Dark Romanticism
I believe that the dark romantics thought that everyone had a evil side inside of them, and how much of it shows determines what kind of person you are. I believe I am more on the dark romantics side because if a person is too mean or just a plain jerk I dont like them very much, but I also share the nature views from transcedentalism. That nature is from god and should be enjoyed as such. Seeing as I have to deal with people more than be out in nature I would fall on the dark romantics side of the divide.
The Masque of Red Death
The Masque of Red Death is a story where a prince is worried about catching the "Red Death." The Red Death is a disease that would give you sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding through the pores of the skin. The whole process takes around thirty minutes to kill you. So the prince takes his closest friends along with several different types of entertainers to hold up in a so-called safe house to make sure that he doesn't catch the Red Death. They make it six months before the persona of the Red Death comes into the safe house to kill them all. This writing goes against the Transcendantalists views on the basis that diseases come from nature. This particular one is killing a lot of people really fast. Transcendantalists wouldn't think that nature or god could do this to the people especially if it comes after a specific target as it did with the prince and his party. In the Transcendantalists view god is pure, so he wouldn't kill all those people or harm them in anyway.
The Raven
The Raven is a poem about a man who has lost someone dear to him. He decides to get over his grief, or at least try and lessen the amount of grief he feels, by reading something relaxing. As he his nodding off he gets disturbed by a raven tapping on his door. The man believes this bird was sent from god or the angels to help his suffering but when the bird responds to his questions, the man hears nothing pleasant. This piece of writing would be anti-transcendentalism because nothing good has come from this bird who was sent by an angel of-sorts. Anything that is believed to be sent by god should give you hope or make you feel better because it is supposed to be good. This bird only strickens the man with more grief and rage towards the bird.
""Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.""
This displays that the man is really mad at what the bird has told the man and that he does not want to see him near him again. The bird gives him still graver news that he will never leave, hinting that the man will have to deal with his grief of his lost one forever it will never leave.
Use of Symbolism in The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe uses symbolism very well in The Raven by using the raven and where he sits during his talk with the man. The raven, which gives the man more grief, could symbolize death. The man was trying to forget or get over the death of his dear friend "Lenore". The bird refusing to leave at the end could in turn show that his grief of his lost one will never go away. Also using the anti-transcendentalism idea of there being a bad side to everyone, the "pallid bust of Pallas just above the chamber door" that the bird is sitting on could represent the goddess Athena. The goddess Athena is the goddess of wisdom, among other things, which could represent that a dark figure could invade your "wisdom" or intuition, which your voice of intuition could come from the wisdom you have acquired over time. To transcendentalists your voice of intuition comes from god, to suggest that something dark or evil could take over could be blasphemy to them.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Monday, August 31, 2009
Unit 2
Georgia Performance Standard
ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.
A theme is the hidden lesson or moral that the story tries to teach you. It will not say the theme straight forward, it will hint at it. The standard is saying that using examples from the text you can prove what the theme is.
Rip Van Winkle
The romantic part to Rip Van Winkle is when he makes it to the mountain where he gets tired and decides to take a rest. he helps this old Dutchman to carry his keg of liquor he hears what he believes is the rolling thunders that can be heard from the village when actually it is people playing a game of nine pins. He ends up drinking a flagon of this drink and ends up sleeping for about 20 years. no one can actually sleep this long with out something happening to him he would starve or die of dehydration eventually and before that he should wake up. But on terms of romantic these days there was a little anti-romantic story here, when Rip finally gets back to the village he eventually finds out what happened to his wife and "found relief in this new information."
Thanatopsis Movie
This poem has the three ideas of Romanticism throughout the whole thing. Imagination has to be used during most of the poem. It explains, in one whole section, what mother nature is saying to you. You would definantly need alot of imagination to even grasp a non-living thing talking to you. That particular part also could represent the nature part of Romanticism but he also mentions it later when he describes that you grew up from the earth and when your life is over you will return to it. As for the promotion of the common people, he mentions that it doesn't matter who you are, you will lie with the kings, wise men, and good people that have lived on this earth.
Transcendentalism
Nature
This piece of writing mainly focuses on how beautiful nature is and how it looks different from person to person due to their mood. "Yet it is certain that the power of to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population." This big part of the story really stuck out to me. You couldn't just put part of it in as it wouldn't make much sense otherwise. But this piece is saying that nature could look different from day to day as it has the same mood swings a person does but also that each individual would percieve the look of nature differently from one another anyway due to their own feelings on that particular day.
Self-Reliance
This piece of writing mainly focuses on the person themselves as a higher being if you were to put forth effort to be exactly what you are. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;" When a man is still growing up and learning responsibilities he would learn that someone needs to be himself. If you are copying someone then you are committing suicide because you kill your true self to be like someone else. Same goes with wanting to be someone else. It doesn't matter whether or not you make stupid decisions you, yourself, need to deal with the consequences same if you do something good.
Wilderness
The man in this video enjoyed the wilderness. Transcendentalists enjoyed nature too, and believed that god could communicate through nature, among other things. If a man was close to nature he would be close to god. This man lived in the nature and off the nature for about 30 years. The man took only a little bit of tools so that he could build his own cabin. He built everything that he needed except a few items like his gun, canoe, and bullets. This man loved nature a lot so he decided to find out if he was able to endure what it could throw at him for one year and deal with his own company for that long. He made it to his goal 30 times over.
ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.
A theme is the hidden lesson or moral that the story tries to teach you. It will not say the theme straight forward, it will hint at it. The standard is saying that using examples from the text you can prove what the theme is.
Rip Van Winkle
The romantic part to Rip Van Winkle is when he makes it to the mountain where he gets tired and decides to take a rest. he helps this old Dutchman to carry his keg of liquor he hears what he believes is the rolling thunders that can be heard from the village when actually it is people playing a game of nine pins. He ends up drinking a flagon of this drink and ends up sleeping for about 20 years. no one can actually sleep this long with out something happening to him he would starve or die of dehydration eventually and before that he should wake up. But on terms of romantic these days there was a little anti-romantic story here, when Rip finally gets back to the village he eventually finds out what happened to his wife and "found relief in this new information."
Thanatopsis Movie
This poem has the three ideas of Romanticism throughout the whole thing. Imagination has to be used during most of the poem. It explains, in one whole section, what mother nature is saying to you. You would definantly need alot of imagination to even grasp a non-living thing talking to you. That particular part also could represent the nature part of Romanticism but he also mentions it later when he describes that you grew up from the earth and when your life is over you will return to it. As for the promotion of the common people, he mentions that it doesn't matter who you are, you will lie with the kings, wise men, and good people that have lived on this earth.
Transcendentalism
Nature
This piece of writing mainly focuses on how beautiful nature is and how it looks different from person to person due to their mood. "Yet it is certain that the power of to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population." This big part of the story really stuck out to me. You couldn't just put part of it in as it wouldn't make much sense otherwise. But this piece is saying that nature could look different from day to day as it has the same mood swings a person does but also that each individual would percieve the look of nature differently from one another anyway due to their own feelings on that particular day.
Self-Reliance
This piece of writing mainly focuses on the person themselves as a higher being if you were to put forth effort to be exactly what you are. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;" When a man is still growing up and learning responsibilities he would learn that someone needs to be himself. If you are copying someone then you are committing suicide because you kill your true self to be like someone else. Same goes with wanting to be someone else. It doesn't matter whether or not you make stupid decisions you, yourself, need to deal with the consequences same if you do something good.
Wilderness
The man in this video enjoyed the wilderness. Transcendentalists enjoyed nature too, and believed that god could communicate through nature, among other things. If a man was close to nature he would be close to god. This man lived in the nature and off the nature for about 30 years. The man took only a little bit of tools so that he could build his own cabin. He built everything that he needed except a few items like his gun, canoe, and bullets. This man loved nature a lot so he decided to find out if he was able to endure what it could throw at him for one year and deal with his own company for that long. He made it to his goal 30 times over.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Unit one
ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.
We should be able to read a piece of literature and relate it to ourselves in the present time, to other facts or ideas we know about the time period which the piece was written, and to relate it to other pieces of literature that reside in different time periods.
I believe we should master this standard because if we are not able to relate pieces of literature to ourselves we will feel no connection to it. It would also be very boring to us to read it. If we cannot relate it to other pieces of literature then the last standard is pointless because how u relate to other pieces is to use the evidence found throughout and what is similar.
RESEARCH
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ok3.html
I really like this example because it shows that people have always played pranks on other people but it also teaches a lesson that if you were to play a prank on the wrong person they might stop u from doing something you love to do. This story was about a rabbit playing a joke on two snakes in a river that have never met each other and losing his privledge to drink from that particular riverbed that he liked so much.
Differences
The Native Americans used animals to show an unnatural being. They could all talk and change forms, in my opinion they believed that these particualar animals were brought down to teach people lessons on how to behave properly and teach them other valuable lessons. Thats how they came up with all these stories that have the morals in them. Where as in the sermon, the person said that "god is only holding you over the pit of hell for his own amusement." He was saying that you either know how to act already or its going to end badly. Hence why he will only save those he wishes.
The Rationalists
The Puritans believed that everything that needs to be explained has been explained in the scriptures and other than that we shouldn't know what else is going on or how something worked. The rationalists believed that everything worked in a certain way and that it was up to the people to find out how and why everything works. A little bit from both of these cultures are still around some people believe that what the scriptures say are what goes and will not believe what science says on certain ideas like evolution. But of course we still have scientists trying to figure out alot of stuff concerning the entire universe but we have already at this point found out all the stuff the earliest scientists were trying to explain or we at least have and idea.
Franklin's Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin believed that people should find their own way to moral perfection and not to follow what the bible says about reaching moral perfection. Benjamin Franklin created his own virtues to reach this based on what he believed are his faults. He believed that you could only know what virtues you should follow on a self evaluation, not someone else telling you what you need to do to improve your own life. Such as, the bible saying that you need to follow the commandments.
My own Virtues
We should be able to read a piece of literature and relate it to ourselves in the present time, to other facts or ideas we know about the time period which the piece was written, and to relate it to other pieces of literature that reside in different time periods.
I believe we should master this standard because if we are not able to relate pieces of literature to ourselves we will feel no connection to it. It would also be very boring to us to read it. If we cannot relate it to other pieces of literature then the last standard is pointless because how u relate to other pieces is to use the evidence found throughout and what is similar.
RESEARCH
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ok3.html
I really like this example because it shows that people have always played pranks on other people but it also teaches a lesson that if you were to play a prank on the wrong person they might stop u from doing something you love to do. This story was about a rabbit playing a joke on two snakes in a river that have never met each other and losing his privledge to drink from that particular riverbed that he liked so much.
Differences
The Native Americans used animals to show an unnatural being. They could all talk and change forms, in my opinion they believed that these particualar animals were brought down to teach people lessons on how to behave properly and teach them other valuable lessons. Thats how they came up with all these stories that have the morals in them. Where as in the sermon, the person said that "god is only holding you over the pit of hell for his own amusement." He was saying that you either know how to act already or its going to end badly. Hence why he will only save those he wishes.
The Rationalists
The Puritans believed that everything that needs to be explained has been explained in the scriptures and other than that we shouldn't know what else is going on or how something worked. The rationalists believed that everything worked in a certain way and that it was up to the people to find out how and why everything works. A little bit from both of these cultures are still around some people believe that what the scriptures say are what goes and will not believe what science says on certain ideas like evolution. But of course we still have scientists trying to figure out alot of stuff concerning the entire universe but we have already at this point found out all the stuff the earliest scientists were trying to explain or we at least have and idea.
Franklin's Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin believed that people should find their own way to moral perfection and not to follow what the bible says about reaching moral perfection. Benjamin Franklin created his own virtues to reach this based on what he believed are his faults. He believed that you could only know what virtues you should follow on a self evaluation, not someone else telling you what you need to do to improve your own life. Such as, the bible saying that you need to follow the commandments.
My own Virtues
1. if something does not have to be said the do not say it.
2. respect your elders
3. Respect every person as an equal
4. you should not harm your own body.
5. Don"t let your mind go to waste.
6. One shouldn't waste just for the sake of wasting.
7. Respect others beliefs, even if you feel they are incorrect
as an overview some of these I need to work on myself but also i believe that these are some of the most important to treating others right and other people may have alot more that they have to work on.
2. respect your elders
3. Respect every person as an equal
4. you should not harm your own body.
5. Don"t let your mind go to waste.
6. One shouldn't waste just for the sake of wasting.
7. Respect others beliefs, even if you feel they are incorrect
as an overview some of these I need to work on myself but also i believe that these are some of the most important to treating others right and other people may have alot more that they have to work on.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Georgia Performance Standards
ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.
The Standard means that we should be able to read a passage/story or other piece of literature and interpret or understand what it says by using the "identifying evidence".
The reason that mastering a Standard like this is that if you are to read anthing you should be able to point out the meaning and what the author is trying to say by writing this. In my opinion this is the basis of literature, to be able to pick out certain parts of the story to know what the author is trying to tell you.
The Standard means that we should be able to read a passage/story or other piece of literature and interpret or understand what it says by using the "identifying evidence".
The reason that mastering a Standard like this is that if you are to read anthing you should be able to point out the meaning and what the author is trying to say by writing this. In my opinion this is the basis of literature, to be able to pick out certain parts of the story to know what the author is trying to tell you.
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