My Final Project

For my final project, I wanted to do something interesting, creative, and personal. Initially I thought of Professor Cassel's question "What is Literature?". Due to the very broad nature of the question, I had to think of different things that went hand-in-hand with it. That is when I immediately thought of music. Music is a passion of mine, just as poetry is, so I wanted to come up with something related to the literature we read in class and lyrics that had a kind of flow and rhyme to them. I thought this was brilliant to do for my final project because music, short-story writing, and poetry can all evoke the same extremity of emotions to their readers. I ended up focusing only on the play "Streetcar Named Desire" because we have read so many different writings that it would have been hard to narrow down a specific topic. Also, that play has various controversies and so many things going on that I knew I could find some lyrics to match the events.

I had a lot of fun with my "research." When I was looking through the songs I had on my mp3, I was surprised to find so many that was related to my topic of choice. Picking two of them was sort of a challenge actually. I also was baffled that the Kanye West song matched Stanley so perfectly, and to think, I used to like that song! I found significant things regarding both time periods, but mostly of all, I found deeper meanings to what kind of music I have been listening to. That barrier between men and women still exists, more so than I thought. It is sad to think that some of us haven't changed in that respect.