Carpe Dien

If today was my last day I would probably do something very special with my family. I would enjoy every single moment and movement my body do. The activities I would do will be going to a place I like. The disadvantage of going to a place I like would be that I would loss a lot of time in the plane or in the car. It would be a very sad day because I would miss all my friends and family members that are currently present with me but, at the same time I would realize as many activities as I can and take advantage of every moment in my life. I would make a party for everyone to arrive and enjoy my last day in Earth. It would be also a very exciting day because the things that are coming are unknown and I should be prepared for everything. Also, I would go to church in order to pray and confess my sins. I would eat my favorite food and spend my money in all the stuffs that I like, I would also my final arrangement in order to leave everything in perfect conditions and organize. I would tell my friends my condition and tell them how important they were in my life and that every moment we share was a pleasant thought in my mind. My family would probably panic when they realize that that day is my last day. It would be a privilege to known how much time I have to live because I would be more prepared and preoccupied. Knowing when would be my last day has many factors that contribute to fear and pain in my heart.The thing that I would like would be to know how I would die. Since the moment I realize and know that I would die, life would be a treasure to me and I would realize the important value that has in myself and the people around me and the place I occupied in this world.

Making Meanings

Making Meaning Beowulf 

1) Fantastic and heroic images came to my mind as I was reading this part. The images created by literature are vivid and make you transport your mind to the story.

2) Herot is a luxury hall full with beautiful decoration while the lake when Grendel live doesn’t have any brilliant or of luxury. Illumination is present throughout Herot as well as joy while Grendel’s place is dark and pure evil.

3) The songs express joy and hapiness and Grendel is the opposite of all of this.

4) That he is  pure evil and his groomy body creates a horrible image of Grendel.

5) Its full of goodness and the symbolic meaning is the conflict between good and evil.

6) Its shows and presents the great power that Beowulf have.

7) Beowulf thinks that he need to fight without weapons in order to have a fair battle. It shows the meaning of honor and bravery that is present in the character during battle.

Its the description of Grendel in a different point of view. No, its the same evil but in a different way and the behavior toward acting.

Reviewing the text (Beowulf)

a) Grendel eat every human that is present at the hall.

b) Supposedly the throne is guarded by God.

c) He invite Beowulf to kill the monster.

d) Unferth says that he is not a hero because he lose swin with Brecca. Beowulf respond in aheroic way saying that Unferth is drink and that Unferth kills his brother.

e) He start fighting with Beowulf and in the fight Grendel lose his arm and later die.

Questions (The epic of Gilgamesh)

1) The fear make his legs weak and paralyzed.

2) He start expressing himself in a way of sorrow.

3) The legs weaker, but the ax  not.

4) The weakness of fear and greed.

5) Gilgamesh realized that Humbaba was trying to trick him

6) Friends should take care of friends.

7) When I was with a friend and suddenly someone unexpectedly hit him in the face.

Making Meanings (The seafarer)

1) He’s sad. Its full of depression and sandness. Hopes for a hero or death.

2) Yes, he is afraid and knows exactly what he is looking for.

3) He is suffer from sadness.

Questions (Federigos Falcon)

1) They always give all they have for one another because doenst have the same views.

2) Probably in order to resolve a situation in which both parts need something.

3) He meet the falcon and use to be a part of his life.

4) Is ironic because the thing the she needed and wanted the most in the thing Federigos sacrifice in other to pleased her.

5) In situations when emotions are.

Making Meaning ( Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

a) To exchange one blow for another using an ax. He would suffer the first blow and Gawain must agree to stand one blow from the green knight one year later.

b) Desire for his lady and his obligation for his host. Between chivalry and his obligation as a knight to reject adultery.

c) Comments from agrees knight to host, reassemble dettach body parts and can disguise himself as the lord of the castle.

d) He promises to give the hoast everything he has won during the day, but he is silent about the ladies about the magic sach.

e) After try to stroke

Whoso List to Hunt

 Questions

1) Write freely for eight minutes about any personal connections you can make to the poem, experiences or feelings that you have, or perhaps that you witness in others. Try to find the one word or phrase from the poem that most strongly affect your feelings.

2) What does the concept of love in this poem suggest about the position of women in Wyatt’s time? How do you respond to the woman statement Caesar’s I am?

3) Write a paragraph from the point of view of the “hind”, and give her response to the situation describe in the poem.

Answers

1) The personnal connection I have with the poem is the one related that someone else is with the girl I like. It can be applied to many situation in lives for example the ones related to the game of love. Many people have suffer the pain of loosing someone because that person is in love with another. People have suffer many times from the pain that it causes that someone else is having the person you want. The phrase ‘ Noli me tangere ; for Cæsar’s I am, is the phrase that affect my feelings the most because of its meaning. Noli me tangere means that you can hunt her in few words you cant have her because she is with someone else in this case it say Ceasar’s because it represent a man of power and leadership. It have a meaning and a significance that most of the people that suffer from the same situation it is the best way to express it. The poem is completely related to pain because is based on a sad situation that doesn’t have a happy ending. The woman doesnt seem to know that Sir Thomas is in love and she is more preocuppied on the king. It involves many feelings for example guilt because the author is in love with the same girl as the king, and also frustration because the girl doesnt knew the feeling that Sir Thomas Wyatt have. Some of your friends have probably the same exact feelings for some else but you probably doesnt know. The conclusion of all this poem and piece of art is to fight for what you like and want the most in your life. If you fight and perseverate in what you do, it will be more likely to have more opportunities.

2) Women in that time were treated as a property. The acquire their position by the man they married. They doesnt have a real position of power in a society and usually depend on someone else. They were not consider pretty by the way they act and behave but by the way they look and their physical appeareance. That ancient epoch was very dark in what concern to woman because they usually dont reach a position in which they can be hear. In the phrase “To Caesar’s I am” it express the ideas I just write a few sentences ago. The women were treated just like propeties in that epoch. It means that when a woman marry someone it was completely controlled by her husband. The word Caesars I am it means that it doesnt depend on her feelings but the way they acts.

3) The way I feel about you doesnt have words. But the things have changed since the king have feelings for me. There’s nothing I can do to control my destiny nor you. But it can remain silent and we can have an opportunity in another situation and in another time.