/lit/ - Literature

I am often hazy and can't think properly.
Will writing down my thoughts fix this?
Will it help with more structured thinking?
How do I approach this, how do I write them down?
I don't know what to write

How do you consider your readings: as something to be experienced in the moment, or something to be reflected upon completion? In other words, which of the following scenarios has more value to you? "I am reading Moby-Dick." or "I have read Moby-Dick." What is the difference between the two?

Going to be posting some /lit/ questions from past learned league editions. No point in looking up the answers, just thought the board might enjoy some of these

LITERATURE - What two words are missing from the following title of a Walt Whitman poem, which was untitled in 1855's Leaves of Grass and later appeared as "Poem of the Body" before acquiring this present title (which is also now the poem's first line): I _______ the Body _______.