For my final project, I chose to analyze a poem written by Sir Philip Sidney titled “Leave me, O’ Love, which reachest but to dust.” This poem was part of one of Sidney’s collections titled “Certain Sonnets” that he wrote in the 1570s into the 1580s. It is noted that Sidney’s poems were not publicized… Read more Final Project
Category: Third Project Fall 2020
Healing Sermon (Project 3)
“Praise Jesus” I stated as my followers repeated it back to me “I will now heal my most devote of followers. I will now allow David to stand from his wheelchair all he has to do is drink this holy water. Now David do you beleieve in the lord?” “Yes”, he mummers. “DO YOU LOVE… Read more Healing Sermon (Project 3)
Worlds in Worlds
I really enjoyed Margaret Cavendish’s work so I decided to look at one of her poems that we didn’t discuss in class. I looked at her poem “ Of Many Worlds in This World”, her poem is about how every world has smaller worlds inside of each other. I really enjoyed the poem but I… Read more Worlds in Worlds
Similizing the Brain to a Garden, but one in like Washington State or something – Matt Travers
The brain sometimes is not full of delight A garden which sometimes struggles for sunlight. Where some days the sun shines on shimmering streams, and on others the dark consumes innocent dreams. Where petals of beautiful flowers oft fall Where life always lives, even when odds are small. You see sometimes our lives can be… Read more Similizing the Brain to a Garden, but one in like Washington State or something – Matt Travers
Kahoot Games
Beowulf: https://create.kahoot.it/share/beowulf-review/8c35d2db-2917-40a4-9130-488aed54d2fb Othello: https://create.kahoot.it/share/othello-review/eee94fc8-34e8-4b1d-8d37-b924cbde87f6 Paradise Lost: https://create.kahoot.it/share/paradise-lost-review/d4fab014-d991-48dc-82b4-9c186465538b While looking through the unessays others created for their second project, I really liked the format used to create a Kahoot about Faerie Queene. For a fourth and final project, I decided that I wanted to create similar games, focusing on a text from each of the time… Read more Kahoot Games
A Commonplace Book (Analyzing Gender Roles through Literature)
Commonplace books were popular ways to compile knowledge from the renaissance to the 19th century. Things like poems, recipes, and important quotes to remember were written down in these books along with a description or notes on the topic. People would store quotations, definitions, and include personal observations along with them. Professor Helms gave me… Read more A Commonplace Book (Analyzing Gender Roles through Literature)
Since the Beginning…
Jocks, popular, orch-dorks, nerds, band geeks, etc. are all stereotypical groups to which we associate with high school and stereotypical high school movies. The apparent necessity to create this social hierarchy dominates the world we live in and the world we know, starting at a young age. This hierarchy I speak of can even be… Read more Since the Beginning…
To Her Brazen Suitor: a response
To Her Brazen Suitor My coyness is no crime of mine As this world turns with planets align. We could sit and talk of our lives all day So long as you never think to stray. My heart is thorny like a rose’s stem But could you keep me like a rare gem. My mind… Read more To Her Brazen Suitor: a response
Demons and their development over time.
When looking at the portrayal of demons in paradise lost, I came to my attention that this is very different from the ways they are portrayed in other pieces of media, and even in the Bible itself. Following this line of thought, I decided to use several of the theses from Monster Culture, primarily Theses… Read more Demons and their development over time.
Garden to Garden
Similarities Knowledge and the Sun “And higher then that Wall a circling row Of goodliest Trees loaden with fairest Fruit, Blossoms and Fruits at once of golden hue Appeerd, with gay enameld colours mixt: On which the Sun more glad impress’d his beams (Book 4, lines 146-150).” ——— “The brain a garden seems, full of delight, Whereon the sun of knowledge shineth bright (lines 1-2).” Both Milton and Cavendish touch… Read more Garden to Garden