Reflection On How To Read Literature Like A Professor

The book that I read for my summer reading was How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster and I personally loved it. I really liked the book for many reasons and I think it may have even have changed my thoughts about reading literature into depth. IN addition to that the style of writing was more relatable to a student. Which are all reasons for my love of the book. I really enjoyed the book for many reasons beginning with the topic itself; I love reading literature especially classics like Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes and this books helps to get into more details of almost hidden aspects of a book for example he discusses the poem “In Memory of W.B Yeats” and how Yeats dies in winter but that the season is not the that meets the eye; he says this about the winter “Auden, an accomplished ironist and realist, turns this pattern around in memorializing not a youngster but a man, born at the end of the American civil war and dead on the eve of World War II, whose life and career were very long, who had made it to his own winter and who died in the meteorological winter”. This there for giving a deeper and hidden meaning. In addition of being about literature it is a very easy read due to every
He was childish with his wording and phrases for example “But Godbers man wasn’t about to have his story snatched from under his nose.” the words snatched and the phrase under his nose aren’t exactly processional sayings. So not only are his words and phrases childish but in his writing is very personal and quite unprofessional such as asking the question to the reader “Am I true extravagant? Maybe I am.” So all together his writing technique is unoriginal which was not expected from a book with a title about literature and being a