We started back up the poems this week which was pretty exciting. Our first one was Sonnet 146, which is one of William Shakespeare's many sonnets. The poem focused a lot on the mortality of mankind and their tendancy to use there material wealth to lavishly decorate their outward appearance before their deaths. It tried to make sense of why nearly all humans resort to this when there is not really any reason for them to do this.
On the other hand we also read the poem Ozymandias, the king of kings. This one was a bit trickier than Sonnet 146 because Ozymandias was not a name that I was familiar with so the meaning of the poem was lost to me at first. Until I did a little research and found Ozymandias' Wikipedia page and learned that it was actually a nickname for an ancient Egyptian pharoh. Which made the point of time erroding at the strength and influence of an empire. Lastly, we started our Critical Theory notes. My group chose the play Macbeth, which in short is a story of poor life choices. But we were specifically studying Philosophical/Existentialism before we watched the play Macbeth. As a group we sort of decided that the quicky definition to Philosophical/Existentialism was that there is no such thing as exact. It is more up to whoever is interpreting it.
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