POETS BIO NOTES

I might be a little late in posting this, but here are the notes I took on thursdays review session.  If nothing else i suppose rewriting this will help me study...

JOHN DONNE

• metaphysical
• Royalist (patronized by the king)
• leading Anglican preacher
• early works were secular - Carpe Diem / Cavalier
• later works were more religious - Holy Sonnets (George Herbert's whole career was like this)

GEORGE HERBERT

• metaphysical
• Royalist
• all religious poetry (NO secular poems)
• Concrete poetry (Easter Wings)
• an intense member of the clergy

HENRY VAUGHAN

• metaphysical
• Royalist
• much more into nature - he was a mystic and used a lot of natural imagery
• NOT a member of the clergy - but still very religious

BEN JONSON

• Carpe Diem
• wrote only secular poems
• heart of soul of Cavalier poetry (so... he was Royalist)
• Professional Poet

ROBERT HERRICK

• Royalist
• wrote everyday poems
• Part of "The Sons of Ben" (in reference to Ben Jonson)

JOHN MILTON

• Puritan (very)
• religious poetry (no secular poems)
• Famous Works
• Paradise Lost
  
• Paradise Regained
  
• Samson Agonistes
• MASQUE: dramatic play performed with masks - characters portray more abstract concepts - mostly performed for nobility
• worked for Cromwell
• Latin Secretary
  

ANDREW MARVELL

• Puritan
• not as spiritual
• carpe diem
• religious and secular poetry
• Milton's assistant
• later a member of parliament

I also found some useful information on the Toulmin Model.

http://www.bennettsite.info/Toulmin_Eval_Arg.pdf

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/making_argument/toulmin.htm

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~digger/305/toulmin_model.htm

Sean H.

I was searching for some more information on 17th century english poetry and I happened to find a website that seems to be the same website Mr. Lazarow used to create the 17th century poetry packet. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/ If anyone forgot or lost their packet this website should be pretty helpful. Also, its probably too late but does anyone have notes from the last three days of school.

Sean H.

Sites for Help with Final Study

Here are some sites that should help you study for the Final:

Hamlet Analysis

17th Century Cavalier Poets

John Milton and Paradise Lost   

Sonnets

-Ryan Grosso

Final Exam Notes/Help

Notes from the Week

PI. TOULMIN SENTENCE

Because (grounds), therefore, or so (qualifier)(claim), since (warrant), because, or on account of (backing), unless (reservation). 

PII. Hamlet

Themes include: pride, blood vengeance, loyalty, life vs. death, and appearance vs. reality. 

Acts II through V will be included on the final exam. Act I finishes off with the conversation between Hamlet and the ghost, while Act II begins with the conversation between Polonnius and Ronaldo. 

PIII. Poet Information

It would be a wise idea to know the type or religion of each poet. If you're able to know these facts, then identifying certain quotes that will appear on the final will be a much easier task fro you.

John Donne- Metaphysical poet; Cavalier/Royalist

George Herbert- Metaphysical poet; Royalist (focuses on religion)

Henry Vaughan- Royalist (puts more focus on nature)

Ben Johnson- Heart of the Cavalier Poets (Famous for his Carpe Diem poems)

Robert Herrick- Royalist (similar to Ben Johnson)

John Milton- Puritan (Always focused on religion)

Andrew Marvell- Bounced back and forth from side to side but is considered a Puritan (made a famous Carpe Diem poem that we discussed in class-- To His Coy Mistress)

-Ryan Grosso, Period 11

Class Notes of June 5, 2009

This is what we discussed today in class about the Bermudas Poem by Andrew Marvell:

• The first 4 lines step up the setting of the song, and the last 4 lines end the song.
• Bermudas is an English colony in the Caribbean.
• They are going to the Bermudas by a big boat, then getting off a small boat and rowing to the shore.
• They rowed a longboat and a longboat requires a lot of people to row it.
• They sing a song to keep in rhythm, to go at the same place otherwise they would never reach the shore and they would spin in circles.
• This poem is a replication of a song sailors sang to pass time.
• The song is about God, and how they got to the Bermudas by His grace.
• The Puritans escaped from England to a place uninhibited by Anglicans because it was too crowded in England.
• This is a Puritan poem. Written by him when he was a Puritan.
• The Puritans believed that the Bermudas was the closest thing next to the Garden of Eden because it was so serene and beautiful.
• This poem was not written as an personal experience, but he wrote it because he read it from letters that he traded from Puritans that traveled to the Bermudas.
• The theme is "God made everything, and He is glorious, and how God does everything for a reason".
• One of the first things they would have built would be a church to God.

-Final Exam Format ( Everything from the 2nd half of the year and on.)

• 11 Questions on the historical background of the English civil war.
• 15 Biographical questions on the poets we've studied.
• 8 Questions from 8 poems, 1 question from each of the 8 poems. Mr. Laz will select special sections of certain poems and make us analyze them.
• 5 Questions from Paradise Lost
• 1 Sonnet to read and analyze.
• 18+ Hamlet questions (Act II - V)
• 1 Essay (Comprehensive Essay on the WHOLE year)

-June 5, 2009 Friday's Review Session

• We reviewed nothing.

-Piero Benites

Class Notes

Andrew Marvell
-Scarce information on Andrew Marvell due to inconsistencies with his work
-Born in Yorkshire in 1621
-Attended Trinity College
-"Musa Cantabrigiensis" first two poems in Latin and Greek
-Spoke Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, and Greek
-Royalist who was swayed to the Puritan side under Cromwell, then returned to the Royalist side following the fall of Cromwell and the puritan gov't
-Published "Upon Appleton House" and carpe diem poems "To his coy mistress" and "The Definition of Love"
-Appointed assistant to John Milton in 1657, and was recommended for job as latin secretary
-died in 1678, and Miscellaneous poems published posthumously in 1681

"To His Coy Mistress"
-Coy=shy (acting shy to attract attention)
-He and his lover could do anything if they had all the time in the world:
-Look for Indian rubies
-Discuss things
-enjoy each other
-He would love her forever if he had all the time in the world
-His love would progress slowly
-He would admire her for 30,500 years
-Unfortunately they don't have all the time in the world
-If you don't embrace me now, worms will embrace you when you are dead
-While we are young and beautiful, we should enjoy each other
-While we can't stop time, we can decide how we spend our time


-Chris Balch

cllllllass notes

Today we had a BONUS quiz on Paradise Lost. It covered lines 27 up tooo 83. Then afterwards we continued to talk about the rest of the epic. After Satan addresses Beelzebub, lamenting about what they both once were (Arch angels). He resolves not to give up the fight against god. He's clearly not sorry and satan says he will not surrender that easily... despite laying in a lake of fire in hell. A little before line 124, we get a more personal view of satan because he thinks he is the good guy. He wonders who put god in charge of anyone and why he should have to bend his knee to god, the apparent tyrant. This is something people can relate to because we as humans don't like to be told what to do by whoever is in charge, especially if we did not give them the power in the first place.
We then skipped ahead to lines 210+ where Satan (who's EXTREMELY large) uses his free will to stand up. He also has a plan! At first he tried to reason with god, who would not listen. Then they faught but satan lost in battle so therefore, he can't fight god in battle again. So if he cannot destroy god, satan will try to destroy what god has created. In the last 15 lines satan says a few things about how he can percieve the world as he chooses and he can think of hell his heaven because he feels he'd rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. This is possible denialll or it could be legitamite because hell is as far away from god as possible.
We then ended class discussing whether we would prefer to reign in hell or serve in heaven. I would go with reigning hell over serving in heaven. Only because I can understand where satan's coming from. Why was god in charge? I mean i don't know the extent of what serving god meant and what the arch-angels were required to do. But I still see his point- plus he didn't know anything but being beautiful and happy.(and rebellious) So he wasn't happy or beautiful if he never experienced anything else and he never had anything to compare it to. I mean granted he takes destroying god a little far, but i guess if he didn't there wouldnt be a story.
-Emily (7 more days of school left)

Class Notes of June 2, 2009

• Took quiz on John Milton's "Paradise Lost" lines 1-26
• Received back quiz on John Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
• Satan or Lucifer waged war against God in which he turned 2/3 of the angels against God, and lost. Lucifer was casted down to hell, a prison which God had made for them.
• Lucifer was casted into hell so far away from Heaven that even light could not reach him.
• Technically if we follow the rules of God, Satan could ask for forgiveness and repent for what he had done and be forgiven by God.
• Beelzebub, a archangel who joined Lucifer against God was also casted down to Hell. To worship him is the same as worshipping Satan.
• After being in hell, Satan then spoke to God and said that the God right now was a empty shell of his former self because of what he had done and all that he had lost.

-Piero Benites