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.