Sunday, April 19, 2015

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. 

Sunday, April 12, 2015

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. 

Thursday, April 2, 2015

The Canterbury Tales

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.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Green Knight

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.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

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. 

Sunday, March 8, 2015

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. 

Sunday, March 1, 2015

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.