Ok, so the following posts are my study guide for the Civil War Poetry test. I rewrote everything except Paradise Lost. Not everything is in perfect english some of it is fragmented but it helped me a lot, so if you feel like studying for the final you can take a look. I posted them backwards so they would appear top to bottom, so some things become more lazy near the beginning. This is just an all in one place for reference.
Short Overview
Carpe Diem Poems
The Flea
Song: Come My Celia, Let Us Prove
To the Virigins, To Make Much of Time
To His Coy Mistress
Sprezzatura Poems
Clerimont's Song
Delight in Disorder
Metaphysical Poets
John Donne
George Herbert
Henry Vaughan
Cavalier Poets
John Donne
George Herbert
Henry Vaughan
Robert Herrick
Ben Jonson
Puritan Poets
John Milton
Andrew Marvell
-Matt M.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Final Exam Review------John Donne
John Donne
Background
The Flea
Stanza 1: Flea sucked my blood then yours, in it the blood mixed (idea of sex) yet you have lost no honor in doing so, so why dney me sex.
Stanza 2: Father, son and holy spirit all in one flea., we in the flea are more than married. We have had sex already within the flea, don't kill the flea for doing so you'll be killing all three of us.
(kills flea)
Stanza 3: Why have you killed it? What has it done besides take so little blood from you? Yet, you say you feel no weaker for doing so and losing so little blood. You will lose equal amount of honor and life in having sex with me.
The Canonization
Stanza 1: Shut up and let me love, or make fun of my shaking or joint problems or my age or my lack of money. Or take up arts, go some where, go to court or do accounting, think what you will and approve so you can let me love.
Stanza 2: Who has been hurt by my love? Have I drowned ships with my sighs? or flooded grounds? Have my colds kept spring from coming? Have my fevers caused plagues? Soldiers still go to war and lawyers find men with arguments even though she and I love.
Stanza 3: Call us what you wish we are made by love, we are candles that will burn ourselves out and in us find war and peace. We rise from our own ashes.
Stanza 4: If we can't live by love we will die by it. If our love be unfit for a tomb it will be fit for verse, and if we preserve no book then we will build in stanzas in Sonnets, just as equal to a well-wrought-urn or half acre tombs and from these sonnets all shall know of us as saints of love.
Stanza 5: The prayer.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Stanza 1: As honorable men die, they tell their souls to leave, their friends watch as their breath goes and other say they haven't died.
Stanza 2: So let us fade away, noiselessly, with no floods of tears or sighs, twere horrible to speak of our joys and to tell the common people of our love.
Stanza 3: Earthquakes cause harm and fear but shaking the heavens are greater yet innocent.
Stanza 4: Boring earthly love is physical, when we are apart there isnt anything.
Stanza 5: We live by a love so pure we can't describe it we only know it in the mind. Eyes, lips and hands don't know to miss it.
Stanza 6: Our souls are as one, I have to go but think of it not as a break but as an expansion of our love.
Stanza 7: If our souls are two may they move as a compass, with your soul as the fixed point, and when my soul moves yours follows.
Stanza 8: As my soul roams yours leans after it, and as my soul comes home yours straightens.
Stanza 9: You will be like this to me. As I roam you will be fixed so I end where I began.
Holy Sonnet VII
Angels at your corners blow your trumpets. Arise you infinite souls from death and return to your bodies. All of you whome Noah's flood and Apocolyptic fires did kill, and all of you who died by war, hunger, age, sickness, tyrants, suicide, sentenced, accident, and you whom are about to face God and haven't died. But hold on and let me mourn them first, if my sins are worse than all of those it will be too late to ask for your grace when I am being judged. Here on Earth teach me to repent for that will be as good as if you had pardoned me with one from your own blood. (Jesus)
Holy Sonnet XIV
Batter my heart (3 personed god) you have yet to do much, so that I may rise again, you must overthrow me and renew me. I am yours to command, I am working to allow you but in vain. Reason is your governing body in me, and should defend me but it has been captured and proves too much to stop me. I love you, and would be loved but am currently married to your enemy. Free me fromhim again imprison me in your will and ravish me
Background
- Catholic
- 1572-Born
- Attended Oxford and Cambridge and Law at Lincoln Inn
- 1590- Became Anglican
- Traveled and read books
- 1598- appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egoter
- 1601- Secretly married Ann More and was fired and imprisoned for it
- Obtained patronage of Robert Drury and memorialized Drury's daughter
- 1607-Patronage of King James
- 1610- Gave up Catholic formally
- 1615- entered ministry
- appointed Reader of Divinity
- 1616- Preached to the court
- 1617- Ann died
- 1621- Appointed Dead of St. Paul's Cathedral
- 1622-23 Sermons published
- 1624-1630 more sermons published
- 1631- Died
The Flea
Stanza 1: Flea sucked my blood then yours, in it the blood mixed (idea of sex) yet you have lost no honor in doing so, so why dney me sex.
Stanza 2: Father, son and holy spirit all in one flea., we in the flea are more than married. We have had sex already within the flea, don't kill the flea for doing so you'll be killing all three of us.
(kills flea)
Stanza 3: Why have you killed it? What has it done besides take so little blood from you? Yet, you say you feel no weaker for doing so and losing so little blood. You will lose equal amount of honor and life in having sex with me.
The Canonization
Stanza 1: Shut up and let me love, or make fun of my shaking or joint problems or my age or my lack of money. Or take up arts, go some where, go to court or do accounting, think what you will and approve so you can let me love.
Stanza 2: Who has been hurt by my love? Have I drowned ships with my sighs? or flooded grounds? Have my colds kept spring from coming? Have my fevers caused plagues? Soldiers still go to war and lawyers find men with arguments even though she and I love.
Stanza 3: Call us what you wish we are made by love, we are candles that will burn ourselves out and in us find war and peace. We rise from our own ashes.
Stanza 4: If we can't live by love we will die by it. If our love be unfit for a tomb it will be fit for verse, and if we preserve no book then we will build in stanzas in Sonnets, just as equal to a well-wrought-urn or half acre tombs and from these sonnets all shall know of us as saints of love.
Stanza 5: The prayer.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Stanza 1: As honorable men die, they tell their souls to leave, their friends watch as their breath goes and other say they haven't died.
Stanza 2: So let us fade away, noiselessly, with no floods of tears or sighs, twere horrible to speak of our joys and to tell the common people of our love.
Stanza 3: Earthquakes cause harm and fear but shaking the heavens are greater yet innocent.
Stanza 4: Boring earthly love is physical, when we are apart there isnt anything.
Stanza 5: We live by a love so pure we can't describe it we only know it in the mind. Eyes, lips and hands don't know to miss it.
Stanza 6: Our souls are as one, I have to go but think of it not as a break but as an expansion of our love.
Stanza 7: If our souls are two may they move as a compass, with your soul as the fixed point, and when my soul moves yours follows.
Stanza 8: As my soul roams yours leans after it, and as my soul comes home yours straightens.
Stanza 9: You will be like this to me. As I roam you will be fixed so I end where I began.
Holy Sonnet VII
Angels at your corners blow your trumpets. Arise you infinite souls from death and return to your bodies. All of you whome Noah's flood and Apocolyptic fires did kill, and all of you who died by war, hunger, age, sickness, tyrants, suicide, sentenced, accident, and you whom are about to face God and haven't died. But hold on and let me mourn them first, if my sins are worse than all of those it will be too late to ask for your grace when I am being judged. Here on Earth teach me to repent for that will be as good as if you had pardoned me with one from your own blood. (Jesus)
Holy Sonnet XIV
Batter my heart (3 personed god) you have yet to do much, so that I may rise again, you must overthrow me and renew me. I am yours to command, I am working to allow you but in vain. Reason is your governing body in me, and should defend me but it has been captured and proves too much to stop me. I love you, and would be loved but am currently married to your enemy. Free me fromhim again imprison me in your will and ravish me
Final Exam Review-----George Herbert
George Herbert
Background
Easter Wings
Stanza 1: Man was created with everything, he lost it, and while decaying became most poor
Stanza 2: Let me rise up again like birds chirping and sing of this day and victories then shall the sins allow me to fly further with you
Stanza 3: At a young age I sinned, and because of sin I grew sick with shame, because of this sickness I grew most thin.
Stanza 4: Let me combine my feathers with yours so I can overcome this with victory.
The Collar
I stuck the table and shouted No more, I will leave. Am I ever able to sign and yearn? My poems and life are free as the road, as loose as the winds. Should I stay as a priest? Do I get anything but suffering, to let me bleed and not restore it with wine? (Ref to Jesus). There was once wine and corn but I have dried them up with remorse. Am I only one suffering? Do I get no rewards for my work? There are rewards out thereand I have the hands to get them to recover all the years I missed with these pleasures. To leave this cold dispute and not forsake this cage and rope of sand (illusion of constraint) which worthless thoughts have made into a worthy cable, and while God blinks I will leave, If god wants to kill me he will have to catch me first. Clergymen who bear the suit and serve God's need deserve their load. Yet as I raged on with every word, I thought I heard God say child and I responded, My Lord.
Background
- 1593-Born as 5th Son
- 1596- Father died, raised by mother (patron to John Donne)
- 1605- Westminster School- Learned Latin and Greek
- Scholarship to Trinity Colelge, Cambridge
- 1610- Sonnet to his mother theme of love of god over love of women
- 1612- memorial poems for Prince Henry published
- 1616- taught undergrads Greek rhetoric and rules of oratory
- 1618- appponted reader in the rhetoric at Cambridge
- 1620- became public orator until 1628
- 1624-25 elected to represent Montgomery in Parliament
- 1626- Death of Francis of Bacon (memorial poem)
- Gave up public office to become a canon of Lincoln Cathedral
- 1627- mother died, funeral sermon by John Donne
- 1629- Married Jane Danvers
- 1630- Holy orders in Church of England
- Spent rest of life as rector in Bemerton
- He wrote poetry and preached
- Called Holy Mr Herbert
- Wrote "The Country Parson"
- 1652- "A Priest to the Temple"
- 1633-Died
- 1633- "The Temple"
- Supreme Metaphysical Poet
Easter Wings
Stanza 1: Man was created with everything, he lost it, and while decaying became most poor
Stanza 2: Let me rise up again like birds chirping and sing of this day and victories then shall the sins allow me to fly further with you
Stanza 3: At a young age I sinned, and because of sin I grew sick with shame, because of this sickness I grew most thin.
Stanza 4: Let me combine my feathers with yours so I can overcome this with victory.
The Collar
I stuck the table and shouted No more, I will leave. Am I ever able to sign and yearn? My poems and life are free as the road, as loose as the winds. Should I stay as a priest? Do I get anything but suffering, to let me bleed and not restore it with wine? (Ref to Jesus). There was once wine and corn but I have dried them up with remorse. Am I only one suffering? Do I get no rewards for my work? There are rewards out thereand I have the hands to get them to recover all the years I missed with these pleasures. To leave this cold dispute and not forsake this cage and rope of sand (illusion of constraint) which worthless thoughts have made into a worthy cable, and while God blinks I will leave, If god wants to kill me he will have to catch me first. Clergymen who bear the suit and serve God's need deserve their load. Yet as I raged on with every word, I thought I heard God say child and I responded, My Lord.
Final Exam Review-----Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Background
The Retreat
I was happy when I was in heaven. Before I realised what I had as an angel I was appointed to be a man, and before I was taught to like things more than you. When I had yet to wander too far from conception I could still look back and see heaven. At that age I could still admire your true beauty within the clouds and flowers for hours. Before I could speak sins or had the evil to sin with every sense I could still feel your divinity within me. Oh how I wish to travel back to that time from where my spirit sees Jerusalem. But, I have been on Earth too long and can't remember heaven. Some men wish to move forward but I wish to go back and end where I began.
Man
Stanza 1:When thinking about the consistency and state of some things on earth, where bnirds like clockwork as day and night divide, bees at night go home and hive, and flowers early and latea rise with the sun all fall in the same house.
Stanza 2: I wish that my God would give me the same consistency for those things. To always keep to his divine appointments, nothing breaks their peace, they do not have to work for their food and do not have to wear clothes to show their beauty.
Stanza 3: Man is always troubled in mind and body. He has no fixed place and is always moving about the Earth. He has a home but knows not where it is, he says its far but he has forgotten how to get back.
Stanza 4: He tries every option, constantly roaming. A stone has more wit than he, where even on the darkest nights they find their way back home. But by some hid sense Man is the shuttle that God ordered to move through the loom back and forth but always forward.
Background
- called himself "Silurist"
- 1621-Born
- 1632-38 Privately schooled by Rev. Matthew Herbert
- 1638- Jesus College
- 1640-Leaves Oxford to study law in London for 2 years, turned to medicine instead
- 1645- Participated in Battle of Rowton Heath (Civil War)
- 1646- Married Catherine Wise, she gives him 1 son and 3 daughters
- 1646- "Poems with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished"
- 1650- "Silex Scintillians"-religious poems
- 1651- "Olor Iscanus" secular poetry and prose translations
- 1655- "Silex Scintillians" republished with added part
- 1678 - "Thalia Rediviva
- 1652- "The Mount of Olives"
- 1654-"Flores Solitudinis"
- 1695- Died and buried at Llansantffraed
The Retreat
I was happy when I was in heaven. Before I realised what I had as an angel I was appointed to be a man, and before I was taught to like things more than you. When I had yet to wander too far from conception I could still look back and see heaven. At that age I could still admire your true beauty within the clouds and flowers for hours. Before I could speak sins or had the evil to sin with every sense I could still feel your divinity within me. Oh how I wish to travel back to that time from where my spirit sees Jerusalem. But, I have been on Earth too long and can't remember heaven. Some men wish to move forward but I wish to go back and end where I began.
Man
Stanza 1:When thinking about the consistency and state of some things on earth, where bnirds like clockwork as day and night divide, bees at night go home and hive, and flowers early and latea rise with the sun all fall in the same house.
Stanza 2: I wish that my God would give me the same consistency for those things. To always keep to his divine appointments, nothing breaks their peace, they do not have to work for their food and do not have to wear clothes to show their beauty.
Stanza 3: Man is always troubled in mind and body. He has no fixed place and is always moving about the Earth. He has a home but knows not where it is, he says its far but he has forgotten how to get back.
Stanza 4: He tries every option, constantly roaming. A stone has more wit than he, where even on the darkest nights they find their way back home. But by some hid sense Man is the shuttle that God ordered to move through the loom back and forth but always forward.
Final Exam Review----- Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Background
Come My Celia, Let Us Prove
Come my celia, let us have sex while we can. Time will not wait for us forver, he will ruin our beauty. Do not waste what you were given. Suns that set will rise again but if we lose this it will not come back, its with us forever in death. Why should we wait? Fame and rumor mean nothing, why can't we fool the people. It is no sin to have sex, only a sin to reveal that we had it. Its only a crime if we are caught.
Clerimont's Song
Stanza 1: You are still dressed, and near as if you were going to a feast. Still powdered and perfumed , it is presumed that you are hiding somthing with that Art. Something is wrong.
Stanza 2: Give me back simplicity, with robes loosely flowing and hair free, such neglect in Art is more pleasurable to me than all the adulteries of Art. Arti strikes my eyes but not my heart.
Though I Am Young
Stanza 1: Although I am young and can not tell whether Death or Love is better, I have heard they both are dangerous and have an eye on the heart. Yet, I have also heard that Love wounds with hot blood and death with cold blood. I fear they both mean pain that is extreme at first.
Stanza 2: We may die by being blown up, or falling, or by lightning, or a wave, or Cupid's arrmor may kill as death's cold hand except that Love has more power because it can live on in memories.
In the Person of Womankind
Stanza 1: Men if you love us stop being fools and tyrants to make us court you over and over with fake praise for your amusment. We have wits and likes too and if you want us sing, lets sing of you.
Stanza 2: We do not doubt that we can find a good man for ourselves. So, at last through all of your shit we shall finally make a good song.
Stanza 3: Just as how a painter takes more pleasure in making a painting than having one made for him. We too shall enjoy this more. And after making this art we will try and make anew and stick to it.
Background
- 1572-Born
- Westminster School
- Started as Brick Layer then entered the Army
- 1592- Comes back to England
- 1594-Marries Anne Lewis
- 1597- Joins playwright Phillip Henslowe
- Imprisoned for "Isle of Dogs" Satire
- 1598-Killed Gabriel Spencer
- Escaped Death by pleading benefit of clergy
- 1610- Converted back to Anglican from Roman Catholic
- 1598- "Every Man in His Humour" performed by shakespeare in the globe
- 1599- "Every Man Out of His Humour"
- 1600- "Cynthia's Revels" and "War of the Theatres"
- 1601- "The Poetaster" about Thomes Dekker and John Marston
- 1601- "Satiromastix" attacked Jonson
- 1604- "The King's Entertainment" and "Eastard Ho"
- 1603- "Sejanus, His Fall" caused charges of treason
- 1605- "Gunpoweder Plot of Guy Fawkes", begins to write masques.
- 'The Satyr" moved him to court poet
- "Masque of Blacknesse" Furst to use Indigo Jones for set design
- "Masque of Beauty", "Masque of Owles" and "Masque of Queens"
- 1605-1614 Comedies
- 1605- "Volpone" his Masterpiece
- 1609- "Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman"
- 1610- "The Alchemist"
- 1614- 'Bartholomew Fair"
- 1616- his "Works" are published
- 1616- "Devil is an Ass" is a Flop
- 1625- 'The Staple of News", Mermaid Tavern- Group of young poets "Sons" and "Tribe" of Ben
- 1628- City Chronologer, suffered stroke
- 1637- Died, Buried Westmister Abbey
- 1641- "Sad Shepard"
Come My Celia, Let Us Prove
Come my celia, let us have sex while we can. Time will not wait for us forver, he will ruin our beauty. Do not waste what you were given. Suns that set will rise again but if we lose this it will not come back, its with us forever in death. Why should we wait? Fame and rumor mean nothing, why can't we fool the people. It is no sin to have sex, only a sin to reveal that we had it. Its only a crime if we are caught.
Clerimont's Song
Stanza 1: You are still dressed, and near as if you were going to a feast. Still powdered and perfumed , it is presumed that you are hiding somthing with that Art. Something is wrong.
Stanza 2: Give me back simplicity, with robes loosely flowing and hair free, such neglect in Art is more pleasurable to me than all the adulteries of Art. Arti strikes my eyes but not my heart.
Though I Am Young
Stanza 1: Although I am young and can not tell whether Death or Love is better, I have heard they both are dangerous and have an eye on the heart. Yet, I have also heard that Love wounds with hot blood and death with cold blood. I fear they both mean pain that is extreme at first.
Stanza 2: We may die by being blown up, or falling, or by lightning, or a wave, or Cupid's arrmor may kill as death's cold hand except that Love has more power because it can live on in memories.
In the Person of Womankind
Stanza 1: Men if you love us stop being fools and tyrants to make us court you over and over with fake praise for your amusment. We have wits and likes too and if you want us sing, lets sing of you.
Stanza 2: We do not doubt that we can find a good man for ourselves. So, at last through all of your shit we shall finally make a good song.
Stanza 3: Just as how a painter takes more pleasure in making a painting than having one made for him. We too shall enjoy this more. And after making this art we will try and make anew and stick to it.
Final Exam Review-----Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick
Background
Delight in Disorder
A lovely disorder in the dress starts a sex appeal in clothes, a scarf thrown around the shoulders is a fine distraction, a lace that should hold the stomacher up wanders, and a cuff that is loosened, ribbands that flow loosely in the wrinkling petticoat. In a careless shoestring I see a wild civility. These do fascinate me more than when they are proper.
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Stanza 1: Gather you rose buds while you can, time is flying by, the flower smiling today will be dying tomorrow.
Stanza 2: As the sun gets higher in the sky the sooner he will be finished and setting.
Stanza 3: You are best when young, when youth makes your blood warm. But as it is spent, time will take away youth.
Stanza 4: Don't be shy, use your time, go marry someone, for if you lose your youth, you'll be forever wandering alone.
Background
- 1591-Born
- 1592-Father died via suicide
- 1607-Apprenticed for William Herrick
- 1607-Westminster
- 1614-Goes to Cambridge
- 1616-Trinity Hall
- 1617-BA
- 1620-Masters
- 1627- Post of Chaplain to Isle of Rhe
- 1629- Presented by King to Vicarage of Dean Prior, "Robert Herrick- His Farewell to Poetry", "Farwell to Sack"(drink)
- Mother Dies, appointed to his country vicarage
- Never Married and Happy for it
- Returned to London
- 1635- Fairy Poem was printed
- 1639-"The Apparation of His Mistress Calling Him to Elysium"
- 1640-The several poems written by Master Robert Herrick published
- 1648-"Hesperides"
- 1650- More than 70 poems published in Witts Recreations
- 1662- Dean Prior
- 1674- Died
Delight in Disorder
A lovely disorder in the dress starts a sex appeal in clothes, a scarf thrown around the shoulders is a fine distraction, a lace that should hold the stomacher up wanders, and a cuff that is loosened, ribbands that flow loosely in the wrinkling petticoat. In a careless shoestring I see a wild civility. These do fascinate me more than when they are proper.
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Stanza 1: Gather you rose buds while you can, time is flying by, the flower smiling today will be dying tomorrow.
Stanza 2: As the sun gets higher in the sky the sooner he will be finished and setting.
Stanza 3: You are best when young, when youth makes your blood warm. But as it is spent, time will take away youth.
Stanza 4: Don't be shy, use your time, go marry someone, for if you lose your youth, you'll be forever wandering alone.
Final Exam Review---- John Milton
John Milton
Background
Background
- 1608-Born
- 1620-St. Paul's School
- Learned Greek, Latin, Hebrew
- 1625- Christ's College of Cambridge given nickname "Lady of Christ's"
- 1629- BA
- 1632-Masters
- 1634- Masque "Comus"
- 1635- Furthered learning in languages
- 1637- Pastoral elegy "Lycidas"
- 1638- Toured continent, met Hugo Grotius and Galileo
- 1639- Starts a school
- 1641-1660 Almost no poetry instead writes pamphlets for war
- 1642- Marries Mary Powell she soon leaves him and goes home, prompts him to write "On the doctrine and discipline of Divorce"
- 1644-"Of Education" and "Areopagetica"(Most famous pamphlet)
- 1645- Mary returns, gives him 3 daughters, writes poems with Humphrey Mosely
- 1649-"The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates"
- 1652- loses eyesight and Mary dies
- 1656- Marries Katherine Woodstock
- 1658- Oliver Cromwell and Katherine Woodstock die
- 1660- Monarchy restored, marries Elizabeth Minshull
- 1665- Retires
- 1667- "Paradise Lost" (10 Volumes)
- 1671- "Agonistes" and "Paradies Regained"
- 1674- "Paradies Lost Revised" (12 Volumes)
Sonnet XIX: When I Consider How My Light is Spent
When I consider how my life is spent, with half my life in darkness, and my one talent of writing which is death's to hide is now uselessly lodged within me. Although my soul yearns to serve my maker and use my talent. unless he dissapproves. "Am I only useful for a short period of time?" I foolishly ask. But Patience to prevent such a murmur replies, "God doesn't need you, your not that important. Blindness isn't that bad, he has thousands of others that can do the job, just wait your turn."
Final Exam Review----- Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell
Background
Background
- 1621- Born
- Went to Hull Grammar School
- 1633- Trinity College
- 1637- Two poems published in Musa Cantabrigiensis
- 1638-Scholar of Trinity College, earned BA, Mother Died
- 1640- Father Dies, Completes Masters
- 1650-Tutored Sir Thomas Fairfax's Daughter
- 1650-1655 Wrote Upon Appleton House, To His Coy Mistress, Definition of Love
- 1653- Befriends John Milton
- 1657- Turns to supporter of Cromwell
- 1657- Assistant to John Milton
- 1659- Represents Hull to Parliament
- Wrote Tom May's Death (attacked Cromwellian)
- 1658-1678 Politically active, writes pamphlets and satires
- 1681- Miscellaneous poems
- 1678- Dies, Buried in Church of St. Giles in the Fields.
To His Coy Mistress
Stanza 1: Had we enough time, this shyness wouldn't be a problem. We could sit down and think which way to walk, and think of how to pass the day. And you could refuse till the Jews convert. My natural love will grow vaster than empires and more slow, I would praise your eyes and face for a hundred years, and praise each breast for two hundred years, and thirty thousand years to the rest, an age for every part with the last being your heart, you deserve this state, and I would love you at any rate.
Stanza 2: But time is upon us and the deserts of eternity lie ahead. Your beauty will be lost and my echoing song will not be in your tomb, worms shall break your virginity and your pettie honor will turn to dust and into ashes will fall my lust. THe grave's definately a private place but no one will embrace you there.
Stanza 3: So, while you are still fresh with youth, let us have sex while we can, and like loving birds of prey devour this time, and fade in Time's slow-cracked power and let us muster all our strength and all our sweetness and tear our pleasures with rough strife through the iron gates of life. Even though we can not make time stop we can make him run.
Bermudas
Where the Bermudas ride the ocean's bosom unseen, from a small boat the winds receieve this song: "We should sing his praise for he did lead us through the Atlantic Ocean to an isle unkown thats far nicer than our England. He got us past the sea creatures and landed us on the grassy land. safe from storms and rage. He gave us eternal spring which covers everything. He sends birds for food to us everyday. He puts oranges in the trees, and pomegranates, and makes figs for us to eat, and melons, and pineapples that only bloom once. He packs the land with trees hand picked from Lebanon and makes the seas bring ambergris to the shore. He drops pearls on the coast and framed a temple from the rock for us to pray. Let us exalt him with praise till he can hear it in heavan which after resounding will echo on the Mexican Bay.' They sung in the row boat to keep time.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Fight Club NOtes 6/8/10
Why so many k's in Raymond K. Hussel's name?
-is it delibarite or not?
-has meaning/value
-narrorator reapeating to remeber
-is it a stutter?
-Major Concept=identity, who you are, what makes you you
-your name is the best identity of who you are
-Difference between the narrorator and Tyler is only a name
-the K empathysees the identity of who Raymond is
-K=strike out. number of K a pitcher has
-Raymond is striking out
-K's are lined up against him
-once he's in school there will be no K's no strike outs
What personality took over?
-is Tyler dead?
-who is in control?
-are they the same person?
-in the end theey fuse back together
-different aspects from each personallity become a whole
-is there a third personality?
-what's next?
-he becomes person at the very begining, returns back to who he was early in life
-life is a seasrch for God, searcing for God is searching for father
-cling to faith for direction
Existentialism
-no purpose for existance
-except the purpose you give
-only in internal matters
-what you determine in your life
Nihilism
-nothing matters at all
-universe has no purpose
*problem of post modern existance
-you should find what you care about
-don't expect other people to understand what you do
-fight club is a society based on no principals
-fight club provides strenght in yourself
-rules come from the outside of the light
Sophia Meyers
-is it delibarite or not?
-has meaning/value
-narrorator reapeating to remeber
-is it a stutter?
-Major Concept=identity, who you are, what makes you you
-your name is the best identity of who you are
-Difference between the narrorator and Tyler is only a name
-the K empathysees the identity of who Raymond is
-K=strike out. number of K a pitcher has
-Raymond is striking out
-K's are lined up against him
-once he's in school there will be no K's no strike outs
What personality took over?
-is Tyler dead?
-who is in control?
-are they the same person?
-in the end theey fuse back together
-different aspects from each personallity become a whole
-is there a third personality?
-what's next?
-he becomes person at the very begining, returns back to who he was early in life
-life is a seasrch for God, searcing for God is searching for father
-cling to faith for direction
Existentialism
-no purpose for existance
-except the purpose you give
-only in internal matters
-what you determine in your life
Nihilism
-nothing matters at all
-universe has no purpose
*problem of post modern existance
-you should find what you care about
-don't expect other people to understand what you do
-fight club is a society based on no principals
-fight club provides strenght in yourself
-rules come from the outside of the light
Sophia Meyers
6/7/10 class discussion
-Kiera found out that multiple personality disorder is not called that anymore
-caused by severe childhood trauma usually before age 2
-Emma asked if the narrorator was the one who really kissed Marla's hand
-Scar on his foot that proves narrorator and Tyler are the same person
-Seb asked who the mechanic is and what his point is in the story but no one really knew if there was a real point to his being in the story
-Molly said participants in project mayhem don't have names because they're taught they are all the same by Tyler
-Kiera asked if Marla would die becasue of cancer
-Matt told her that she had lumps on her but they are not cancerous
Marc
-caused by severe childhood trauma usually before age 2
-Emma asked if the narrorator was the one who really kissed Marla's hand
-Scar on his foot that proves narrorator and Tyler are the same person
-Seb asked who the mechanic is and what his point is in the story but no one really knew if there was a real point to his being in the story
-Molly said participants in project mayhem don't have names because they're taught they are all the same by Tyler
-Kiera asked if Marla would die becasue of cancer
-Matt told her that she had lumps on her but they are not cancerous
Marc
Friday, June 4, 2010
Directions to the LOTR Reading
From the Highschool turn right and head down bridgeboro until you reach the intersection of bridgeboro and riverton road(its the first traffic light) and make a right onto riverton road.
Follow riverton road past tom brown road and turn left onto north riding drive.(It is on a curve in the road right before cinnminson and comes up fast.)
Follow north riding drive past Douglas court and make a right onto Middlesex Drive.
Continue on for a few houses and my house in on the first turn left. 512 Middlsex Drive.
It is a blue-grey house on the corner, you can't miss it.
If you need help just ask or go to www.mapquest.com from 350 Bridgeboro road moorestown nj 08057 to 512 middlesex drive moorestown nj 08057
Follow riverton road past tom brown road and turn left onto north riding drive.(It is on a curve in the road right before cinnminson and comes up fast.)
Follow north riding drive past Douglas court and make a right onto Middlesex Drive.
Continue on for a few houses and my house in on the first turn left. 512 Middlsex Drive.
It is a blue-grey house on the corner, you can't miss it.
If you need help just ask or go to www.mapquest.com from 350 Bridgeboro road moorestown nj 08057 to 512 middlesex drive moorestown nj 08057
Fight Club
Also I forgot to say that I have offically found out the twist in the book, so hopefully that will help with today's class discussion.
Kiera
Kiera
Fight Club Questions/ Thoughts
How would Big Bod know about the narrator knowing Tyler Durden or the soap company?
Why does the narrator all of the sudden decide to like Marla and be nice to her and want to comfort her?
Had Tyler kissed marla with the ley too? because on page 106 of chapter 13 it says that "Marla had the scar from Tyler's kiss on the back of her hand?
Kiera
Why does the narrator all of the sudden decide to like Marla and be nice to her and want to comfort her?
Had Tyler kissed marla with the ley too? because on page 106 of chapter 13 it says that "Marla had the scar from Tyler's kiss on the back of her hand?
Kiera
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Book Ideas
A Tenth Circle- Jodi Picoult
White Oleander- Janet Fitch
The Glass Castle-Jeannette Walls
Molly
White Oleander- Janet Fitch
The Glass Castle-Jeannette Walls
Molly
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Poem Notes
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
First Stanza
-Valediction=fairwell
-death(start in one direction go in another)
-similie, like
-first half of comparison
-pass mildly=face death without fear(peaceful)
Second Stanza
-second half of comparison
-together(because of, as)
-real goodbye=lovers being seperated
-laity=basic terms or church congregation vs. priest
-profanation=desicrate
Third Stanza
-earthquake
-trepidation=shake in fear
-spheres=planets
-people study it, why earthquakes happened(message from God)
-universse in crtal spheres they sun different speeds and each made different sounds
-put together=song
-outside/beyond=heaven
-even though the spheres are bigger, we aremore scared of the eathquake
-good and virrtuous people can hear the song
Fourth Stanza
-sublunary=earthy
-sence=the thing that caused them to love was physical so when they where apart there was nothing
-can't allow absence
Fith Stanza
-but we are different
refined=pure
-we don't even understand it
-we have a connection in the mind( not only physical)
Sixth Stanza
-our seperation seems huge to us, but in the grand sceme of things it really isn't
Seventh Stanza
-compasses=the kind that draws circles
-"pair of pants"
-difference in the two
-one always fixed, one always moving
-futher one leads, the further one leaves, the further the other one strethces after it
-people yearn to be with each other, come back
Last two stanzas
-she keeps him connected to where she is, so he always comes back together
-full circle
*Donne wrote this poem to his wife when he had to leave
Holy Sonnet VII
-poem about last judgement day
-resurection of the dead=all souls back to body
-tone=order/commanding
-Angel Gabrial blows horn
-narrorator=average joe guy
-thinks things will go his way once he dies(heaven) he's confident
-never die, live untill judgement day
-italian sonnet= ABBA ABBA(turn line 9) last 6 lines vary
-After turn he relizes hes not ready for judgement day
-it's not good to apoligize for your sins while in front of God (dead)
-teach me how to repent while we are still on earth
-if i repent now im okay
Holy Sonnet XIV
-aggresive, angry, violent poem
-three person'd god=trinity father/son/holy ghost
-need to suffer
-if your not giving yourself over willingly i will take you anyway
-gaurd against sin
-simillie between town and heart
-faith been taken over
-God=faith
-Saten=sin
-reason should defend me
-asking for divine intervention (im willing to do anything)
-know difference between right and wrong
-reason=weak/untrue
-we second guess(our fault)
-marriage=holy
-divorse=sin
-bad things good, good things bad
-i want to be free, but when im free i fall into trap
-i want to be imprisioned
-asking to be raped by God
-in the end i will come out better if you help me
-so you will build me the right way, i am willing
-expect shoking metophor
-
First Stanza
-Valediction=fairwell
-death(start in one direction go in another)
-similie, like
-first half of comparison
-pass mildly=face death without fear(peaceful)
Second Stanza
-second half of comparison
-together(because of, as)
-real goodbye=lovers being seperated
-laity=basic terms or church congregation vs. priest
-profanation=desicrate
Third Stanza
-earthquake
-trepidation=shake in fear
-spheres=planets
-people study it, why earthquakes happened(message from God)
-universse in crtal spheres they sun different speeds and each made different sounds
-put together=song
-outside/beyond=heaven
-even though the spheres are bigger, we aremore scared of the eathquake
-good and virrtuous people can hear the song
Fourth Stanza
-sublunary=earthy
-sence=the thing that caused them to love was physical so when they where apart there was nothing
-can't allow absence
Fith Stanza
-but we are different
refined=pure
-we don't even understand it
-we have a connection in the mind( not only physical)
Sixth Stanza
-our seperation seems huge to us, but in the grand sceme of things it really isn't
Seventh Stanza
-compasses=the kind that draws circles
-"pair of pants"
-difference in the two
-one always fixed, one always moving
-futher one leads, the further one leaves, the further the other one strethces after it
-people yearn to be with each other, come back
Last two stanzas
-she keeps him connected to where she is, so he always comes back together
-full circle
*Donne wrote this poem to his wife when he had to leave
Holy Sonnet VII
-poem about last judgement day
-resurection of the dead=all souls back to body
-tone=order/commanding
-Angel Gabrial blows horn
-narrorator=average joe guy
-thinks things will go his way once he dies(heaven) he's confident
-never die, live untill judgement day
-italian sonnet= ABBA ABBA(turn line 9) last 6 lines vary
-After turn he relizes hes not ready for judgement day
-it's not good to apoligize for your sins while in front of God (dead)
-teach me how to repent while we are still on earth
-if i repent now im okay
Holy Sonnet XIV
-aggresive, angry, violent poem
-three person'd god=trinity father/son/holy ghost
-need to suffer
-if your not giving yourself over willingly i will take you anyway
-gaurd against sin
-simillie between town and heart
-faith been taken over
-God=faith
-Saten=sin
-reason should defend me
-asking for divine intervention (im willing to do anything)
-know difference between right and wrong
-reason=weak/untrue
-we second guess(our fault)
-marriage=holy
-divorse=sin
-bad things good, good things bad
-i want to be free, but when im free i fall into trap
-i want to be imprisioned
-asking to be raped by God
-in the end i will come out better if you help me
-so you will build me the right way, i am willing
-expect shoking metophor
-
Monday, April 19, 2010
Class Notes 4.19.10
The Flea
- There was a common belief that having sex took years off the end of your life.
- The addressee then kills the flea, and because she killed the flea they both should feel weaker (because the idea is that the flea represented sex and by killing the flea they have completed/killed sex and therefore should feel weaker because years have been taken off their lives).
- Since they don't feel weaker the speaker's reasoning must be wrong.
- The speaker then agrees that sex doesn't make them weaker, but the addressee (because he/she is afraid of losing honor) will only lose as much honor as life that was lost from flea.
- This is the most popular form of Cavalier poems called "Carpe Diem" for their seize the day ideology.
The Canonization
- Canonization- the process by which the church declares a person a saint.
- The poem is set up to be religious in nature from the title and the use of God in the first line.
- However, by the end of the first line love becomes the main theme? <-- may not be theme.
- First stanza starts with an argument, the speaker is yelling at the addressee. The speaker wants the addressee to stay out of his/her love life. The speaker would rather the addressee mock the speaker's shaking or joint problems, or age, or loss of fortune.
- The speaker then says that the addressee should take up the arts instead of being involved in his/her love life.
Please add anything extra that you may remember. Thanks.
-Matt
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Poems
How to read and understand a poem
1. Read Poem
2. Read again
3. Read out loud
4. Look up words that you dont know or understand
5. Take notice of the stanzas (equivalent to a paragraph)
6. Poetry uses punctuation (know where a thought begins and ends)
Just thought id post this on here for the Civil War Poems
-Kara
1. Read Poem
2. Read again
3. Read out loud
4. Look up words that you dont know or understand
5. Take notice of the stanzas (equivalent to a paragraph)
6. Poetry uses punctuation (know where a thought begins and ends)
Just thought id post this on here for the Civil War Poems
-Kara
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Class Notes 3/22/10 & 3/23/10
Act 4 scene6
"The Pirate Scence"
- Claudius sent Hamlet to England, told King of England to kill him
-Hamlet is on the ship with Rosencranz and Guildinstern
-Pirates come and capture Hamlet leaving everyone else still on the boat on there way to England
- Hamlet and the Pirates become friends
- he convinces the pirates to take him back to Denmark
- Hamlet writes two letters and the pirates deliver them
-The first one is to Horatio saying, the pirate(messanger) will take Horatio to where Hamlet is, and that there are important things he needs to tell him
- the second letter is for Claudius and it basically says I'm back
-the pirates never appear and are never mentioned again
Deus ex Machina= God in machine
- God pullyed down from ceiling to save the day, fix all problems, does not fit in storyline
-Lots of people think thats what the Pirate scene is in Hamlet
Act 4 Scene 7
-Gertrude comes with the news that Ophilia "drowned"
-iconic image, Ophilia floating with flowers in her hair
Act 5
Setting- outside in church graveyard
2 clowns= poor gravediggers
Malapropism=word you mix up with another word
- the clowns tell many jokes/riddles and malapropisms
- the clowns are comic relief
- they are talknig about wheather Ophilia really did kill herself or not
- Everybody thinks she killed herself(if she really did she would go to hell, and not get a church buryial) Claudias makes sure she is properly buried so she goes to heaven, he also doesn't want Laertes mad at him(he needs Leartes for his plan to kill Hamlet)
- one of the clowns riddles:mason=brick layer, gallows=what you get hanged on, Gravediggers homes he builds last forever
- Hamlet is bothered by the clowns singing as they work, he thinks its rude/disrespectful, but then he thinks that if thats your job you must get used to it
-the clowns are disturbing the bodies throwing skulls all around and burying bodies on top of other bodies
- Hamlet asks how long it takes until the bodies decompose, the clown says 8 /9 years longer if your a tanner(joke)
- Jester=the only one who could tell the truth
- clown shows Hamlet Yurik's skull (Hamlet knew Yurik)
- we find out how old Hamlet is
- why call Hamlet and Fortanbras 'young' if they arent really young at all?
Sophia Meyers
"The Pirate Scence"
- Claudius sent Hamlet to England, told King of England to kill him
-Hamlet is on the ship with Rosencranz and Guildinstern
-Pirates come and capture Hamlet leaving everyone else still on the boat on there way to England
- Hamlet and the Pirates become friends
- he convinces the pirates to take him back to Denmark
- Hamlet writes two letters and the pirates deliver them
-The first one is to Horatio saying, the pirate(messanger) will take Horatio to where Hamlet is, and that there are important things he needs to tell him
- the second letter is for Claudius and it basically says I'm back
-the pirates never appear and are never mentioned again
Deus ex Machina= God in machine
- God pullyed down from ceiling to save the day, fix all problems, does not fit in storyline
-Lots of people think thats what the Pirate scene is in Hamlet
Act 4 Scene 7
-Gertrude comes with the news that Ophilia "drowned"
-iconic image, Ophilia floating with flowers in her hair
Act 5
Setting- outside in church graveyard
2 clowns= poor gravediggers
Malapropism=word you mix up with another word
- the clowns tell many jokes/riddles and malapropisms
- the clowns are comic relief
- they are talknig about wheather Ophilia really did kill herself or not
- Everybody thinks she killed herself(if she really did she would go to hell, and not get a church buryial) Claudias makes sure she is properly buried so she goes to heaven, he also doesn't want Laertes mad at him(he needs Leartes for his plan to kill Hamlet)
- one of the clowns riddles:mason=brick layer, gallows=what you get hanged on, Gravediggers homes he builds last forever
- Hamlet is bothered by the clowns singing as they work, he thinks its rude/disrespectful, but then he thinks that if thats your job you must get used to it
-the clowns are disturbing the bodies throwing skulls all around and burying bodies on top of other bodies
- Hamlet asks how long it takes until the bodies decompose, the clown says 8 /9 years longer if your a tanner(joke)
- Jester=the only one who could tell the truth
- clown shows Hamlet Yurik's skull (Hamlet knew Yurik)
- we find out how old Hamlet is
- why call Hamlet and Fortanbras 'young' if they arent really young at all?
Sophia Meyers
Monday, March 8, 2010
Class Notes 3/8/10
- Hamlet and his mother may have had a sexual relationship, this has been argued in both directions.
- Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory:
Anal Stage: age2-4potty training, the idea of someone being "anal" comes from this theory
Phallic Stage: age 4-6 sexual feeling occur but are then sublimated
(From then on puberty occurs and then adulthood)
- Freud's ID Ego and Superego Theory:
Ego develops later which is basically common sense and knowing right from wrong
Superego acts as you conscience and tells you right from wrong
- Madonna Complex
- All of this can be related to Hamlet's relationship with his mother and why he cannot be with Ophelia and tells her to "go to a nunnery"
Emma
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Class Notes 2/24 & 2/25
Act III Scence IV
When Hamlet is talking to his mom:
- He feels betrayed becase he once cared about her
- Hamlet wants to save her, he loves her (repentance)
- He wants to save her from herself
Edipus Complex:
- Young boys want to be daddy's so they can marry mommy
- Take over roll of Dad
- Be responsible for mom
When Hamlet stabs Polonius:
- He asks if it's Claudius (he wants it to be him)
- Pumped up/ready, emotionally on edge (from the scence before)
- More emotional = Less logical
What makes Polonius shout out:
- Gertrude says "help" she thinks Hamlet will kill her
- "Speak daggers but use none" Hamlet does not intent to kill her
- Niro, killed his mom becase he wanted to see where he came from( Hamlet mentions him earlyer)
- Sword = Intimidation
- glass = mirror (lots of mirror & refelection references)
- You can't force someone to repent
- Must come from Gertrude's own self reflection
- Woman. not capable of making her own (good) decitions
Why can't the Ghost be seen by Gertrude:
- Ghost doesn't want to be seen (Elizabethan people)
- It's not really there (us)
Sophia Meyers
When Hamlet is talking to his mom:
- He feels betrayed becase he once cared about her
- Hamlet wants to save her, he loves her (repentance)
- He wants to save her from herself
Edipus Complex:
- Young boys want to be daddy's so they can marry mommy
- Take over roll of Dad
- Be responsible for mom
When Hamlet stabs Polonius:
- He asks if it's Claudius (he wants it to be him)
- Pumped up/ready, emotionally on edge (from the scence before)
- More emotional = Less logical
What makes Polonius shout out:
- Gertrude says "help" she thinks Hamlet will kill her
- "Speak daggers but use none" Hamlet does not intent to kill her
- Niro, killed his mom becase he wanted to see where he came from( Hamlet mentions him earlyer)
- Sword = Intimidation
- glass = mirror (lots of mirror & refelection references)
- You can't force someone to repent
- Must come from Gertrude's own self reflection
- Woman. not capable of making her own (good) decitions
Why can't the Ghost be seen by Gertrude:
- Ghost doesn't want to be seen (Elizabethan people)
- It's not really there (us)
Sophia Meyers
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Act 3 Scene 3 Notes
- Claudius has decided to send Hamlet to England, and he doesn't plan on having him return.
- Rosencrantz's reference to the whirlpool and spoked wheel have to do with the Great Chain of Being and how if the king is killed everything begins to fall apart.
- Rosencrantz believes that he and Guildenstern will be preventing this, however, it has already happened with the death of King Hamlet.
-Claudius confesses in his soliloquy, but is confused on what to do. He wants to know if it is possible to be pardoned and still keep the things he has obtained. We know that it is not possible.
-The only way Claudius could be pardoned is if he would confess publicly, give up all that he has gained, and be killed.
-When Hamlet comes upon Claudius he sees him alone and as a chance to finally end this. But, he then realizes that this would be a bad thing because this wouldn't be the right way to carry out Vengeance. Hamlet finally makes his first real kingly decision when he decides to wait to kill Claudius.
-Plus, when Hamlet comes upon Claudius he is either praying or is in a church praying. Either way killing someone while they are praying is against a very sacred rule. Churches are sanctuaries and by extension so is the process of praying. Killing Claudius now would be a free pass to heaven, which is exactly what Hamlet doesn't want. He wants Claudius to rot in purgatory for his sins. Which is what Claudius made King Hamlet do when he killed him before King Hamlet had the chance to repent. So Hamlet decides to until Claudius is in the process of committing a sin or after he has committed one.
-Hamlet is shown here as having an inner struggle between rationality and emotion.
-Directors have done this part of the scene differently. Film versions usually don't have Hamlet being in the same room when this goes on, that way it can be a true soliloquy by Claudius. Stage versions do it differently. One version had a cone of light around claudius and had Hamlet circling around Claudius while he did his soliloquy. Although the actor playing Hamlet was actually walking around Claudius it was meant for a metaphorical purpose.
-Much to Hamlet's ignorant chagrin, Claudius never really is praying and he never really repents because he doesn't believe enough in his words to make them have effect.
-Matt
Monday, February 22, 2010
Hamlet Act 3.ii
Its in order of how we talked about stuff in class, so it doesn't exactly follow the order of the text.
Hamlet tells Horatio that he doesn't let his emotions get the best of him and Hamlet is both envious and respects him for this. This is the reason why Hamlet tells Horatio to watch Claudius because Horatio will remain level-headed and not lie to Hamlet about it.
Hamlet tells Horatio that he doesn't let his emotions get the best of him and Hamlet is both envious and respects him for this. This is the reason why Hamlet tells Horatio to watch Claudius because Horatio will remain level-headed and not lie to Hamlet about it.
- Hamlet & Horatio speak after the King leaves
- neither Hamlet or Horatio directly say what it is they saw.
-Nephew poisons King and Claudius runs out in fear of his life
- Hamlet takes it as him showing his guilt
- Horatio doesn't correct him
Hours after confrontation with Ophelia Hamlet sees her at play and is extremely mean to her calling her a slut in public and Ophelia just has to take it
Reference to Mousetrap is Hamlets way of saying that Claudius is insignificant and also goes back to "springes to catch woodcocks"
Hamlet tells Guildenstern to play the pipe and Guildenstern doesn't know how to play. Hamlet says its as easy as lying, meaning he may think he knows how to play him (Hamlet), but he doesn't. This is showing that Hamlet is getting over confident.
After speaking w/ Guildenstern Polonius walks in and Hamlet asks him about the shapes of clouds in the sky. He does this because (1) it will make him look crazy, and (2) to prove he can outsmart anyone although its ironic b/c Polonius is a fool.
Hamlet's Soliloquy is very angry/depressed/serious
- Hamlet says he's very angry and could kill someone, he then says hes going to see his mom and had to remind himself not to hurt his mother.
Hamlet asks player king to act natural, not to over do it or under do it
- this is Shakespeare talking through Hamlet
"the mirror up to nature"
- drama provides a mirror so we can see ourselves
- people act in order to see a different prospective
"excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish"
- thought that chameleon's eat air b/c they couldn't see it eat flies
- talking about empty promises and being surrounded by liars
Player King expects Player queen to move on after he dies, and she says she won't.
- Gertrude realizes the play is about her and Claudius
_Molly_
Sunday, February 21, 2010
the rogue soliloquy essay
If anyone has started essay on the the rogue soliloquy and has any reccomendations for how to organize it that would be great cause I am kinda confused about where to start. I am doing Burton vs. Branagh, but any tips would help.
Kiera
Kiera
the rogue soliloquy
If anyone is looking for the videos online and is having trouble finding them just type in google videos the rogue soliloquy and they all should come up heres the link too.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&resnum=0&q=the%20rogue%20soliloquy%20kenneth%20branagh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Kiera
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&resnum=0&q=the%20rogue%20soliloquy%20kenneth%20branagh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Kiera
Act 3- Scene 1
Act 3- Scene 1
Ophelia wants to give Hamlet back his stuff- Ophelia young "good girl"- is not trying to purposely push Hamlet's buttons
Are you honest? Are you fair?
- both have double meanings
- fair: 1) beautiful 2) are you just as in do you play by the rules
- honesty: 1) truthful 2) chastity - purity as in are you a virgin
Ophelia are you seeing someone else- Hamlet seems jealous
Those who are fair and honest do not stay honest for very long
Polonius buys the act, but Claudius doesn't
"Get thee to a nunnery"
-nunnery double meaning
1) convent: won't be around guys- so she won't have children- no chance of ruining her reputation- protected from the likes of Hamlet
2) whore house: no relationships there either- keeping the world at a distance no risk of being hurt.
*How do you protect yourself from the difficulties/pain of relationships?
*Do Hamlet and Ophelia care about each other- this is not a nice scene - violence on Hamlet's part against Ophelia
*Why is he so awful to her-how does she respond?
*Why would Hamlet treat her like this if he loved her?
-push her away to protect her from guys like me
-yes, Hamlet is angry - Polonius/Claudius/set-up/murder/Gertrude-mother betrayed him.
ALL WOMEN BETRAY- notion of time and of how Hamlet feels about women
The King's aside (before Hamlet and Ophelia talk)
images of disease- Claudius
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!
Ophelia wants to give Hamlet back his stuff- Ophelia young "good girl"- is not trying to purposely push Hamlet's buttons
Are you honest? Are you fair?
- both have double meanings
- fair: 1) beautiful 2) are you just as in do you play by the rules
- honesty: 1) truthful 2) chastity - purity as in are you a virgin
Ophelia are you seeing someone else- Hamlet seems jealous
Those who are fair and honest do not stay honest for very long
Polonius buys the act, but Claudius doesn't
"Get thee to a nunnery"
-nunnery double meaning
1) convent: won't be around guys- so she won't have children- no chance of ruining her reputation- protected from the likes of Hamlet
2) whore house: no relationships there either- keeping the world at a distance no risk of being hurt.
*How do you protect yourself from the difficulties/pain of relationships?
*Do Hamlet and Ophelia care about each other- this is not a nice scene - violence on Hamlet's part against Ophelia
*Why is he so awful to her-how does she respond?
*Why would Hamlet treat her like this if he loved her?
-push her away to protect her from guys like me
-yes, Hamlet is angry - Polonius/Claudius/set-up/murder/Gertrude-mother betrayed him.
ALL WOMEN BETRAY- notion of time and of how Hamlet feels about women
The King's aside (before Hamlet and Ophelia talk)
images of disease- Claudius
- internal disease: don't know before it is too late
- king on the throne that is not the rightful king-disease at the center of the kingdom-put usurper and the corruption spreads
- can't camouflage that which is truly corrupt- the more make up - the more ugly something becomes
- the themes of make-up/whoredom/corruption all go together
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!
- The heavy burden refers to the king's guilt- we know at this point that he is guilty of something but are unaware of what that something is
- harlot- refers to whore
- plast'ring art refers to make-up
- whores wear lots of make-up because they often contract STD's most commonly syphilis and syphilis shows up on the face to hide the disease must wear lots of make-up
- The aside is in part a response to Polonius comment:
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself
meaning that we do bad but for a good reason
These are the notes on act 3 scene 1
Kiera
Friday, February 12, 2010
Act 2 Scene 2 Soliloquy Notes
- Hamlet is insulting himself when he calls himself a peasant slave
- Comparing himself to the player king
- Player king weeps for Hecuba though he has no real reason for it
-Hamlet cannot understand why the player king weeps so much for someone he does not know
- Asks himself what the player king would do if he had the motive that Hamlet has
- Decides the player king would have killed Claudius but says he is too scared to do so
- Admits that he is a coward and only acts like he is going to take revenge for his father
- Makes a plan to show a scene that he makes in front of Claudius and the family which compares to his fathers murder to see how Claudius reacts to find out if he is the true killer
- Realizes that the ghost could be the devil trying to damn him which is why he needs greater justification than what the ghost told him.
Marc Cavalier
- Comparing himself to the player king
- Player king weeps for Hecuba though he has no real reason for it
-Hamlet cannot understand why the player king weeps so much for someone he does not know
- Asks himself what the player king would do if he had the motive that Hamlet has
- Decides the player king would have killed Claudius but says he is too scared to do so
- Admits that he is a coward and only acts like he is going to take revenge for his father
- Makes a plan to show a scene that he makes in front of Claudius and the family which compares to his fathers murder to see how Claudius reacts to find out if he is the true killer
- Realizes that the ghost could be the devil trying to damn him which is why he needs greater justification than what the ghost told him.
Marc Cavalier
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 2/2/10
These are the notes for Tuesday. They will be out of order because someone already posted the Wednesday notes.
The purpose of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
The purpose of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
- spying
- philosophers
- college guys
- want to find out whats wrong with Hamlet- similar to Polonius
"Faith, her privates we."
- multiple meanings
- HER REFERS TO FORTUNE
- Private- is a person in the military - a foot solider- lowest rank- G&R are the lowest in fortunes army, therefore they simply do what she says.
- If your in good with fortune than you get what you want (sexual translation)
- Fortune is a whore
R&G are another source of comic relief when Polonius is not on stage
-Polonius is set up to believe that Hamlet's insanity is all about Love and a broken heart
-R&G are set up to believe that is because Hamlet has had bad dreams
* 2 reason for Hamlet's supposed madness is better than one
Pride is the ultimate tragic flaw- pride- Hamlet is beginning to think that he can out smart anyone - but the reality is that he can not. Hamlet believes in the power of his intelligence--will this lead to his demise?
QUESTION 20:
Maggots were originally thought to come from nothing - spontaneous generation
Hamlet wants to continue to encourage Polonius' belief that he has gone crazy because of his relationship with Ophelia
Hamlet loves to play verbal games and say one thing but mean something else (appearance vs. reality)
"Let her not walk in the sun"
-spontaneous generation idea- if she walks in the sun she might magically conceive
-don't let her be seen in the light - i.e.- don't let her be sought after
-conception is a blessing
These are the notes from Tuesday's class .
A quick recap for any confusion. During class we talked about the importance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as characters. They provide an element of comic relief, they add to Hamlet's insanity plot, and they relate to Hamlet as college guys, and as fellow philosophers. We talked a little bit of Hamlet's flaw that he is beginning to feel as though his high level of intelligence will allow him to manipulate those around him. In addition to R&G involvement in Hamlet's on going plot we talked about Polonius and his relation to it- specifically with the quote regarding Ophelia.
-Kiera
Class Notes 2/3/10
Act II Scence II
Question 25-What does he mean by,"...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"?
(Hamlet says this when he's talking about Denmark)
-He says that Denmark is like a prison because he's not allowed to leave and to go back to school go go anywhere else
-Everything is really a prison-up to the universe
-All about your preception, how you feel about where you are
-you might be in prison physically, but not mentally
-only you can control your mind
Nutshell: What if a person was stuck inside a nutshell there whole entire lives and it was all they ever knew of the world? The nutshell is infinate until you come out and see whats outside of it.
-Hamlet was stuck in his nutshell (Dennmark) until he went to school, and saw the world, now he wants to get back out there. He has been enlightened and doesn't want to be stufffed back.
-Perceptions are what dictate our realities, our good perceptions and bad ones
-There is no such thing as a real world-it all depends on perception
ex:People are all at a stadium watching a football game, none of them are watching the same game though because everybody's reality's are different.
Hamlet likes using words/lines
-we must use language to get things done
-things are described by function-it is whatever we choose it to be, everyone has a different way
-it is what you choose to call it, nothing more then that
ex: What is abortion?
What is life?
What is marriage?
What is a terrorist?
-Who has the right to define all these words?
Words=Symbols
-How do we make symbols for absrtact concepts?
-Can we point to love like we point to a stapler?
-Nobody knows what things are, they only know perseptions
What about numbers?
-time is all relative, it doesn't exist
Question 25-What does he mean by,"...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"?
(Hamlet says this when he's talking about Denmark)
-He says that Denmark is like a prison because he's not allowed to leave and to go back to school go go anywhere else
-Everything is really a prison-up to the universe
-All about your preception, how you feel about where you are
-you might be in prison physically, but not mentally
-only you can control your mind
Nutshell: What if a person was stuck inside a nutshell there whole entire lives and it was all they ever knew of the world? The nutshell is infinate until you come out and see whats outside of it.
-Hamlet was stuck in his nutshell (Dennmark) until he went to school, and saw the world, now he wants to get back out there. He has been enlightened and doesn't want to be stufffed back.
-Perceptions are what dictate our realities, our good perceptions and bad ones
-There is no such thing as a real world-it all depends on perception
ex:People are all at a stadium watching a football game, none of them are watching the same game though because everybody's reality's are different.
Hamlet likes using words/lines
-we must use language to get things done
-things are described by function-it is whatever we choose it to be, everyone has a different way
-it is what you choose to call it, nothing more then that
ex: What is abortion?
What is life?
What is marriage?
What is a terrorist?
-Who has the right to define all these words?
Words=Symbols
-How do we make symbols for absrtact concepts?
-Can we point to love like we point to a stapler?
-Nobody knows what things are, they only know perseptions
What about numbers?
-time is all relative, it doesn't exist
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Hamlet Act 2.ii Notes
This scene is the start of the rising action (complication)
It starts with
+King/Queen/Rosencrantz & Guildstern
-Rosencrantz & Guildstern
+Polonious
-Polonious
+Polonious/Volitmand and Cornelius
-Volitmand and Cornelius
+Hamlet
-Claudius & Gertrude
+R&G
-Polonius
+Polonious
+Players
-Polonious & Players
- R & G
= ends with Hamlet alone by himself to give a soliloquy
-Old king has Fortinbras arrested and put on house arrest, but because he almost pulled off his plan they tell him he can go to Poland, but then asks Claudius a safe passage through Denmark to Poland
-Polonius is anything, but brief when he says Hamlet is crazy which is added as a comic relief
-Both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are philosophers likes Hamlet, but not as smart as him, they have a normal conversations and speak of dirty jokes (other comic relief)
-Hamlet gives Polonius and R&G two different reasons why he is crazy, even though he is not crazy at all
- Hamlet's flaw is that he thinks he's undefeatable (the tragic flaw of all mythic heroic archetypes)
-Shakespeare plays off of spontaneous generation so Hamlet plays verbal games with Polonius saying Ophelia shouldn't walk in the sun because a.) she could get pregnant and b.) other guys will see her
These are the notes I took for Monday... feel free to add more.
-Molly
It starts with
+King/Queen/Rosencrantz & Guildstern
-Rosencrantz & Guildstern
+Polonious
-Polonious
+Polonious/Volitmand and Cornelius
-Volitmand and Cornelius
+Hamlet
-Claudius & Gertrude
+R&G
-Polonius
+Polonious
+Players
-Polonious & Players
- R & G
= ends with Hamlet alone by himself to give a soliloquy
-Old king has Fortinbras arrested and put on house arrest, but because he almost pulled off his plan they tell him he can go to Poland, but then asks Claudius a safe passage through Denmark to Poland
-Polonius is anything, but brief when he says Hamlet is crazy which is added as a comic relief
-Both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are philosophers likes Hamlet, but not as smart as him, they have a normal conversations and speak of dirty jokes (other comic relief)
-Hamlet gives Polonius and R&G two different reasons why he is crazy, even though he is not crazy at all
- Hamlet's flaw is that he thinks he's undefeatable (the tragic flaw of all mythic heroic archetypes)
-Shakespeare plays off of spontaneous generation so Hamlet plays verbal games with Polonius saying Ophelia shouldn't walk in the sun because a.) she could get pregnant and b.) other guys will see her
These are the notes I took for Monday... feel free to add more.
-Molly
Hamlet 2.1 Notes
These are the notes that I took from class, there not the best notes but its better than nothing..
-Polonious is sending Reynaldo to spy on Laertes
-Polonious isn't that out of line for doing this because Laertes is/has been a screw up
-Polonious is sending Reynaldo to spy on Laertes
-Polonious isn't that out of line for doing this because Laertes is/has been a screw up
- he wants Reynaldo to bring him up in a bad manner
-Rumors destory people
-Polonious is telling lies to find the truth, reality shows the appearance, which goes back to the theme of appearance vs. reality
-Hamlet's antic disposition is just a facade that will reveal the truth, and get vengeance for his father
-Hamlet's plan may be a serious error in judgement
-Phelia listened to her father and stopped relations with Hamlet
- Hamlet is using Ophelia to act crazy, which explains his craziness, his broken heart (did it to hurt Ophelia)
-Hamlet sees Gertrude betrayed King Hamlet which reinforces his thoughts that women betray men. Gertrude is guilty of these sins, and then so if Ophelia.
Old Generation vs. Young Generation Battle-Old
- Claudius
- Gertrude
- Polonious
- Ophelia
-Young
- Hamlet
- Laertes (maybe)
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sonnet Help
So I am really struggling with this Sonnet and if anyone else is I found two websites that helped me get started they are:
http://www.ehow.com/how_3335_write-sonnet.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Sonnet
Hope this helps
Kiera
http://www.ehow.com/how_3335_write-sonnet.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Sonnet
Hope this helps
Kiera
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Shakespeare Notes
William Shakespear
- born 1564 - church records
- 1565- baptized - town church- stratford on Avon
- John Shakespeare and Mary Arden- parents
- John: prominent member of town life in stratford-was a butcher- was on town council-town mayor-William didn't have a normal childhood-Shakespeare attended Stratford grammar school-didn't attend college-inherits everything-oldest son
- Theater companies went to the country side- sponsored by nobility- nobility would help out the towns if the town hosted the theater companies. The mayor would put up the theater companies-where William Shakespear encountered the theater. Explains how butchers son from stratford England makes it to London.
- 1582-applies for marriage license to marry Anne Hathaway-26 - asks for 2 exceptions- 1. bands of marriage are only read once not 3 times- i.e 2 weeks till the wedding not 4 and 2. Wedding be allowed to occur during advent in December. -requests are granted- 6 months later baby Susana is born
- 1585-have twins Hamnet and Judith
- 1596-Hamnet dies-death of 1st born son leads Shakespeare to write a tragic masterpiece.
- 1592-In London-joins play writing industry- Mr. Greene writes pamphlet, rips Shakespeare a new one, editor apologizes to everyone including gentle Bill aka Shakespeare
- 1592- Black plague in London - closed all public gathering places including theaters-playwrites leave town-change in London city gov't-the Puritans take over-love working and praying not working and praying=sinning therefore going to plays=sinning - sinning was evil- in a play: pretending to be something your not aka lying-mortal sin against God-keep people from sinning= close theaters. Theaters close for another 2 years
- Writing Career: 1. Start with histories - factual- what you know. 2. comedies- more creative but not quite serious 3. tragedy
- 1594-theaters reopen Shakespeare and contemporary playwrites opened a theater company - a company in which Shakespeare did not own but was an EQUAL partner in. "Shakespeare Company"
- The companies noble patron=Lord Chamberlain: highest legal office in the land- equivalent to today's attorney general
- How they made money: wrote a play-company bought play-company could direct own play-act in own play - each step the company made money - The company was lucrative and Shakespeare was able to buy the 2nd largest estate in Stratford
- Plays ran about 2 weeks long- theaters always wanted knew plays - quick writing- quick turnover - $$$$
- Most contemporaries averaged about 2 plays per year- Shakespeare was a little slower than most-writing on his own
- 11 year period of high play productivity-apex of his career-his best comedies came about in this period(1596-1600) - writing early tragedies as well.
- 1598: performance of 12th knight-Merry Knights of Windsor- great comedies- Julius Caesar written during this period.
- 1600-1605: best tragedies- Hamlet, King Lear, A fellow, Macbeth
- Writing tragedies b/c tragic period in England
- 1603- Death of Queen Elizabeth - Virgin Monarch of England- Devoted herself to England and England only- on the surface she was a queen underneath she was a fairly violent dictator
- James IV of Scotland became new monarch in England- King James I of British Isles - England, Ireland and Scotland - wanted his own theater company - takes Lord Chamberlain's theater company
- 1610 Shakespeare writes the Tempest - he thinks its his last play - it is basically him saying good-bye to the theater- goes home to the wife and kids to retire
- Beaumont and Fletcher replace Shakespeare in the theater company and begin writing Henry VIII-Father of Queen Elizabeth
- Beaumont hits a snag in his court work which is his full time job-responsibilities become too much and is force to leave the theater company
- Fletcher needs Shakespeare to help him finish Henry VIII
- 1613: Henry VIII is released the special effects and the cannon burn the globe theater to the ground-ends Shakespeare's career
- 1616- last document last will and testament- 2 interesting things about it
- 1. Very hastily drawn up- b/c he became very ill very quickly
- 2. What he left to his wife- he left her only one thing and that was the 2nd best bed- the bed is their marriage bed and he is giving her the love he had for all of the years since they were married
- April 23,1616 Shakespeare dies - on his birthday
Notes on Shakespear
Kiera
Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1
Does anyone know what the answer to the last question of the act one scene one questions is?
The question is:
What tone is established in this scene?
Kiera
The question is:
What tone is established in this scene?
Kiera
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