Changes of Perspective

I couldn't figure out a way to get my entire blog onto this sight so I thought that I would give you guys a brief synopsis instead. Much like I mentioned in class my paper deals with the transition I had from the beginning of class to the current point with regards to how I viewed, not only the world of literature and how it connects to the past, but also how we can use the lessons of Classical Lit to connect ourselves to our ancestors.

At the beginning of class I saw human existance as simply moving forward through time, ever advancing with no need or necessity to look back on what was behind us. To look back was simply to allow the past to catch up and perhaps destroy all that we have accomplished over the millenia. However, after taking this class, I have come to realize that it is necessary to look to the past, not only so that we would not repeat our previous mistakes, but also that by soing so we connect to a more instinctual part of the human psyche and in so doing we can remember that the world is not something in which we are isolated, but a sphere teaming with life with which we can interact, learning from it and becoming stronger for it.