English 123 Notes 7/23/2008

HOMEWORK

• pick three passages from Mister Pip to explain and share with the class on Friday in order to help with the overall understanding of the novel. Be ready to explain why you chose the passages and what they mean to you. These three passages should be in your term paper as topics.
  
• The rough draft of the term paper is due on Monday, 3-5 pages typed and double spaced; for the term paper avoid sentimental feelings and be educational and insightful.

Everything you need to know is always right in front of you.

Richard Wibur's - "The Writer"

• the work is about a father's realization of his daughter and her talent, writing.
• the things we think are irrelevant are actually the most relevant
  
• always a matter of life and death

Why do we suffer?? We suffer so the poets and singers will have something to write and sing about.

Promethia- to think of something beforehand
Walkabout- people learning to read the landscape as a score of music or poetry.
Muse- greek inspiration, gave unhuman objects human characteristics to help with poetic impulse.
CLASS SONNETS

Luke- The Puzzle ( mis en abyme)

• based on notes from a walkabout in Australia he went on
• all alone, able to do some thinking and writing
• wrote about experience there
• he went there because he was unhappy with who he was and wanted to be someone who he respected.
• went through the twirling and looking in process and discovered if there was an angel or demon inside of him.

Stephanie- Amatory Soliluquoy

• about love and the one true love
• Shakespearean, to her boyfriend of 1 years
• sends poem every day in mail to him saying he is the mud between her toes after a rain storm :)
• sonnet led to 3 page letter to him, in exchange for the poems he writes her music

Jason- The Wreck

• to ATV he wrecked last weekend in the ATV accident
• Shakespearean
• sending to the owner of the ATV
  
• Owner is a doctor with an English undergrad degree

Whitney

• written to her father
• Shakespearean

Tracy- Rob's Sonnet

• one of her best friends from work
• Met him at the bar in Belgrade that she works at
• Very close friend who she enjoys spending time with

Kimberly

• to a family in Seattle that she is very close to; they are like her family
• written to a horse they just got after the old horse and the old dog died; tragic time

Krystal- Kyven's Sonnet

• written to her son Kyven which means handsome in Irish
• written about her son and there times together
• read it to him and they giggled together
• used the line "Let me count the ways" from Elizabeth Browning's poem

Greg- Sunflower

• written for his wife of 2 years
• her favorite flower is a sunflower
• Shakespearean
  

Amber- I do

• written for her husband who is a doctor with an english as his undergrad degree
• quoted line from his favorite song: "Even puppies come under suspicion"
• Shakespearean

Ryan- Clam During the Storm

• was the ONLY person to write an Italian sonnet
• inspired by getting caught in the thunder storm on Tuesday night and a lady let him come into her house and get shelter

Dominique- In Somewhere

• written about the human mind
• Shakespearean
• focuses on a point that everyone reaches in the life where you can either stay there or chose to work your way out of it
  

Medina- Joy

• written about mother
• Shakespearean
• about the rough time period of my teenage years when I was growing up
• about the hard relationship that has now changed to a friendship

All we are, are our stories

• EXAM QUESTION:

WHAT ISSUE DOES MATILDA'S MOTHER HAVE WITH MR WATTS?
He is teaching the children lies, he is teaching about something that does not exist; fiction

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer- John Keats

• the guy has read a lot of books and therefore he has been to many different places throughout these books
• books help you go to many new and faraway places
• Chapman's book changed his life; he had an epihphany
• The poem is not factual because it says Cortez discovered the Pacific, but that is ok because the way it is written is beautiful.
• Just because someone reads instead of going places does not mean that have any less life experience.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_First_Looking_into_Chapman's_Homer