Yesterday was a day deserving of nothing less than unreserved congratulations for America's new President Barack Obama, but the evening before had delivered something of a disappointment, the cause of which being in its turn partly responsible for my not producing a Word of the Week last Wednesday, all this needing to be got out of the way before moving on with the next planned brace of delights.
The assignment on Wordsworth's 'Nutting' over which I toiled the week before last, handing it in nicely on time on Thursday the 8th, was marked and returned to me by my tutor Marian on Monday. With a not unreasonable amount of anticipation did I navigate my way to page where I'd collect my returned assignment, for in my satisfaction with the finished piece I was expecting a mark better than the 74% I'd achieved for both the first and second TMAs (Tutor-Marked Assignments). In short, the thing turned out to be a mild failure. Marian and I disagree on numerous points, one fine example being that a particular passage she praised as 'Good' I was unhappy with and considering completely rewriting or removing, to replace with (significantly) some analysis of the poems Imagery, on the lack of which in my assignment Marian and I agree.
Never mind. A mild failure, but they are all to be learned from. 'Let me make my own mistakes', is all I ask.
Word of the Week
Failure
failure /ˈfeɪljə(r)/ n. 1 lack of success; failing. 2 an unsuccessful person, thing, or attempt. 3 non-performance, non-occurrence. 4 breaking down or ceasing to function (heart failure; engine failure). 5 running short of supply etc. 6 bankruptcy, collapse. [earlier failer f. AF, = OF faillir FAIL]
Definition courtesy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary
