Poetry

-Sonnet XLIII
Author: Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life !--and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

«Inherit the wind»

The story turns around a Trial in 1925-1955
1) Bertrand Cates: main character, 24 y old teacher, science teacher, defendent (theory of evolution)
2) M. H. Brady: Prosecutor, against the defendent, Chritian fondamentalist (opposition to theory of evolution), «hero»
3)H. Drummond: Defentse attorney, right of speach( freedom of thot), he is from the city,
4)E. K. Hornbeck: He is a jounalist, he is cynical, he dislikes Brady's fondamentalist,
5)Rev. J. Brown: Pastor how preches fire and grim strone
6) Rachel Brown; daughter of the Reverent and lover of Cates and she is in conflict
7)Judge: he sould be impartial, desenvanteg the defence men , open to free thought,
8)Town people: Reserved and conservative, fondamentalist, but there are in constant evolution, and they have good values.

«Hills» literary elements

Plan:
Thesis statement: Hemingway’s powerful use of two literary elements: setting and symbolism to explore the issue of «abortion».

paragraphe 1: -topic sentence:From the first paragraph the setting immediately introduces the tense atmosphere that will surround the rest of the story.
-supporting evidence:Setting (spain, rail (two ways to go), station) to describe the tense atmosphere between Jil and the American. The couple is in the middle of making a drastic decision where there are only two choices, two directions, just like the two rail lines that pass by the station.
-supporting evidence: land scape

paragraphe 2:
TS:the hills «look like with elephants»
- Unique and uncommon
-shadow of a «cloud» = abortion
paragraphe 3:
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paragraphe 4:
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Mid-term

I could not faind the english quotation marks!!!

1)What is Louis Mallards opinion of marriage? Indicate the paragraph that suggests it?

2) Why is there so much description of what is outside the window when Louise is alone in her room?

3) Why did the author make the story so short?

4)Explain how Louise can feel joy and sadness at the same time?

1) Louise Mallard’s opinion on marriage in not like the one of her era. She sees marriage as something that is oppressive. She saw it as a situation that lets the powerful will of a husband bending yours, not being able to think for and about you. You cannot be free; therefore, marriage is something that deposed you of things.

« There would be no one to live for during those coming years… upon it in that brief moment of illumination. »

2) The reason why there is so much description is that the outside word that she sees from her window in at the same time the description of her way of feeling, the state of her soul. The trees where growing, it was spring period; therefore, she was growing the same way, waking up, filling fresh… The sky gives us the impression of the growth of Mrs. Mallard and blue sky is a symbol of freedom and future life. The many descriptions where present because the main character was herself observing this things that were in front of her, and it was nature that made her fill a live again, youthful and so on.

3) The reason why the story was so short was to put an emphasis on the title of this short story «Story of an hour». The title is very appropriate, because she, Mrs. Mallard, only had one hour with the knowledge that her husband was dead. An hour is not very long, so the story so was not very long to read. The author wanted us to fill the same way than the main character, that it wasn’t long the period of grief and the time past too fast. The story being so short also gives the reader the impression that the main character probably did not have and felt that she had enough time to process all the thoughts that where passing through her maid, this is why, I think, she dies at the end because she didn’t sidle down in her new life that just had begun one hour ago.

4) Louise feels sadness and joy at the same time. The reason she was sad, was that she had realized that all this years, she was imprisoned and not being how she wanted to be and how she could have been. She regretted her old way of life, not living out her youth; therefore, not living her life that had a lot of potential. She realized that she was in an unhappy marriage

She also feels joy, the joy of having full control on her life, being free, filling all her youth again, rediscovering how she is, dreaming of how her future will be. She discovered the « strongest impulse of her being!» that was «this possession of self-assertion».

B)

The message of the story is revealed at the end, with one sentence, with the use of Irony « When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills. » This sentence means the opposite of what it means. We realize that the doctors are wrong, and that she doesn’t die of happiness of seeing her husband alive, but of sadness that her past would become ones again, her new reality, a reality she has realized she was miserable in. It is with this sentence that we realize the meaning of everything written, everything falls in to place and it is there that we realize the Irony of the whole text.

In "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin use Irony, a literary device that is useful for giving stories many unexpected twists. During the whole story, the readers think that the death of the main characters husband causes great grief to this last one, «Story of an Hour», uses Irony by making us believe that Mrs.but the auteur makes us think that Millard is in great grief because of this last event, that would be normal to think so and is most likely to be normal, as specially in the time period when this story was written, in 1894, where divorce and being a women with no husband was badly seen. Every description present is to build up the effect that we get at the end of the story. It is through Mrs. Mallard's reaction to her husband's death that we can see Irony.

The story suggests that death not always cause grief. In the case of a unhappy marriage, losing your husband can be a moment of happiness and freedom that you will love for richer or poorer, in sickness and in death! At the end of the story, Louise must have told herself: I was so miserable living life with my husband; consequently, I prefer being dead than to spend the rest of my life with him. Marriage is only one side of it; imprisonment is the other. This text makes us think of how we often do not think outside the mentality of are era. For example, Louise’s friends and doctor could not imagine that she was maybe not happy with her husband; it was not even a possibility for them. I think that it is maybe the same thing are days, we follow ways of life and values that are the most common to the other people or are surroundings.

Hills

Ernest Hemingway
- Born in 1899
- bad relationship with women
- Journalist in Toronto
-Nobel Literature
-He lives in Paris and Spain
- The story was based on his own life and the second pregnancy of his first wife.
-He had truble communicating

Using quotes

1) With a complete idea:
ex. Hemingway often uses dialogue to emphasise a character trait : « The girl look at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.»

2) With a incomplete idea:
ex. In hemingway's story, Jig said, « They look like with elephants.»

3) Inside a sentence:
ex. The girl in Hemingway story remarked, «Every thing tastes of licorice», reveailing her atitude torwd life.

4)With a incomplet quote:
ex. Hemingway story lakes place «Between to lines of rails in the sun.»

5)Using quote with an Ellipsis:
ex. «The girl looked at the beads...»

6)Within a quote:
ex. Hemingway wrote, « 'They're Lovely Hills', she said, 'They dont really look like white elephants.'»

Combining sentences

1A) IC;CA, IC
1) Are date wasn’t very fun; therefore, I do not want to have a second date with you.
2) The exam that I just did was very hard; consequently, I will probably have a bad grade.
3) My work is very mentally and physically demanding; however, it is for a very important cause.

1B) IC;CC, IC
1) My work is very mentally and physically demanding; however, it is for a very important cause, and that is why I will continue for the longest period possible.

1) A. early, but / early; however
2) Weight, so/ weight ; therefore
3) still, and ; still ; moreover
4) Cook, but / cook; however (contrast)
5) late, so / late; therefore
6) Well, and / well ; moreover
7) flood, but / flood ; however (contrast)

Paragraphe

In the story The Nightingale and the Rose, there is presence of a lot of symbols. These symbols give all the depth to this short story and it is that, that makes us think after finished the reading. Every character has a purpose and represents the variety and extremes that we can find in our society. With these extremes, Irony can therefore be seen. The fact that the Nightingale gave her life to make assessable a red rose for the young student, the red rose being the key to the heart of the princess, and at the end, he just throws the rose in the street because the princess finally refuses it, is just ironic. The Nightingale and the Rose is the reflection of any society, where there are some people that are very generous (the nightingale), that take advantage (the princess), naïve (the student) and so on. We can see, how everybody is connected together, the effects that we have on others, in other words the chain of societies.

Puns

-An elevator makes ghosts happy because it lifts the spirits.
-I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
-Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

Nightingale and the Rose

1) Symbols for:
a) Student: Naiveté/ cynicisme
b) Nightingale: Maternal figure / goodness/ vertu
c) Oak Tree: Wisdom
d) Princess: Superficiality and materialism
e) Red rose: true love that becomes

S: He hair is as dark as the hyacinthe.
M: flame-coloured are his wings
P: The oak tree shook its head
Alliteration: You must bild it of music by moonlinght.
A: Shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver
C: Bitter bitter was the pain, walder walder was the song.

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