After the wonderful week of relaxation, reading and cookies known as Christmas break, we have started up again and are back into the rhythm of AP Literature. This week our focus was mainly on our two poems, and our critical theory papers. Before break, and for a good majority of this week, I was very worried about writing this critical theory paper and doing a presentation on it. When we watched the movie of Macbeth, I really didn’t understand what was happening and felt very unprepared to write a well thought out essay on it. Having Dr. McDermott come in and speak to us completely changed my perspective. She explained some of the history from the time period and gave us some great insight on the piece. Hearing her perspective made me much more confident in our project, and I know our work will be much better because of her. The two poems we looked at this week both had themes of spring. I really enjoyed them but the second one “For Jane Meyers” by Louise Gluck, was the most interesting for me. It has multiple contradictory lines and at first, I didn’t get the meaning behind this poem at all. After debating and analyzing, we realized that the poem was from the flowers perspective, completely changing what we believed the poem to be. This unexpected twist brought a whole new side to the idea of spring, something that most people don’t think about. While I often find this class challenging, these moments of gaining a new perspective often make the work worth it in my eyes.
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