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Feb. 18th, 2014
347 words. I am trying to simplify this and I am making a bit of a dog's breakfast of it at the moment. There is SO MUCH TO TAKE ON BOARD and I don't think my brain can cope with the glut of Revolutions and politics that surround this essay. If I don't suss this by Thursday afternoon, I will kick it to the kerb and go on to IN2 - comparison of two Cornish Poems and TH2 - Pick a theory, pick a text and run with the ball.
Back to today and I am battling Pope and The Rape of the Lock
( Rape of the Lock )
This is all about a man stealing a tress of hair from his would-be love, sans scissors. She feels violated, hence the Rape of the Lock (of hair). It is meant to poke fun at the stupidity of it all. Suffice to say it wasn't received well, as they felt that Pope was mocking their sensibilities. Or maybe they were just lacking a sense of humour. It may have breached some form of intimacy, but should have been treated as an act of a silly boy, not an act of absolute transgression.
I am trying not to complicate this - guess what? I am not succeeding.
18:43
What did the eighteenth century ever do for us, except generate an era of hideous dresses and a penchant for dodgy wigs? Gah!!!
20:06
I think I might be making some headway - I might just sacrifice Blake and concentrate on Alexander Pope. I feel a bit better as I was able to pull the essay together by writing down some of the historical events of the day. This is more of a signpost as to why the rise of political satire grew and how it gave way to the social commentary of Blake. Because it is a period of time that is making me cross-eyed with boredom, I am treating it as I used to treat the psychology essays - delve deep, try to mine what is important to the gist of the essay and bring it up to the surface.
I kicked 'The Enlightenment' movement to the kerb. Too many inconsistencies and it was mostly in the Franco-European countries - not here
Still - 515 words. At this rate, the assignment will get to her Tuesday fortnight :-/
Back to today and I am battling Pope and The Rape of the Lock
( Rape of the Lock )This is all about a man stealing a tress of hair from his would-be love, sans scissors. She feels violated, hence the Rape of the Lock (of hair). It is meant to poke fun at the stupidity of it all. Suffice to say it wasn't received well, as they felt that Pope was mocking their sensibilities. Or maybe they were just lacking a sense of humour. It may have breached some form of intimacy, but should have been treated as an act of a silly boy, not an act of absolute transgression.
I am trying not to complicate this - guess what? I am not succeeding.
18:43
What did the eighteenth century ever do for us, except generate an era of hideous dresses and a penchant for dodgy wigs? Gah!!!
20:06
I think I might be making some headway - I might just sacrifice Blake and concentrate on Alexander Pope. I feel a bit better as I was able to pull the essay together by writing down some of the historical events of the day. This is more of a signpost as to why the rise of political satire grew and how it gave way to the social commentary of Blake. Because it is a period of time that is making me cross-eyed with boredom, I am treating it as I used to treat the psychology essays - delve deep, try to mine what is important to the gist of the essay and bring it up to the surface.
I kicked 'The Enlightenment' movement to the kerb. Too many inconsistencies and it was mostly in the Franco-European countries - not here
Still - 515 words. At this rate, the assignment will get to her Tuesday fortnight :-/
