Dreams

With psychoanalysis, especially the lens for our reading of King Lear, you have several options to pursue the mentality of the characters: birth order, unconscious desires, past traumas, anxieties, defense mechanisms, symbolism, the Freudian id, ego, superego, the trauma of the real, the objet petit a, and more. 

For tomorrow's class, you need to have close read "Daddy" and attempt to break down the literary elements for psychoanalysis properties as well. I highly recommend taking a look at a Plath's bio - perhaps with the specific look at the men in her life - to help you with the understanding of the poem and its motifs.

As for our Lear, you have the text with you with the instructions to read and note 1.1 for Monday, December 2.

And don't forget your poetry close reading/writing assignment that is due the week after we return from Thanksgiving break!