Questions Posed
ROHS AP Literature Explorations of LiteratureWhat happens when Royal Oak’s AP Literature students meet to unpack novels, plays, poetry, and literary theory? It’s Questions Posed, our ongoing series of discussions on various questions deeper than the SparkNotes approach to literature. Enjoy!

cummings: “since feeling is first”
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EAH considers the last enigmatic line. . .

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
– the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
Episodes:
IM: Ch1 without Dignity
Gwen, Natalie, Jack, and Adam argue over the price of dignity in the opening of the novel.
IM: Prologue and Contradictions
Anja, Sophia, Mia, and Alex offer some speculations across troubling images in the Prologue.
Flatland Book II: Amnesia
Macey, Braxton, and Claire consider why Square’s closing amnesia is a fitting literary close to the novel.
Flatland Book I: The Color Revolt
Timko, Jac, Walter, and Kolton unpack the significance of the Color Revolt in Abbott’s Flatland.
KoS: Nakata Changed
Abhigya, Hailey, and Abby diagnose Nakata’s changes.
KoS: The Rice Bowl Incident
Abhigya, Hailey, and Abby wonder what happened on that hill.
KoS: Kafka Runs Away
Abhigya, Hailey, and Abby examine the reasons for Kafka’s running away.
Apocalypse Now & Conrad’s Themes
Liam, Drew, Timko, and Donovan process what is happening in Coppola and Conrad.
Theory: Bakhtin’s Dialogics
Timko, Liam, Donovan, and Drew dialogue over Dialogic criticism.