This week we did various aspects of literature. Firstly, we did this card game where we had to match up various cards to their respective meanings. This particular exercise was quite challenging as there were various literary terms such as bathos, epic simile and mock heroic. This terms were quite useful, but I am concerned on how I can properly and effectively apply these literary terms to a literary analysis, I don't wan't spending too much time within an exam defining the term instead of using it to help be understand how the poet uses these various techniques to convey their message.
We also analyzed Simon and Garfunkel's famous hit, "Sound Of Silence" This song is particularly excellent and I enjoy listening to it while discussing the meaning with my classmates. When I looked over it, I felt that the poem's general ideas were someone trying to enstill rebellion against a government, but the people's voices were oppressed and they didn't dare speak out against it. This exercise was also good practice on annotating key features of a poem which would be crucial within a exam.
Overall, it's been a good week with no particular problems, looking forward to moving forward to newer lessons.
I was in your team when we discussed the poem, and yeah, I too think it's about rebellion. I feel like it's rebelling against one own's belief instead of a government though, but either way works, cause like Ms Abena said, there's no right or wrong in poetry.
ReplyDeleteI too am concern about ways to apply the terms in my learning, but worry not, I'm sure that we will learn that through our weekly practice :D
After all, practice makes perfect.