“Monday March 31, 2009”

The way Id like to start off my first assignment is by talking about quotes that seemed relavent and that stood out to me one was in act I, scene 2 on pgs (129–158).

“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,
Let me not think on’t, Frailty, thy name is woman A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father’s body Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,Would have mourn’d longer, married with mine uncle, My father’s brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married: O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue.”
Hamlet say’s this after the fact of going thru the the terrble scene at Claudius and Gertrude’s court, then his mother and stepfather asked him not to come back to Wittenberg but to stay in Denmark, and Hamlet really didnt want to do it. This is when Hamlet thinks about suicide (desiring his flesh to “melt,” and wishing that God had not made “self-slaughter” a sin), saying that the world is “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” This meant that he no longer wanted to live but he wanted to commit suicide , this was the only thing he thought could relieve his feelings and to get away from the life in that painful world/society that he lived in. But Hamlet thinks also thinks that suicide is not really and option for him because of his religious beliefs. Hamlet then starts to describe the causes of his pain, espeacially the fact that his mother married to Claudius. He describes this hateful feelings towards their marriage. Than He compares Claudius to his father (his father was “so excellent a king” while Claudius is a bestial “satyr”). Hamlet then talks about the description of their marriage, he says “Frailty, thy name is woman”; incest, commenting that his mother moved “with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”; and the ominous omen the marriage represents for Denmark, that “it is not nor it cannot come to good.”So his mom really commited incest and he new it was’nt to fond of it either. This is what I got out of act 1 scene 2 . 

Monday March 23, 2009

“Kubla Khan" is more prone to intertain the imagination. Kubla Khan enjoys life and is allways in good spirits I think . In the last line, Coleridge says he drinks the milk of Paradise so therefore that shows that he was’nt cautioning against the imagination. The only way for everyone to get to their own personal "paradise" is through their imagination and thier minds Khan shows you how to obtain that. The Earth will never be a paradise- without imagination during the times we live in. Thats why imagination plays a bing role in life. We could never experience what that might be like without the woderful imagination God created us with. Throughout the whole poem, there is a general sense of indulgence and feelings of what it was like in Kubla Khan's world. Just because he indulgdes himself in ornate things does not make his paradise a bad place. Every once in a while, everyone needs to be indulgent in things of thier intrest.

Some questions that I thought was Relavant!
1. Why does swift use Irony to get his point across about how he feels about the Lilliput leaders?

2. Why do you think that the people of Lilliput tied Gulliever down?

3. What does the height difference of Gulliever represent?

4. From reading what Swift writes about his society what connections we make to the society in which we live today?

Some of the moments that I found to discuss with the class is the size in which they portrayed Guilliver as being verses the size of the Lilliput officials/people. I think that it's of great importance to the txt and to what they were trying to represent.
Many students would find the txt difficult because of the language that the txt uses. I think a great way to help students understand more of the txt is to look at the vocabulary and define the meaning of the words than use and read the definition tom understand the passage. Ex: "lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill, but distinct voice, Hekinah degul." The definition of Hekinah degul is a represintation of Pig latin meaning non-sense words! So as we see the definition can difine the whole sentence or paragraph.I leaned much from my small Student teacher group it really helped me to appreaciate the value of others thoughts and reasonings on difficult text as this. I also learned how to disscuss the relivance of the txt in contrasting my thoughts with the society in which we live today.