Del.icio.us MiltonI know class is over, but I can’t stop mulling over Milton in my mind. In fact today, throughout my reading of Hebrews 1, I was picturing Paradise Lost. I must say I do enjoy a new perspective on what I read, but will this persist, will Milton color the outlook of everything I read, I wonder? [...]
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I’m here going over everything, specifically “A Masque at Ludlow Castle” right now, and my notes in the margins and in my notebook are really quite funny. I read them aloud to Madeline and Rachel today already, but they are striking me as very entertaining right now, especially out of context. Some life lessons, perhaps. [...]
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So I’m still letting the dust settle in my head–I assume tomorrow’s exam will only raise the clouds up again–and therefore I’m not really ready to start reflecting on this class yet. But some things I know: I’ve been changed (for the better, I’d like to think); I’ve thought about things in new combinations, new [...]
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Like Madeline, I am going to share my paper with you all:here it is. I wish I had a few more weeks to work on it, but as I told Dr. C before I turned it in, it is what it is.
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I meant to blog yesterday, but truly I could not. I had been so intensely thinking about Milton for five days (Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I was focused on Paradise Lost almost exclusively, everything abandoned for the sake of my presentation and paper) and once everything was done my brain was just exhausted. I’m sure [...]
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Again, because sharing is cool: here is my Milton Seminar research paper, or at least the draft that I turned in to be graded. It may change in time, but I thought it would be neat to show our progress with each other.
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Hey all,
First, I want to say what a pleasure it’s been to share this Milton Seminar with you. I think we’ve worked really well as a group, raised good issues, and learned lots. However, our work isn’t quite done: we have an exam on Thursday. Duh.
Some of us had expressed interest in getting together Wednesday [...]
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I would like to comment real quick on the sweet justice of Satan’s punishment. First of all, he is denied any kind of dramatic showdown with God or the Son. No more epic battles or glorious defeat. Nor does he get to play the martyr he so loves to be. He steals away, and God [...]
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I was disappointed with book XI and XII, I felt that perhaps if Michael had shown Adam these horrific things prior to eating the fruit then perhaps it would have prevented the Fall. It would seem to me that Adam would be depressed at the future not uplifted. To see the earth destroyed by flood because [...]
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I believe typology to be very important for people to learn how the past relates to the present. However as we discussed in class yesterday, it can become a hinderance when people attempt to over compare. As with the Bible, it can cause one to wonder about the validity of the stories were they simply contrived to [...]
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So today’s talk of typology was hugely interesting and now I sort of feel like I should go read the Bible through a couple times and try and catch some of this stuff myself. But seeing as I am, like everyone else I think, being swallowed up by a paper at the moment, that doesn’t [...]
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So my presentation on typology has me thinking all about time and the relationships between all the characters, etc. and all the work I’ve done on it today reminded me of something I”ve had a problem with since Book 3, but never bothered to ask about. So the Son offers to take the fall for [...]
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I’m in the process of digging this information up, but I thought I would ask just in case:
Does anyone have the quote of what C.S. Lewis said about Milton’s idea of angel sex? I believe it was in his ‘Preface to Paradise Lost,’ but I don’t have the exact source or wording.
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Because sharing is what humans do best…
For my paper I’m exploring thematic and poetic integrity in Paradise Lost, focusing on Kerrigan’s ontological vegetable and other vegetative images. Basically, that means I’m expanding on the second half of my presentation, trying to show that Milton was committed to a universe that was truly “one matter all.” The [...]
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Hey everyone… how’s your paper going? Anyone have any worries/concerns/excitement they need to share?
And er, does anyone know the correct way to cite a quotation from Paradise Lost? I’m slightly unsure…
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I took Philosophy 151B last semester, which is called Introductory Logic. I had Professor Emswiler, who is a serious trip. I loved her. It is a great great class and I learned a lot; I really recommend taking it. When reading Satan’s argument to Eve and talking about it in class on Wednesday I was [...]
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Hidden
If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.
If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in breath of air
hiding everywhere
beneath your words.
No one sees
the fuel that feeds you.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Fuel
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You Decide To Bring Her Flowers
You decide to bring her flowers even though it’s
your first date and you’re scared you’re coming
on too strong and you don’t even know if it’s a
date-date or just a date but you decide to bring
her flowers even though you think maybe she just
wants a new friend though you remind yourself
she’s [...]
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So I went from reading the new posts every day and writing pretty frequently to not doing either in almost a week. Ugh. I feel like I just needed to get my feet wet again, remember how to do this. Getting sick really knocked me down for a while there. But I am back. Currently [...]
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