Second half of The Sonnets/Elsewhere No. 2

I definitely enjoyed the second half of The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan more than the first half. I feel as if the second half had a lot more of a play on words and had a more diverse usage of words as well. Once again, I enjoy how he took everyday normal things and turned them into a fantastic piece of literature that kept the reader enthused. Another thing that I like about Berrigan is that even though he's taking these randomly assorted words and putting them back together in a distorted way, you can still feel the story behind it and feel the words. When I took a Major American Writers class my senior year of high school my English teacher explained to me in detail that one of the most important things about writing a particular piece is that the reader can actually feel it through the words rather than just seeing it. I found this to be a very important lesson and believe that Berrigan executes this very well. It's hard to make something out of really nothing and Berrigan really accomplished the purpose of his writing well.

The first thing that I noticed by far about Elsewhere No. 2 were the graphics. Even though they're in black and white they definitely stand out to the reader and help present the story more. Graphics in comics always help make the reading a little lighter, too. The words that Sullivan use also really make the story pop. Some words that really stood out to me were "groan", "diesel", "penetrates", etc. He doesn't at all really use any dull wording. The piece overall was funny and entertaining, but at some points I got a little lost. It just felt as if between the graphics and the wording that it was too much for me too handle but I the same time I still really enjoy reading it because it presented this little challenge. During the end it calmed down a lot more to almost a boring pace, but yet it still kept my attention because of all the busy-ness going on in the first half. My favorite part overall was Sullivan's interesting choice of words and how he put them all together. Whereas Berrigan's pieces seemed more structered this did and didn't at the same time just because of the nature of the literature.