It seems as though we are trying to hit all of the types of poems in a row in this class. We have done the entirely symbolic poem, political dissatisfaction poem, and we have arrived now at the dark, Dickinson-Poe arena. "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain" stood out as a poem of the week, because despite our experience with the previous poems, there was a lot of variation about the class's interpretation of the poem. Some students saw the speaker as a soul descending into hell, some saw him/her as a dead/dying person, and others thought the speaker was going insane.
This week I was pleased, because we were given another Pitts AOW. I think again that Pitts was right on target, unapologetically berating the media and the masses for their blatant bigotry. This week around I disagreed with the way he defined an "American," but again, I agreed with his main point, which I thought SHOULD be a universal truth.
I am still a little unsure about the exact way to approach the essay that is a part of our "What is Literautre?" project, and am still hopeless with a Prezi, but I am confident that it will become clear to me soon. The stories that I am reading right now for my two topics, Symbolism and Fantasy, all seem to be very dark. Since these are two literary devices that authors of literature use to reveal and represent underlying truths, does that mean that authors of literature have a generally negative view of the world? Or, more daunting, is the world actually so dark that in order to accurately allude to universal truths, we must use semi-disturbing metaphors to cushion the truth?
It was a dark week in Lit.
Until next week,
Mia
This week I was pleased, because we were given another Pitts AOW. I think again that Pitts was right on target, unapologetically berating the media and the masses for their blatant bigotry. This week around I disagreed with the way he defined an "American," but again, I agreed with his main point, which I thought SHOULD be a universal truth.
I am still a little unsure about the exact way to approach the essay that is a part of our "What is Literautre?" project, and am still hopeless with a Prezi, but I am confident that it will become clear to me soon. The stories that I am reading right now for my two topics, Symbolism and Fantasy, all seem to be very dark. Since these are two literary devices that authors of literature use to reveal and represent underlying truths, does that mean that authors of literature have a generally negative view of the world? Or, more daunting, is the world actually so dark that in order to accurately allude to universal truths, we must use semi-disturbing metaphors to cushion the truth?
It was a dark week in Lit.
Until next week,
Mia