English Literature 12

Thanks to Iain for these notes. Sorry, the bullets didn’t paste in…
Rape of the Lock Pt. II
Belinda is playing a card game that has become a war between spirits
The game has come down to one final hand
Belinda plays the King, and it looks like she’ll win
Now Belinda and her opponent are having coffee
The coffee helps [...]

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A big thanks to Rachel for taking notes this class, as Pope’s work was, and is, a tough one to follow!
To the Ladies By Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
-warning against a woman getting married
Line 1-2 – A wife is like a servant, but has a better name
Line 5-8 – When she says her [...]

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Notes: February 20, 2006
review of last class:
 -epic/extended simile- ‘big and long’ comparison, Greek stuff, etc.
 -Satan and Beelzebub went on a tour around hell
 -’mission statement’: take everything, even good, and turn it in to evil
 -Beelzebub- “What’s the good if God is going to win anyway?”
 -if Beelzebub was in charge, would things not be as bad?
 -Milton’s purpose- [...]

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Lit. Class Notes:
           

Some review of medias res, invocation to the muse…..
Purpose of the story:  “To justify the ways of God to men”
Into the story:  We’re in hell, post Satan’s rebellion
Hell is like a prison.  Typical modern view of hell; scorching inferno suffering, etc
Satan and his followers have their rude awakening and Satan addresses Beelzebub
Satan remarks [...]

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Thanks to Robyn for these great class notes!

Literature 12 Notes.
Monday February 13, 2006.

*Epic- A very long story. There is an Epic hero. There’s the exile, journey, then the return. Good vs. evil. It starts usually in what’s known as the medias res (in the middle of things). Another thing an epic has is that there [...]

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Here’s hoping this works! You should see a link so you can download the timeline up to the Enlightenment….give it a try and let me know (ie drop a comment here) if it works!
timeline

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Here’s hoping this works! You should see a link so you can download the timeline up to the Enlightenment….give it a try and let me know (ie drop a comment here) if it works!

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Hi everyone,
Here are my rough reading notes for these poems. I have also included vocabulary stuff.
Donne – A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning
First off, the title really strikes me here. I have to admit, I had to look up valediction in the dictionary.
“Valediction: saying farewell; a taking leave, an instance of this, a speech made [...]

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Hi Everyone,
A strange class today, what with the ‘waiting for the lockdown’ and all…
Thank you for working through this and for letting us burn through a few poems. I will post my reading notes to them after this.
Assigned for Monday (no lit. class on Friday):
Read: Milton’s Sonnet XIX (”On His Blindness”) and blog an answer [...]

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Here’s my rough notes on these:
Donne – A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning
First off, the title really strikes me here. I have to admit, I had to look up valediction in the dictionary.
“Valediction: saying farewell; a taking leave, an instance of this, a speech made at this time” (Webster’s New English Dictionary and Thesaurus, [...]

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