Sunday, 15 November 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Organising your Blogs
I have just been reading your Blogs and thought that you might want to start organising them. Use the Labels option at the bottom of your new posts. You will then have a list on the side of your blog which will group your posts and you will find stuff more easily. You could categorise your posts into text titles or periods or even different types of love?
British Literature and Traditions
I just found this book which looks as though it might be interesting. It focuses on the Anglo Saxon 'Beowulf', which dates prior to the period required for your study of 'Love Through the Ages', and it's more about war than love, but it's an interesting period of Literature which some of you might be interested in exploring.
British Literature: Traditions & Change | Many Voices Anthology
British Literature: Traditions & Change | Many Voices Anthology
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
Check out this SlideShare Presentation, but the slides from 32 to the end about the parodies of the poem are very odd. The first part of the presentation is excellent.:
What is a metaphysical poem?
Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole experience of man, but the intelligence, learning and seriousness of the poets means that the poetry is about the profound areas of experience especially - about love, romantic and sensual; about man's relationship with God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art.
Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Note that there may be two (or more) kinds of argument in a poem. In To His Coy Mistress the explicit argument (Marvell's request that the coy lady yield to his passion) is a stalking horse for the more serious argument about the transitory nature of pleasure. The outward levity conceals (barely) a deep seriousness of intent. You would be able to show how this theme of carpe diem (“seize the day”) is made clear in the third section of the poem.
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
View more presentations from Andre Oosthuysen.
What is a metaphysical poem?
Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole experience of man, but the intelligence, learning and seriousness of the poets means that the poetry is about the profound areas of experience especially - about love, romantic and sensual; about man's relationship with God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art.
Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Note that there may be two (or more) kinds of argument in a poem. In To His Coy Mistress the explicit argument (Marvell's request that the coy lady yield to his passion) is a stalking horse for the more serious argument about the transitory nature of pleasure. The outward levity conceals (barely) a deep seriousness of intent. You would be able to show how this theme of carpe diem (“seize the day”) is made clear in the third section of the poem.
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell 1621 - 1678
Marvell - Metaphysical poet attempts to persuade his 'mistress' to seize the day or perhaps he is more concerned with the fleeting nature of life and beauty.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
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