Objectives: Students will be able to use subjectivity theory to analyze one of the poems by Sharon Olds.
Texts: “I Go Back to May 1937” and “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds
Do Now: Briefly describe what each poem is about. What may be the poet’s message to the reader?
Mini Lesson with Guided Practice
- Now let’s select one idea from subjectivity ( theory):“The Fly”/”Say Yes” in the light of tension and entanglement within subjectivity.
- We’ll reread the poem from the new perspective of subjectivity.
- How does the speaker’s experience reveal how subjectivity theory works in a character?
- Discuss in a pair or small group.
- Share in class.
Independent Practice
Start composing the Thinking Paper #4.
#4 Thinking Paper
prompt#1-
Through the innate tension within subjectivity, analyze a prevalent social or cultural narrative, which is to “rebel against authority” as a way of gaining one’s independence, a sense of self.
Prompt#2
According to Lacan, “Metaphor and Metonymy are share structure of the unconscious. The “self” within the subject lurks from such “chains of signifier”. Use the poem “I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds and another poem of your selection to examine how the “self” struggles to free itself from the entanglement within subjectivity.
Homework: Read and annotate “Culture” by Greenblatt ( create a dialectical journal)
We ask ourselves a set of cultural questions about the text before us-
- -What kind of behavior, what models of practice, does this work seems to enforce?
- -Are there any differences bet my values and those implied in the work I’m reading?
- -Upon what social understanding does the work depend?
- -Whose freedom of thought or movement might be constrained implicitly or explicitly by this work?(pg226 in “Culture” by Greenblatt