This week, I've learned things from both the poems of week as well as the choices we made for our Shakespeare project. First, the poems of week taught me that sometimes I have to open my mind to compare two pieces of works. I've never had to compare two poems before so it was definitely a new experience. I used skills that I learned from "Big Question" essays back in the 10th grade to assist myself in figuring out how to write a coherent essay based of the two sonnets. I also learned this week, unrelated directly to this, that I need to work on my vocabulary. Not only did I have to research exactly what figurative language was, I realized that I had a hard time going through the definitions in the "freerice.com" questions. I could not get past 1/3 of the words that they were using but it did help me expand my vocabulary quite bit in the small amounts that I have been doing it. And hey, I'm helping people out by learning. These poems also made me make connections between the poems and the tragedy project that we just did. Even though it doesn't quite fit perfectly with my idea of tragedy- I couldn't help but wonder if it was tragic that the statue in "Ozymandias" and the decaying body in "Sonnet 146."
With the Shakespeare project, my group chose to do Macbeth instead of King Lear. We knew that we would possibly be taking a risk by doing this, but we decided not to do the suggested project guide of feminism in Macbeth. This is because we wanted to challenge ourselves and not follow the norms. We really haven't learned exactly how hard this is, but I believe that it will be worth it. I suspect it might be a little bit difficult to look at a less common way to look at Macbeth but I think that it will be a very rewarding experience for me and my group members. The only thing that I didn't take a risk on was the group members that I chose to work with. I think, however, it might be beneficiary to be working with people that are easier to get along with if we are going