Wordsworth wrote poems about whatever he wanted and he wrote whenever he wanted. I thought that the world is too much with us was a good poem. "Getting and spending, we lay waste in our powers:" to me this meant that we walk throughout life not really comprehending the activities around us. We just get money and spend it. "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon" we do not care about others and our hearts are cold. Which is true, we do have tendencies to not be kind to others and to be selfish. The poem as a whole seems like Wordsworth is taking a step back from his life to look back on it and think of all the aspects of life in general. This poem made me think of an anecdote from Plato that we read in FYS, it was about a man being held captive in a cave. When the man was place outside of the cave he was surrounded by beauty and was blinded by it. The world is too much with us could also be about the fact that nature is so beautiful and we as humans are only destroying it or that we just are not adding to the beauty.
The next poem in the book is It is a beauteous Evening and this poem is very peaceful. "it is a beauteous evening, calm and free" It makes me think of spring evenings when the weather is perfect to sit outside and relax. The air just makes you feel like you have no responsibilities or stress. "Breathless with adoration; the broad sun is sinking down in its tranquility" the more I think about those two lines, the more I think about a sunset on the beach. just being there makes the rest of the world disappear. I think Wordsworth was describing the sunset on the beach he was at. He really conveyed the scene through his words and the readers can easily imagine almost every aspect.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Blog 1- William Blake
All Religions Are One by Blake does not make sense because the title does not seem to go with the poem. If all religions are the same then why does Blake only bring up the good Christianity points and no other religions are mentioned. It's like he is not backing up his statement and does not really think that all religions are the same. It is true that most people no matter what religion they are, are similar in how they act or what they write. However, the customs of different religions are so different that the people are not the same. What Blake really should have titled this was All People Are Similar Despite Religious Activity. There is some proof to the theory that most religions have the same source and backgrounds but I do not see it. Its like the only people who say that all religions are the same are just arrogant Christians or Catholics.
In life, there are always ways to get around the laws and do things that are wrong. Even though child labor laws exist today, people still do not listen to the laws and employ children in dangerous factories for little pay. How else do you expect to get all of our clothes to be so nice and relatively fair priced? Sure, people complain about the abuse of children but are we willing to pay more for our clothes to make things right? I do not think people would do it. In The Chimney Sweeper, Blake tells of the life of young children working as chimney sweeps. Their parents sell them to the company, or the children working are orphans or illegitimate. There are so many laws that prevent child labor, child abuse, and people are still arguing about abortion. Americans try to pretend like we enforce all of the rules but I am starting to doubt it. I think that some people just over look the laws to get what they want or they are just too busy to care. We have come to a problem in life, we are all infatuated with the media and obsessed with ourselves and our material possessions are running our lives for us. We need to start caring more about others than being self-centered.
In life, there are always ways to get around the laws and do things that are wrong. Even though child labor laws exist today, people still do not listen to the laws and employ children in dangerous factories for little pay. How else do you expect to get all of our clothes to be so nice and relatively fair priced? Sure, people complain about the abuse of children but are we willing to pay more for our clothes to make things right? I do not think people would do it. In The Chimney Sweeper, Blake tells of the life of young children working as chimney sweeps. Their parents sell them to the company, or the children working are orphans or illegitimate. There are so many laws that prevent child labor, child abuse, and people are still arguing about abortion. Americans try to pretend like we enforce all of the rules but I am starting to doubt it. I think that some people just over look the laws to get what they want or they are just too busy to care. We have come to a problem in life, we are all infatuated with the media and obsessed with ourselves and our material possessions are running our lives for us. We need to start caring more about others than being self-centered.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Introduction
My name is Jenni Holtz and I'm a sophmore at Mercer. I'm on the softball team and I'm from California (the reason for taking the course online...) I'm not sure how well this online course will go because of the time difference and I'm now a working member of society (ew...)
I'm trying to decide what major to declare when I get back to school in the fall, I'm between Communications and Business (Accounting). It's a good thing I have only taken GenEd classes, huh?
I'm trying to decide what major to declare when I get back to school in the fall, I'm between Communications and Business (Accounting). It's a good thing I have only taken GenEd classes, huh?
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