So like a majority of posts that have been posted thus far, I will just start by saying that Mikhail M. Bakhtins language structure is the hardest I have ever read in my life.  I just spent the past an and a half reading 11 pages, and making my boyfriend read it too.  From what I gathered of this, Bakhtin has amazing ideas, but he is at times to far fetched.

     So before posting this I browsed around at my fellow classmates and read what they had to say.  I looked for some guidance and ideas because I do not want to post anything and have fellow classmates say “oh man, she has NO IDEA what she’s talking about.”  I know that our big discussion in class the other day revolved around TS Eliot and his quote of “detaching yourself from the literature.”  On page 1194 of our assigned reading, Bakhtin suggest that a poet individuality reflects in his language and speech.  Again, I really believe it is hard for a write not to have their own individuality peak through in there writings.  Even if their individuality relates to them in the way that they speak or the way that they structure their literature, it is still a trait of themselves and it comes through in their literature.  If people do not personally take an experience and write about it, a part of them will still show through because not everyone writes the same.  Personally, I think its impossible to not show through in literature.  Just to note, another great quote of his that I saw that would prove this more is on page 1192, last paragraph, first line. 

     In the middle of page 1191, fourth paragaph, Bakhtin writes about how in the 1920’s the whole structure of literature started to change.  I like how he notes that when language started to change, novels and novel structure started to change.  I think that we all know that happens, but we may not always think of that happening.  Everything now a days changes rapidly.  I think as future scholars it is important for us to note that our language and structure will change and we need to stay up to date and be willing to change with it. 

     Bakhtin’s entry could be talked about for hours and written about for hours.  Overall I think this assignment was difficult, but it is what I needed to help get me thinking like a scholar.  My boyfriend said to me “I feel so bad that you have to read such hard work…” (He’s a business major).  My response to him was “It’s funny because I am trying to learn the English language in a way that I can teach it and present it to my future students, but at the same time I have to learn “another language” to learn this language…”