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20 April 2026

F - ... when you slayed at synthesis.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the value in recognizing the echoes amongst literary and artistic genres?

I gave a quick "what to look for" for learners' "field notes" before continuing our screening of Cholé Zhao's film Hamnet (2026). I asked learners to pay attention to the denotative and connotative ways the film considers the Shakespeare's motifs in Hamlet and Yeats's images from "The Second Coming":

  • unweeded garden
  • trappings of woe
  • widening gyre
  • physicality of rotting
  • poison (in the ear)
  • mighty opposites
  • what seems v. what is
Learners continued watching the film and took notes.

NEXT CLASS: from observation to prediction & connection, "the sould of an age"

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