Class on the 16th was cancelled, so these are technically reflections over class only on 10/13
So we're talking about analysis and all that jazz as you know, but I have just a few thoughts
To me, a 'theme' has always been more of an overall image the piece is dealing with vs. some kind of moral (i.e., one could interpret some themes of the musical HAIR to include love, war, religion, acceptance, and peace, while the moral would be something the piece is saying, like for example 'war-is-bad-peace-is-good-accept-and-love-and-don't-hurt-anyone' or something like that) but that's probably just my education differing from another's, so that doesn't bother me at all, though I do get a little confused in class sometimes
Additionally, I find it strange that we aren't to summarize at all - whenever I have done analysis papers in my prior experience, a bit of background information was considered essential. Instructions were often "write this piece as though it's for someone who has never read (or seen/heard, in the case of a film/song) the piece." So while I do understand that the purpose of these activities is to actually describe how our 'theme' fits into the world of the piece, I don't quite yet understand the background info:analysis ratio that is desirable when writing
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