Literature, Perspectives, Civilization And Unknown

“Literature, Perspectives, Civilization and Unknown” When my classmates ask me: “What are you doing in your English Education classes, do you just read a lot?” I smile at them and always reply “No, we analyze text, study history, culture, traditions, try to understand different character’s perspective, we do lot of discussions on different topics, but yes we also read and write, a lot”. As I glance over them, their eyes widen, like a child seeing a lollipop for a first time. There’s always an awkward silence between us. A minutes later my classmates’ reply: “I don’t know how you do this all, this sounds like a lot of work, I hate reading, this wouldn’t be for me”. I give them another smile, knowing that no matter what I say, they wouldn’t …show more content…
There’s always a different way to look at it, there’s always a new question that you should consider asking yourself when you re-read a certain literary work. Out of all the ones that I had read in British Literature I found Keats’ to be one of my favorites. I loved reading his romantic poems, praising nature, and you as a reader, getting to know how he felt about particular poem. He wrote in unique style, he was romantic, but he also compared his love to nature. For example, in “To Autumn” Keats uses a rhyme scheme in his ode/poem that is full of imagery. Keats compares the sounds, and feeling of autumn to human’s personality. This type of technique in Keats’ ode is known as personification. Although, Keats poems are written in three stanzas, each one has a unique characteristic, one in which you’re able to feel the impact of senses, pattern, and rich imagery as Keats’ technique to describe …show more content…
In American Literature I, we are learning about American history, traditions, culture and different author’s that shaped American literature. I find it very interesting, most of the history that I was taught in elementary and middle school, is nothing compared to how much I had learned so far in this course. I feel like textbooks some twenty years ago were not updated. We learned from something that we couldn’t apply in real life. We accepted the truth from our professors and old textbooks, only to realize that what we were taught would one day be wrong. For example, I knew Native Americans died from famine, disease and from war. However, what I didn’t know was different perspectives writers had about Native Americans, how they perceived their land, their culture and traditions. How most colonists though of Native Americans as “uncivilized”. Columbus’, Hariot’s and Cabeza’s perspectives all different from each other when they came to America.
Columbus was very objectified, he saw America as a fertile land and wanted to feel superior over Native Americans. He wanted to use their land to grow crops, build homes, and have control over Native Americans. He was also interested in tools and trading between Indians and British, as he wanted to have, the best of