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.

Bums

ɥʇǝuuǝʞ~

˙ǝɯɐu ʎɯ ʇoƃɹoɟ ı 'ʇıɐʍ 'ɥo

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

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

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

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 

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