This assignment focuses on Richard Brautigan's poem "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace."
After reading this poem carefully and many, many, many times, please write a 250-300 word piece about it. Specifically, the first half of your writing (probably 2 or more paragraphs) should assemble and explain evidence from the text to argue that the poem's message is Anti-Technology. In the second half of your writing, try to make reverse argument, using evidence, that the poem is Pro-Technology. Then, in one final paragraph, explain which message you agree with and tell what evidence tips the balance for you and why.
ALSO, we'll talk a bit about Hjortshoj on Thursday, so be sure you've read the assigned pages--and feel free to read outside the assigned pages as I think this book has many useful insights, especially for first-year students.
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