journal 3- Steven Wappenstein

One Thing I noticed during the chapter nine reading was that even during poems that fell onto Hugo's lap he still had to invent reasons and motivations for characters in the poem such as:

"To him, a rainbow if oil might mean
a tug upstream, a boom, a chance a log
would break away and float his lasso."

This quote comes from Hugo's The Squatter on company land. Even Though Hugo had witnessed most of these events at work he still had to invent some reason as to why The Admiral did what he did, in Hugo's mind the Admiral wanted to get lucky when in all reality his motivation to live there could be he's in millions of dollars of debt to the IRS that he has no hope of paying off, or a whole host of other reasons other than this, but Hugo used this as a opportunity to create his own Admiral for the poem.



One major takeaway I got from the book was how to use triggering subjects to get meaning and value from the setting of a poem. This helped me a lot in the writing process because it helped me break a lot of writing block that I would have. I could rely on the setting in order to find some moral of the story or something of that sort.



I also think That Hugo had good advice about overusing certain words, some examples he said to limit your use of were: love, so and such, and although I did use some of these words I did try to challenge myself to not use other words like music.