Advanced Placement, Lang: BONUS, "The Odyssey," the Lotus Eaters, Drugs

5. Today’s Lesson: Drugs, forgetting about the past, family, home.

BOP: Read Howl, applying the Poetry System to prepare for a graded discussion after viewing and studying “Strawberry Fields” by the Beatles.




Comparative Literature has a reoccurring theme: Get Back Home. For Odysseus, it was returning to Ithaca. For Ginsburg, adopting a way of life, a new way of living. For John Lennon, embracing the hallucination. Enjoy this small lesson in connection with the Lotos Eaters--who tried to steal the goal of returning home. (Remember Dorothy from "the Wizard of Oz" who said, "There's no place like home."

John Brovsky