.This week in AP LIt was all about getting back into the groove of analyzing poetry. We started with the peom "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams. The poem uses personification to make spring seem more like a birth. Comparing the ugly process of birth to the ugly process which creates spring, the muddy fields and dried weeds and other ugly things. The second poem we analyzed was "For Jane Meyers" by Louise Gluck, and that poem looked at spring in a much different context. I could even argue that it is the exact opposite meaning to what the first poem was conveying. It explains that with the new season, comes a lot of death. The death of gardens being picked and how they cannot fight against the change of the seasons.
This week was also about making some headway with our Shakespeare project. Our group had a couple of good chats with Mr. Schoenborn and a Shakespeare expert to help point our project in the direction we want to go. We are learning a lot about exisitensialism and how it may relate to all of Shakespeare's plays. It is a curious idea because, at the time, being an existensialst almost meant you were against the church, and that would have got you killed in the time period that Shakespeare lived in. He may have been an existensialist, but he probably did not have a word for it and he certaintly could not have flaunted his idea that god did not make every decision in the world and that people have to make their own destiny. That is a major part of this project I like, learning about what existensialism is. A whole new way to think has been discovered by me and now the project seems a lot more exciting when we have a new lense to vew Shakespeare. Hopefully this flame does not die out before this project is finished.
This week was also about making some headway with our Shakespeare project. Our group had a couple of good chats with Mr. Schoenborn and a Shakespeare expert to help point our project in the direction we want to go. We are learning a lot about exisitensialism and how it may relate to all of Shakespeare's plays. It is a curious idea because, at the time, being an existensialst almost meant you were against the church, and that would have got you killed in the time period that Shakespeare lived in. He may have been an existensialist, but he probably did not have a word for it and he certaintly could not have flaunted his idea that god did not make every decision in the world and that people have to make their own destiny. That is a major part of this project I like, learning about what existensialism is. A whole new way to think has been discovered by me and now the project seems a lot more exciting when we have a new lense to vew Shakespeare. Hopefully this flame does not die out before this project is finished.