Metacognition: 1st Semester

I do not feel as though my general thought process has changed very dramatically from the start of the school year. Sure, some new ideas have been manifested, others replaced, but that is normal mental growth which comes from experience and pondering, without any radical shift. The only thing is that perhaps I am becoming progressively more analytical. This began with our dissection of King Lear, and interpretations upon world placement within sentences, for example the sentence, "I nothing am". This process of analyzing has continued all the way up to our current poetry unit, analyzing poems like snowflakes, by Longfellow, and nothing gold can stay by Frost. As for philosophical thinking, which always has been something I loved to do, the opportunity to get a glimpse of multiple philosophies throughout history, and lots of varying points of view on life made me reconsider some of my opinions. The best example of this, I used to consider myself purely a rationalist, believing that only logic could be used to discover Truth. However, somewhere in Sophie's world it was mentioned that human logic is faulty, because it is derived from our sensory experiences, which are relative. In any case, that is the inference I had made. I came to support that when I think of any great work of art that we analyze. I find it unlikely that every single layer that we dissect and attribute to symbolism was created purposely, and with the same same interpretation as we do. Thus the remaining creative force would have to come from Muses, the subconscious, I don't really know, but something illogical but beautiful.