Assignment Three

In these two writings Stanley Fish's 'How to Recognize a Poem When You see One', and the essay by Eagleton, use examples in order to convey and discuss literary elements use to explain the use of genre in an assingment. The two authors touch on the term commonsense as a way of trying to determine what a sign, or assingment is about. All of this is an example as how Chandler says that,"a genre defines a moral and social world. Indeed, a genre in any medium can be seen as embodying certain values and ideological assumption." This can be use to explain the idea each writer has of discussing the importance of the role 'genre' has in the writings of Fish and Eagleton, by discussing the use of it in more broad understanding.

In Fish's 'How to Recognize a Poem When You See One', Fish explains the difference an assignment wrote on the board had by the eyes of his two different classes. Although, one class was focussed more on 'Literary Criticism', while the other on 'English Religious poetry of the seventeenth century'. The first class would only see the assignment as a list of authors who have influence in the discussion and meaning of Literary Theory in their own assumptions. The Other class saw the assignment as was teached by an instructor as a poem. The words diin't follow a meaning, but the class use their own assumptions in trying to figure out the meaning; some touched on the religious significance of the names listed in order. In the end, Eagleton said, "The conclusion, therefore, is that all objects are made and not found, and that they are made by the interpretive strategies we set in motion." This is an example of this work, how the list wrote on the board interpreted for the first class only writer names in a list not following an specific order or significance, and the second class saw the list as a poem and made their suggestions on what it meant. On the essay by Eagleton, he is talking about the use of consious and non-consious in literary theory, how genre works in trying to explain what the writer talks about in the specific text of writing, he says, "The important point to grasp here is that language is not a simple naming process." This means that the importance of language is not only for a specific reader to understand, it is use as a way to interpret genre, how language is seen in different ways by people, because not all people understand the same language, their are many as also many genres.
Therefore, the connection between these writings is the signs of interpretation obtained, first by Fish's class where right away they would see the assignment as a poem, and in the essay the use of language to determine the genre. An example of everyday life is going to school, and try to learn something new each day by the instructor, and putting into practice when an assignment is given, this is where Fish's class example comes to mind where we need to interpret in or own words what the assignment is all about, and how in Eagleton's essay the use of language is helpful to understand and interpret the assingnment we are given.