Blandin,+Kathleen

GARETH HINDS PRESENTATION I thought Garth Hinds did a really good presentation the other day.

2-7-11 WIKI: RUMINATE ON THE END OF BEOWULF

The ending of Beowulf was what I expected. I didnt really enjoy the whole book as a whole, maybe because I didn't necessarily like the story itself but all in all I guess it was correctively a decent piece of work. Ruminating on the piece as a British Literature, it did offer a great deal of original classical parts to it with the themes and characters that I did enjoy for the genre that I was reading. I think the story offered a great deal of knowledge that I lacked about british literature to get a good head start understanding as to what I should expect to see in the future in this class.

2-14-11 READ AND REACT

After reading the Medieval Sourcebook: Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love, (btw. 1174-1186), I see that everything it lists is just what every other "fairy tale" type of literature explains. It gives you the ideals of what love should endure and shows what you should and should not experience, almost like a complete rule book; where if you do not follow all the rules then you are not truly living a life of love and courtship. It brings great controversy when thinking about the modern ways of life, and confuses those ethics that are seen as standard to those as seen as the true way of how to love.

2-23-11 PICK ON IMPORTANT/KEY PASSAGE FROM FITT3. ANALYZE.

The most important things that you see with the Host that Gawain does not is the different animals the Host kills and brings back, these represent the different types of animals that are of importance and some that are seen and looked at with little value. These represent the three stages that Gawain goes through, from his being a strong loyal person to a betraying guest that lies to his host to "save" his life with a magic girdle. The actions that he does with the Host's maidens are done in secret but he then soon tells the Host, so there is no problems afoot. Still the fact that the Host and Gawain have to exchange what they have hid from each other almost brings this lover affair within them and every night it is expected that they exchange how many kisses and what not one has taken while one has gone out for the day. This story is very boggling but in the end is one that is looked at as great importance and a great text to read to understand that genre and time when all this was to have happened. The rules and regulations that you see happen are that of complete confusion when thinking to the modern present time, for one would never let one cheat with their spouse and just say in the end that you would like a kiss back in return. In this story though, this is what is done, received and acted out.

2-28-11 RESPOND TO ASSIGNED ARTICLE (ON BLACKBOARD)-'UNDRESSING LADY BERTILAK'

"Undressing Lady Bertilak," opened my eyes to different insights that I didn't realize when I first read the story about Sir Gawain, now looking back I notice the little gestures and conversations back in forth between Gawain and Lady Bertilak are more than meets the eye. It makes me see how Gawain almost belittles the fact of women, that they almost make them seem foolish, makes me question how literature in that time really tried to represent women. It is almost like again with no women's rights, they make it seem like woman are dogs, no good son of a guns and its sad really, because thats not true and we as women have been portrayed as the enemy for many centuries.

3-7-11 PICK YOUR FAVORITE PILGRIM. WHY?

I would have to say The Wife of Bath, just because of the fact that she has a lot of experience under her belt that at first doesnt seem like she does. She is almost thought to me as an underdog, considering how people in that time thought of woman, she has a little more to show just a little bit more of a one up on others. She had five husbands and had traveled to different places and that is a feat in itself for any woman at that time. Her clothing also to me, gives a luring attractive sense and makes her ideal in the minds of many, and extravagant to say the least. By being a seamstress it helps represent and display what one is capable of as an individual.

3-28-11 DISCUSS THE CHARACTER OF MAK.

Mak is a character that is a little bit different from what we have seen in previous texts,

4-6-11 IDENTIFY ONE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLICAL PASSAGES.

One of the interesting things I noticed when looking at the different Biblical Passages was that there were a lot of italics in one of them but not others. I am not sure what the significance of putting so many in one is, but it was definitely present when I was reading. It was mostly seen on words that were of the past tense, maybe to make emphasis on what was and what is. I found it to be very intriguing and definitely made me want to emphasize the thought in my head myself. It almost seemed as if the underlying tones were used to show the difference in what had been written and what has been done.

4-11-11 RUMINATE (THINK ABOUT/BRAINSTORM) ON "TO THE TROOPS AT TILBURY" (P. 687)

4-27-11 KELLY STOWELL PERFORMED FOR THE CLASS, WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON HER ANALYSIS OF BEING ONE WITH A CHARACTER YOU ARE TRYING TO ACT?

I thought Kelly Stowell's appointment was grand, it showed great intensity at all the right times and displayed the level an actor should always be at. By her showing us how to fall into a characters realm, it opened my eyes to what strength it takes to be an actor. When looking at just the role of an actor in general, either a theatric one or one that is in movies, you can see the strength and determination one has to have within them to be able to memorize all the lines, critic the different emotions to become their own and the great deal of effort it takes on their part to get to the point of great satisfaction not only for them but to the audience. I think she did a great job acting out the monologues and if I lived closer and had my car near I would definitely have been going to see her perform because she seems like she is a really good actress.

4-28-11 FIND AND POST ONE SOURCE THAT YOU THINK YOU WILL USE IN YOUR FINAL PAPER/PROJECT. POST IN CORRECT WORKS CITED FORMAT. 

5-2-11 WIKI: CHOOSE A POEM ASSIGNED FRO THE DAY TO ANALYZE 1) POET-INTERESTING BIO 2)POETRY FORMS 3) PICK 1 POEM 4)ANALYZE

5-2-11 EXTRA CREDIT:WRITE YOUR OWN SONNET

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