English Literature 12

Thanks for the notes, Robyn!!
English Lit. Notes
May 11 2006
Disembarking in Quebec - by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood decided to write about Susanna Moody because she was one of the first canadian settlers. Margaret traces Susanna’s life coming to and being in Canada.
When Susanna came to Canada her life was not easy. Her status was gone and [...]

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Thank you, Tamara, for these great notes!
Victorian Era has a different view on nature, because they see it as calyst, instead of putting themselves in it
dramatic monologue (title gives it away)
dramatic - tells a story
monologue - one person is talking
so therefore dramatic monologue is a person talking like a poem or story form
addresses somebody with [...]

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Today’s class was time spent in the sun.
We looked at Keats’ “When I have Fears…”
Some brief notes from discussion that stick in my head:

this poem seems really personal, and not out to change the world like some of Shelley or Byron’s works
the poet claims to be afraid of dying before getting out all his thoughts
this [...]

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Another day of Eng. Lit Class
Mr. N went to see Beowulf and Grendel (not recommended to see)
Keats:
25 at death
Byron, Shelley: born into upper class, more leisure time
born into working class
1818: 23 yrs. publishes first poem; crap-crapped by critics, poem not very good
brother died of tuberculosis, met light of life: Fanny Brown
24: writes a ton [...]

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Thanks, Ango for taking these notes. She did them in many colours, which was really cool, but it doesn’t show up on the blog. Sorry.
(A stanza by stanza summary- one done by each of you!)
Apostrophe to the Ocean–George Gordon, by Lord Byron
1. Something special about going where there aren’t any people; solitude, being in [...]

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Thanks to Tamara for taking these extensive notes in class!
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from page 686
1.going to a wedding ~~~~> mariner stops someone ~~~~> and tells a story
2.on a ship ~~~~> storm ~~~~> stuck in the ice somewhere in the south pole
3.Albatross arrives ~~~~> things get better ~~~~> then [...]

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Thanks, Ben.
The Lamb:
- Blake talks about the lamb and how peaceful it is
- Blake goes on to compare the lamb to Jesus who was called “The Lamb of God”
- The poem uses apostrophe when Blake asks the lamb questions; he then answers himself
- Blake suggests that nature and man are equivalent in a way
- This [...]

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analysis on page 626 on the poem “To a Mouse on the turning her up in her nest with the plow, november, 1785 by Robert Burns”
Burns was born into a farming family who was poor
this time period for literature was spontaneous and filled with emotion
a time of thinking and reflection, a pastoral time
when he wrote [...]

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A big thank you to Ango for taking notes during this long and arduous class!
Here they are:
Thanks Again!
Romantic Period Mar. 1/06
-after Enlightenment era (Aha!!)
-science/order/proof
-reason (rebellion= spontaneous overflow of emotions)
(Rebellion stage–reaction against former stage to gain independence)
-sublime–> Nature, experience (pastoral poetry),
: moment of clarity, inspiration or awe
-rebellion against authority
-Rape of the Lock: made fun of high society/ruling [...]

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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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