THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

We can see that Samuel Taylor Coleridge intensively used religious images in the work because he was a catholic. It is an unique work that tells us we should love all living being including albatross and enable us to think in different ways, I think.

Also Steve Harris has made a song for the work. It is 13 minutes 35 seconds, very very long. People who are not aware of value of works like this like me can be really bored when they listen it.  I wish I could love this kind of works. I wish they could really appeal to me.

But it makes me really interested in the written form of thw work. It includes natural events, emotions and supernatural forces a lot, and the writer expressed the moment in a very literal way, I think. It is one of the best five romanticism works. 

MACFLECKNOE

Actually I found this work interesting because it included a different way of criticising someone. Also I found its way of writing smart, I mean John Dryden never gave the name of Shadwell, he abbreviated Thomas Shadwell with “Sh---“. Hereby Shadwell could never prove the poem was about him. “Sh---“ was also stood for “shit”. I am really fulled with admiration to the work.

I do not think that stupidity of someone can be ridiculed better or in the same way. Some people can think that it is absolutely wrong to laugh at someone’s being untalented and dull. I do not agree with them. It is more fun to be like this. J According to my search about John Dryden on web, he always wanted to satisfy people. I found that someone like that wrote a poem like MacFlecknoe also interesting. Actually I really wondered the other works of the writer after I learned this work.

VICTORIAN PERIOD

Victoria came to British history with wealth. She seemed like very royal in her photo as well as her succes in her reign. She literally changed the history of British. She paved the way for being said “The sun never sets on England”. There is nothing else to say.

On the other hand Victorian period was the best for England, but it could not be said that that is good for the other countries Canada, Austria, New Zealandand and like these. Actually this period bring a lot of issues like pollution and lack of hygienic conditions with it, but I gues it is tolerable when many reforms, technological advances, industrial revolution and economical which came with Victorian period were considered.

Victorian had England changed dramatically not only in social and political circumstances but also in literature. A lot of thinkers and many writers of poetry and novel were emerged. I mean England lived its best times during the period

My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own mere property, Baso that I had an undoubted right of dominion. Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.”

I am not sure whether he was a king or not, but there is a subject which I am sure, he was a king of boasting. He labelled everything with “my”, it is annoying, I think. It is kind of selfish because he never thought the other living creatures. I think that he called Friday without asking also shows us that.

What kind of a person could think in that way? I think it is too much even for a person who were injured psycohologically. Seeing himself as a lord or lawgiver could not explain his way of thinking for me.

As a matter of course, in the 18^th century, sections of literature stayed in the background. People could not find food to eat, how were they going to think something else?

 

I am terribly sorry for children especially for the ones who could not live because of poverty. On the other hand, even if they lived, they had to work deadly. It should not make you surprise not to develop the literature in that times.

 

It is pleasing that there were many changes later. For instance, female readers increased and people needed to be knowledgeable about literature, I mean they started to be interested in. But they did not still use feelings for literature and write a poem because they wanted to. Unfortunately poetry was mostly satiric and heroic. Normally this is bad, but when it was considered the time, it was a huge development.

When I was younger, I read Robinson Crusoe and it is not like in that times now, he seems like very arrogant to me at this time. The movie is different from the book anyway. It was my favourite when I was kid, but when I read itby criticising, it has lost its magic for me.

 

Although he became stranded on a deserted island, he did not give up ruling the island and he still thought about goods and golds. Also he did not ask Friday’s real name, he gives that name and he made him call as “master” for himself. In spite of the fact that it is a wonderful adventure, it is different from an innocent story and it is engraved in our subconscious without being noticed to us.

On the other hand, it is ironic that Robinson Crusoe needed to someone to be the king of the island. That he tried to manage Friday reveals his feeling which exists inside before I think. I am shocked when I read the part of it mentioning “my people”. Also I think the time he spent in island were exaggerated too much. I wish it would have a simply meaning like my childhood.

 

 

 

That John Milton created a charismatic and very strong satan in Paradise Lost made me surprised. I think he took sides of satan unwittingly when I read it. Actually he is very very good at writing but I think again that his works have sharp points decreases his popularity.

 

I appreciate that he successed to tell a divine atmosphere irreplaceably with a secular language. It seems like that opposites in Paradise Lost like Heaven and Hell or good and evil represents light and darkness, so it shows us that John Milton perfectly referred two sides. It is a success to write about subjects which everybody has different ideas. As long as I understand John Milton did not care about critics and that he kept on writing although he was blind allows us to know these great works.

When this poetry lectured in the lesson, I was absent, so I have difficulty to talk about that more. I can say these based on researchs on the internet I have done.

 

How happy is John Milton! After I read his sonnet “On His Blindness” by John Milton, I think he is one of the greatest poets of english literature like Shakespeare.

Although he is blind, he don’t  lose the joy of living as far as I get from the sonnet. He never complains and that is something which many people barely success, so I admire him.According to information I find while surfing the internet, he is the one who brings english in word most, this is amazing. It is ironic that the name of the devil in Devil’s Advocate is also John Milton, I wonder if it is a coincidence. According to a rumor he was blind as he read and wrote a lot, however according to another rumor he was punished by something and so he was blind. I do not know which is exactly true but I hope the first one is true.

I have never heard about him before. I am very pleased that we learn significant people and works like this and the others in the lesson.  

How could John Donne’s head work while writing The Flea? Or if he wrote this poem with his heart, how could his heart work? I really wonder it and worry about him and his lover. J

All joking aside, I admire him as he could think in this way. I mean who could associate a relation with  a flea before he did. If I were the lady he mention in the poet, I would think where he find me from. If I were the flea in the poem, I would think why me through many fleas in the nature. J Whatever, fortunately we are none of them and probably couldn’t be. I am not a critic, I just make some comments about the poem without wishing to lay down the law. I really like the poem because I like seeing different points of view.

This is most interesting poem I have ever read. I think by means of such poems we have much more fun in English Literature lessons this semestr.