English Literature 12

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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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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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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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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Aside : used during a play to allow the audience to ‘overhear’ the character’s thoughts. An aside occurs when other actors are on stage, but the person speaking does so as if it is ‘under their breath’ or, spoken so the audience hears, but not the other characters on stage. This enables the [...]

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Shakespearean Sonnet: A twist on the sonnet…Shakespeare’s sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. Usually, the third quatrain will alter the general direction the poem is taking, and the rhyming couplet (two rhymed lines of poetry) will sum it all up.
rhyme scheme (the [...]

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We have completed experiencing Mel Gibson’s “Hamlet”. My hope is that this pre-viewing of the film will enable us to travel more smoothly through the text together. I have to admit that I have read “Hamlet” approx. five or six times, but each time I find more areas to explore. It is exciting stuff!
Reading for [...]

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As announced in class on Tuesday, we will be viewing the movie adaptation of Hamlet starring Mel Gibson today and tommorow.
This is a warmup to our reading the text starting next week.
Enjoy the show.

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For Thursday’s class, examine page 245. There are two poems there:
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Pay attention to the tone in each and how they compare. We will explore this in class and you will probably be blogging a response.
I will also give time in class for [...]

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