1.) I believe that the wild songs and poetry go good together, but they are very different from each other. If you look at any song they are all basically written in poetry form, so you could say that most poems are just like songs, basically just because of the way that they are written. Now if you were to look at it as a way of expression, then I believe that they are two totally different things. I think that poetry and wild songs are both great ways of expression that can let one express their emotions and feelings. Wild songs are basically about slavery. Slavery was a very dark time, so all of the wild songs are going to be dark, gloomy sad poems. Now a poem can be about anything, it can be happy or sad or whatever you are feeling. I feel that one particular set of poems that really got me was poems by John Keats. John Keats really expressed himself and all of his emotions in all of his poems.
2.) I think the love song that J. Alfred Prufrock wrote is basically one big dramatic monologue. I believe it is a dramatic monologue because it just follows all of the characteristics of a dramatic monologue. Some would say a monologue must have a few key things to be considered a monologue. One being that someone other than the poet himself is the speaker the entire way through the poem. You can find this true about "The Love Song." Another big giveaway is that the poet uses the kind of writing that we can get a good jest of the person without having it described to us. Basically we see for ourselves and we figure out this character on its own. Lastly, the person interacts with other characters in the stories, this being said even though we can't really tell what the other person's reaction is.
1. Wordsworth does not forget to talk about nature in his "Odes of Intimations of Immortality." Nature is all he talks about, especially about nature and its relationship to humanity. Nature is a beautiful thing, it's wonderful to look at and spend time admiring. He believes that humanity is not close enough to nature. The sun represented birth, which was good, but Wordsworth realized that anywhere he went glory could be taken away. The clouds make a dark setting, which is supposed to represent the bad things that happen in the world.
2. The sister was a great sister, who kept her brother looking forward towards the future, and often kept his mind busy by giving him something to think about to make it through the hard times. He loved nature, and went on to say nature never betrayed him. However, every time he though about his sister, he would become happy.
3. In this poem, it talks about how his memory of all the beautiful forms has "worked upon him in his absence from them." It goes on to talk about how his memories affected him, even when he was not aware that they were.
4. Poems from the romantic period mainly represented nature. Nature was basically a balancing of forces between nature and humans.
5. Keats and Shelley have some similarities in their poems. For instance, they both write about nature, which is a large way to show their emotions. One main difference, however, is that Shelley uses more of a darker mood while writing, where Keats uses less.
6. In my opinion, a single emotion that attracts the reader would be love. I think love attracts the reader, mostly because it is clearly influenced by nature. These poems are very strongly worded about nature and what they care about.
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's star,"
I personally feel that John Milton spends an extra amount of time emphasizing the dramatic concept of the fall, in other words, the felix culpa. Milton's main point in his epic is the story Adam and Eve's disobedience and fall of grace from God. Milton had a very different point of view about the fall, he believed that what we gained from the fall was very much a good thing. In his epic, he wishes to show and justify to man the way of God. By Adam disobeying God he opened the gate to what we all think that if Adam and Eve had not sinned that we would have lived a more perfect and happy life, however as Milton tells us without sin and death, we as Milton tells us without sin and death, we as humans have little to no importance. Now with the world having sin and death it gives people something to fear or hope for, it gives us reason to live. I think that God wishes for mankind to have a choice, God knows that we will all be tempted by Satan and that we will all sin, however he stills loves us and if we make the decision to obey and choose God then that is even for the better. God wants us to have free will and make our own mistakes and choices. However, he also wants us to fear him and know what our actions may bring unto us. I think Adam and Eve were prime examples of this.
The song I chose that relates to Milton is called A Story of God's Forgiveness sung by At Your Feet. It describes how God is able to forgive us much like he forgave Adam and Eve.
In the Wife of Bath's prologue when she is explaining about how she has had five husbands, she brings attention to the fact that she has never heard about there being a certain number of husbands one can have. Another fact she discovers is that men only have interpreted the Bible in a way that suits them, and whatever they believe. She also brings to attention that God says to increase and multiply, and there is not one time that he says where bigamy or ocotogamy is a sin or a scandal. She then goes on to say how King Soloman had more than one wife, and he was not looked down upon because of it. She brings up how to marry is no sin, because according to him, because it is better to marry than to burn. She then states that we were given organs accordingly, male or female, in order to be together, and increase the human population, which is what God had in store. In this, she is arguing against the Medieval Church, who is saying that virginity takes the prize. She also brings to attention that it says that a woman has power over her husband's body, and he over hers.
Let's shine some light on some of the major fallacies in this story. There are several, but I am going to describe two of the main ones. First is the fallacy of how many men women were allowed to marry. This is found in lines 13-27:
"That only once in life should I be wed.
And listen what a sharp word, too, was said
Beside a well by Jesus, God, and man,
In a reproof of the Samaritan:
'Now you have had five husbands,' Jesus said,
'But he who has you now, I say instead,
Is not your husband.' That he said, no doubt,
But what he meant I haven't figured out;
For I must ask, why is it the fifth man
Wasn't husband to the Samaritan?
How many men was she allowed to wed?
In all my years I've never heard it said
Exactly how this number is defined;
Men may surmise and gloss how it's divined,
But I expressly know it's not a lie"
The second fallacy is one that states that marriage is a means for sexual desires. It is found in lines 142-159:
"I don't begrudge them their virginity;
They're bread from finest wheat, so it be said,
And us wives be known as barley bread.
And yet with barley bread, as Mark can tell,
Was many a man by Jesus nourished well.
In such estate as God calls each of us
I'll persevere. I'm not fastidious,
In wifehood I will use my instrument
As freely as my Maker has it sent.
If I hold back, God bring me misery!
My spouse shall have it day and night, when he
Desires he may come forth and pay his debt.
I'll have a husband--I'm not quitting yet--
And he will be my debtor and my slave,
And in the flesh his troubles will be grave
As long as I continue as his wife;
For I will have the power all my life over his body, I and never he."
When asked to consider a song that the Wife of Bath might like, the song "Man I Feel Like a Woman" by Shania Twain immediately comes to mind. It is a song about a strong and independent woman who lives life by her own terms and follows her own rules. It's an empowering song, one that makes most girls want to stand up and scream it from the top of their lungs for everyone to hear. I think it is a perfect song that describes the Wife of Bath because she pretty much does whatever she wants, and doesn't care about the opinion of others.
"Let's go girls! Come on.
I'm going out tonight-I'm feelin' alright
Gonna let it all hang out
Wanna make some noise-really raise my voice
Yeah, I wanna scream and shout
No inhibitions-make no conditions
Get a little outta line
I ain't gonna act politically correct
I only wanna have a good time
The best thing about being a woman
Is the prerogative to have a little fun
Oh, oh, oh, go totally crazy-forget I'm a lady
Men's shirts-short skirts
Oh, oh, oh really go wild-yeah, doin' it in style
Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction
Color my hair-do what I dare
Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel
Man! I feel like a woman!
The girls need a break-tonight we're gonna take
The chance to get out on the town
We don't need romance-we only wanna dance
We're gonna let our hair hang down
The best thing about being a woman
Is the prerogative to have a little fun
Oh, oh oh, go totally crazy-forget I'm a lady
Men's shirts-short skirts
Oh, oh, oh really go wild-yeah, doin' it in style
Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction
Color my hair-do what I dare
Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel
Man! I feel like a woman!
The best thing about being a woman
Is the prerogative to have a little fun (fun, fun)
Oh, oh oh, go totally crazy-forget I'm a lady
Men's shirts-short skirts
Oh, oh, oh really go wild-yeah, doin' it in style
Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction
Color my hair-do what I dare
Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel
Man! I feel like a woman!
I get totally crazy
Can you feel it
Come, come, come on baby
I feel like a woman!"
Another question I am asked to consider is one that asks what celebrity reminds me most of the character of the Wife of Bath. I am choosing Ashley Tisdale while playing the role of Sharpay Evans in the popular Disney Channel Movie High School Musical. Tisdale does a great job of portraying a spoiled rotten brat who gets everything she could possibly want. She never gets in trouble, and could probably get away with robbing a bank. The Wife of Bath is similar because she strongly believes that it's either her way or the highway, and no one else's opinion matters but hers.
The detailed description of the changing of the seasons really starts before Gawain departs from Camelot in part 2. At this time, the season is Autumn. I believe that the changing of the seasons represent Gawain's emotions as he goes along his journey to eventually arrive to see the Green Knight. Throughout this journey, the seasons transform from a warm, pleasant and cheerful summer to a cold, dreary, and gloomy winter. Gawain arrives in Gringolet on New Year's Day, which is known as the promised day. When the giant knight first appears, he is wearing green to correspond with the warm pleasant weather. However, he eventually switches back to Sir Bercilak, who has a long, deep brown beard. The brown reminds one of the bare bark on trees during the winter. In a way, the descriptions of the seasons and how they change in the story is similar to the description of a man's life. When he is young and full of energy in the beginning, everything seems so bright and peaceful like the color green. Then, as the man continues through his life journey, everything begins to slowly die. The colors start to dull and fade into a brown color until it completely withers away, similar to the end of man's life.
A song that comes to mind when thinking of this story is one called "I Hope You Dance" by LeAnn Womack. This song is all about making the most out of every day of your life, even on your worst days, we need to find the best parts of that particular day. It is also a song that makes you think about how quickly life goes by, and how we should take advantage of every good and knowledgable opportunity given to us in this life, because one day, we won't have a chance to do it all over again. So readers, I hope you dance :)
"May you never take one simple breath for granted, God forbid love ever leave you empty handed."
1. The suitability of the penalties of sin in the Inferno is so that the punishments fit the sin that the person committed. The punishment the person has to endure is about the same hurt that they did to himself or to others. So as one gets farther into hell, the sins and the punishments get worse and worse.
2. In upper hell, people only go there because they were extremely self-indulged. For example, the only thing they did wrong was love and object too much or they were very greedy and nothing was good enough for them. The sins in upper hell are not nearly as bad as the sins committed in lower hell. The levels in upper hell are Limbo, Lustful, Gluttonous, Hoarders, and the Wrathful. These circles all have to do with the same things, like loving an object too much or wanting more of something you already have. But people in lower hell, they were put there because their purpose on earth was to harm themselves or others by violence or fraud. They are considered the more evil of people that are in hell.
3. Our perspective is different than Dante's because we don't believe that there is a Purgatory. Purgatory is where people are sent that takes you through cleansing your sins and puts you closer to Heaven. But we believe in getting forgiven by God for our sins throughout our lives and then when you die you get judged by God on your actions from your life and he then decides to forgive you if you take him as your savior or you go to hell.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" -William Shakespeare
1. When thinking about the poet's attitude towards Roland, a couple of things come to mind. In parts of the poem, you can see that the poet's attitude toward Roland is pretty good. He portrays Roland as a great and noble character. At one point in the poem, he states that Roland is bold and shows extreme bravery in several situations. I believe that all the poets were very fond of the character of Roland and wanted the readers to be able to look up to him in the story. 2. The attitude between Archbishop Turpin and the Crusaders' attitude is very interesting. The Archbishop Turpin and his Crusaders' basically fight and die alongside the hero Roland. I think the poet actually sees these characters as proud diligent warriors. They reflect from the Crusaders' and took after them. So I feel like the poet wanted to throw in some religious implications on these characters as well. 3. The supernatural and superhuman elements in the poem are very special as well. Roman would be a perfect example of a superhuman element in the poem. He was an excellent warrior, and not only that, but he also conquered great areas of land. An example of a supernatural element would be Roman's sword. It was all powerful 4. There was also some elements of oral poetry in the poem. The Song of Roland is the oldest surviving French poem on this earth. Although we do not know who wrote the poem or even when it was written. The story has been passed down orally for years and years. The poem basically describes everything that happened during the reign of the all might Christ warrior beast king Charlemagne. The poem goes around several countries during its duration.
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
2.) I think the love song that J. Alfred Prufrock wrote is basically one big dramatic monologue. I believe it is a dramatic monologue because it just follows all of the characteristics of a dramatic monologue. Some would say a monologue must have a few key things to be considered a monologue. One being that someone other than the poet himself is the speaker the entire way through the poem. You can find this true about "The Love Song." Another big giveaway is that the poet uses the kind of writing that we can get a good jest of the person without having it described to us. Basically we see for ourselves and we figure out this character on its own. Lastly, the person interacts with other characters in the stories, this being said even though we can't really tell what the other person's reaction is.
