The reading from week 1 that made me think the most is the poem by W.P. called Waking. In lecture, we discussed this poem in slight detail and are given some context into how the poem came to be. My first impression of the poem was that it was reflective and a take on how cruel the world can be to someone. However, after listening to the additional information provided by the professor about the author, I saw this work differently. The author of the poem is an Asian American woman who suffered betrayal by her co-worker and had her work on a biology course all ripped away from her and stolen. In the poem, W.P. describes the co-worker having tears in her eyes as she was reminded of animal cruelty in the biology lab and W.P. questions why the co-worker doesn't have those same feelings of sympathy towards the person she betrayed. I thoroughly enjoyed the anaphora that W.P. uses to expose the co-worker's unsympathetic, cruel, and almost evil nature. I finally recognized some sort of intent to shame the co-worker in the poem by calling her out on her deeds. I can imagine the co-worker reading this poem and staring blankly at awe, hopefully regretting her decisions. The poem can also be used as a blood boiling anthem for activists. I could not understand the depth of this poem until I read it over and over again, but the poem is very intense and moving.
Works Cited
Ping, Wang. “Waking.” UC Davis Canvas Discovery, canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/392140/files/folder/Weekly%20Readings/Week1?preview=6305117.Breus, M. (2018, August 14). 5 reasons you are waking up too early – and what you can do about it. Retrieved from https://thesleepdoctor.com/2018/08/14/5-reasons-you-wake-up-too-early-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
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