Allegory of The Cave Sonnet

Oh struggle of poems! When one has faltered;
Look to the freedom of your own imagination.
When lost in the shadows that shroud ingenuity,
Find the key to release your mind's shackles.
Mental liberation awaits the prepared and willing.
You simply shall will the liberation you desire;
The constriction of your mind will loosen indefinitely.
 Poetic verse may blend and convolute,
The shadows of doubt are blinding;
Don't be distracted with false truth.
The tide of words are echoes;
Let the truth guide your mind.
Narcissus fell to their sirens call;
You decide truth, truth decides you.

As a novice, I decided to create the first 7 lines as octets, and the remaining 7 sestets. Please correct me if that was improper form.

A Brain With a Few Decent Legs

Our table group of Ashley, Bianca, Daniel, and Lisa got organized primarily by choosing a book we were not biased for and had little personal experience with, but when we found out a member of our group had their own copy of A Tale of Two Cities and we all followed their lead in choosing the book. more likely than not, we will probably collaborate via desk chatting and probably a group, or messaging on Facebook. Someone will probably make an unarguable date to have it read and there will most likely be no objections. (lets be honest here)

Alligory of the Cave Questions

1. The Allegory of the Cave is, according to Socrates,  is the tarp that holds people in the dark. It is the unknown presence that keeps the people in their little ruts and niches that also represses the desire to experience your own life. It's a lie, but it is also your truth. It is what you know and cannot escape, or simply don't want to escape.

2. There were sharp juxtaposition between ideas. Government which is used to promote free will (or supposed too) is used to be shackles holding society together. In a few words; dark, but not, not comforting.

3. The allegory implies a sort of bias, or tunneling of vision in the course of education, so you are biased to one belief or another, unless of course, the subject cannot be subjected to bias. Ex: mathematics.

4. Shackles and bindings imply the prisoners are held in a terrible way. They are viewed as animals and more than that, are incapable of their own functions. This develops dependance on something of comfort. Like the information you see as true.

5. Comforts we establish on our own are what shackle our mind. We try to fit in, and we build walls to ideas or perspectives we may not have been opposed too with an open mind.

6.The free prisoner was incredulous and effervescent at the discovery of the something after wall. The prisoners on the other hand were un-accepting and did not want to confide to anything beyond what they knew.

7. The allegory shows confusion can occur in both the presence of something new, or something revealing its true nature despite what you expected of it from the past.

8. The prisoners are free as soon as they accept they are being mentally detained. In the words Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! by Bob Marley,  this shows that they are mentally as well as physically released when they accept their confines.

9. Defiantly. Perception is the middle man of  reality and thought. What happens between an action and what people see is what makes it illogical to trust an eye witness in an investigation. Emotions and bias convoluted the truth.

10. One could be the metaphor that the truth an individual brings is scorned from a group, no matter what truth it may hold. Another can be that an we are all slaves to our own weaknesses. 

WE HANG TOGETHER (stream of thought)

Alliance is common and in most cases mutual. It is understood to be necessary and, in some circumstances, unavoidable.
There is little overall control and most decisions are made in a joint operation.
There is a major difference between alliance and interdependance.
Interdependence: mutual agreement on benefits to working together. Little willingness involved.
Alliance: willing joining of resources to better as a group. Usually optional.
In interdependence, there is usually a dominance struggle.
No such struggle in alliance.
Corporate commandos common in conceptual creativity of companies.
Ethics in business sucks and are destroying companies.
Ethics in business sucks and are destroying companies.
Ethics in business sucks and are destroying companies.
All parties must agree to a set of general rules.Marketing rules and copyrights can be set to prevent "cheating".

Remix Hamlet Essay For Dummies (because I'm a dummy who cant remix)

I'm going to dumb down the main points of the essay because I don't know how to remix! Yay!


Shakespeare loves using concrete details to solidify His meanings, but he also throws in abstract terminology for the sake of double entendres and the occasional illusion to biblical references or big ideas of the time period. The correlation between what a character says and does shows the innermost mind and values of said character. This can create a deeper understanding of a charecter.

Hamlet uses the words he says to determine what he is like, as an anchor for his personality. Claudius on the other hand does not solidify his alliance to his words, and the use of his abstract venom to the ears of the listeners makes him a target for disrespect.

In all simplicity, Shakespeare was trying to get the most bang for his buck in the word department. He would use concrete language when Hamlet made vows, and abstract language when Claudius made.. whatever he made, to deepen the audiences understanding of the characters. From here I was in a sad mood and decided to write depressingly about the Hamlet graveyard scene and sort of rambled.... whoopsie!

POETIC INQUIRY (update)

Ilion, along whose streets in olden days

Shone that divinest form, for whose sweet face

A monarch sire, with all his kingly race,

Were too content to let their temples blaze—

Where art thou now?—no massive columns raise

Their serried shafts to heaven; we may not trace

Xanthus and Simois, nor each storied place

Round which poetic memory fondly plays.

But in the verse of the old man divine

Thy windy towers are built eternally;

Nor shall the ages, as they ruin by,

Print on thy bulwarks one decaying sign;

So true is beauty clothed in endless rhyme,

So false the sensual monuments of time. 

 

 

The first line as well as a few following are explaining Ilion, which is the antiquated name for Troy. (seen in the title "Iliad" written by Homer). In the lines starting with "Were" it shows That Troy had been sacked and the monarch was too idle to care. Pops the question "where is troy now" to show that there are no more massive columns left. That either; Xanthus Spur on the Trojan Range, mountain range in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory, or or Xanthos, city in ancient Lycia,have been destroyed, and Simois, or Simoeis as it he is called, as he is a god of a river pledged to help troy in the Trojan war. Then it goes on to show how its beauty will never fade yadda yadda as it goes through time it may fade, but its glory will not.

Homer, By Henry Alford was a nice example for my big question, which I have now re purposed to be; Is time a canvas, or the paint in which the universe is written? It fits into the frame of how time decays and molds perception as it goes. It fits into the idea that the perception of time can be taken in many ways, and is practically ambiguous by nature. 

 

Poem courtesy of http://www.sonnets.org/.

Vanilla, short notes in SONNET ANALYSIS #1

Hamlet in Regards to Concrete Language

             The Shakespearean play Hamlet utilizes the use of abstract and concrete language to Better hone the identities of the its characters, especially the characteristics of the protagonist; Hamlet. The correlation between the name of action and the eventuality action that will be preformed demonstrates the characteristics of words carrying an ingrained passion within their host. Hamlet had the willingness to make a vow to avenge his fathers murder by the murder of another, and with the vow came the guarantee that and the end of it all there will be another body at rest like that of the good king Hamlet senior. With all the vindication and vitriolic nature of Shakespearean feuds, what really stands out is the way simple words are used to echo a meaning deeper than an idea, to evoke a passion in the characters of Hamlet that is far more than a superficial desire.

            The role of language in Hamlet is an anchor for beliefs and character personalities. For example, a character like Hamlet vowed to kill Claudius, and eventually did at the cost of his own life, which was seen to be a noble thing despite the excess bloodshed, however, if a character were to ignore their word of honor, shame would follow them and their character would most likely be deemed as "bad" or of malicious intent. Claudius abstains from any real devotion to action, and therefore isn't "honorable" enough to put his life on the line for his passions. This leads him to be a flat character, and frankly, not a very interesting one due to his likeness to a vegetable when it comes to expanded thought on ways to eliminate Hamlet. He doesn't make vows or promises, if the opportunity shows up he tries to take it.

            The way words are used in Shakespearean plays do not reflect the image of being heaped together to fill in the plot. Word are carefully added to deepen the sophistication of the characters, and as such, show what characters are like and what they are susceptible to in terms of habitual actions. Humans are prone to follow what they say. Words bind our honor, and as creatures of advanced neural integrity, we feel the need to uphold our appearance to others and rightly so as what do we have at the end of the day? With regards to Hamlet and Horatio talking in the graveyard, they show that Shakespeare was deeply existential, so in that light, Shakespeare wanted to make every word count, and he wanted to show that it is important to make every word count as they define your character. (and that went a little too far into the wormhole.. oh well!)

Tools that change the way we think

The internet has stimulated what I like to call a flash memory scenario, where you remember interesting tidbits for vast amounts of time, while the bulk of what you need to know is lost outside the relativity safe matrix that is your brain. For me at least, it encourages the participation of other activities, like looking up cat videos, while you should be dong work. When you are focused on multitasking you put hardly any effort into the work at hand and therefore the time you spent working looses the name of action and in this, regard their currents are cast awry. It is by far the most efficient and cheapest way to learn, but for me at least, the limiting factor of what you can accomplish is the will to work as well as your attention span. Not to mention the amount of bandwidth available for you to abuse. I find it extremely detrimental having the tools for procrastination so close when i need to be diligently working.