In class this week, we discussed Percy Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound.” We mainly talked about the main idea and how we shouldn’t but anything above others, we’re all equal. It goes more in depth my comparing mortal humans to Greek gods. During this discussion in class, this theme really stuck out to me the most compared […]
Taking a deeper look into the poem titled “Ulysses,” shows that it is just a bit of text in which the character that this same poem is named after, also known as Odysseus! Yes, the same dude from that epic poem that was written by Homer, titled “Odyssey.” Isn’t it interesting that this is the […]
Aurora Leigh is a girl who grew up in Italy, but when her mother and father passed away she was forced to continue her life with her aunt. From here follows another cinderella story, in my opinion, she is forced to live by the aunt’s rules and was only allowed to know what she would […]
During class this week, we read stories by William Wordsworth and Lord Alfred Tennyson. Both stories were poems part of the Victorian Era. Lord Alfred Tennyson’s story was called The Lady Of Shalott and the stories we read by William Wordsworth were called The World Is Too Much For Us and She Dwelt Among Untrodden […]
In class, we discussed the manifesto of Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, and how its main idea was how people should not rely on and pray to a god or higher power, but instead rely on our brilliance as a species. It does this by showing humans relationships with the gods specifically Greek gods. In this […]
After reading Aurora Leigh it made me think of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” because of the subject of women’s education and what they are educated on. Also, because Aurora Leigh had similar ideas of wanting to be educated for education’s sake and not just to make her a better wife […]
Aurora Leigh, a girl born from an Italian mother and an English father who is sent to her strict English aunt after her father dies. Considering the fact that poor Aurora Leigh is now an orphan, you would imagine that her aunt would at least try to be a loving person. Well you are wrong. […]
This week we read “The Lady of Shallot” by Lord Alfred Tennyson and during class found it similar to other stories, such as “Rapunzel” and “Shrek”. I found the connection between “The Lady of Shallot” and the Grimm Brothers’ “Rapunzel” to be interesting, In this blog post I want to go in depth to that […]
This week in class we read poems by William Wordsworth. One of the poems was called ” The world is too much with us” and the other poem we read by him was called “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”. Both of these poems had a common theme, they both talked about humans not appreciating […]
So those of you perceptive enough to notice the time at which this was written will see that it is 3:15 a.m.. In class we have begun discussion over the topic of The Lady of Shalott in which the titular Lady of Shalott is cursed in such a way that she cannot look away from […]
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