english 44 final poetry analyses

There is a saying about virtue:
She nestles in rough untroden rocks
And reigns a divine, sacred land.
Not all mortals can see her.
Only those,
whose burning desire in their heart
leads them to the greatest deeds
http://homoecumenicus.com/ioannidis_ancient_greek_texts.htm


This is your application of the tenets of poetry you have learned in our class discussion. On your blue book, you are to do the following tasks:

1. Analyze the sounds of the poem

Greek Poetry
SOLON
2. discuss what makes the following poems pleasurable:
A. Chinese poetry
Outside the Eastern Gate

Green Mountain Perch

B. Japanese Poetry
Lady Sanuki

C. Korean Poetry
SIJO
beneath wisteria clusters, hidden, I wait in purple.
perfumed by petals, these longings rise, twine, intertwine and rise...
rise to break apart among clouds...silently break among clouds.

Retrieved from: http://thewordshop.tripod.com/Sijo/sijo-index.html

3. Pick at least three (3) images from each of the poems that follow and discuss their function in the poems.
A. English Poetry
Spring and Fall to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. The Scot Poetry
Poets Need Not


C. American poetry
The Chambered Nautilus


4. Pick at least five lines that uses figures of Speech from the following poems and discuss your classification in two-three simple sentences:
A. African Poetry
sorrows of eve

B. French Poetry
A Strange Poem

5. Analyze comprehensively the following poem using all the elements of poetry. Do not forget to show your supporting proofs in the analysis.
Bisong

Kalayo


*** these poems are all linked without consent yet

Submit your blue book Monday after the final exams week, that is MARCH 14, 2011 at &o'clock A.M. in the office.

Enjoy!!!
Have a great summer holiday ahead!

On Faithfulness (Odyssey)

In the tumultuous years of modern life, we have always wanted someone who could stand by and for us. Someone who would respect and view us as partners and not just mere servants or the like. Most of us, if not all of us, look for that someone who would be true and faithful to us. But how do we define faithfulness? Is it the ability to resist any form of temptation? Or, it is the ability to bear in mind the existence of our significant other? Does the definition of the word change through time?

Odysseus is loyal as he puts it. He came to live with Circe and Kalypso. He had enjoyed his years of stay with these two women. Now, isn't loyalty and faithfulness tied with one another? If they are, can we then consider Odysseus to be faithful still to Penelope? If they are not, then what is the difference between loyalty and faithfulness?

Hector and Andromache (Iliad)

The love of Hector and Andromache is exemplary.It is a love that is both tested by time and space (the proximity of lovers who are very near each other yet thousand miles separated due to their duties in their country, Troy).It would have been so difficult to see a loved one fight for dear life and it might be so painful to fight for dear life while knowing your loved one is seeing your defeat. A haiku will be a good salutation to a love that is so true.

The Face who Lauched a Thousand Ships (Iliad)

Helen, the most beautiful of all women, has enjoyed the lavish attention of all powerful men of her time. She puts even the men of today caught in her enigmatic beauty. Even the women admire her stature and beauty--some have even wished they were Helen.

Once married, she is dearly loved by her husband Menelaus. But as the story goes, she left him for Paris, younger brother of Hector and the most beautiful of all the Trojan Princes. Now, aside from the promptings of the goddess, what else could have been Helen's reasons fro leaving Menelaus and deciding to be known as Helen of Troy?