AP Lit: Week 14 - Knowledge and Growth

Before this week, I had no idea what critical lenses were. I have learned this week that information, and now have started a group project based on that topic. My group is using a feministic lense, so we will be reading/watching Macbeth while thinking about how it relates to feminism. I know a lot about feminism, so I am really excited to read a play while constantly having that topic at the back of my mind. Now, I have never actually read anything while using a critical lense, but I believe that it will give me a different understanding of the work. I would imagine that every person who uses a different critical lense on the same story will have a completely different outlook and meaning on the work. I think that is really amazing and cant wait to see that idea in action through this project.

We just did another poem of the week writing, with two essays I honestly didn't understand very well. However, I did feel much more confident than I normally do in my essay, which I found odd. As much as I struggle with the PoW's, I feel that doing them every week really does help with doing them. Even on poems that I might not understand super well, I have found myself with a higher ability to compare and contrast these poems and discern meanings in rather confusing poems. Poetry has never been my forte, I always have struggled understanding the meanings and the point of the poems. I still am not the biggest fan of poetry in itself, but learning more about them has given me a better appreciation of them and I am definitely better at figuring out what they may mean than I ever was before. I know if I were asked to write about the poems we just wrote about at the beginning of the year, I would have had NO idea what to write about let alone have any clue on what the poems were even talking about. It's really exciting to see myself improving on this aspect of literature!

How to read a poem!

http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html