IOP Journal #1

My first thought for my IOP was to do Pablo Neruda. However, I have decided to do Shu Ting instead because of her background and culture. The other works that we have read such as Brave New World, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Stranger are much too complex and confusing for me personally. I prefer analyzing poetry because the meanings and ideas shown in the poems are much more easier for me to grasp. For my IOP I am planning to look at Shu Ting's life and background to see how she incorporates it into her poems. I will also be looking at how the strict society in China influences the author and the ideas that she weaves into her poetry. Chinese culture and society is very restricting and there is no such thing as freedom. Independence is seen as rebellion and therefore does not exist. Everybody is bound by the rules of the society and they cannot think differently against it. They are left with only one choice which is to follow the rules. By reading and analyzing several of her poems that we look at in class and the poems that we do not look at I will show how society limits people. That is all I have for now...