1) In the Dove's Necklace, a lot of interesting things are said about love.  Not only does the poetry not really define love but instead "signs of love" are forms of explaining what love is.  This really interested me because with each kind of love, people look at it differently and feel different things.  This really allowed the reader to get their own understanding of what love means rather than a set answer.  Another theme found in this reading is how others change for love.  Sometimes people change without even knowing that they've changed and this is found a lot throughout the poetry.  People get so caught up in "love" that they don't even see or realize themselves that they have changed.  But in other circumstances, people can change who they are on purpose so that their lover is more accepting of them and they turn into someone whom their lover wants or looks for in a partner.  I think this reading was very interesting and I really enjoyed reading the different ways in which love affects people.

Ovid metamorphoses books 4 & 6

There is a commons theme between most of the five main myths in the readings.  One of the themes in which is found in two of the readings is lovers coming together as one.  Pyramus and Thisbe both kill each other which then allows them to be together in death.  This is also ironic because her father didn't like the idea of her with him so as it was they were already planning on running away together.  When in reality they could've actually joined one another and lived happily together, instead they both die and are together in the afterlife.  Another example of when two people are joined together literally are Hermaphroditus and Salmacis.  Salmacis asks to be one with their lover and yet they literally become one being.  This reading is a little bit more strange and unrealistic than Pyramus and Thisbe's story. They both have no other option but to actually be with one another because of what their actions were to be together as lovers.  Love can be a very strong and powerful feeling that can change a lot and make people do things they normally wouldn't.  We see this throughout the readings of Ovid in book 4. 

metamorphoses books 1&3

Tireseas story, to me, seemed to be the weirdest of them all.  During the readings in both books, a lot of the readings had some stories that were a little far fetched from anything that could ever happen in real life.  It was Juno that brought forth Tireseas within the story to ask for his opinions.  I believed it to be very strange that he became a women for seven years, not only that but then on the eighth year, he is transformed back into a man.  I also think that its strange that instead of him being able to see as a punishment, he gains knowledge of the future and is proud of it.  So what sex is Tireseas really? I mean I understand he is born a male, but then changes to a women, but how will he live his life?  Does he have any wives or husbands throughout his life?  This is something that I don't understand.  Not only are there physical differences between both sexes, but also psychological differences as well, does this also change as he changes gender?

The conversation between Echo and Narcissus is also strange.  I couldn't tell if Narcissus was making up Echo as an excuse to say what he really thinks or wants to hear?  It seemed as though Echo is a fake character made up by Narcissus.  Echo only repeats the last word or phrase that is said.  Echos should only do one of the two.  It seemed as though the Echo only chose specific words or phrases to repeat, but I don't know for what reason.  This is why I think Narcissus made Echo up for his own self.