Second Dayy IOP

Today I googled more about Pablo Neruda to see if I could find anything new about him. I actually found less than what was in the book which kind of annoyed me because I wanted to learn more about his relationship with Terusa. I wish that there was a more thorough background on him online. I also did not want to use wikipedia.

After I googled him I started to brainstorm about how I am going to present the project. I hope that I can get it done in a cool way. I am planning on overpreparing, meaning doing more than ten minutes of speech over the weekend because when I get nervous in front of the class I tend to talk faster.

How I brainstormed ideas is by getting a blank, white piece of paper and then writing everything that pops into my mind down in pen. By doing this I think that I might do an art piece since I like doing art and it would be interesting to do for this poem. I think that I might do it in either charcoal or dark colored pencils to represent the night. I also want to give the work a circular composition because Neruda's pain doesn't end and neither do circles. I want to incorporate a heart in the picture somewhere but am not sure how.

First day of really working on the IOP

So today I started working on the IOP. I rented the book Pablo Neruda a passion for life by Adam Feinstein. I got to page 30 or so and so far am really liking it. Neruda led a very interesting life and there are lots of things that I would have never learned if I just stuck to working with the internet. I think I might stop reading it though because I have found all the information about his love life and his childhood that I need in order to analyze one of the poems.

When reading this book it mentioned poem 20, which happens to be one of our poems, and how he wrote it for his beloved Terusa. It also gave me lots of details about his and Terusa's relationship. This led me to decide that I am going to analyze poem 20 through Neruda's personal life with Terusa.

Since I decided what I was going to do with the poem I started to analyze it since I never payed much attention to it when we did it in class. I noticed a plethera of things about it, for instance that once you know what it is about/who he is writing it for the meaning to the poem becomes much clearer.

One thing that I am having trouble with is how I am going to present it. I want to do it in a creative and effective way and have it be interesting but I'm not sure if I can do that.

Well this is all I have to say for my first day. Thanks.