Looking Back: Pound and Angelou
Throughout my research, I have not found any strong influences on Maya Angelou or her writing and no poet comes to mind when reading her work. Her poetry is very different from anything else and...
View ArticleAngelou’s Contemporaries
As with older influences, it appears that Maya Angelou did not have many strong influential poets to her throughout her years of writing. Most of Angelou’s influences were not people whose writing...
View ArticleBlog Summary
I really like this blogging project and the conversational style writing. It was much easier to analyze the poetry just having to worry about the content and the ideas rather than perfecting the...
View ArticleHere’s to Adhering: My Take
I went for a walk in the Samburu, the ground was hard like rock but the people were true, and that’s where I heard you laugh. I then went hiking in the Bridger Range The...
View ArticleHamlet: Act One
I’m not sure how I feel about Hamlet so far… Shakespeare is always a challenge for me. Most of the time the complicated language clouds the plot and ideas that are being conveyed, but I am finding the...
View ArticleMethod to his Madness
The looming question throughout this Act was whether Hamlet is really insane or if it is all part of a plan. He seems to be completely distracted from normal life and is all over the place mentally....
View ArticleMessing with Claudius
Act three really started to involve Claudius in Hamlet’s madness. After Polonius got him involved with spying on the interaction between Ophelia and Hamlet, Claudius has been occupied with Hamlet’s...
View ArticleTwo Birds, One Stone
Well, Act four had many events that seemed to pass to quickly without notice for their seeming importance. The problem at the beginning was finding something to do with Polonius’ dead body. Hamlet took...
View ArticleShakespeare’s Death Toll
I was surprised to start this Act off with a grave -digging! Why did they spend so much time on this? And was it supposed to be humorous when the grave digger was so literal? Shakespeare is so...
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