1) Briefly summarize the emotions the speaker experiences during Porphyria’s Lover.
2) How do the speaker’s emotions change as the poem progresses?
3) Why do you think the speaker murders his beloved?
4) Use words, symbols, sketches, or images to create a collage that summarizes the content of Sonnet 43 and communicates the emotions presented in it.
5) Do you think that the emotions presented in this sonnet are universal? Why or why not?
6) Why do you think the speaker murders his beloved?
1) Read Tears, Idle Tears. What does the speaker believe is precious about the past?
2) Do you think the speaker had a joyous or miserable past? Why?
3) Both “The Eagle: A Fragment” and “Flower in the Crannied Wall” contain lessons or messages. Explain how each quotation reveals the message of the poem.“Close to the sun in lonely lands” (From The Eagle: A Fragment) “(If) I could understand what you are… I should know what God and man is” (From Flower in the Crannied Wall).
4) What is the speaker’s attitude toward nature in each poem?
5) In what ways are the two poems different?
6) After reading “The Lady of Shalott“, what associations do you have with the following words from the poem? Use words, symbols or images to communicate the ideas or emotions you associate with each of the following poem. Cracked, mirror, curse, shadows.
7) Why do you think the Lady of Shalott becomes “half sick” of the shadows she sees in the mirror?
1) Remembering the past: do you find it sad or satisfying to look backward? You’re probably thinking, “Obviously, that depends on what’s being remembered -happy or sad times”. But is that the only view? Is there a way in which memory itself -the very FACT of the past- always shadows life in the present?
2) After reading this poem, answer this: How caqn tears be “idle” -can you cry without knowing why?
3) What do you think the “divine despair” is in line 2? Could you relate it to Adam and Eve’s fall in Genesis -would that story explain the speaker’s existential sadness?
4) Does the contradiction in the phrase “Death in Life” (line 20) make sense to you? Explain. What is your response to this line? Have you ever felt this way?
1) Ode to the West Wind, consider why people find such power (and fear) thrilling. What moves Percy Shelley so? Why would he shout to the wind, “Be thou me…!”
2) Have you ever experienced the sublime aspect of nature? When? Freewrite about the scene and your emotions.
1) Suppose you’re a creator. Among architecture, sculpture, music, and literature, which do you think offers the most promise of an enduring monument? Explain your answer.
I could say that I think that all this options are the same it depends in each person , beacuse you could do a huge and beautiful architecture but you could do a small and ugly sculpture. AS I tell you it depends in each person.
But We need to realize that I like more architecture and music. When I was a chilf I love to make house but with little things of the intruments wich has the house. And when I grew up al little a start drawing in poaper plans of a house. I really love construct houses. And now I have a program called The Sims which is abput doing house and decoring it with a living humans and manage his life. It is very interesting. I love a lot the architecture. But I will study Laws beacuse I do not like the m ath and the careeer of architecture has a lot of math so it will be very difficult for me. So I( hope some child in my family study this career. I will be very happy seeing and helping this person.
Music is another thing that I love a lot. I you could see me every day with a headphone in the ear. I really love the classic music. I think that the classic music is very inspired songs and that help persons think and realizxe the effects of life
2) Irony is the discrepancy between expectations and reality. Explain the fundamental irony in the sonnet.
Well the ironic thing of have expectation and reality is very funny beacause we, the humans, have a problem and is that we believe in something and misunderstand things that has n o sense.
3) Discuss what you think is the speaker’s message about pride -and whether it also applies to artists.
4) Could this poem apply to any contemporary figures who wield political power? Explain.
1) She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron, what in the woman’s appearance does the speaker praise? what conclusions does he draw about her character and personality?
She is described as a beautifu woman, the most beautiful of the world. She is timid but she is beautiful.
2) This poem has been criticized as sentimental and dependent on clichés. Tell me whether or not you agree and why?
Well actually I agree beacuse it tells that is the woman most beautiful of the world, but I think that beautiful depends in each person beacuse this woman is the most beautifuk woman in the world but for this men. And we need to recognize rhat she has more aspects to see like she is timid ,etc.
3) Do you think that inward nature can be revealed by outward appearances? Explain.
I think that if a person is great inside it dosent matter if she or he is ugly. For example in my opinion I see first the person inside and then if he is beautiful. If a person is good inside you could see his autside as the most beautiful thing in the world.
1) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Find four stanzas that strike you as particularly quotable. What situations in contemporary life would you apply the lines to?
2) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Do you agree or disagree with Coleridge about the message in this poem? Why?
Yes beacuse it represents the game of life and death, also that how the strenght of guilty can affect a person. The message is very strong beacuase it represents the way the persons could have a responsable moment.
3) This ballad is famous for its use of vivid figurative language and memorable sound devices. Find examples of especially effective examples of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance and internal rhyme (one of each).
1) Create a list of family pets since you were young.
Where I Could start? well I like a lot the animals just for give you an example, One day when I was younger I have 21 different species all together in my house. I had dogs, gats, loros, guacamayas, ferrets, monkey, coche monte, chickens, vacas, a bambi and a lot more that I dont remmenber. As you can see I like a lot the animals. As I explain to you I love animals so it is very difficult for me to see some animal dying specially if it is my pet. I really love all the animals that I had or will have.
2) Write a poem to another creature, -fly, cockroach, spider, moth. Imitate Burns. 8 lines.
3) Why do human beings do evil? Why do evil people sometimes prosper? Why does God allow innocent children to suffer?
Well these questions are the ones that I ask my self everyday that I see evil in the street. People maybe do bad things becuase they feel good. Maybe they want that people sees them, “llamar la atencion”. The evil people prosper sometimes beacuse the have lucky, but as you can see every person will be punish sooner or later, and this is called karma. God allows children to suffer so that this children could fight and love more God. Sometimes we wonder why god permit that childrens suffer about a lot of things. Well maybe it make it believe more in the good things.
4) If you could cry out against an evil of our day -and get people to listen-, which social problem would you choose? Why would you choose it? (Think of William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper”)
I will definnately choose the world war II. It is very difficult to understand all the evil that person has and also the anger. Like I said It is very important to control the anger beacuse it ould conthieve us to make evil things.
5) What happens to anger that is allowed to grow and fester, anger that is nurtured with our own deceit?
Well in my opinion anger is a prblem of twop sides. Because you could be anger for a bout a person that did something to you but if you do bad thing beacuse of anger, there is the problem. Also it is very difficult to control the anger. We need to control the grow of the anger, we need to stop where we feel that we cross the line with a person a thing or anything else.
6) What does confession mean to you? What purpose does confession have for the teller and listener? Is a listener even necessary? Why do you think the act of confession plays such an important part in law and religion?
A confession is very important especially if it is talken in a catholic church. A confession is consider as if it is a similar to the criminal one, to admit one’s guilt. Confession of one’s sins, or at least of one’s sinfulness, is seen by most churches as a pre-requisite for becoming a Christian. For me a confession are the words that cure and cleans your soul. It is very important for a person taking out the religion. For me it is very important. The confession is very important for both listener and teller. The teller is tacking out what he feels and telling his problems, and the lisener is help him to arrange his problems, It is very important the paper that both are tacking in a situaction of a confession.
