The Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is about 19 different people coming together to travel to the  shire of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Each person is supposed to share two stories on the way there and two more on the way back. In the prologue Chaucer goes through and discribes all of these people.
I have been assigned to talk about one of the pilgrims from this tale, the Summonor. A Summonor is an official who brings summons to those who have been brought up on various charges. Now the Summonor from this tale has narrow eyes, a thin beard and black scabby eyebrows. He is often drunk but yet he is a noble varlet. In the book varlet is used to mean scoundrel. In the prologue there is a set of lines that are the best way to discribe the Summonor. It shows how sneaky he was. "Thus, as he pleased, the man could bring duress on any young fellow in the diocese. He knew their secrets, they did what he said." Those are lines 681 to 683.

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I'm not really sure how Chaucer feels about this pilgrim. I thinks it's neutrel, but if I wrote this then I would be for the Summonor. I think this because the Summonor could uses his tricks to help on the trip or if the group runs into danger. It also means the Summonor can take care of himself.

Poe and The Aeneid

For class we have been reading The Aeneid by Virgil. These next responses are for the RWLV.

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It seems Virgil's epic was a big hit. Artists had drawn inspiration from the epic and created pictures or sculptures based on it. If I was Virgil I would be feeling awesome knowing my piece of writing inspired some of the greatest pieces of art work in the world. My favorite piece of art work would have to be the sculpture of  Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius, because it shows all three generations together. To me it shows what the whole family has been through. The son carrying his father with his son at his feet close behind.

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I would say that "Dido's Lament" does describe the mood at that point in the play. I think this because the lyrics themselves deal with what Dido just went through and now she is telling her people not to worry about her. I think the black and white version is the best mainly because she sings the whole song, while I the color version she only sings the Aria part over and over again. If the color version did that then it would have been the best because I believe color allows viewers to see the actors expressions better. Now both of them would have been better if they had had the part where she stabs herself. I think that would have helped set the mood some more.

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Now this week I read Fairy Land and Fairy-Land by Edgar Allen Poe. I read them both because they have the same name with only a hyphen that makes them different. To me both poems are talking about fantasies. Like in Fairy Land to me he sounds as if he can hardly believe her beauty. Almost as if she has come from a place only in his dreams. Then In Fairy-Land there are lines from Fairy Land to me sounds like they are describing a land for away and how one the prettiest creatures has come from that place. Both of these poems are so sweet with the words that are used. Plus it rhymes most of the time so it adds a good beat to the whole thing.

Poe and I

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This week I read two poems by Poe and they were Romance and Introduction. I read both of them because the poem Romance is in the poem Introduction. Romance was about the love between two people while the Introduction was about the meeting of those two people. These two poems were sweet and so well discribed at least to me anyways. They made me think and I like it when a poem can make me see, feel and think.
In class we just got done reading the Iliad which is a greek epic. The story was interesting and exciting. This story has it all love, war, a hero and a legend.
I had always been a fan of the Trojin horse idea. I thought that plan was well played out. I even watched the movie Troy. The book and the movie are way different for example in the movie Achilleus dies at the end where as in the book he dies before that. That had to be one of the worst parts is when he died. He was brave and a good man and he dies. To me thats not right. So I will leave you all with this even the bravest of the brave fall. No one knows when it will be their last day.

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My Journey with Poe and Oedipus

The book I chose for the semester is The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe. I choose it because I'm a big fan of his work and everything he has done. Now I haven't gotten much read this week because it's been confussing with spring break and not having school Friday. Then my friend Emily had her baby so I was supporting her. But I plan to get some more reading done this week.

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Class has been interesting lately. We just finished the story of Oedipus. It was interesting and kind of fun to read. There were times when the words were way to hard to say and the vocab would sometimes throw me for a loop. What helped a lot though was the back channel. On the channel there was always someone else who didn't get a word or something and it would be dicussed and then it became easier to understand. I really think Oedipus got what he deserved. He was so studdord he wouldn't even listen to his wife/mom. I like watching the play after reading it. It helped me to picture how the greeks would have saw it and it made me feel as if I was in ancient Greece.