After a week and a half off from school, we came back with a shortened, four day week. Even though the week was shorter, we still got a lot done in AP lit. We worked on analyzing two poems, writing an PoW, and our Shakespeare projects. At first, I really did not like the poem we read monday, “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams. However, after analyzing it, I realized how deep the poem really was. I can tell there is a significant improvement in my abilities to decipher the meanings of poems. In this one I was able to tell that Williams was talking about babies and birth, using spring as a metaphor. I wasn’t here on Wednesday, so all I know about that poem is what people told me… It’s dark and about death, but it also uses spring to talk about it. I feel like I did really well on my PoW, though! In class on Thursday we had a guest speaker come in from CMU to talk to us about Shakespeare and our theory projects. I thought it was interesting, and a great idea to have her come into class to help us expand on some of our ideas. She was helpful in giving my group context to our play, Macbeth. She explained to us how Queen Elizabeth just lost her power in England, and a man had taken over as King. King James I, her prediceser, was trying to gain support for himself, becuase he was an outsider. So, she gave us ideas as to why Shakespeare might have written this play to please him. We were thinking that, maybe, Shakespeare wrote about what would happen if a women was in power. Like, how Lady Macbeth was really in charge of MacBeth.
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