands my skin […]” I assumed was a toilet seat) but I wasn’t sure what you were doing there (there are different reasons you can go to the restroom as I’m sure you know). The last line of your piece especially interests me. It made me think that this whole series of remembrances/memories is going through your head while you’re puking from a drunken night on the town. I really liked your piece and I can’t wait to find out the story behind the bathroom memoirs.   

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