notes

No pop quiz today!
Mr. Laz informed us that if we hear from the other class that they had a quiz, we most likely will not have one that same day. He also mentioned that the better route for scholarship is to take notes, pay attention in class, then go home and study it.
"Guarantee. There is no guarantee." - Laz

Next Thursday: Blood drive from 7:00am-8pm
-at least 17 years old, 110 lbs, and have not given blood in the past 56 days
-appts. every 15 mins
-give your name, homeroom, and time you will be going to Mr. Laz if you are interested

BIO on Donne
- Abandoned Catholicism because 1) it wasn't worth it because of all the troubles at the time 2) his job was obtained by King James as an Anglican preacher
-Anne's father didn't make her divorce Donne because divorce was a difficult process
-King James thought John Donne would be a good preacher because he was a talented writer, he was intelligent, a good speaker, and he would make it popular to the people
-The lawfulness of suicide was unpublished because it was against almost all religious beliefs (written during his 12 years of depression)
-How did he deliver his own funeral sermon? He knew he was going to die and thought that no one could do it better then himself
-Lincoln's Inn is one of the best choices of law schools. Donne never practiced law or received any degrees. He taught department of divinity (religious concept of law)

FLEA
-easiest (broken down into developed ideas)
-all sonnet structures apply
-look up the words you don't know while you are reading because Mr. Laz said he will start doing vocab quizzes that will kill us
-never make the mistake that it is in first person. Narrative Voice
-it is really about a flea (representing marriage), the blood is co mingled, these people are not married and it is not about incest

Comprehending
"And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two;
And this, alas! is more than we would do."
-loss of maidenhead= virginity
-The flea mixing their blood is the most that happens, they don't have sex.

"three lives in one flea spare"
-she's going to kill the flea

"this flea is you and I"
-if you kill the flea you kill us

"...and cloister'd in these living walls of jet."
-walls of jet=the black body of the flea

"Though use make you apt to kill me,
let not to that self-murder added be,
and sacrilege, three sins in killing three."
-3 sins: murder, suicide, sacrilege (marriage)

The last paragraph concludes that she does not buy it and kills the flea. She felt no harm from killing the flea so she has nothing to be scared of and might as well do it. Worse thing that could happen is losing a flea's worth of honor.
This is a Carpi Diem poem, which revolve around sex. This is used by Cavalier poets because it allows a connection and familiarity.

Tanya