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
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