ENG 1.3 Unfamiliar poetry

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What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry?  

These poems suggest that we should approach all poetry with an open mind, to 'dive headfirst', to let yourself be amazed and surprised by poetry, to consume the poem in it's entirety without holding back.

What is one specific example (evidence from the text)? One of the poems, 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam, has a main message that is telling us to approach a poem head-first- "Don’t be polite. Bite in,"- and to savor every word, not waste anything, "...and lick the juice that may run down your chin." Eating fruit has been used as a metaphor, the purpose of this was to help us understand the message in a more engaging way, that we should read a poem as it you were eating fruit, to not waste a drop and to lick the juice off our chins, to approach a poem head-on.

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L1HEc / Japanese Pancakes お好み焼き

For our practical yesterday in Home Ec, today we made Japanese Pancakes, or okonomiyaki. They're a sort of savoury pancake common in Japanese culture. 

Our recipe was untraditional, and was made from flour, eggs, water, soy sauce, cabbage, bacon and corn. We topped our okonomiyaki with traditional okonomiyaki sauce (a mix of worcestershire sauce, honey, tomato sauce) and store-brought Japanese mayonnaise. 

Overall the recipe was easy to make, it included different processes like chopping the cabbage, stirring the mixture and then frying them in the pan. I like how we had options on what we did and didn't include. It was a bit bland by itself but the okonomiyaki sauce brought a lot of flavour, even if I did choose to have tomato sauce on mine instead.

I will probably make this recipe again at home, I'd probably add something like spinach, feta cheese and garlic (not traditional, but it would taste good).