My First Blogggggg(Lit & Perf)

I clearly remembered how was the first day of this class. We warmed up to be familiar with acting. To a person who had not experienced any performance ever, performance undoubtedly became the part I spent time to think the most. Two years course is a long run, but it impresses me more than the other classes I have taken in Cheshire Academy. Before I took this class, I thought acting is easy like until we tried to improvise various moves and gestures in front of people. I felt shy and embarrassed at the beginning, throughout two years' performance, and I became more and more confident to act in front of people and cameras. The class is called literature and performance so the other essential aspect is its literature. I still remembered the first book we read and the first performance, which is the monologue we played in the black box.  Fences talk about poverty and situations of African Americans. From the book, I felt how the power from people themselves explain the anger and uns...

While some poems focus exclusively on a personal or private experience, others reflect on the place of the individual in the larger human community. In the work of at least two poets, explore the ways in which poems have conveyed the poet’s sense of the world beyond the private sphere. Naomi is a poet who always introducing her hometown's culture and her family members' behaviors. Meanwhile, I do realize how does she extend her vision of the relationship from her own culture to the other culture from her family members' perspective, because they have moved to a new environment. Their adaptability reveals their culture beyond their private scene. "My grandmother in the stars" does not mention her grandmother throughout the whole poem, but Naomi shows elements cherished by their people. "What you think of him is the knowledge I wish to gather. I bow to your rugged feet, the moth-eaten scarves that knot your hair." shows that how does she depict grand...

My Father and the Fig Tree  For other fruits, my father was indifferent. He'd point at the cherry trees and say,  "See those? I wish they were figs." In the evening he sat by my bed weaving folktales like vivid little scarves. They always involved a figtree.  Even when it didn't fit, he'd stick it in. Once Joha was walking down the road and he saw a fig tree.  Or, he tied his camel to a fig tree and went to sleep. Or, later when they caught and arrested him, his pockets were full of figs. At age six I ate a dried fig and shrugged. "That's not what I'm talking about! he said, "I'm talking about a fig straight from the earth – gift of Allah! -- on a branch so heavy it touches the ground. I'm talking about picking the largest, fattest, sweetest fig in the world and putting it in my mouth." (Here he'd stop and close his eyes.) Years passed, we lived in many houses, none had figtrees.  We had lima beans, zucc...

3. Resistance and rebellion at either a personal or a larger, social level, can lead to very interesting poetic explorations. By what means and with what effects have at least two poets you have studied included such impulses and actions in their poetry? From one of Emily Dickinson's poems, she viewed herself as nobody in this world. Even though there was a big number of people knew her, considering her as a famous poet, she had never put a tag or a crown on her head. On her perspective, the reader who is reading her poems and herself are both nobody. We might think that this is desocialization. But if we enhanced everyone's existence to the macroscopic of the world, we recognized what is she saying. Also, I can clearly see her resistance from her lines: How dreary to be somebody? Authors are content makers and also are building her identity through her collection. What character she recognizes herself might be different from the other people's sight. Moreover, the pu...

I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260) Emily Dickinson ,  1830  -  1886 I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –  To tell one’s name – the livelong June –  To an admiring Bog! Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263) BY  EMILY DICKINSON Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —