Carnival Post on 1820-1865

I found that this is a very interesting literary time period.  This time period is considered to be the renaissance of American Literature.  With writers finally beginning to be put on the map as respected writers from America this is a significant time.  Although this is ture our American Literature has found these text tobe be a little bit more difficult to comprehend especially Dickenson.  I struggled hwen choosing who I would do my carnival post over because not very many people have been posting on the same thing or are up to speed on posts, but from what I saw we have some confusion with Dickenson

In several blogs my fellow classmantes speak about the complexity of Emily Dickinson poems and the difficulty of understanding poetry from this time period forward in general. Although the frustration level varies, but there are just a lot of questions about the meaning of Dickenson's poems. 

In Crista and Esthers blog she both write about her own frustrations with Dickenson and most of it has to do with the interpretations of the poems that she writes.  Julia doesn't really enjoy reading Dickenson but is definitely more open minded to learning and evaluation what she is saying.  She talks about making mistakes and how with poetry it is a little different.  She continues and basically states that when interpreting something that its okay to be wrong.

Nikki had some very good thoughts about the bias that we bring as readers into poetry.  She talks about our ability to connect with poetry from the past can help us to connect and make connections our life now.  She says that there is value in poetry there. 

Overall there are those who don't like Dickenson;s poems at all, but still can find something in them.  Others don't enjoy Dickenson's poems because of the difficult interpretation that is required and often times lack of context within her poems.

The many faces and battles of Stowe

Throughout the book there are many characters who are struggling to discover some type balance of right and wrong.  I think that this is significant not only then but now as we try to be open with different ideas.  One of the things that she was ttrying to convey with this book is that either way they need to do more than just decide but act on what they think.  For example with the Shelby's seem to come to this grounding that they believe slavery is a shame they continue, because it fits their lifestye.  The person that acts on what they believe in the end is the George the Shelby's son.  The fact that he kept his promise is good to know in the end.  There is a really weird storyling that I think has some unrealistic qualities, but it served the purpose that Stowe wanted and is a good illustration of the moral batttle face in the beginnings of American History.

From Uncle Tom's Movement to Arriving at the Plantation

Stowe is very affective when it comes to her conveying what she wants the characters to portray, but I one of the things that I really don't like about this is the way that she does this.  Between Augustine, Marie, and Opheilia the relationships seem to be very set in stone.  Marie just has this very bad character that she continues to focus on throughout the story to the poin that it makes everything that Marie will say seem very predictable.  I do find that Opheilia and Augustine are probably some of the two most interesting characters in the book.

 Opheilia is very well rounded when I think about her character.  She is a little bit more difficult to understand compared to the rest of the characters in the book. She seems to be very strict about how certain things are done but flexible if she desires to be. I find that Stowe is very intentional in her writing and I like that, but some of the things that I enjoy the most about books is learning about the characters, so reading Stowe was something that was a little bit difficult for me.  I like to be surprised and really I haven't found that.