Defence of Poetry

At the end of chapter II, Douglass says that the “wild

songs” of slaves express and relieve their unhappiness. In A

Defence of Poetry , Shelley proclaims that “Poetry is the record of

the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

To what degree is their disagreement resolved if we view “wild

songs” and poetry as fundamentally different means of

expression? Could one argue that the two forms are similar and

that the contradiction suggested in this juxtaposition is more

apparent than real? Drawing on the reading you have done this

semester, define poetry and song and explain the emotions that

seem to produce them. 2. What kind of poem is The Love Song of

J. Alfred Prufrock ? Is it a monologue? A dramatic monologue? An

inner monologue? What difference does such identification make?

1. Poems are usually written to have a flow to them that maybe could be written by a composer into a song. This allows one to show feeling without actually having to tell it. However, I do not agree with Shelley because although poems sometimes have happier emotions, but not all poems are about happy moments. Some poems have dark depressing emotions that only one who has felt pain or despair would understand. This is clear to anyone who reads or writes poetry. 

2. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a dramatic monologue. I believe this because it follows all the characteristics that defines a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue consist of; someone other than the poet who's speech is the entire poem, that person must interact with others, and the poet shows us that persons character without descriptions. 

Nature and Its Beauty

From this list answer in detail.

 Part1 -1. Wordsworth: Sunshine and clouds in

Immortality.

2. An impression of the “sister” in Tintern Abbey . 

3. The morality of Tintern Abbey  (or of Immortality ).

Part2- Discuss in the poems from the Romanticism Period: 4. The

function of nature in a single. 5. A comparison between a

Keats poem and one by Shelley. 6. A single emotion that attracts

the speaker—and why.

Part 1. 

In "odes on Intimations of Immortality" Wordsworth mentions nature. In his poem nature and its relationship to humanity makes up the poem. When words worth things about nature he feels sad, even though nature is a great gift from god. Wordsworth wonders about how theses people can have their spirits and get back on their feet if they seem to be falling.  The sunshine provides him with a sense that there is a glorious birth. The birth Reminds us that it comes from someone's setting. The clods gather around a setting sun which brings about a darkness to the sky. The darkness in the sky or the clouds remind us that bad things can happen and are happening in the world. 

Part 2

1.  In the poem, nature was meant to represent humanity. Mother Nature is used in the poem to be a balancing force. If the poem talked about nature being sunshine it meant something like birth or a new beginning. The winter is usually talking about bad events. Poems during this time were trying to get across the meanings and descriptions of things that is still happening here to this day. 

2. Shelley and Keats both use nature to express their personal feelings.  After reading their poems if feel like they use nature to express what they are feeling. Shelley is disgruntled with the king and Princes and therefore talks about muddy springs. In Bright star, Keats is talking about being lonely and desire for love.  

3. Love is an emotion that grabs the most attention. Love is about mystery and has a great story behind it. Love is just like nature in that it is beautiful. When you look at nature you find more things that you love about it. With love, you find more things about the person that you are attracted to and fall even more in love with them. 

Paradise Lost

Analyze, in specific passages from the selections in the

Anthology , the ways in which Milton dramatizes the concept of the

fall as a felix culpa a “happy fault,” What songs are appropriate for

 Milton? Images?

In Paradise Lost the main theme is Adam and Eve lost paradise by disobeying God's orders. Milton tries to make the fall appear not as a bad thing. This "Happy fault" brings out some good things that happen in the fall of Adam and Eve. However I think that Milton is stretching reality and is completely wrong. You can not find good in the biggest mistake of Mankind. There is no good in something that created sin, death , and hell.  Milton can not minimize the mistake of Adam and Eve. 

I feel like this is what Milton was saying adam and eve were feeling like through this song by Darius Rucker. 

The Canterbury Tales

 In her Prologue, Alysoun challenges the Medieval

Church (priests, theologians, and all) on the subject of marriage

and points out numerous fallacies in their reasoning. Identify at

least two of these fallacies. Don’t go to Google for this one. Use

the text. Choose a song that you think the Wife of Bath would like

and explain why you think so. Include the lyrics and a link to the

song. What celebrity can you visualize as the Wife of Bath? Why?

Include her picture (or his, whichever the case may be… ).

In The Wife of Bath's prologue, Alysoun argues against the Medieval Church by explaining how she has had five husbands. During this explanation she defends herself by saying that she has never heard about there being a limit to the number of husbands one can have. That man has only interpreted the Bible to what they believe it to say. She when explains the passage where God says to increase and multiply. That he does not once say that bigamy or even octogamy is a sin or scandal. She continues to say that King Solomon had more than one wife and yet he was not ridiculed or judged for it.

The Wife of Bath reminds me of a song by Alan Jackson called Small Town Southern Man.  It reminds me of The wife of bath because it is the opposite of her and talking about only having one marriage and that it is only a one time thing.

The Green Knight

 Gawain’s quest for the Green Knight is accompanied by

detailed descriptions of the changing seasons of the year. How

does this attention to weather and landscape complement the

figure of the giant knight, who appears both in green and, as Sir

Bercilak, with a beard “of a beaver’s hue”—that is, a deep brown?

How would you compare the role played by seasonal change in

the characters’ lives here with that in other poems and narratives

you have read? Choose a song and pictures to complement your

response.

As Part two of the poem begins the seasons change more. Gawain parts from Camelot when it is autumn. I feel that the seasons changing represents Gawain's emotions he is going through on his journey to find the Green Knight.  The seasons go from warm happy feelings to sad and dark feelings throughout his travels. As Gawain arrives the Green Knight transforms into Sir Bercilak with a dark brown beard. I feel that when the Green Knight is green he stands for youth and liveliness. When the Green Knight is Sir Bercilak I feel that his dark brown beard stands for the old age and death of all life. 

This is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. I feel this describes what I explained above. The first couple seasons are happy, as you get to winter it gets more dark and does not so cheerful or playful.

Dante's Inferno

BLOG : 1. The suitability of the penalties to the sins in the

Inferno . 2. The differences between upper and lower Hell. 3.

Possible differences between Dante’s perspective and ours.

1. The suitability of the penalties to the sins in the inferno is that the punishment fit the sin. They each gets punished just as harshly as their sins. That's why as at the beginning of hell the punishment is light and as you get deeper it get harsher. The ones that are in the Ninth circle of hell are getting chewed by Lucifer. 

2. The people in upper hell are only there because of self-indulgence. This means that they didnt do anything wrong, but love something or someone to much. However the people in lower hell were put there because the main out come was to harm others either through violence or fraud. 

3.  Our view on hell that there is only one level of hell and everyone goes there because of their sins. Dante on the other hand has hell split into 9 levels each one getting worst as you go deeper in hell. We also believe that when you die god can decide whether or not you can be forgiven for your sins and sent to heaven instead of hell. Dante believed that you had to pay for your sins no matter what. 

Song of Roland

Discuss: 1. The poet’s attitude toward Roland. 2.

Archbishop Turpin and the Crusaders’ attitude. 3. The

supernatural and the superhuman elements in the poem. 4.

Elements of oral poetry in Roland .

In the Song of Roland the poet portrays Roland as a Hero. The poet did this by making Roland a courageous person who is very confident in his army. The poet had Roland die in a heroic death and sent him straight to God's Kingdom (Heavin). Archbishop Turpin fought bravely beside Roland, to which he proved his loyalty to Roland. The poet also made the Archbishop the inspiration for the first crusade. The Christian crusades brought the crusaders who were for the cause of the crusade. The Crusaders also fought along Roland in the Crusade. This also proves that they had loyalty and were brave. First of the story is an Epic, which epics were told Orally. The Song of Roland is broken up into verses. Which inside the verses the 4th and 10th syllables had emphasis on them or know in the musical world a syllabic stress .  Many of the poetic devices in  The Song of Roland are lost when it is translated from the dialect of Old French in which it was composed.