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
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