Mackenzie Greeley's AP Lit Comp Blog

Since we were looking at Plato's Allegory of the Cave last week, I decided after looking in my Princeton Review: English Literature & Composition Exam book, that this was a good time to look at the big literary movements and how they flow metaphysically throughout literature. Please look at the poets John Donne George Herbert Andrew Marvell These three men were highlighted in the book and because I am not an expert I would like to know if there are others of the same literary movement. I also memorized the sonnet by John Donne,'Death Be not Proud-- Holy Sonnet X' for the class assignment. Here I noticed the rhyme scheme so noted by Josh Montero a-b a-b c-d c-d e-f e-f g-g and the iambic pentameter style we learned about when we read Shakespeare's Hamlet. What I can is the flow of thought... "For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,   Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me." This is really very entertaining... Maybe

Imprisoned for all time until the head turneth; one was curious enough to see. The fire, the shadows, the refraction lead reality; the sun outside of the cave burns me. Free of the shackles binding, walk forward. Without the shadows the world is perfect, Now turn back and share the knowledge coward. Lessons here show the bravery of smurfette Go back, share, remember, and recall the new world But remember they also cannot see As you once were, trapped in the swirled views; turned away from the big blue sea The empirical world, so relative. The 'Forms' world, so expansive

1. I believe that the Allegory of the Cave is representing the ordinary people and intellectuals according to Socrates. 2. The key elements of imagery have to be the the contrast of the shadows and people shown on the cave wall from the fire. Also when the man comes back to talk to the prisoners he stumbles and his voice is altered within the cave so the prisoners take this to mean he is a fool and cannot be trusted. 3. The process of enlightenment and education for the people of the cave is being able to expand their minds, being open to learn from others, and exploring the unknown. 4. The imagery of the shackles and the cave suggests that the world is imperfect and subject to a lot of change without really understanding the 'world' around them. Before enlightenment would be the stage of becoming enlightened, these people are in 'the realm of becoming'. (This idea shared by Ben Dupre) 5. Shackles are only created by the lack of imagination of oneself, so I as a

This is how I studied the Holy Sonnet X and I am hoping this is what makes the difference. Memo (1).m4a https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=75ba980313&view=att&th=13afd23b1afcba83&attid=0.1&disp=safe&zw Let's see if the technology works.

What should I be doing with my life that will make me succeed? What does success mean? Who defines success? Why does that entity or person get to decide? Who gave them the power to make such big decisions? What if that person made a wrong decision? Should I still trust that person?

HOLY SONNETS.X. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die. Listen to Richard Stevens' reading of this sonnet. Also, visit Ohio University's Wired for Books website for more poetry readings. Source: Donne, John. Poems of John Donne. vol I. E. K. Chambers, ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 162-163.

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