Countering and Howe

This chapter on countering I thought was really valuable. I think it's always important to look at the other side of an issue and to understand that other side as well as your own. That way you know the positives and negatives of an argument. You then, in turn, come to understand and gain more knowledge about a topic. The end of "My Emily Dickinson" was good. I had no idea you could look at one poem in so many different ways, and how each word or phrase could mean something totally different from the next. The Howe poems were interesting. It was really a nonconformity, it was cool though. Almost like an art within the poetry.