1. Looking at Art
What is the title of the work? How does the title help you to understand the message? What is the message?
What is the most obvious image in the work. To where is your eye drawn?
Look at the colors. Are they symbolic? Would the message be different if the colors were different? Explain.
Study the shading and shadowing. How do these elements impact the overall message?
Who is the artist? When was the work created? Is the artist's message about a specific event in history? What was going on in the world when the work was created? Is the art universal - speaks to people of all times and in all places, or is it limited to the audience for whom it was created.
How does the work relate to us in 21st century America?
How does the work relate to the literature studied.
The Things They Carried
http://www.rajuabju.com/literature/thingstheycarried.htm
Daedalus and Icarus
http://www.eaglesweb.com/IMAGES/icarus.htm
Art of Daedalus and Icarus
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bruegel/icarus.jpg.html
Poems of The Odyssey
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/louise_gluck/poems/15642
Decision by Louise Gluck
The great man turns his back on the island.Odysseus' Now he will not die in paradisenor hear againthe lutes of paradise among the olive trees,by the clear pools under the cypresses. Timebegins now, in which he hears againthat pulse which is the narrativesea, ar dawn when its pull is stongest.What has brought us herewill lead us away; our shipsways in the tined harbor water.Now the spell is ended.Giove him back his life,sea that can only move forward.
http://www.poetseers.org/contemporary_poets/w_s__merwin/merwin_poems/odysseus/
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/louise_gluck/poems/15761
http://nzr.mvnu.edu/faculty/trearick/english/rearick/World_Lit_I/tennysons_odyssey_poems.htm
http://www.webwinds.com/odyssey/odysseusyearns.htm
The Odyssey in Art
http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/odyssey/books.htm
