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. 

What Beatitudes and Other Religions believe

Compare the recommendations for human conduct

offered in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5.3–11) and those that are

implied in the Greek texts you have read. 2. How do Islamic

perceptions of Heaven and Hell differ from those of Christianity

and Judaism? 3. What is the Koranic attitude toward women as

revealed in Sura 12 (Joseph)?

The Beatitudes practice Christianity. They look to the bible and its stories to help guide them in their religion. They also believe in god. In the text that we have read in class the characters follow the greek gods. They do not read a book like the bible to help them practice their religion. The mortal and the gods communicate often and the gods give the mortals advice. For the Beatitudes, this does not happen usually. The only interaction they get are from other mortals or when God and the prophets talk. 

In the Islamic religion they believe in Allah. Allah is similar to God because is the king of heaven. Islamics believe that heaven has multiple ates and Allah decides wether you get to pass through each gate or not. If your bad deeds outweigh your good, you go to Hell known as Jahnnam. Christianity and Judaism are very similar in their beliefs. believe that when you die God decides whether or not you go to heaven or hell. They both believe that once you go to heaven or hell that is where you remain.

The Koranic attitude towards women is that women are treated like objects than human beings. They are only really there to pleasure and nurture men. 

Similarities and Differences between Aeneas, Achilles, and Odysseus.

 Discuss the character of Aeneas, which has often come

in for harsh criticism. (Charles James Fox, the eighteenth-century

English statesman, found him “either insipid or odious,” and

William Butler Yeats speaks of an Irishman who thought Aeneas

was a priest.) The implied comparison is of course with epic

heroes such as Achilles and Odysseus. How far is such an

attitude justified?

In my eye, I feel that Aeneas was a caring and charitable man. Him and his father had to go on a voyage to find a new place to live. Aeneas was the leader of the allies in the Trojan War. He also led a group of refugees to Italy and became the founder of Roman culture. All of the hardships that Aeneas had to go through, makes him just as epic as Achilles and Odysseus. Aeneas was so focused on finding a new life that he gave up his true love and also proved his courage. 

Aristotle terms and meanings

Give a brief but clear explanation of what Aristotle means

by the following terms (not an internet definition or something you

learned in high school – use only Aristotle’s text):

• Tragedy

• hamartia  (Be careful; it does NOT mean tragic flaw.)

• katharsis  (Use Aristotle’s text)

• deus ex machina  What does this literally mean? How does

Aristotle feel about it?)

 Include images of Ancient Greek theater ruins such as Aristotle would have known.

Tragedy-Aristotle says a tragedy is an impression  of an action that is complete,serious and possessing magnitude. A tragedy was higher than history because it extravagates what could happened instead of just telling us what happened. It is a drama not a narrative meaning it shows us the story rather than telling it. It creates a cause and effect chain which reveals what had happened at anytime. 

Hamarita- Means tragic mistake, it is mostly mistaken for a tragic flaw. Aristotle says it doesn't come from being immortal but yet it is not possible to not have a tragic mistake. Aristotle also says it is "A law of necessity or probability".  It is also normal for the character to bring about their own downfall.

Kartharsis-Means cleansing of the tragic emotions of pity and fear. I feel that Aristotle uses this to take away the fear and pity the audience has, that he created earlier in the story. 

Deus ex machina- Means "god from the machine"  There was a machine in the theater to show the gods flying above the actors or actresses. Aristotle despised the idea and wanted to  get away from the idea. He also wanted the scene to look real. 

What makes an Tragic Figure

The Sophoclean Hero Sophocles’ heroes are famous for

their determination and single-minded perseverance, their

privileging of the individual over the city or the community, and

their force of character. Although Antigone gives her name to this

play, Creon has by far the greater number of lines, and he is the

one to suffer a tragic “reversal.” Discuss what makes each of them a tragic figure, you 

may also wish to address the question of how Antigone’s gender

affects her role as a heroic figure.

Both Creon and Antigone are tragic figures. Creon is a tragic figure because He ruled as a king. When he decided to deny Polyneices the proper burial. This broke one of the gods laws stating that each man should have a proper burial.  This throws him into a fate of suffering. Creons human flaws and emotions such as pride and arrogance led him to his down fall which ties him to being a tragic hero.  Antigone shows the power of women. She is faithful to the gods. She also cares a lot about her family too. 

 Creon is above and Antigone is in the picture below.

The music in the video is very interesting. I typed in music of Antigone and got this.

Relationships in and Between stories.

Odysseus and Athena. Compare their relationship with

that of Job and God. What does this suggest about the religious

attitudes of the Hebrews and the Greeks? [For Odysseus-Athena,

analyze carefully the long interview between them in XIII.252ff.] 2.

Discuss Woman’s role in the Odyssey . [Faithful consort

(Penelope, Arete) or temptation (Circe, Calypso, the Sirens, even

Nausicaa). Helen has been one and is now the other. How

“female” is Athena?] 3. List and differentiate the different

recognitions of Odysseus, in- tended and unintended

Job was a persistent follower of God.  He puts all of his trust in Him and Satan wants to test him.  The Lord allows and Satan takes everything from him.  Job continues to stay faithful to the Lord and He blesses him tremendously for it. Athena directs Odysseus without telling him the answer. She doesn’t necessarily come straight out and tell him what to do or where to go. The women were strong and wise and had a lot to do with what the men did.  They seemed to be in control. Odysseus made through a lot at the end of the story without being noticed, but he eventually did get noticed because of a scar on his leg. Odysseus and Athena still had a close relationship just like Job and god. Odysseus and Job both had great trust and put all their faith into their god. This is a good thing because you always need to put faith into your god that you believe in and good things will come in return. 

Joseph and his Coat

Campbell’s description, is Joseph an epic hero? Explain, using

quotes from the Biblical text. (Remember that, for Campbell, an

epic hero doesn’t have to fit every single one of these stages, just

most of them.) What epic things does Joseph accomplish? How

many lives are affected by his behavior and his choices? Think

about Aristotle’s telos here. In Egypt, Joseph seems to be a “trust

magnet.” Is this ability to attract trust a gift from God? How does

Joseph use his gifts? Include an mage of Joseph from The

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Remember that, for Campbell, an epic hero doesn't have to fit every single one of these stages, just most of them. That means, any hero doesn't have a standard path, different hero have different epic in these stages. people can not follow their path, and also hero can not copy at all. But, when we compare all epic hero, we can find out one characters that is all hero have different aspects. The hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The hero who accepts the call to enter this unknown world must face tasks and trials.In the most intense versions of the narrative, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help. If the hero survives, he may achieve a great gift. The hero must then decide whether to return to the ordinary world with this gift. If the hero does decide to return, he or she often faces challenges on the return journey. I do believe that Joseph is an epic hero. I believe this because Joseph died for his family. This makes an epic hero in my mind when you are willing to sacrifice your life for someone else or something else to help other people down then road.

Gilgamesh and Genesis The Great Flood Stories, Also Gilgamesh compared to other Epics.

Gilgamesh and the Genesis The Great Flood Stories. 

     If you notice that the stories are both talk about the great flood. There are different in many ways. Lets start with Gilgamesh's portray on the great flood. The flood was announced to utnapishtim in his dreams. There were seven stories of the boat also in this version. The shape of the boat was cubed. Utnapishtim was allowed to take his family and a few others. There was only heavy rain. The flood only lasted six short days. There were a dove, a swallow and a raven on board. The arks landing spot was Mount. Nisir. The cause of the flood was Man's Sins. The sender was the assembly of "gods".


    Now lets talk about the Genesis version of the story. In the Genesis it is said that the flood was announced to Noah by God himself. There were also only three stories on the boat. the shape of the boat was oblong box. Noah also did not complain when he was told to build the boat. Noah was only allowed to take his family. There was water coming from underground and from heavy rain. The flood lasts for 40 days and nights.The arks landing spot in this version was the mountains of Ararat. The cause of the flood was man's wickedness. The sender of the flood was Yahweh. The boat only carried a raven and three doves.

    The common things between the two stories are the flood was global. They both were ordered to build a boat. The boats had many compartments inside,one window and one door. The outside coating of the boat was pitch. They both released birds to find land. They both sacrificed after the flood and blessed after the flood.
here is a musical song that describes noahs ark in its context of music

The comparison of Gilgamesh and The Other Epics. 
(this is about the relationship of the gods and the protagonist.)

   I believe in all the epic poems the gods have a real close relationship with the protagonist. The gods either meet up with them at some point in the story to help them or to lead them a stray. In the odyssey the gods help  odysseus at one point but when he doesn't repay them with respect he gets turned on. One Example is when Poseidon helps him stay hidden in the horse and when he odysseus gets back to the see poseidon will not let him return home because of not thanking him for the help he had gotten from a god.  In the Illiad Achilles gets help from the gods to know how and when to beat hector.  The gods in  Gilgamesh help him by getting him together with his true love but then his true love gets taken away from in his future.