Big I, Eye, Aye.

(Titus Andronicus looking quite dapper as a chef.)

This week we worked on our poetry projects. ee cummings is interesting. There’s a lot of variety in his body of work. (not so much in his poses… see bottom of post). I’m sort of on the fence on whether I admire him or not. His poetry is very entertaining, but I have a nagging ambiguous feeling about it.

We finished Titus also… on Monday? Or was that Friday. This cold has sort of anaesthetized most of my brain. My already bad memory for school days has… well, it’s worse, let’s just say.

Anyways, I haven’t commented on the ending of Titus, so I will…
It was strange. I’m not sure if I enjoyed the ending (it made sense, and the movie as a whole, I actually liked. But it was just so… ugh. I can stand some gore, and I actually like the insane stuff in some horror movies- that’s funny. But, go anywhere near the throat or feet, and I’m out).

That pie looked disgusting, shoving the spoon down that-guy-from-Spykids’ throat was even more gross, and I’m sorry, but wouldn’t you sort of know if you were eating manflesh? I don’t think it’d taste like chicken, or beef, or pork. Then again, I wouldn’t really know. I sort of laughed at how Hannibal Lector made a man-pie though. Funny crossover.Literature-wise, Titus Andronicus does really play to the brutality of Shakespeares’ audience. It’s just eye-squincher after eye-squincher. Bloody, cruel, sick… obviously not subtle, on that level at least.  I was watching the review of it on this lovely site: http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/ (I like to watch movie reviews and trailers…)  and heard an interesting opinion. There’s a theory out there that this play was actually Shakespeare sort of bashing some of the tragedies of his day out of the corner of his mouth. That makes sense to me. Was it intentional or not, is what I’m wondering.

“I ponder whilst I smoke”
          

Carved out of stone, sort of glisteny with neat shadowy photography, serious