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5-2 Choose a poem assigned for today to analyze A Hymn to God the Father p 928 In this poem by John Donne sin is a prominent theme. The poem talks about forgiving sin, so this might be sort of a remorse poem. This could also be him asking for forgiveness. At points he sort of contradicts himself in that he says something like "forgive those sins through which I run, and do them still". Here he indicates that he wants forgiveness for his sins but yet he still commits them. He also somewhat wants others to learn from his sin, "made my sin their door". This seems to say that he wants his sins to influence others and have it be sort of a passage way for everyone.

4-27 Today Kelly Morgan came and talked to us about Elizabethan Sonnets. He mentioned this idea of a world chain as well. I found it very interesting how he connected all the idea of that time to current events, it made it a lot easier to follow what he was talking about. I personally am the worst with history and any historical events but the way that he explained and used so much enthusiasm in his voice made it interesting. The way he connected Shakespeare's plays and events in the plays to the common catching a person at a stop light really changed my thinking of that play and how they were really star crossed lovers.

4-11 Ruminate on "To the troops at Tilbury" (p687) The quote "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King" really stood out to me. With this statement I believe she is trying to prove her loyalty to her people. She is showing that she doesn't need a King to rule, she is strong enough to do it on her own. But in actuality she knows she can't do it on her own and therefore uses these type of speeches to manipulate her people into believing everything she says. He word choice is very stratigic to do so. She is extremely manipulative and diplomatic. After watching the short clip of the movie where she says this in her speech to her men right before battle you can tell that she is trying to gain their trust and confidence. She doesn't want to appear weak so she chooses words and presents herself in a way that will make the men basically do anything.

4-6 The language in the Bible passages seemed to differ only slightly, but those slight changes showed some importance. One significant difference is that the Geneva Bible doesn't start everything with "and God", it doesn't stick to the conventional literary devices that they other passages do. It also substitutes words like the word danger was written as punished in this passage, could be representing a harsher punishment. All the other passages use "Therefore when," but the Geneva Bible uses "If then," possible not giving an option. Almost all of the passages use long series of run-on sentences and rarely use the conventions of the English language. None of the passages seemed to use I or me either. Always just God.

3-21 The millers tale is a fabliaux/farce for many reasons. A fabliaux is literature made to entertain or be comedic. The miller tale falls under this category because it has many characteristics of a entertaining read. The fact that this tale is full of love triangles, satire, the lack of courtly love, and even the frame tale idea cause it to be intriguing. The tale also pokes fun at the difference in social class which people the would be entertained by. It also pokes fun at the fact that these people are not really in love they are just lusting relationships.

3-7 Favorite Pilgrim My favorite Pilgrim would have to be the Knights son, he just seems like the perfect guy. He takes after his father with the physical description such and being strong and agile but he is also devoted to love. He fits the idea for courtly love as well. He is very willing to please and is very dutiful to his father. He fulfills all of his responsibilities. Hes is young and very obedient it seems and who wouldn't want that? He is definitely my favorite because he seems like he is the perfect guy for any woman. ever.

<span style="color: #fb2079; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-28 <span style="color: #fb2079; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Response to assigned article "undressing lady Bertilak" <span style="color: #fb2079; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This story represents Sir Gawain from Lady Bertilak's point of view. It expresses how she felt when everything was put on Sir Gawain and no on expects anything to come out of her mouth. It also allows for expression of the sexual position of Lady Beritlak. They often talk of bedroom scenes in which lady Bertilak is often objectified. This passage puts Sir Gawain in a negative light which isn't really seen in the original text. The passage also talks about how little woman are even brought up in the text, which I think is very typical of all the texts we have been reading. Woman have a small role, if any, in all the texts. They not only get objectified often but they also rarely even get brought up, which is a shame because it would be extremely interesting to see some of these stories from a woman's point of view or even containing a woman with a role.

<span style="color: #f9bc4b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-23 <span style="color: #f9bc4b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Passage Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. line number 1402. In this passage they are in the lords chamber reflecting on their actions the night before. Servants brought them wine and while talking they agrees to go through and do the same thing they had done before. They would take whatever came to do "to exchange what they had won". They all agreed with the idea and then continued to drink. They went to bed with the idea, then when the rooster crowed they all jumped out of bed and went on their way.

<span style="color: #08f48b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-9 <span style="color: #08f48b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Right off the bat you can tell that this is going to be written by or about a grieving wife. The fact that it is classified as an Elegy sort of gives it away. In the passage it is suggested that this was an arranged marriage and they did not love each other but in fact they did. They were very much in love and that's why it is so hard for her to move on because without her husband she is basically getting shunned. She lives with her husbands people who don't really like her very much. Because of this her husband had told her to go live in an "earthen grave", this statement leads us to believe maybe she is dead, and this passage is from her point of view after she has passed. Other example of the idea that she is dead include, "friends on earth", "roaming spirit".

<span style="color: #0056ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-7 <span style="color: #0056ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After reading Beowulf for the second time (once in high school) I seemed to pick up on a lot of different aspects of the text. For example the mead-hall was one. I don't remember the mead hall ever being important the first time I read this but this time I haven't let it leave my mind while reading. It was important in the beginning because of the meeting and planning area to kill Grendel and his mother and it was also a place of celebration. And then it was important again because this is where many people have tried to defeat Grendel but have failed, then Beowulf takes on the challenge. Towards the middle it still had about the same connotation. Towards the end is where I believe it picks up some significance. They still use the mead-hall as a celebration place and here is where Beowulf tells his story of how he killed Grendel's mother, it was sort of a place for him to talk about and show off his pride. But getting closer to the end the mead-hall gets burned down, seeming somewhat symbolic of Beowulf and his destiny?

<span style="color: #fa2424; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-14 <span style="color: #fa2424; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's Valentines day, and to rub it in everyone who is single face you bring up the idea of love. But this isn't the mushy type love so it was actually sort of comical to read these little blurbs. The one that stuck out to me most was 'Real jealousy always increases the feeling of love', this struck me because it seems to be extremely true. Not only in my own case but I see it in others too. Jealousy is a big part of a relationship whether you want it to or not. It always happens there when you are actually in love, when your not fully in love jealousy probably wont be so present.The other one about jealousy, 'He who is not jealous cannot love', is also very comical to me because it is somewhat true today. If you truly love someone than you will have some sort of jealousy, whether a lot or a little. Being the rules of courtly love scare people. No one likes rules, especially dealing with love. I personally don't think love should have rules or restrictions but whether we want to realize it or not they do have rules. Today it is still looked down upon when you cheat, it may not be considered a rule of a relationship but it certainly is an underlying rule in which you can't disobey.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1-26 <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recently I attended the Gareth Hinds presentation of Beowulf, the graphic novel. The art aspect of this presentation was fascinating. Not only did he awe me with his skills but he was able to whip out a sketch of a character in a matter of minutes! Comics were one of the first actual projects that Gareth worked most of his time on. You can clearly see that his ideas have transferred over to a lot of his work. He carries the comic idea and places it into a popular novel, which is something not seen very often.