Extra Credit is officially tomorrowww at 10am. If anyone is on this beforehand can they let mr.Lazarow know that I will not be attending. Thanks.
Friday all we did was watch the Princess Bride......
xoxoEmily
Monday we will probably finish up Sonnet XIX and move on to paradise lost. (Still Milton)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Extra Credit: Lord of the Rings
On Sunday May 31, the 10-hour extra credit bonanza will be going down at Connor Tuck's house.
Address: 403 Providence Dr. ( Call me if you need directions, it's pretty easy) 609 315 1848
When: 10 am - 10 pm (when we finish).. feel free to come anytimeafter 930 am. Thanks.
* Remember to bring a copy of The Return of the King because I'm pretty sure no one will be bringing extras
Notes for the 27th and 28th
Sorry I didn't post last night to anyone who actually goes on the blog. Anyhow I just got back from work so here we go. Yesterday we took a quiz on Herrick's poems and today we had a quiz on Milton's bio. So... Milton's Bio:
John Milton is the first PURITAN poet we have read so far. Please note this down for the final/test- it will be asked. He's one of the three 'great ones' among Chaucer and Shakespeare. He spent most of his career out of favor of the monarchy and people. But as soon as he wrote Paradise Lost it changed everything because it was an INSTANT CLASSIC. Milton was very well educated and read every printed text published in his time...in 4 different languages. (He was fluent in all European languages including Hebrew) Milton could also recite the entire bible by heart. In the years of 1641-1660 he spent most of his time fighting his puritan cause and writing pamphlets defending aspects of libery. Areopagetica was a very famous one written for freedom of the press. The Tenure of Kengs and Magistrates was written to argue for power of the people.
Milton was very well educated so naturally someone of his time was expected to join the clergy. But he didn't because he was so opposed to the Anglican religion. At the end of his education he wrote Lysidas when one of his classmates died. This poem was known as a Pastoral Elegy. He was blind for a majority of his life and Sonnet XIX: When I consider How my Light is Spent was written about this experience. (of going blind)
......moving into Sonnet XIX
The first Quatrain is about how he has this talent(writing poetry) and won't do something with it. This is disobeying god and similar to the man who buried his talent as opposed to investing in it or using it. (Reference in sonnet: story about 3 men....one invested and made money, other used it and at least got use, the other buried it and it was like he had no talent at all.) Therefore Milton must overcome his obstacle(blindness) to use his talent... writing poetry.
Extra credit is @ Connor Tuck's house. Must have the book! Mr. Lazarow might be a little late.
xoxoEmily
John Milton is the first PURITAN poet we have read so far. Please note this down for the final/test- it will be asked. He's one of the three 'great ones' among Chaucer and Shakespeare. He spent most of his career out of favor of the monarchy and people. But as soon as he wrote Paradise Lost it changed everything because it was an INSTANT CLASSIC. Milton was very well educated and read every printed text published in his time...in 4 different languages. (He was fluent in all European languages including Hebrew) Milton could also recite the entire bible by heart. In the years of 1641-1660 he spent most of his time fighting his puritan cause and writing pamphlets defending aspects of libery. Areopagetica was a very famous one written for freedom of the press. The Tenure of Kengs and Magistrates was written to argue for power of the people.
Milton was very well educated so naturally someone of his time was expected to join the clergy. But he didn't because he was so opposed to the Anglican religion. At the end of his education he wrote Lysidas when one of his classmates died. This poem was known as a Pastoral Elegy. He was blind for a majority of his life and Sonnet XIX: When I consider How my Light is Spent was written about this experience. (of going blind)
......moving into Sonnet XIX
The first Quatrain is about how he has this talent(writing poetry) and won't do something with it. This is disobeying god and similar to the man who buried his talent as opposed to investing in it or using it. (Reference in sonnet: story about 3 men....one invested and made money, other used it and at least got use, the other buried it and it was like he had no talent at all.) Therefore Milton must overcome his obstacle(blindness) to use his talent... writing poetry.
Extra credit is @ Connor Tuck's house. Must have the book! Mr. Lazarow might be a little late.
xoxoEmily
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Notes for May 26th
Today we began class with a quiz on the Life of Herrick. Everyone who wasn't in class on Friday had to take make up the quiz that was on two poems by Ben Jonson, 'Though I am Young' and 'In the Person of Woman-kind. A SONG Apologetick.' If the people who made up Friday's quiz pulled up the class average to passing then the Life of Herrick quiz would not count. However, that didn't happen ahahahahahahahaha.
Anyways today we only covered the beginning of Delight in Disorder (by Herrick.) It resembles Ben Jonson's Clerimont's Song. Delight in Disorder is refering to something being beautiful, despite being unperfect. The first four lines of the poem are about a guy being distracted by how a girl is dressed.
Wantonness- wild
A lawn - a scarf
Extra Credit is this Sunday. We are reading The Return of the King- LOTR. You must have your own copy or you will not be admitted. We also need a house to do the reading at.....any volunteers?
xoxoEmily Wallace
Anyways today we only covered the beginning of Delight in Disorder (by Herrick.) It resembles Ben Jonson's Clerimont's Song. Delight in Disorder is refering to something being beautiful, despite being unperfect. The first four lines of the poem are about a guy being distracted by how a girl is dressed.
Wantonness- wild
A lawn - a scarf
Extra Credit is this Sunday. We are reading The Return of the King- LOTR. You must have your own copy or you will not be admitted. We also need a house to do the reading at.....any volunteers?
xoxoEmily Wallace
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Notes For 5/14 Necessary?
I wasnt sure if I should do notes or not since Laz wasn't here. We had Mr. L as a sub today. He said we have a quiz tomorrow. That's probably not true considering most of us won't be here tomorrow anyway. Since I didn't do notes really, I'll do them on Monday too.
Sarah Mercer
Snarky
- Main Entry:
- snarky
- Pronunciation:
- \ˈsnär-kē\
- Function:
- adjective
- Etymology:
- dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate
- Date:
- 1906
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
It's Janes, not James
Aside from that, here is some of what I got off of MAN.
[my comments are bold and in brackets, like this]
[It's influenced by Herbert's work: The Pulley]
WEIGHING the stedfastness and state
Of some mean things which here below reside,
Where birds, like watchful clocks, and the noiseless date
And intercourse of times divide,
Where bees at night get home and hive, and flow'rs
Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun and set in the same bow'rs [what the hell is bow'rs? if it means bowers, the only one I could find was a support structure for a vine plant, and I'm not sure how well that fits here]
[This first stanza is a long-winded way of saying that nature has a natural rhythm.]
[I didn't get much of the second stanza, save for the last three lines, but it looks like a continuation of the first stanza and it appears to be illustrating the same point. The last three lines seemed a bit different from the rest, though.]
[. . .]
The birds nor sow nor reap, yet sup and dine; [sup means have supper]
The flow'rs without clothes live,
Yet Solomon was never dress'd so fine.
[The last three lines refer to 6:25-30 in the book of Matthew:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%206:25-30,Matt%2010:29-31,
Basically, flowers and birds clothed in beauty by god surpass the riches even of King Solomon.]
Man hath still either toys, or care;
He hath no root, nor to one place is tied,
But ever restless and irregular
[These were the only three lines I got for this one. The first two lines give off the message that man is frivolous and anxious. The third line calls man irregular, in reference to lacking harmony with nature. This is a contrast to the first two stanzas, from what I can gather. The last four lines could just be a further elaboration on the idea that man is horribly dissonant relative to nature's rhythm.]
He knocks at all the doors and strays and roams, [Man is lost]
Nay, hath not so much wit as some stones have, [refers to lodestones, which could be used as compasses, thanks to their magnetic charge]
[The first two lines ridicule man's being out of sync by saying that even stones have better sense of time and place than does man.]
Which in the darkest nights point to their homes, [another reference to lodestones]
By some hid sense their Maker gave; [again, lodestones are the "their" and the Maker is god.]
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest
And passage through these looms [This line and the one right before it refer to the classic imagery of the fates weaving lives (man is the shuttle, for anyone familiar with tapestry work, that passes through these looms), but this was adapted from paganism to a Christian audience]
God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest. [one can only escape toil by going back to god for guidance, at least that's how I understand it]
Hope this helps everyone. The quiz tomorrow better be on MAN or I'll be right angry.
You guys better thank me for that link to bible gateway, too; anything involving the divine (especially holy water) burns my skin. Also, I will no longer be posting notes upside-down. The people in Australia will just have to deal with it.
~Kenneth Janes
[my comments are bold and in brackets, like this]
[It's influenced by Herbert's work: The Pulley]
WEIGHING the stedfastness and state
Of some mean things which here below reside,
Where birds, like watchful clocks, and the noiseless date
And intercourse of times divide,
Where bees at night get home and hive, and flow'rs
Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun and set in the same bow'rs [what the hell is bow'rs? if it means bowers, the only one I could find was a support structure for a vine plant, and I'm not sure how well that fits here]
[This first stanza is a long-winded way of saying that nature has a natural rhythm.]
[I didn't get much of the second stanza, save for the last three lines, but it looks like a continuation of the first stanza and it appears to be illustrating the same point. The last three lines seemed a bit different from the rest, though.]
[. . .]
The birds nor sow nor reap, yet sup and dine; [sup means have supper]
The flow'rs without clothes live,
Yet Solomon was never dress'd so fine.
[The last three lines refer to 6:25-30 in the book of Matthew:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%206:25-30,Matt%2010:29-31,
Basically, flowers and birds clothed in beauty by god surpass the riches even of King Solomon.]
Man hath still either toys, or care;
He hath no root, nor to one place is tied,
But ever restless and irregular
[These were the only three lines I got for this one. The first two lines give off the message that man is frivolous and anxious. The third line calls man irregular, in reference to lacking harmony with nature. This is a contrast to the first two stanzas, from what I can gather. The last four lines could just be a further elaboration on the idea that man is horribly dissonant relative to nature's rhythm.]
He knocks at all the doors and strays and roams, [Man is lost]
Nay, hath not so much wit as some stones have, [refers to lodestones, which could be used as compasses, thanks to their magnetic charge]
[The first two lines ridicule man's being out of sync by saying that even stones have better sense of time and place than does man.]
Which in the darkest nights point to their homes, [another reference to lodestones]
By some hid sense their Maker gave; [again, lodestones are the "their" and the Maker is god.]
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest
And passage through these looms [This line and the one right before it refer to the classic imagery of the fates weaving lives (man is the shuttle, for anyone familiar with tapestry work, that passes through these looms), but this was adapted from paganism to a Christian audience]
God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest. [one can only escape toil by going back to god for guidance, at least that's how I understand it]
Hope this helps everyone. The quiz tomorrow better be on MAN or I'll be right angry.
You guys better thank me for that link to bible gateway, too; anything involving the divine (especially holy water) burns my skin. Also, I will no longer be posting notes upside-down. The people in Australia will just have to deal with it.
~Kenneth Janes
Notes for May 12th
Kenneth James is a computer god.
Did you see that?
Anyways,
After taking the quiz, and for some like myself, multiple quizzes, we discussed "The Retreat" "The Retreat" is an example of Lyric poetry which has a song like quality.
-Jordan Levy
Did you see that?
Anyways,
After taking the quiz, and for some like myself, multiple quizzes, we discussed "The Retreat" "The Retreat" is an example of Lyric poetry which has a song like quality.
- This poem is a Romantic poem and they often deal with childhood.
- Closest to god when you're a child.
- We discussed the second race and being ones earthly existence while their fist race being ones heavenly existence.
- We decided poem was talking about how the author was happier before he understood sin. a.k.a. was a child.
- One's first love is God.
- He wished he could go back to innocence.
-Jordan Levy
Monday, May 11, 2009
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog
Discuss. I'm not gonna spoil it.
Seriously, don't dismiss it because of the title. Even I enjoyed it, and I tend to hate zero-budget musicals.
Oh, and don't skip any of the music. It's a musical, after all. That's the point of it.
Discuss. I'm not gonna spoil it.
Seriously, don't dismiss it because of the title. Even I enjoyed it, and I tend to hate zero-budget musicals.
Oh, and don't skip any of the music. It's a musical, after all. That's the point of it.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Silly Hat
Hey, guys, my modem's been like "Haha, no. . ." for the last couple days, so I haven't been able to post. Anyway, here's the notes.
THE COLLAR.
(Collar can mean a priest's collar, a working animal's collar, or it can be a homophone play referring to choler, or anger.)
I STRUCK the board, and cry'd, No more;
I will abroad,
(These lines set the angry tone of the poem, and they also indicate that he wants to ditch the life of a priest and travel abroad.)
What? Shall I ever sigh and pine?
(He pines after what he does not have; freedom.)
My lines are and life are free; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
(He does not need to be tied down here. He is not a boat; he can leave whenever he wants. He's as unlimited as all the stuff in the world.)
Shall I be still in suit?
(Will he still be in his formal black? Will he stay the same? Will he fit into his category, still?)
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me bloud, and not restore
What I have lost with cordiall fruit?
(Thorn refers to crucifixion, bloud is archaic for bleed, and cordialls are wine grapes.)
(Is he only going to harvest pain from being a priest? To bleed out and gain no comfort in return?)
Sure there was wine,
Before my sighs did drie it : there was corn
Before my tears did drown it.
(There was plenty of wine in his younger days, but it is now gone. There was grain when he was young, but he has squandered it. The wine and grain refer to opportunity[?])
Is the yeare onely lost to me?
Have I no bayes to crown it?
No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted?
All wasted?
(Is it all gone with no celebration in return?)
Not so, my heart : but there is fruit,
And thou hast hands.
(We did not cover this line in class.)
Recover all thy sigh-blown age
On double pleasures : leave thy cold dispute
(He misses the ages he wasted, he wants to go back in time and revel. He will celebrate and party twice as hard and double his pleasure to make up for lost time.)
Anyway, that's as far as we got in class on Friday. Here it is upside down.
(˙ǝɯıʇ ʇsoן ɹoɟ dn ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ǝɹnsɐǝןd sıɥ ǝןqnop puɐ pɹɐɥ sɐ ǝɔıʍʇ ʎʇɹɐd puɐ ǝʇɐɹqǝןǝɔ ןןıʍ ǝɥ ˙ןǝʌǝɹ puɐ ǝɯıʇ uı ʞɔɐq oƃ oʇ sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ 'pǝʇsɐʍ ǝɥ sǝƃɐ ǝɥʇ sǝssıɯ ǝɥ)
ǝʇndsıp pןoɔ ʎɥʇ ǝʌɐǝן : sǝɹnsɐǝןd ǝןqnop uo
ǝƃɐ uʍoןq-ɥƃıs ʎɥʇ ןןɐ ɹǝʌoɔǝɹ
(˙ssɐןɔ uı ǝuıן sıɥʇ ɹǝʌoɔ ʇou pıp ǝʍ)
˙spuɐɥ ʇsɐɥ noɥʇ puɐ
'ʇınɹɟ sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇnq : ʇɹɐǝɥ ʎɯ 'os ʇou
(¿uɹnʇǝɹ uı uoıʇɐɹqǝןǝɔ ou ɥʇıʍ ǝuoƃ ןןɐ ʇı sı)
¿pǝʇsɐʍ ןןɐ
¿pǝʇsɐןq ןןɐ ¿ʎɐƃ spuɐןɹɐƃ ou 'sɹǝʍoןɟ ou
¿ʇı uʍoɹɔ oʇ sǝʎɐq ou ı ǝʌɐɥ
¿ǝɯ oʇ ʇsoן ʎןǝuo ǝɹɐǝʎ ǝɥʇ sı
([¿]ʎʇıunʇɹoddo oʇ ɹǝɟǝɹ uıɐɹƃ puɐ ǝuıʍ ǝɥʇ ˙ʇı pǝɹǝpuɐnbs sɐɥ ǝɥ ʇnq 'ƃunoʎ sɐʍ ǝɥ uǝɥʍ uıɐɹƃ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ ˙ǝuoƃ ʍou sı ʇı ʇnq 'sʎɐp ɹǝƃunoʎ sıɥ uı ǝuıʍ ɟo ʎʇuǝןd sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ)
˙ʇı uʍoɹp pıp sɹɐǝʇ ʎɯ ǝɹoɟǝq
uɹoɔ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ : ʇı ǝıɹp pıp sɥƃıs ʎɯ ǝɹoɟǝq
'ǝuıʍ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ ǝɹns
(¿uɹnʇǝɹ uı ʇɹoɟɯoɔ ou uıɐƃ puɐ ʇno pǝǝןq oʇ ¿ʇsǝıɹd ɐ ƃuıǝq ɯoɹɟ uıɐd ʇsǝʌɹɐɥ oʇ ƃuıoƃ ʎןuo ǝɥ sı)
(˙sǝdɐɹƃ ǝuıʍ ǝɹɐ sןןɐıpɹoɔ puɐ 'pǝǝןq ɹoɟ ɔıɐɥɔɹɐ sı pnoןq 'uoıxıɟıɔnɹɔ oʇ sɹǝɟǝɹ uɹoɥʇ)
¿ʇınɹɟ ןןɐıpɹoɔ ɥʇıʍ ʇsoן ǝʌɐɥ ı ʇɐɥʍ
ǝɹoʇsǝɹ ʇou puɐ 'pnoןq ǝɯ ʇǝן oʇ
uɹoɥʇ ɐ ʇnq ʇsǝʌɹɐɥ ou ı ǝʌɐɥ
(¿ןןıʇs 'ʎɹoƃǝʇɐɔ sıɥ oʇuı ʇıɟ ǝɥ ןןıʍ ¿ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ ʎɐʇs ǝɥ ןןıʍ ¿ʞɔɐןq ןɐɯɹoɟ sıɥ uı ǝq ןןıʇs ǝɥ ןןıʍ)
¿ʇıns uı ןןıʇs ǝq ı ןןɐɥs
(˙pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ uı ɟɟnʇs ǝɥʇ ןןɐ sɐ pǝʇıɯıןun sɐ s,ǝɥ ˙sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ ɹǝʌǝuǝɥʍ ǝʌɐǝן uɐɔ ǝɥ ؛ʇɐoq ɐ ʇou sı ǝɥ ˙ǝɹǝɥ uʍop pǝıʇ ǝq oʇ pǝǝu ʇou sǝop ǝɥ)
˙ǝɹoʇs sɐ ǝƃɹɐן sɐ 'ǝpuıʍ ǝɥʇ sɐ ǝsooן
'ǝpoɹ ǝɥʇ sɐ ǝǝɹɟ ؛ǝǝɹɟ ǝɹɐ ǝɟıן puɐ ǝɹɐ sǝuıן ʎɯ
(˙ɯopǝǝɹɟ ؛ǝʌɐɥ ʇou sǝop ǝɥ ʇɐɥʍ ɹǝʇɟɐ sǝuıd ǝɥ)
¿ǝuıd puɐ ɥƃıs ɹǝʌǝ ı ןןɐɥs ¿ʇɐɥʍ
(˙pɐoɹqɐ ןǝʌɐɹʇ puɐ ʇsǝıɹd ɐ ɟo ǝɟıן ǝɥʇ ɥɔʇıp oʇ sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʇɐɔıpuı osןɐ ʎǝɥʇ puɐ 'ɯǝod ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuoʇ ʎɹƃuɐ ǝɥʇ ʇǝs sǝuıן ǝsǝɥʇ)
'pɐoɹqɐ ןןıʍ ı
؛ǝɹoɯ ou 'p,ʎɹɔ puɐ 'pɹɐoq ǝɥʇ ʞɔnɹʇs ı
(˙ɹǝƃuɐ ɹo 'ɹǝןoɥɔ oʇ ƃuıɹɹǝɟǝɹ ʎɐןd ǝuoɥdoɯoɥ ɐ ǝq uɐɔ ʇı ɹo 'ɹɐןןoɔ s,ןɐɯıuɐ ƃuıʞɹoʍ ɐ 'ɹɐןןoɔ s,ʇsǝıɹd ɐ uɐǝɯ uɐɔ ɹɐןןoɔ)
˙ɹɐןןoɔ ǝɥʇ
:D_b
THE COLLAR.
(Collar can mean a priest's collar, a working animal's collar, or it can be a homophone play referring to choler, or anger.)
I STRUCK the board, and cry'd, No more;
I will abroad,
(These lines set the angry tone of the poem, and they also indicate that he wants to ditch the life of a priest and travel abroad.)
What? Shall I ever sigh and pine?
(He pines after what he does not have; freedom.)
My lines are and life are free; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
(He does not need to be tied down here. He is not a boat; he can leave whenever he wants. He's as unlimited as all the stuff in the world.)
Shall I be still in suit?
(Will he still be in his formal black? Will he stay the same? Will he fit into his category, still?)
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me bloud, and not restore
What I have lost with cordiall fruit?
(Thorn refers to crucifixion, bloud is archaic for bleed, and cordialls are wine grapes.)
(Is he only going to harvest pain from being a priest? To bleed out and gain no comfort in return?)
Sure there was wine,
Before my sighs did drie it : there was corn
Before my tears did drown it.
(There was plenty of wine in his younger days, but it is now gone. There was grain when he was young, but he has squandered it. The wine and grain refer to opportunity[?])
Is the yeare onely lost to me?
Have I no bayes to crown it?
No flowers, no garlands gay? all blasted?
All wasted?
(Is it all gone with no celebration in return?)
Not so, my heart : but there is fruit,
And thou hast hands.
(We did not cover this line in class.)
Recover all thy sigh-blown age
On double pleasures : leave thy cold dispute
(He misses the ages he wasted, he wants to go back in time and revel. He will celebrate and party twice as hard and double his pleasure to make up for lost time.)
Anyway, that's as far as we got in class on Friday. Here it is upside down.
(˙ǝɯıʇ ʇsoן ɹoɟ dn ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ǝɹnsɐǝןd sıɥ ǝןqnop puɐ pɹɐɥ sɐ ǝɔıʍʇ ʎʇɹɐd puɐ ǝʇɐɹqǝןǝɔ ןןıʍ ǝɥ ˙ןǝʌǝɹ puɐ ǝɯıʇ uı ʞɔɐq oƃ oʇ sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ 'pǝʇsɐʍ ǝɥ sǝƃɐ ǝɥʇ sǝssıɯ ǝɥ)
ǝʇndsıp pןoɔ ʎɥʇ ǝʌɐǝן : sǝɹnsɐǝןd ǝןqnop uo
ǝƃɐ uʍoןq-ɥƃıs ʎɥʇ ןןɐ ɹǝʌoɔǝɹ
(˙ssɐןɔ uı ǝuıן sıɥʇ ɹǝʌoɔ ʇou pıp ǝʍ)
˙spuɐɥ ʇsɐɥ noɥʇ puɐ
'ʇınɹɟ sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇnq : ʇɹɐǝɥ ʎɯ 'os ʇou
(¿uɹnʇǝɹ uı uoıʇɐɹqǝןǝɔ ou ɥʇıʍ ǝuoƃ ןןɐ ʇı sı)
¿pǝʇsɐʍ ןןɐ
¿pǝʇsɐןq ןןɐ ¿ʎɐƃ spuɐןɹɐƃ ou 'sɹǝʍoןɟ ou
¿ʇı uʍoɹɔ oʇ sǝʎɐq ou ı ǝʌɐɥ
¿ǝɯ oʇ ʇsoן ʎןǝuo ǝɹɐǝʎ ǝɥʇ sı
([¿]ʎʇıunʇɹoddo oʇ ɹǝɟǝɹ uıɐɹƃ puɐ ǝuıʍ ǝɥʇ ˙ʇı pǝɹǝpuɐnbs sɐɥ ǝɥ ʇnq 'ƃunoʎ sɐʍ ǝɥ uǝɥʍ uıɐɹƃ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ ˙ǝuoƃ ʍou sı ʇı ʇnq 'sʎɐp ɹǝƃunoʎ sıɥ uı ǝuıʍ ɟo ʎʇuǝןd sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ)
˙ʇı uʍoɹp pıp sɹɐǝʇ ʎɯ ǝɹoɟǝq
uɹoɔ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ : ʇı ǝıɹp pıp sɥƃıs ʎɯ ǝɹoɟǝq
'ǝuıʍ sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ ǝɹns
(¿uɹnʇǝɹ uı ʇɹoɟɯoɔ ou uıɐƃ puɐ ʇno pǝǝןq oʇ ¿ʇsǝıɹd ɐ ƃuıǝq ɯoɹɟ uıɐd ʇsǝʌɹɐɥ oʇ ƃuıoƃ ʎןuo ǝɥ sı)
(˙sǝdɐɹƃ ǝuıʍ ǝɹɐ sןןɐıpɹoɔ puɐ 'pǝǝןq ɹoɟ ɔıɐɥɔɹɐ sı pnoןq 'uoıxıɟıɔnɹɔ oʇ sɹǝɟǝɹ uɹoɥʇ)
¿ʇınɹɟ ןןɐıpɹoɔ ɥʇıʍ ʇsoן ǝʌɐɥ ı ʇɐɥʍ
ǝɹoʇsǝɹ ʇou puɐ 'pnoןq ǝɯ ʇǝן oʇ
uɹoɥʇ ɐ ʇnq ʇsǝʌɹɐɥ ou ı ǝʌɐɥ
(¿ןןıʇs 'ʎɹoƃǝʇɐɔ sıɥ oʇuı ʇıɟ ǝɥ ןןıʍ ¿ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ ʎɐʇs ǝɥ ןןıʍ ¿ʞɔɐןq ןɐɯɹoɟ sıɥ uı ǝq ןןıʇs ǝɥ ןןıʍ)
¿ʇıns uı ןןıʇs ǝq ı ןןɐɥs
(˙pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ uı ɟɟnʇs ǝɥʇ ןןɐ sɐ pǝʇıɯıןun sɐ s,ǝɥ ˙sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ ɹǝʌǝuǝɥʍ ǝʌɐǝן uɐɔ ǝɥ ؛ʇɐoq ɐ ʇou sı ǝɥ ˙ǝɹǝɥ uʍop pǝıʇ ǝq oʇ pǝǝu ʇou sǝop ǝɥ)
˙ǝɹoʇs sɐ ǝƃɹɐן sɐ 'ǝpuıʍ ǝɥʇ sɐ ǝsooן
'ǝpoɹ ǝɥʇ sɐ ǝǝɹɟ ؛ǝǝɹɟ ǝɹɐ ǝɟıן puɐ ǝɹɐ sǝuıן ʎɯ
(˙ɯopǝǝɹɟ ؛ǝʌɐɥ ʇou sǝop ǝɥ ʇɐɥʍ ɹǝʇɟɐ sǝuıd ǝɥ)
¿ǝuıd puɐ ɥƃıs ɹǝʌǝ ı ןןɐɥs ¿ʇɐɥʍ
(˙pɐoɹqɐ ןǝʌɐɹʇ puɐ ʇsǝıɹd ɐ ɟo ǝɟıן ǝɥʇ ɥɔʇıp oʇ sʇuɐʍ ǝɥ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʇɐɔıpuı osןɐ ʎǝɥʇ puɐ 'ɯǝod ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuoʇ ʎɹƃuɐ ǝɥʇ ʇǝs sǝuıן ǝsǝɥʇ)
'pɐoɹqɐ ןןıʍ ı
؛ǝɹoɯ ou 'p,ʎɹɔ puɐ 'pɹɐoq ǝɥʇ ʞɔnɹʇs ı
(˙ɹǝƃuɐ ɹo 'ɹǝןoɥɔ oʇ ƃuıɹɹǝɟǝɹ ʎɐןd ǝuoɥdoɯoɥ ɐ ǝq uɐɔ ʇı ɹo 'ɹɐןןoɔ s,ןɐɯıuɐ ƃuıʞɹoʍ ɐ 'ɹɐןןoɔ s,ʇsǝıɹd ɐ uɐǝɯ uɐɔ ɹɐןןoɔ)
˙ɹɐןןoɔ ǝɥʇ
:D_b
Thursday, May 7, 2009
notes- George Herbert
no quiz :)
Notes on George Herbert:
-Being the 5th son in a noble family means you get no inheritance
1st son- heir
2nd son- military
3rd son and there after- clergy
-Herbert could've done nothing but he chose to go into clergy because he felt a calling from it so he went back to school and got his degrees. He ended up being a huge help.
-he grew up with his mother who loved Donne's work
-greatest dissapointment was when he died. Ironic that, on his death bed, he said to burn his work and not to publish it unless it was going to be of some help to others. They saw the merit and published it.
-Direct inheritence of Donne's traditions--->cavalier poet
-memorial verses: occasional poems (it was part of the culture)
Easter-Wings
-Concrete poem: shapes or forms of an object (content and form)
-formed as angel wings. When the lines get smaller it is decaying and when they expand it is coming back to life and rejoining with God.
-people weren't viewed as being nice, the Puritans view was that we were born corrupt and not capable of doing good. They did believe that we were capable of getting better and growing through working, learning, and struggling.The Romantics believed the flip side; that we were born perfect and innocent and that the world corrupted us.
-The first set of angel wings is referring to all of humanity and the second set is focused on himself, specifically.
-In the first line the word 'store' means stuff that makes us what we are
-Laz pointed out that when a poem has the word 'fall' in it, it is a religious poem and it usually means something. ex: Lucifer fell from heaven and was sent to hell. Adam and Eve were a fall from grace.
- "For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me."
-These last two lines are saying, 'if I put my wing on God and take him in, because can't do it on your own, and strife will make me fly high.'
Few things on The Collar.
-three things go along with the idea of 'the collar', we came up with two...try to find the third (we have talked about it before)
1) priests wear collars
2) a yoke goes around animals necks (ox or horse) and connects to what they are carrying
Tanya
Notes on George Herbert:
-Being the 5th son in a noble family means you get no inheritance
1st son- heir
2nd son- military
3rd son and there after- clergy
-Herbert could've done nothing but he chose to go into clergy because he felt a calling from it so he went back to school and got his degrees. He ended up being a huge help.
-he grew up with his mother who loved Donne's work
-greatest dissapointment was when he died. Ironic that, on his death bed, he said to burn his work and not to publish it unless it was going to be of some help to others. They saw the merit and published it.
-Direct inheritence of Donne's traditions--->cavalier poet
-memorial verses: occasional poems (it was part of the culture)
Easter-Wings
-Concrete poem: shapes or forms of an object (content and form)
-formed as angel wings. When the lines get smaller it is decaying and when they expand it is coming back to life and rejoining with God.
-people weren't viewed as being nice, the Puritans view was that we were born corrupt and not capable of doing good. They did believe that we were capable of getting better and growing through working, learning, and struggling.The Romantics believed the flip side; that we were born perfect and innocent and that the world corrupted us.
-The first set of angel wings is referring to all of humanity and the second set is focused on himself, specifically.
-In the first line the word 'store' means stuff that makes us what we are
-Laz pointed out that when a poem has the word 'fall' in it, it is a religious poem and it usually means something. ex: Lucifer fell from heaven and was sent to hell. Adam and Eve were a fall from grace.
- "For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me."
-These last two lines are saying, 'if I put my wing on God and take him in, because can't do it on your own, and strife will make me fly high.'
Few things on The Collar.
-three things go along with the idea of 'the collar', we came up with two...try to find the third (we have talked about it before)
1) priests wear collars
2) a yoke goes around animals necks (ox or horse) and connects to what they are carrying
Tanya
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Class Notes - 5/6/09
Ok, good news is, as of today, our class average is back above a 60% so we're back on a random-quiz schedule. Bad news is we've still gotta talk about poetry. So, here's what we talked about today.
We began by talking about the 7th Holy Sonnet
(Laz said "snarky" too... don't think thats a real word...)
The poem lists all different ways to die in reference to how every soul left their body.
The person speaking is a narrative voice of a religious person, and he appears to be calling for Judgement Day. However, this person cannot call for Judgement Day, only God can. Therefore, arrogance is implied.
Line 8 refers to people who are alive at Judgement Day that will never experience death.
Line 9's turn moves away from arrogance and towards the right direction. The narrator starts talking about repentance because he has realized his arrogance.
Since arrogance = pride and pride is one of the 7 deadly sins, he must repent before Judgement Day so that he is offered admittance into heaven.
The last line is a reference to crucifixion of Jesus which allowed our entrance to heaven.
Then we moved on to the 14th Holy Sonnet.
First line calls for suffering. - "Three person'd God" means the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
The narrator believes that once he is beaten down, it will be better for him to be built back up in a more righteous way.
Viceroy = governor
This is another poem about repentance
Uses metaphors as examples. - calls himself "an usurp'd town" meaning that he has been infiltrated with sin.
In the turn, he asks God to grant him a divorce from Satan so he may marry God. He is using sin (divorce) to become holy (in marriage).
Also in the inversion is the reference to imprisonment
He wishes to be imprisoned in good, so imprisonment becomes the new freedom.
Divorce has become the new marriage
Ravish = rape
He asks God to rape him, so rape becomes the new chastity.
--Patrick Lafferty
Monday, May 4, 2009
Class Minutes: 5/04
Today there was no pop quiz!
We began class by talking about our essays that are due tomorrow about the things we carry. After all questions were answered, we continued on finishing the analysis of "The Canonization".
We had left off analyzing the phoenix riddle. It meant that love is everlasting and always gets reborn even after death, like a phoenix burning and then rising from the ashes.
"So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit. We die and rise the same, and prove mysterious by this love." The mystery of faith is if you believe then it becomes true so the mystery of love is that it's never ending.
The next stanza starts off by saying that love can kill us, but love transcends death and will live on. It will live on through the people who write about it in poems. There will be no urns , ashes, or tombs, but there will be poems written of this love, thus making them saints of love.
In the final stanza it talks of how you are each other's hermitage or retreat. The narrator says that he wants his love to be like your love so that he can be saintly as well.
After we finished analyzing "The Canonization" we began on "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning".
The poem starts by telling of how a virtuous man is dying. He dies mildly meaning he was satisfied with his life therefore he willingly allowed himself to pass on. It was such a mild death that his friends were unsure if he was still alive or dead.
Mr. Lazarow finished class by telling us to read the next 2 poems for tomorrow so there will possibly be a quiz on them tomorrow.
-Mickey Gill
Sunday, May 3, 2009
notes- 5/1/09
Today Laz was absent from class, but we still had our pop quiz. It took up mostly the entire period, and whatever extra time we had was to be spent reading the next poems in the packet.
-Celia
-Celia
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