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I really got into the Adorno more than the other two readings for the week. Admittedly this may be less because it was intreging and more because I worked with the term "lyric" for this week and so ended up doing a lot of research on the subject. But more on that in class.

I really enjoyed Adorno's idea of the lyric poem and it's relation to society. I like the idea of the poem transcending meanings to represent that which is missing in a society. I especially liked how Adrono reminds the reader that the content of social protest must come from within the text and not from the author's personal ideals. I really didn't expect to connect with adorno in this way as my previous exposure to him was only that he said in response to the poem "Death Fugue" that "it was barbaric to write poetry after auschwitz." I was surprised that he would feel this way as he states that "lyric poetry is always the subjective work of social antagonism" and the usefulness of this type of poetry to represnt a discord between it and the occurances of society.