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May 2, 2011 Choose a poem assigned for the day and analyse? In "Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son", Raleigh uses the english sinnet form to warn his son of the downfalls of growing older,a dn how it can cause his death if not careful. the last six lines, he provides a solution; he uses metahpors like "assemble not" in relation to real life hings as trees, weed, and wag to keep him(son) careful of decisons he makes. This shows shows a father's love for his children and wanting the best for them at any given time. Sir Walters makes his son understand it not all going to be a joy ride but to becareful with the chioces/ decisions you make sas it can impact your life's direction. CLASS Notes; group discussion, Choose a poet, hs poetry forms, pick a poem and analyse? group work 2 Choose a poet, his poetry form, pick a poem from his work and analyse?
 * Sir W. Raleigh was chosen; faught in Ireland, secretly marriied to Elisabeth's attendant, helped colonize Virginia and was a coutiier (very connected politically)
 * His poems were love songs/ love poems; not the normal 14 liine sonnets, form ab ab cc
 * the poem chosen was 'The Bait' - the idea of conceit is in this poem as an extended metahpor.
 * Andrew Marvell; born in 1621, at age 12 admitted at the Universty of Cambridge(7yrs), published his first poems in latin and Greek
 * his poem forms took the a bb a, a bb a form
 * we chose 'A dialogue between the Soul and Body'

April 25, 2011 Option A: describe your final paper? Option B: brainstorm 1 or 2 ideas for your final paper/project.
 * thought of political themes especially with Elisabeth and Utopia as reference readings.
 * the author's perspective on political issues as well as how it's influencial to present day politics. this is what i have for now...maybe revised.

The tragical history of doctor Faustus; the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil (never a good thing) Marlow(author); he was a mystery as a lot was not known about him. also thouht to be a spy for privy. His style of writing was bold, harsh and dark (direct in most aspect) with coparison to shakespear who was indirect.

__ Comments on acting and plays __ __ Kelly Stowell __ ;
 * enjoyed her acting very much as she was in charater with the plays she presented from shakespaer.
 * it gave a sense of the emotions and person's in question. advised that to take on a role, you should research on the person as this an integral part of the how you represent them.
 * overall she gave a better nderstanding to acting momologues and she did a good job acting herself.

April 20,2011 Red Crosse: Fidessa, actually "diressa" meaning faithful Una; represents purity and truth, faith and natural law. These attributes calm the lion from distroying/killing her (natural law) Lion; represents natural law i.e the strong survive and the weak get killed.
 * signified holiness
 * purity - catholic church; granting miracles for God, appalled by sin ( for example when he thinks Una is sleeping with another man), and educated in his religion.
 * he also reperesented the 'everyman' figure i.e. having his flaws, self doubt and how to maintain his faith despite his struggles or problems. Also, seen at some level where he is fighting his errors/shortcomings when he fights the tragon err (who vomits catholic propaganda).
 * represents England i.e. the country losses it's way separating from the church, purity(Una) and truth.

__ Utopia __ Author; Thomas More, called renaisance man and worked for Henry VIII. Characters; Peter, More ( not the same as the author) and Rapheal ( well learned, treveled and wise) By writing this text, the author shows satire, that is exposing another soceity to the people of England; showing the problems of England and how they can handle it. it's written in 2 books and book 2 was written before book 1. Book 1 ia basically a critism of 1. Subject matters talked o in Utopia; Utopia, meaning perfect.
 * Slavery: two class (foreigners and utopins) are put to work thus, making them useful to society. Also, porteaying the class inequality in England at this time and showing them how to cahnge that. Prisoners o war are taken as slaves.
 * War: defend territory. protect friends, deliver a nation from tyranny.
 * Practice all religion but shows hypocracy; that is pactice whatever they believe but believe in one divine being. Also, it's forbiden to believe human sou dies with the body.
 * Military; everyoe trains on a daily basis for military, hire armies rather than send utopians to war, women are encouraged to go to war with their husbands.
 * Marriage; premarital sex is prohibited, women can't marry before 18 and men before 22 years of age.
 * The legal system is everyone defends themselves thus, no lawyers.

Wed; April 13, 2011 The Faerie Queene: by Edmund Spense r __Plot: Canto 3 (group work)__ Una is looking for the red knight and meets a lion and tries to kill her but gives her courage to carry on the journey by joining her. the lion and Una encounter Adessa and her mother, and the kills Adessa as well as the church robber. __Characters;__ Una, Lion, Corceca and Abessa; mother and daughter respectively, Kirkrapine (church robber), and Aldeboran. __Metaphors;__
 * traveling with courage; that is Una traveling with the lion in the wilderness in search of 'Red Crosse'
 * Abessa; meaning to be absent thus, deaf
 * Corceca; meaning blindness of the heart thus, blind.

Monday; April 11, 2011 Ruminate"'The Troops at Tilbury" p.687

The speech opens with the queen showing respect to the people especially the troops by praising her "faithful and loving people" and "the loyal hearts and good will of her subjects". The queen uses this to establish rapport with the troops as this event was unusual for both the troops and the queen. She also, belittles her opponents calling them mare Princes, using words such as 'foul and scorn' that can be considered verbal lashing. Thus, diminishing the prestige of the enemy and inciting violent emotions. Overall, this was to give the troops confidence over their opponents and support of England (queen). In the speech the queen is in the presence of the troops to give support and make them understand she counts on them. Also, stating that they are protected under their country (England) and their courage to go out for war is very admirable. Her voice gives assurance to the troops ( from video clip watched in class)

Wed; April 6, 2011 Missed class due to not feeling well........ Mon; April 4,2011 Development from medieval period to the Renaissance/early modern? Wed; march 30,2011 Monday; march 28, 2011 Discuss the character of Mak?
 * Quiz; an event that led to the Renaissance? Lots of different things led to the renaissance or early modern but particularly Christianity or Catholicism. this became issue because earlier on the rules of the bible were strictly to be followed and no question asked. But as things evolve and priests and all clergies of the church who were looked upon as example were all going against the rules of the church, As a result people began questioning the authenticity of them being forgiven for their sins by these clergies thus, decision to follow the church and ideas on alternatives ways to live was now possible. that people being able to think for themselves and make decision about their religious affairs
 * Medieval period was more of the church dictating the law
 * Renaissance introduced the idea of people thinking for themselves and making decisions concerning their religious beliefs.
 * there was also, the challenge of separating religious rules and government laws..................also the translation of the bible was an issue at this time because of different languages available and it used to be in Greek or Latin.
 * Women and their rights
 * Science was evolving as well.
 * Music and arts
 * Technology and education was gaining significance.
 * mid-term exam.
 * challenging i would say for me.......
 * Mak is considered a thief or trickster
 * he has the power to cast a spell that is he cast one on the shepherds to fall asleep so he can steal their sheep.
 * Mak is considered the devilish character given the theme of the play; that is the birth of Christ and Mak stealing the sheep.

March 21, 2011 Why is the Miller's tale a fabliaux/force? The Miller's tale is a fabliaux because the story attains climax through a non-conventional way such as through jokes or tricks.Nicholas was main character who executes a scheme against John and the church clerk. this gets quite interesting as in other stories, the climax is usually when there is some form of argument or confusion and to see hoe this is resolved drives the reader to keep reading. In the case of the Miller's tale, it's a trick that attains climax and how the affected people react is the force that drives the reader to the end of the story.

March 7, 2011; Favorite Pilgrim and WHY? Havelok the Dane
 * story line is quite interesting, nothing like the traditional presentation of royalty
 * gets the attention of the reader at the beginning with the King's dead and leaving three children
 * the story gives another side or possibility of the life of a prince; is not always servants working for them but the prince fending for themselves.
 * also, portrays humility to some degree of the prince and this is unusual to expect from a prince or royalty as they turn to be very proud and feel above everyone.
 * overall, it shows a different perspective on the life of a royalty.

February 25, 2011 Undressing lady Bertilak?

2/14/11: class discussion Courtly Love; English Romance; Breton Lai; Bisclaviet; Lanval;
 * Marie de Champage created this and it was basically punishment for crimes against love. for instant, court appearance for say leading someone on. note this is all played out.
 * Female role here is being in charge as they are the main developers....
 * Cult of Mary; before we had Eve who was considered a weak, evil and Mary is like an anti duct for this situation thus, elevating the women status....like maturing to womanhood.
 * courtly love is mirroring the Christianity.....
 * Jealousy is an issue here as it may lead to love sickness, and anger and may lead to dead
 * literature for high class as seen here 'it is not proper to love any women whom one should be ashamed to seek to marry' meaning the women status in society.( all the above is French)
 * no triangle in relation to French i.e husband and wife
 * more family oriented
 * adultery against a king is Trissen i.e a knight sleeping with the queen
 * supernatural powers, others i.e not like the human race.
 * were wolves
 * fairy woman- extra beautiful,appears on command, and endless money supply

2/14/11: The Art of Courtly Lov e "Good character alone makes any man worthy of love"....this phrase caught my attention because this is justifiable in the sense that if there good character then, it's believe the man will treat the wife, family and friends with respect thus, LOVE. But then again, given our society today where girl/women are very materialistic; meaning this phrase will not apply these group of people. Love in this period, was family oriented and a lot has changed since then but Love can only be explained by those who have experienced true love.

2/7/11: class discussion "Beowulf" from the short clip; it seen that he use strategy to fight Grendel. that is he discovers he has a problem with sounds and so used that to he's advantage. 2/7/11 Beowulf : The end of the story is about how Beowulf defeats the enemy and dies as a result. Beowulf wanted to protected his people to the point when he could and so knowing he was getting old and weak; he decided to take on the enemy keeping in mind he will live or die after that encounter. So, he made plans on how he will like to be....
 * the language (original) was filled with alliteration making the text easy to remember as well as make the read simple.
 * Hygelac: Beowulf's land and he refused kingship here but takes kingship in Geat after the death of his sons.
 * we get a sense of denial as he goes out to fight the dragon, given his age and status(king)
 * also thought he was being selfish wanting to do this on his own given that he has no heir to survive him. pride comes to play as well...
 * note he is making a statement as to how he wants to die; in battle rather than at home.
 * the sense of how death is inevitable as the text begins with a funeral and ends with another as well

Hi everyone, This is something new for me and interesting i must say. Just making sure i got this working right. Wish you all a great semester. Lombe!

1/29/11 Gareth Hinds: i was amazed at his artistic ability and how his talent/gift is rooted from childhood. At his 11am talk i was able to understand how he came about his work like inspirations. He mentioned being inspired by Egyptian arts in his drawings and the stories by different literature authors; an example is Shakespeare.