Out of the all the readings for Thursday's class, I just wanted to say that I liked John Ashbery's Paradoxes and Oxymorons and Langston Hughes's Theme for English B the most. John Ashbery's struck me becaus it's in the second person narrative for most of it, so it's actively engaging the reader in the poem instead of just preaching. And what I liked about the poem by Langston Hughes was that it's so simple and it's about identity and humanity. I liked it's message that yes, we are all different, not necessarily because of race or age or anything but because of our different experiences, but that we are all still one, we are all still americans or just people in general, and that should be enough to connect us. I also like that Langston Hughes talks about how what's true for a person may not necssarily apply or be true for somebody else, and i thought that was a really interesting philosophical point to make. I really enjoyed these readings-- they were very thought provoking!