Post 3

The most important ideas/themes are:

• Violence: "You can't beat on a woman an' then call 'er back! She won't come! And her goin't' have a baby!... You stinker! You whelp of a Polack, you! I hope they do haul you in and turn the fire hose on you, same as the last time." (pag 73)
• Death: "... The Geat boy! He'd stuck the revolver into his mouth, and fired--so that the back of his head had been--blown away!" (pag 126)
• Sex: "...A seventeen-year-old boy--she'd gotten mixed ut with" (pag 133)

The title refers to the name of the streetcar, to trace the visionary company of love.
While I was reading the play, it makes me think about people's necessity. Everyone needs a friend, a relative or somebody to trust and not to feel lonely.
"...Whoever you are--I have always depend on the kindnees of strangers"

If I have the chance to ask the writer I would ask him why Stella didn't help her sister, she was her family too and she needed.

Post 1

The characters mentioned are:

•  Blanche: An English teacher. She is well-educated, shy and it seems she feels unconfortable with Stella's husband behaviour. 
• Stella: Blanche's sister.
• Stanley: Stella's husband. He is a rough person.

The setting is represented by a shabby place its Stella's house. It seems to be in a lower class neighborhood.
I think the play would be about a triangle of love among the main protagonists Stella-Blanche-Stanley developing itself in a kind of drama.

Poem 3

Poem 3

Heroic Beowulf and his band of men
crossed the wide strand, striding along
the sandy foreshore; the sun shone,
the world's candle warmed them from the south
as they hastened to where, as they had heard,
the young king, Ongentheow's killer
and his people's protector, was dispensing rings
inside his bawn. Beowulf's return
was reported to Hygelac as soon as possible,
news that the captian was now in the enclosure,
this battle-brother back from the fray
alive and well, walking to the hall.
Room was quickly made, on the king's orders,
and the troops filed across the cleared floor.

I've chosen this fragment because it decribes the impressive acomplishments of the hereo. People of those times receive Beowulf and his troops with extreme admiration for their victory. The fragment shows all the characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon poems. The epic poem repeats the name of the hereo with different words, underling Beowulf and the troops are very welcome in Hygelac's hall.

Debora: Poem 2

Debora: Poem 2: Sonnet LXII by Petrarch  Padre del ciel; dopo i perduti giorni Father in heaven, lo! these wasted days And all these nights in vain imag...

Poem 2

Sonnet LXII by Petrarch

 Padre del ciel; dopo i perduti giorni

Father in heaven, lo! these wasted days
And all these nights in vain imaginings spent,
My thoughts enkindled to one maddening blaze,
On one alluring presence all intent!
May't please Thee now that by Thy light I bend
My life to better things--some worthier aim--
And that my foe his snares in vain extend,
And at his bootless wiles be filled with shame.
'Tis now, O Lord, the eleventh circling year
Since I am fettered by this pitiless chain
Which to the weak is ever most severe;
Have mercy on my undeserved pain!
Guide Thou my wandering thoughts some better way,
Remind them Thou wast on the cross to-day!


I've chosen this sonnet because love it treated from a different point of view. In Shakespeare's sonnet love is painfull and even for Petrarchan one but in the last he feels a sinner because the passion makes him go away from God. For him real love is related to speritual things not mundane.
In the original language both the quartines same as the last tercines have a selection of words with perfect rhyme and rhythm how painfull the lover is through the emotions he proves. It's a pray to God for helping him to go back to the right way.

This picture represents the first time Petrarch met Laura.

Poem 1

Sonnet of Love XL by Shakespeare

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robb'ry, gentle theif,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes


I've chosen this sonnet  because after reading others I think this one shows real emotion and passion about the true love. I believe that true love for him is related to confidence, fidelity, sincerity in a relationship of love but at the same time it appears ambiguous because love must lead to happiness not to grievance and pain as a kind of obsession as the poem shows at the end.
The selection of words show his uncertainties  about love, he needs true love, logalty, that depens on the other person.
In the sonnet there is a rhetorical question to underline the passion of his feelings.
There are a lot of contrasting words to emphasize all this.

For me this picture represents the true love.

Assignment No 1 part II

Assignment No 1 part II
                   
                Roberto Cintia and De Bonis Debora.


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Post 3

I found two striking moments. First of all when Nick finally meets Gatsby (1) and the second when Gatsby dies in an unfair and unexpected way (2).

(1) " I'm Gatsby, he said suddenly what I exclaimed. "Oh I beg your pardon" (chap 3)

(2) "...I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. " (chap 8)

• Those are moments when Fitzgerald discovers the main characters more openly and then by the closure of the novel when the first character, who represented the hope for the future, dies in a sudden and abruptly. 
• With this I changed my mind, because I expected a happy ending, and with this I saw the imposibility of any change in the depicted sociaty of the twenties. 
• While I was reading the novel I though all Nick's illution about Gatsby would find a positive solution as regards the values but after reading the whole novel I realized the writer became pesimistic because of the death og Gatsby. 

• I would ask the author: Could it have a political relation, the motive that makes you consider the imposibility to rescue spiritual values within a sociaty plenty of material wealth?  

  

Post 2

My predictions were not confirmed, I said that there would be some trouble related to Gatsby, but that didn't happen.

The changes are:

• We have information about Gatsby. (chap 3)
• The new rich join the old rich in Gatsby's party. (chap 3)
• Gatsby becomes more and more interesting and mysterious. (chap 3)
• Gatsby finally meets Nick, and Nick makes a rapport between Gatsby and his ideas of hopes for the future. (chap 3)
• Gatsby meets Daisy with whom he starts a romance. (chap 4)
•  The Gatsby's dream, the love of Daisy, becomes a symbol that represents the American dream of the twenties. (chap 4)
• Gatsby makes the first movement to get his dream become true. 

 The quotation calls my attention because it is the beginning of the love story between the main characters. Gatsby wants to attract Daisy showing off, being spectacularily dressed, for the meeting, and also  with have again the contradiccion between apariences and material things against spiritual things. He wants to get Daisy's love throug material things.
" The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptables to contain it. An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gastby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colour tie.. " ( chap 5 line 60)


For the next chapters I predict a conflict between Gatsby and Tom because Tom can discover the affair that Gatsby has with Daisy.

Post 1

So far my predictions were confirmed, the novel is about parties, wealth and rich people.

The quotation that I selected is:
                                              " The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose." ( line 10 chapter 2)

This calls my attention because the character is in the middle of the road from a grey place completely different, if we compared it with Long Island or New York. His eyes are described with a passive look with light.  

The main characters are:

Nick:

• He is telling the story.
• He is unusually communicative in a reserved way, inclined to reserve all judgments. (line 5 chap 1)  
• He is tolerant ( line 18 chap 1) 
• He wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever. ( line 22 chap 1) 
• His family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. ( line 33 chap 1) 
•  He has a tradition that they are descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch. (line 35 chap 1)
• His grandfather's brother, who came in fifty-one, sent a subsitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that his father carries on to-day. (line 35 chap 1) 
• He glimpses into the human heart. ( line 22 chap 1)
• He is curious about Gatsby. (line 22 chap 1) 
• He graduated from  New Haven in 1915. (line 39 chap 1) 
• He lives in West Egg in Long Island Sound. (line 77 chap 1)
• He is Gatsby's neighbor. (line 82 chap 1)

Tom Buchanans:

• He met Nick in college. (line 88 chap 1)
• Daisy's husband. (line 90 chap 1)
• He is a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. (line 111 chap 1)
• He has two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gives him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. (line 112 chap 1)
• His voice gives the impression of tenor. (line 117 chap 1)
• He has a lower/mistress. (line 19 chap 2)

Daisy:

• Tom's wife (line 88 chap 1)
• Nick's second cousin. (line 88 chap 1)
• Her face is sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a passionate mouth. (line 163 chap 1)

Gatsby:

• He lives in a mansion. (line 82 chap 1)
• He has a single green light. (line 416 chap 1)
• According to Catherine, Gatsby is a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. (line198 chap 2)

Catherine:

• Myrtle's sister. (line 110 chap 1)
• She is a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white. (line 139 chap 2)

Myrtle:

• Tom's lower.
• She is in the middle thirties, her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contains no facet or gleam of beauty. (line 54 chap 2)

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg:

• His eyes are blue and gigantic. (line 10 chap 2)
• Their irises are one yard high. (line 11 chap 2)
• They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow which pass over a nonexistent nose. (line 11 chap 2)

Secondary Characters:

Daisy's baby (line 334 chap 1)

George B. Wilson:

• He is a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. (line 40 chap 2)
• Mytle's  husband.

Mr McKee:

• He is apale

Mrs McKee:

• Mr McKee's wife.
• He is shrill, languid handsome, and horrible. (line 151 chap 2)

Nick's father: (line 1 chap 1)

Miss Baker:

• She is a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cabet. (line 200 chap 1)

Two young women (line 212 chap 1)



I think it must be developed a problem in which Gatsby could be the main protagonist, given till now he is a mistery.