IB Lit

 For my reflection, I wanted to roll with the theme of nostalgia. I picked out some pieces to share with you and each one actually has had some meaning to me over the past four years and I think they evoke a nostalgic/sad mood. I hope you enjoy :) Our Town by Aaron Copland Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 by Frederic Chopin Sanctuary by Frank Ticheli Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon by Percy Grainger English Folk Suite: II. Intermezzo To leave on a happier note, here is an excerpt from "Songs of the Open Road." I think it's a good looking forward poem and it is totally relevant to moving on to college. 1   Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,  Healthy, free, the world before me,  The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.  Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,  Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothin...

Wow. Sometimes I'm glad cursive is a dying practice because boy is it not fun to decipher, especially in this case! My general first impressions are that the journal is disorganized and sloppy. Several things are crossed out or written in. It definitely looks like he was drafting something or trying to record ideas. Also there's a seal that keeps appearing on the pages. Not sure if Whitman added that or if that was added later from a library perhaps. I really liked looking at the sketches. For some reason, I find those more intimate than the words he wrote down. It seems like he was drawing portraits of himself. He seems to like talking about himself in his poems, why not draw himself? They got silly as I went through. There was also a picture of a harp, and a picture of a a skull-thing. The skull-thing seemed like it related to the civil war. It was impaled with a sword and it wore a colonial hat. I could make out most of the words, so no particular words stood out. It s...