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Blog number 4

Complete the multi-media activity on Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Answer this in your blog: “Based on the video, and the Romantic works you have read, how do you think a Romantic author would respond to someone who says that nature is boring?”

And, “how might Lord Byron’s poem differ if he had our present day knowledge of the ocean’s fragile ecosystems?

 If somebody says nature is boring to a romantic authors, they will sigh wathcing a people who doesn’t get any impress from nature. Nature is life for them, they get pleasure from nature. For romantists, nature was sublime present from god, ignoring nature could realize as ignoring god for them.

 If Loard Byron had our present day knowledge, he would not write a poem anymore. His eye cannot see the sublime and georgous figure of ocean anymore.

Blog number 3

1. If the force of life exists in all living beings, what do the Mariner’s actions toward the albatross do?

 It shows human has moment of bravado which are bad characteristic of human.

2. How does nature provide the Mariner with with opportunities to assess himself?

 By killing the albatross, the boat and the Mariner were cursed. The power of nature made them change their opinion about beings. The albatross teaches us a lesson.

Assignment

  •  Types of Lyric Poetry
  • Elements of lyric Poetry

Blog number 2

Watch the video attached “It’s Alive!” Write a comparison of the modern “Frankenstein” clip (1931) to what you have read in your text. Do you notice any changes or similarities? What are the life morals of the story “Frankenstein?” (due 10/10). 

 Frenkenstein in the text expresses created life as a monster using a negative word such as odious, hedeous and horrid. But Frenkenstein on a video seems to be he is proud of his succed work and also created livingthing. Big difference was one was in horor and the other was in feel of pleasent.

 The story “Frankenstein” talks about humans who against god. At that time period, people believed on god so Frenkenstein got revenge for that criminal. It connects to Greek mythology that a god punished because of lending fire for people.

Blog number 1

#1

  • What are your thoughts/questions/concerns about writing? Reflect on both the good and bad things (1paragraph)

 I think writing is too hard for me, in my case I do not have background knowledge of writing. My writing is just like normal conversation because I know only a few vocabulary. To develope my writing skills, I need to memmorize vocabulary words lot more than now, but I’m not sure if I can or not. Good thing about my writing is because I am lack of knowledge about writing, if I start to learn I could improve faster than others.