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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.