Sonnet Analysis #1

it's not much but it's a good start!

A Poetic Inquiry

Going back to my big question, I started thinking of all the other questions that never left my mind. For some reason I felt kind of guilty in a way to change my big question, like I was abandoning it, then I realized that nothing should just be limited to one question. Soy new big question is, why can't the world change?
Now that that's was finished, finding a sonnet to math my big question wasn't really my cup of tea! Reading the sonnets it was hard to keep up and understand them, but after reading a few things started to clear up. I found the sonnet Transfigured Life, and I don't know if it was the title, or the stanzas, but this sonnet made sense to me. I actually felt accomplished that I was able to piece together the sonnet and make connections to my big question.

Transfigured Life

I looked back on my Big Question from the beginning of the year, What can truly make me happy, and I feel the need to change it. The question on my mind now is, why can't the world change? Why does there have to be wars, death, poverty, sadness? Why can the world change for the better? Soooo I found this sonnet that I think connects to my big question, it's called Transfigured Life.

As growth of form or momentary glance

In a child's features will recall to mind

The father's with the mother's face combin'd,--

Sweet interchange that memories still enhance:

And yet, as childhood's years and youth's advance,

The gradual mouldings leave one stamp behind,

Till in the blended likeness now we find

A separate man's or woman's countenance:--

So in the Song, the singer's Joy and Pain,

Its very parents, evermore expand

To bid the passion's fullgrown birth remain,

By Art's transfiguring essence subtly spann'd;

And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's hand

There comes the sound as of abundant rain.

Tools That Change the Way We Think

How does use of the Internet, media, and/or technology change the way you think? Focus on your memory, your ability to concentrate, your sense of time and priorities, and the subjects/topics that interest you most. 

Before I knew anything about open source learning, and being in Dr. Preston's class I felt like going on the Internet meant I was cheating, or cutting corners. I had the idea that if I needed to research something then I should be taking the time to read about it on my own or ask my teachers about it, not just Google it and find the quickest answer. However, despite of how my patients had crunched down, the internet has made everything so much faster and easier! It gives me thousands of perspectives, ideas, examples from minds all over the world with just one click. The technology in our generation is unbelievable! Its amazing how something in the palm of my hand can hold all my important information, pictures, music, banking, stocks, and contacts. I guess some would say technology has made people more lazy because we can do what ever need at home, where as before we would have to to wait or go across town to check our saving account, or buy tickets to the Dodger Game. Nonetheless, I would say technology and internet has helped me realize that there's not only one answer to every questoin, and it has helped millions of people connect to each other everyday.

Thoughts on Hamlet

Going into Hamlet I didn't have any background on the story, except that the Lion King has story line connected to Hamlet, and I knew someone was gong to die. I mean come on it Shakespeare, someone always dies in the end, and its always the good guy. Anyways I guess it would be expected to sympathize with Hamlet in the beginning because of his father's death, and knowing his Uncle was to blame, and that his mother is now married to his uncle the murderer. At first I was convinced that Claudius was the bad guy and Hamlet had to avenge his father, yet during our class discussions, i realized that we the reader never got any back ground on ghost Hamlet, or why Claudius killed him. Was there a reason? What King Hamlet the real bad guy, and Claudius actually did the right thing? From that point, I realized that I didn't know much about any of the characters, and I was already on team Hamlet. Reaching Act III Im starting to believe that maybe this whole revenge idea, and the though of killing someone, was infesting on Hamlet's mind too much, and was draining away his sanity. Because a sane person doesn't just kill somebody (Polonius) on accident and then just blow it off as if it doesn't matter. Nonetheless, I wouldn't say I sympathize fro Hamlet that much anymore, but I still want him to get his revenge on Claudius.

THE PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE IN HAMLET

• Hamlet is all talk, but no walk
• things are easier said then done
• J.L Austin's theory of performativity; How to Do Things with Words
• describes how language doesn't describe an actions but acts in being spoken
• performative language divided into 3 main forces:
• locutionary force: language to deliver a message
• illocutionary force:what is done in being said ( denying a request, giving an order)
• perlocutionary force: what is achieved by being said
• performative language is not only what is done in the play, but tells us about the character
• Harold Bloom; "self-overhearing" 
• Shakespeare's characters over hear them self, and gain self knowledge
• "the royal road to individuation" 
• Hamlet over thinks himself; is this self revelation or creation?
• the audience only gets what they see and hear
• Shakespeare's characters had to present there inner selves to the audience though speeches & soliloquies

Filter Bubbles

• a) What new information did you learn from the video?
• b) How does this information make you think differently about what you see online?
• c) What questions does this video raise about the Internet in general?
• d) How can you improve the effectiveness of your searches?

a.) Before watching this video, I had noticed that website like Facebook and Youtube do request topics or videos for me to see based on my history. Yet, I never realized how much information it was holding me back from learning. I learned that based on your device, location, and previous searches, Google can in a sense customize you search feed based these factors. 

b.) Knowing what happens behind the scenes of the internet, it's kind of hard to believe the internet now. Not that they're giving me false information, but it feels like they're holding me back from the things I should be informed on, rather than whats happening on the VMA's. 

c.) Based on the video, I wonder how much smarter the internet can get. Its already predicting what I should watch, and what I should, or would like to know, so how much more can it predict? 

d.) Searching subjects other than your personal interest, like whats really going on in the world, and how these event can affect us, I think if we were exposed more to this, then we won't have to worry about why Kanye West and Kim Kardashian named their baby North West.