IOP Journal 1

Since I have the ACTs tomorrow, I decided today would be a good day to organize and brainstorm for my IOP.

Topic Proposal:
I would like to focus on the works of Pablo Neruda, and analyzing one of his more politically focused poems like I am Accused (the actual title is I Accuse). I want to show the correlation between one or two of his poems with his political views.
I would like to analyze two poems as a comparison, looking for similarities between his focus on symbols in nature and the structure of his poems. I could possibly compose a music piece to go along with the poem(s).

Sidenote - The musical piece now that I have thought about it would be incredibly hard to compose as well as perform in such the short amount of time that I have for this IOP...so i'm going to have to rely on my other idea of doing a class/group analysis of at least one poem.

1. I collected all the poems that I have from IB Junior English that were written by Pablo Neruda.
2. I separated his love poems that would be irrelevant and organized the politically inclined poems...(Dodobird, From the Heights of Macchu Picchu, XCVII...To the Foot from its Child?)
3. Out of these poems, Dodobird has very pronounced political message, From the Heights of Macchu Picchu possess many of Neruda's well-known literary techniques (although it's pretty difficult to fathom the meanings), XCVII could be expressed as a political poem expressing the confinement of the society (although the poem's very short and it would a small chunk of time to analyze it), To the Foot from its Child could also be analyzed as a poem criticising the government (the Foot) from Neruda's view (the Child) with a lot of metaphors as well as length.
4. From what I've seen, both To the Foot from its Child and XCVII both have similar motifs and themes in which i could analyze for my IOP!!!

IDEA: Both use metaphors in order to express wandering and being lost with references to the earth. Lots of feet motifs in both poems as well