One thing that I really learned this week is that sometimes authors can compare two things that I never would have thought about before. I never would have connected spiders to souls like Walt Whitman did in "A noiseless patient spider". In fact, spiders are something that terrifies me yet souls are something that I see as being essential to surviving being a human. I really liked this weeks poem because it made me think as to what was going on in the poem and why the author would use those comparisons.
Another thing that I learned this week came from the poem Oedipus that we read as a class together. I know that tragic things happen and there is really no way to prevent it, but the play made me think of another aspect of tragedy that that is the fact that other people aren't so willing to help those that are going through tragic parts of their lives. It made me realize that it is pretty true that humans as a whole will gawk at those who are going through something horrible but not really offer our help. As the chorus in Oedipus says, people will tell those in the midst of a tragedy that they wished they had never met or they tell them that they will be better off dead. It really made me think about what I want to do in my life and why I find the field I'm going into so important. I'm very interested in becoming a psychologist, because I want to help people who just can't do it themselves. Whether it is with a tragedy or with something that their mind has wrong. I don't personally judge those people but I guess I do gawk in a way to see if there is any way possible that I can help. I was left wondering why on earth someone would be able to turn their back on a person that has just gone through a terrible ordeal as Oedipus did. Was it really his fault that he tried running from his fate and ended up running to it? I didn't think so and I definitely wouldn't have shunned him the way he had demanded.
I also really liked being in the classroom to read the place because it made it easier to focus even though I don't really like reading out loud with my peers. I feel as if it was something that will help me become more accostomed to it and I will eventually be able to not think anything of it when we do it. I personally like it better to just read it myself and not have other people play the people in the play but I can see the essential part to see the differences between the characters. I feel like it is teaching me that it is e