Could Socrates fall in love
The term 'love' has gone through many different connotations in its history. Today, love largely has associations for physical sexual love, but, at one time, 'love' was more spiritual.
Gender in Poetry / Literature Lesson Duration
Part of exploring poetry is interpreting it in a meaningful way where students can correlate themes to what they have seen and experienced in the world around them. It is with this rationale that the poetry lesson sequence will focus specifically on gender and gender stereotypes, as this is still a major problem within the modern context. Gender roles are still pervasive in our society, despite hundreds of years of feminist theory and action; "These hidden forces shape us and our world view, often without us being aware that they are doing so" (Bengii 2005 p 13). Thus, this sequence of lesson plans will examine the logistics of poetry in order to cover basic literary necessities like rhyme scheme and use of irony, but will also explore how the status and roles of women have evolved over the centuries through examining poetry, popular culture, and literature.
John Berryman\'s Dream Song 14
This poem, friends, is boring. The entire work seeks to illustrate the idea that "life, friends, is boring." It does so by being itself tremendously boring. Though the author occasionally uses exciting or interesting…