Allegory of the cave sonnet

The cave, deep, dark and normal

The light, blinding, pain and truthful

Born in the dark, knowing no different

Own reality as real as my hand chained to the wall

Freedom, dragged from the abyss

To where I do not comprehend

Flash, bang, knowledge, enlightenment

Pupils contract on a fantastic dream

Must return home to enlighten others

New reality is so wonderful

Wait they can’t understand my gift to them

Just another shadow on the wall

Reality is cement,

Chaining us to our own perceptions

Brain with 4 legs

Maddie, Colter, Edmond and Myself are all in a group studying The Tale of Two Cities. We created a Google group to converse back and forth if need online. Also we divided our reading into a chapter and a half a day to finish the book by Thanksgiving.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

1.     .      According to Socrates, the allegory of the cave represents the human condition of perception. How we as beings believe that our reality is the only reality, and when someone tries to tell us otherwise, when cannot understand them.
   2.       The three key elements of imagery of the allegory of the cave are one chains, because they represent how our thoughts bind us, two the deep dark cave, and the blinding light of the real world
   3.       The Allegory suggests that learning or enlightment is difficult, in the story when the prisoner first sees the light of the world it painfully blinding, which symbolizes the pain of change
   4.       Both the shackles and the cave have dank dark connotations which illicit to the audience that the prisoners lives are sad and meek.
   5.       In the present society, others perceptions and condescension shackle our minds from creating or being original.
   6.       The freed prisoner has been allowed to be among the enlightened but when he returns to tell his friends of the world he just shows up as another amorphous shadow on the wall.
   7.       Lack of clarity can happen when a person it taught to think and stay in the box which inevitably chains him in the preverbal cave.
   8.       In the stories the prisoner is freed by another soul which elicits that one can only be enlightened by those who are enlightened.
   9.       The line between perception and reality is a fine one. On one hand more times than not ones perception of realty is a variation and therefore not the whole reality, hence the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Although in rare cases some people can perceive exactly what is happening and all the facets of the current reality.
   10.   If Socrates is wrong in  his assumption then;
   a.       Reality is not a general term but a personal one
   b.      We cannot make and sort of society because every human lives in a different reality and therefore cannot be governed

Hamlet Remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXacA4ympBY

This is my groups Hamlet Remix
Kylie Sagisi: http://ksagisirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Ian Steller: http://istellerrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Dallas Burciaga

To be or not to be collaboration

Poetic Inquiry

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Sonnet CXXXVIII

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her though I know she lies,

That she might think me some untutored youth,

Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.

Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,

Although she knows my days are past the best,

Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:

But wherefore says she not she is unjust? 

And wherefore say not I that I am old?

O! love's best habit is in seeming trust,

And age in love, loves not to have years told:

   Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,

   And in our faults by lies we flattered be.

Sonnet Analysis #1

• Sonnet comes from the Italian base sonneto
• written to be performed live
• 2 types of sonnets
• Petrarchan- Italian form
• Starts with a octet then transitions to a sesitet
• More Ryming

• Shakespearean
• 4 parts- 3 quatrains to a couplet
• All sonnets consists of 14 lines

Hamlet Essay

Per formative Utterance

Often one might find him/herself rationalizing an action, or deciding on a course of action aloud. In part we do this to act as the voice of reason for ourselves, we split our personalities into the rational and irrational. More times than not the irrational wins the day because in the heat of battle emotions are stronger then logic. This is per formative utterance, the moment when a person acknowledges their own thoughts and wishes in a sort of third party way. Hamlet was a victim of this throughout the play, he would constantly talk the talk, and rarely walk the walk. Which is not always a bad thing but when one utters their convictions out loud to their friends and then does not act, there develops a bad impression of one’s character.

The first real per formative utterance in public that we see from Hamlet is when he swears to kill Claudius in front of Horatio. This really sets a tone for the passion that this man feels, for in that day to make a vow of that magnitude was next to unbreakable. As a result we continue through the play waiting for the moment that the Melancholy Dane finally avenges his father’s murder, but the moment never comes. So now we are left to ponder why a son would invoke god in his swear and not carry out his deed. Which leads us to further question his character as a man and prince. In this case his provado in his utterance made this man seem like a talker and not a walker.

The best example of per formative utterance are Hamlet’s five soliloquies. These are the only time we see hamlet in his true skin, not acting mad for the king or guarded around his friends, but true raw emotion. This type of per formative utterance is different in that in this case he is using his own word as reasoning to rationalize his thoughts. In each speech he focuses on great self-reflection. In each he uses himself as an example to put under the microscope and examine. Besides the fact that this inevitable breaks down his mental psych, it also shows us how introspective he is.

Hamlet embodied all that per formative utterance was, one helping oneself through problems by acting as a third party, and thinking out loud to the audience and his peers. Both introspective and self over hearing are both very common traits in humans, and this is why Shakespeare gave hamlet these qualities, to make a connection with his audience.