Rondeau

             Rondeau

Jenny kissed me when we met,

            Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief, who love to get

            Sweets into your list put that in:

Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,

Say that health and wealth have missed me,

Say that growing old, but add,

            Jenny kissed me

- Leigh Hunt

I think that Leigh Hunt wrote this poem to show that hard times don’t get him down. Even though he is having trouble with money and his health, he is still going strong. Leigh still feels as though his life is at its peak because Jenny kissed him.  This poem illustrates that health and wealth aren’t the most important things in life and love is everlasting.

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice

- Robert Frost   

I chose the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost because it relates to the 2012 apocalypse.  I thought that it was ironic that Robert Frost was thinking that the world was going to end the same way that we think its going to end and its been decades since his poem was written. I like this poem because it is saying that either way the world will be ending whether you like it or not.

Word Hoard 2

Omen- an occurrence or phenomenon believed to portend a future event

Prow- a pointed projecting front part

Plough- chiefly british variant of plow

Belie- to give a false impression of

Assailant- one who attacks violently with blows or words

Chafe-to irritate or vex

Unscathed-wholly unharmed

Ample- of larger or great size, amount, extent, or capacity; more than enough

Oppression- the act of subjugating by cruelty; a feeling of being heavily weighed down in mind or body

Venture- an undertaking that is dangerous daring or of uncertain outcome; a business enterprise involving some risk in the expectation of gain

Harrow- archaic: to plunder or sack; modern: a farm implement for plowing; to inflice distress or torment on

Dwindle- to become gradually less until little remains

Dissuade- to turn away from, by persuasion

Loathsome-highly offensive, arousing aversion or disgust

Then Beowulf made his last boast:
"I ventured many battles 
in my youth; now, old, 
I will seek another,
try again for glorious 
deeds, if that avenger
will come out."

Beowulf is expressing his need to go out and fight again. He wants to feel the power of winning and being a hero.

Many people want to feel that they are needed in real life. When people feel that need they go and serve for out country or protect our cities.

He thought of home
but could not go
in a ring-prowed ship
against the sea storm,
against the wind.

Beowulf feels a moment of weakness when he cant fight against the power of the sea.

Many people feel that on a daily basis: that they are helpless and powerless. 

Beowulf vs todays heros

Heroism in Beowulf and now is basically the same. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage. Beowulf is considered a hero because he killed Grendel the monster, who no one had the courage to stand up against. Heroism isn’t much different today other than out hero’s are firefighters and policemen. Most firefighters are considered hero’s because they run into burning buildings with one thing in mind: Save everyone you can. Firefighters are present day hero’s because the act courageously and selflessly much like Beowulf.

 

Live with your regret

In act 2, scene 2 Lady Macbeth says “A little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is, then!” When she says this to Macbeth, she is trying to make him get over the fact that he killed Duncan. She basically said go wash off the blood and move on. Her attitude toward the situation was cold and heartless.

Then in act 5, scene 1 Lady Macbeth” What, will these hands ne’er be clean” Now Lady Macbeth is expressing some regret towards the murders. She just wants to be able to wash away the blood and the memories.

Give me a hand

Bad things happen to good people.

As Macbeth showed, bad things happen to good people. This is also true in real life. Have you ever helped someone with homework and then get busted for cheating? Or a more serious example; an innocent person gets killed by a drunk driver. Unfortunately that’s just the way it is and there is nothing we can do to change it. In the business world , coworkers like to screw each other over to get higher in the company. A few years ago, my dad was working on expanding our family business. In order to do so he needed business partners that could travel and work in the out of state stores. Once the stores were up and running my dad and his business partner were making bank, they were doing so well that our family was supsicous. My fathers co-worker was stealing money by not paying his taxes and then framing my dad for it. The government caught on from an anonymous call who just so happened to be my step sister. She knew that if she worked with my dads co-worker and the gornvenment she would receive money. My sister told the governement that my father wasn’t paying his taxes and then he was arrested and put in federal prison for 5 years. The government had no clue that they had arrested the wrong guy and my dads co-worker was off the hook.

            This is the perfect example of how bad things happen to good people. All my father was trying to do was expand his company but then he got screwed over.

Hands In

Macbeth: How you were borne in hand, how cross'd, the instruments,

“. I showed you the proof at our last meeting. I explained how you were deceived, how you were thwarted, the things that were used against you”

 When Macbeth uses “hand” in this line he was trying say how they were tricked.

Macbeth: Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave And beggar'd yours for ever?

“a man who has pushed you toward an early grave and put your family in poverty forever?”

Macbeth was arguing with the first murder about how he was tricked and was letting the guy go easily. “Hand” in this line was used literally because he said he was pushed into a grave.

Macbeth: Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd. “. I have some schemes in my head that I’m planning to put into action”

Macbeth was saying that he needed to so what he was thinking about doing before the thought about it and changed his mind.

Lenox: Under a hand accursed! Lord I'll send my prayers with him.

“He should return quickly to free our country, which is suffering under a tyrant! Ill send my prayers with him”

Lenox is speaking to Lord and wants Macduff to come back.