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This posting is the same as last weeks. Choose the opposite prompt that you wrote about last week of these two options. If you wrote about the play last week, write about Carmina Burana this week . If you wrote about Carmina Burana last week write about the play this week. Whichever option you choose, write at least 15 sentences.
Option 1: Write about your thoughts on the play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Write at least 15 sentences in which you can analyze how a character chose to portray the part, a particular scene and why it was effective, the sets, costumes, any aspect of the play.
Option 2: Choose lines from your section of Carmina Burana that describe a particularly interesting visual image. Write out the lines and explain how these lines and the visual image works in the context of the entire poem. Write at least 15 sentence.
As always be interesting, intelligent, brilliantly creative and insightful.
This posting is the same as last weeks. Choose the opposite prompt that you wrote about last week of these two options. If you wrote about the play last week, write about Carmina Burana this week . If you wrote about Carmina Burana last week write about the play this week. Whichever option you choose, write at least 15 sentences.
Option 1: Write about your thoughts on the play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Write at least 15 sentences in which you can analyze how a character chose to portray the part, a particular scene and why it was effective, the sets, costumes, any aspect of the play.
Option 2: Choose lines from your section of Carmina Burana that describe a particularly interesting visual image. Write out the lines and explain how these lines and the visual image works in the context of the entire poem. Write at least 15 sentence.
As always be interesting, intelligent, brilliantly creative and insightful.
Madison Ferris
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This week, I am going to write about Carmina Burana. I wrote about the play last week. My group did poems 15, 16, 17 and 18. The lines I am going to focus on are; "Your eyes shine like the rays of the sun, like the flashing of lightening which brightens the darkness. Ah!" The picture we used for our presentation was a picture of a beautiful couple on their wedding day. Poem18 where these lines are, is called "In my Heart". The lines in this song describe a longing and a lust for a girl. The poem represents a desire to love someone. The guy wants to make the girl his and loves her. He talks about wanting to take her virginity. The image these lines evoked in my mind, was an image of two people deeply in love with each other was effective in this poem. The image is effective relating itself to the lines, because it shows a deep connection between people in love. Marriage is a beautiful, hopefully everlasting committment. The picture shows that committment and love. The couple you can tell feels very connected and adores each other. Marriage in the United States doesn't have a high success rate, but generally the idea of marriage is that you will love that person for the rest of your life. The picture does a good job portraying the lines.
Julia McMichael
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I really enjoyed the play last Sunday! I thought it was so hilarious. The cast did a really great job bringing their characters to life! Also having more of the humor come through than when we read it in class. My favorite character was Lady Bracknell. She did such a great job delivering her witty lines. Also the mannerism she added to her character were very funny as well! I also really liked the sets and costuming in this play. I liked how the set was easily changeable each act but still looked unique. I liked how in the third act you could see through the window where the men were sitting from the view of the second act. I liked how they were able to change the perspective on both sides. I really loved the girls costuming as well. I thought the dresses were so beautiful and full. Earnests mourning tux was a very cool costume as well. Overall I loved the play, the scenery, the cast, and the small feel of the theater!
Andrew Park
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My section in Carmina Burana was 15-18. It was known as the "Court of Love." Lines "The girl without a lover misses out on all pleasures" and "She keeps the dark night hidden in the depth of her heart it is a most bitter fate" totally represents the imagery in the portion. It shows how love affects an individual internally. In the part "The girl without a lover misses out on all the pleasures", it refers to how a girl who isn't coupled is aloof from society. It implies that while everyone is coupled and is enjoying the happiness, the particular girl is lonely and in need for a moment of pleasure. She is feeling the deep effects of loneliness in the depth of her heart. For that particular portion of the poem, the image my group used was the dark skies in the middle of nowhere. The setting represents the emotions from desolation. The dark skies represents the bitter fate when the dark night is hidden. In real life, there are many examples of this. There could be many settings where without love, people see life as being desolate in an area they can't fight their way out of. That's one reason where people feel overly depressed from divorces, break-ups, etc. and suffer from poor emotional health. In the poem, the "girl without a lover" shows valiant effort to protect her emotional health. In real life, I feel that depression and suicides have been from lack of effort to get help. One message I got from my part of the poem is "If you want to be loved, you need to prove you are lovable through your emotional and mental traits".
Sarah Porter
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Our section in “Carmina Burana” was called “The Court of Love”. In general, the poems followed the same theme, which centered around the joys of being in love and having someone to love. Particularly, number 15 in our section, titled “Cupid flies everywhere”, talks about how great it is to have a lover, and how awful it is to be alone: “Young men and women are rightly coupled. The girl without a lover misses out on all pleasures, she keeps the dark night hidden in the depth of her heart; it is a most bitter fate”. What I really got from this poem was that without someone to love, you can never be happy, and that people in love are always happier or much better off. I believe this is a somewhat old-fashioned, if not completely false claim. I personally don’t think that a person’s own happiness should ever come from relying on someone else. In fact, I am almost positive that by relying on other people to make you happy, you can never be truly happy. This poem creates an extremely unrealistic depiction of love and relationships.
Lily Kristjanson
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From my section of Carmina Burana, “Fortune, Empress of the World”, lines one through five have a great visual importance. These lines read, “O fortune, like the moon, your are changeable, ever waxing and waning”. In reading these lines, the most obvious visual connection is the moon. One’s fortune and fate, is forever unpredictable. The possibility of knowing an outcome is slim, because our future is constantly changing. This is represented by the moon because it is always changing. Not only in its lunar patterns, but in its impact on our world. An example would be the moons effect on tides. Tides are waning and unpredictable. The moon’s rotation and movement, controls the changing of the tides, along with other aspects of our world. The use of the moon as a visual representation of fortune in Carmina Burana, is the clearest way to comprehend its unpredictability. Continuing on in “Fortune, Empress of the World” more visual representations are included to emphasize the change of fortune. As well as the unpredictability of fate and its connection to fortune.
Jessica Bruce
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The Importance of Being Ernest:
I really enjoyed this production. I thought that the actors dod a very good job at portraying their characters. I thought the costumes were very well done as well. They definitely represented the time period, and looked extremely uncomfortable!I am really glad that styes have changed. The play was pretty funny, at least funnier then just reading it in class. I think the funniest part was just listening to the old people belly laugh. I was really surprised to learn that the actors playing Jack and Cecily are married in real life. I know that they are actors and all but I think it would be so weird to have see one's spouse kissing another guy. Not to mention how the other actors must feel since they know that they are kissing someone's spouse. That was a bit of tangent, all in all I thought that it was a very well done performance and I really enjoyed it. I just wish we saw plays on rainy days because loosing all that time in the sun was just depressing.
Isabelle Carson
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I really enjoyed The Importance of Being Earnest. I found the play very entertaining. While I was reading the play, a lot of the jokes were not very apparent. Watching the play made it more understandable and I could actually understand the jokes. I thought the set was amazing. It was incredible how much they could change it around. The costumes were also pretty cool. Gwendolen and Lady Bracknell had very bright and detailed dresses. Jack’s mourning suit was also pretty ridiculous looking. Watching the play the characters seemed a bit more ditzy or comical than in reading the play. Algernon seemed less in love with Cecily and wanting to marry her because of that, but more to get at Jack. He was in it more for the fun of it, which was a feeling that I did not get when reading the play.
Tristan Liebrock
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The section I read for Carmina Burana was "Spring Time." For me there isn't one line that stands out more then any of the other lines. I think that during my section it felt more like and opera then most of the other sections. I say this because there were lines like, "where is my lover?" There were more lines like that in the first few sections, but when I read those lines they come off the page as more of an opera then anything else. I think that some of the lines in the play/ opera make it more realistic to an opera that I know of. Granted this opera was different from what we have seen this year, it might because it was written so much earlier then any of the other ones, but this one I feel doesn't have as much of a story as The Daughter of the Regiment or Rigoletto. All in all I was surprised by what was actually written. I think it's going to be interesting how the Seattle Symphony is going to portray the opera.
Arthur Gulledge
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The passage I’ll focus on will be Fortune, Empress of the World. The verses I found to be very visual were, “On Fortune’s throne I used to sit raised up, crowned with the many-coloured flowers of prosperity though I may have flourished happy and blessed, now I fall from the peak deprived of glory.” These lines really represent the theme of the poem, that fortune can be taken away as easily as it is given. When I read this, I can see many different things. The first part, “on fortune’s throne I used to sit raised up”, there is an image of a great king on a decorated throne, sitting up straight and proud. In the next part, “crowned with the many- coloured flowers of prosperity”, I see the king wearing a beautiful crown. The prosperity here could also be a synonym for fortune, so the ruler is wearing a crown of fortune. The flowers being many colors could represent the coming of spring, which is the next part of the poem. It could mean prosperity, or fortune, has many different shades, and come in many different colors and types. The last part, “now I fall from the peak deprived of glory” could represent many things. It visually means the ruler has fallen from his throne. It also means fortune isn’t always kind to those who do have it. These lines relate to the poem as a whole in many ways. One is that it starts the poem, so it sets up what the rest of the poem will be about. It also can be applied to love, as if you replace fortune with love, the meaning doesn’t change. That means love is the same as fortune, as it is great to have, but easily taken away, depriving you of glory.
Byron Murray
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The lines that I chose from my section of Carmina Burana that describe in what is in my opinion an interesting image are “ In the winter man is patient, the breath of spring makes him lust”. When I first read that line I imagined a stag in the forest when the rutting season just started for them. These lines contribute to the poem because the whole poem was about having sex with girls and falling in love and how it’s such an amazing thing. The image fits in because again the whole poem is about sex and there is a lot of sex that happens when it is mating season for deer. The whole poem is quite repetitive in its whole theme of being with your “lover” and how men need to rejoice with the young women and essentially have a lot of sex just like the deer in rutting season after the long winter would do. Another interesting set of lines were “If a boy with a girl tarries in a little room, happy is their coupling”. This line basically makes me think of a high school party because that’s definitely a thing that goes on during a house party. These lines are the first lines said in the poem and it really goes right to the point of the whole poem and in a nutshell describes what the whole poem is going to be centered around. The images fit into the context of the poem because the image that is being described is essentially the thing that the poem is trying to describe and talk about.
Elena Wagar
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The section that my group read for Carmina Burana are poem 1,2 and 24. One line that shows an interesting image is " like poverty and power it melts them like ice" This poem is so powerful. This captures the meaning of nature. No matter what happiness a person enjoys, no matter what he suffers, a lot in life may quickly change in poverty and power. I picture something in my head i see some one all sad and depressed they could have little money then all of a sudden it shows him that he can/is strong. I liked how we got in groups and preformed this in front of the class instead of reading it as a whole class. Im excited to see this opera next week.
Spencer Read
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The Importance of Being Earnest was much more comical than I had expected. It also humored to see just how wealthy Jack was. While reading, I totally forgot his significance as a person. I forgot that he is a wealthy land owner, with a lot of responsibility. This makes his little escapades in London seem so much worse, realizing that in his normal life as Jack, he totally acts as though he disapproves of "Earnest's" activities. The play itself was actually very good. The actors enunciated their words very well, and there was rarely a sentence or phrase that I didn't catch, which was nice. It was nice especially because we are accustomed to hearing most plays and operas in other languages. Watching a play in plain-spoken English was much easier, and personally much more interesting, than watching an opera in a foreign language. It was just refreshing to hear something so easy to follow, for once. I especially liked that part when Gwendolen and Cecily find out that Earnest is not real, and the way the entire scene was done. It was very well laid-out, and the actors did an amazing job. Also, learning that Jack and Cecily are married in real life was a shock. Things like that always make the plot twist just a little bit, because it somehow ties the world of the play, and the world of reality together. In all, this was by far my favorite performance all year.
Taryn Riegel
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The joyous face of spring
is presented to the world.
Winter’s army
is conquered and put to flight.
In colorful dress
Flora is arrayed,
and the woods are sweet
with birdsong in her praise.
In this, spring is said to be “joyous.” Joyous means happy, and happy relates to brightness, so the face of spring was bright and happy. It could be bright due to sunlight. There is no more winter, so there is new growth on the ground and on trees and plants. No more snow is on the ground so other things are exposed. It is colorful because of all of the flowers. Spring is a time for growth so many flowers bloom in all varieties of colors. It is like a dress because a dress is made of fabric, so the flowers are grown so closely together that they look almost like a solid piece of fabric from a distance. Birds are out because they can eat worms from the ground. The woods aren’t dark and dreary anymore because of winter. All in all the sun made this a happier place.
Arezu Abdollmohammadi
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I had sections 11-14 in Carmina Burana. This poem had so many meaningful and powerful lines. One that stood out to me was "I am like a leaf, played with by the winds". This is such a strong visual to me. I see a leaf tossing and turning, changing directions, being roughly treated by the winds. The poem title is Burning Inside. I can see this relating to the entire poem because someone whose life is played with by the turning wheel, constantly being played by it, can have a burning fury inside of them. Constantly changing from good to bad. Another visual in this poem that relates to the leaf is "I am carried along, like a ship without a steersman". This relates to leaf in the sense that you are carried along, without the sense of direction. Not knowing where you will be next. The first visual is of a leaf, how that can be played with, then talking about a person being played with by the wheel. Both ever changing directions, wether its bad or good. You will never know whats coming next.
Ashley Barnett
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“Your eyes shine
Like the rays of the sun,
Like the flashing of lightning
Which brightens the darkness. Ah!”
I had section 15-18 in Carmina Burana so I choose a part from poem 18 In My Heart. I really liked this section because it was very descriptive. I really liked this section while we were presenting because it was so descriptive it was very easy to find pictures for our background slides. These lines show someone’s admiration for someone else which is what most of the play is about; finding love. You can see just how much the person admires whoever they are talking about when they say your eyes shine like the rays of the sun. And you can also see it when they compare the person to lightning which brightens the darkness. The lightning is an interesting comparison because lightning and thunderstorms can be considered scary. But they can also be awe-inspiring. So this person could be saying that this person they are talking about is both scary and awe-inspiring to them which is an interesting mix. But the darkness the person is referring to can also be scary. So they may be feeling like however scary the light this person provides is it is still worth it. But that is just my interpretation and it could be very wrong. Either way I’m excited to see Carmina Burana to see how the director interprets it. Also overall when we read through it in class I liked it.
Danielle Knapik
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My group had songs 19-23, most of which were about love and passion for others. The lines were very straight forward all around about what they were trying to say, but I enjoyed 19 in particular.
"If a boy with a girl tarries in a little room,
happy is their coupling. Love rises up, and between them prudery is driven away, an ineffable game begins in their limbs, arms and lips."
What I think is interesting about these lines is just the simple and obvious truth. This doesn't have deep, alternative meaning that needs to be torn apart, but more the simple truth about lust and sexual desires. I thought that was interesting because many pieces of art contain so many metaphors and other literacy devices that nothing is what it seems to be, but this is very straight forward and understandable. Humans have a natural desire to want to touch others and be with other humans and that is simply expressed in these lines.
Laney McFarland
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In Carmina Burana, my group focused on part 1-2, the lines I see a very visual picture with is "Fate in health, and virtue is against me, driven on weighed down, always enslaved." Fate is like a road with no ending your always going to have it ahead of you, no matter what path you choose with your life. "Fate in health and virtue" means that you could be the loyalist kindest person but not everything could be fare to you, you could still have problems. Its like the saying bad things happen to even the best people. You just cant run or hide its like the unspoken connection you have with the unknown. But this isnt always the case sometimes fate is a good thing and can be very uplifting.
Ashley Glinn
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My group read songs 1,2,24, and 25. The songs that we had read had many visuals, but one that stood out to me was in the first song, "O Fortune". "Hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it". This song was focused on luck, fate, and of course fortune. This section of the song made me visualize a person being overwhelmed and consumed with all of these stresses, worries, and problems while they are having bad luck, but as soon as fortune comes along, a weight is lifted off their shoulders and they are able to live their life in happiness, prosperity, and bliss. The meaning behind "hateful life" could be that a person has chosen to become pessimistic because of their bad fortune or fate and as a result they hate their life because of the problems that they are weighted down with. These lines make me think of waves in the ocean as well, when the waves will come in and crash down onto the rocks, but then the tide will soon pull the water away and the water is calm for a few seconds before the waves come crashing in again. Life is always unpredictible and changing, and it's important to remember that although your life might be difficult and burdening at the moment, sooner or later everything will be able to work out the way that it should. I really enjoyed reading the songs that my group was assigned to because they all focused on how fortune, fate, and luck all affected people's lives and it's a topic that's really interesting for me. Although I won't be able to attend the performance next weekend, I'm glad we were able to read these songs out loud in front of the class and interpret the visuals and songs into our own versions. I'm excited to hear of what everyone thinks of the performance next weekend!
Abbey Folsom
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"The woods are burgeoning all over,
I am pining for my lover.
The woods are turning green all over,
why is my lover away so long? Ah!
He has ridden off,
Oh, woe who will love me? Ah!
My group did On the Green sections 6-10. The section that I chose was from section 7. I would describe this poem as a women who is looking for the lover she once knew and is so distressed when he hasn’t been a round lately. When she finds out that her lover has ridden off she is like any other women and wondering who will love her now. My group read this like someone was narrating the scenery around this woman as she is crying out about her lover. You can tell how distressed she is at this time in her life finding out that the one she loved isn’t going to come back. I almost picture her crying on the ground in the woods with the scenery being described in this poem. This just adds to the depth of how sad and tormented she is on this love she had. In the other poems in On the Green it is describing love and finding someone who could love her. Also section 8 talks about wanting someone to love you so much that she says: “Look at me, young men! Let me please you!” Then in section 9 the chorus describes maidens who go “round and round” not wanting to have a man for themselves but the semi-chorus long for love and yearns for it. The entire section of On the Green mainly talked about the yearning for love we all want and all the things we are willing to do to obtain it.
Mack Ohnemus
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"The merry face os spring/ turns to the world,/sharp winter/ now flees, vanquished;/ bedecked in various colours/ Flora reigns,/ the harmony of the woods/ praises her in song. Ah!" -3, The merry face of spring
This is the first stanza of the third poem/song in Carmina Burana. It shows that spring is coming. As spring is coming closer and closer, winter goes away. From "sharp winter now flees", I read it as though winter is scared of spring and as soon as springs pops up, winter runs away. While winter is scared of spring, the rest of the world embraces spring. Spring is the season of rebirth, and thus trees grow leaves and flowers bloom. The woods and forests praise winter's departure and spring's arrival.
Chris Reed
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Beautiful is your face,
the gleam of your eye,
your braided hair,
what a glorious creature!
redder than the rose,
whiter than the lily,
lovelier than all others,
I shall always glory in you!
Our group had 19-23. All of these songs were based on sexual desire and love. I liked this particular song the best though, it portrayed love over sex. It shows an image of someone loving another person for who they are, emotionally and physically. All of these songs portray very vivid scenes of love and lost among other things. They honestly make me uncomfortable to read, and I really did not like this choral reading stuff. Definitely not my forte.
Mark Gibbons
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I thought The Importance of Being Earnest was a great play to go to. The play was funny and very easy to follow. I did not like reading the play because I thought it was confusing but watching the play live put everything together. It was the most easy play to follow that I have been to. The scenes of the play looked really cool and realistic. It was funny how the actor was even eating the food. I really liked the costumes because they showed what people would have worn back then. I also liked the theatre and how small it was. Everything was easy to see and I could clearly understand what all the actors where saying. Overall, this was my favorite play that I have been to.
Mallori Lindberg
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This week Im going to write about Carmina Burana. The specific lines I'm going to write about are in section: 7. Floret silva. "The noble forest
is decked with flowers and leaves.
Where is my old
my long-lost lover?
He rode away on his horse.
Alas, who will love me now?" For some reason the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was the beginning scene in Disney's Snow White of her in the forest with the animals. She was singing and longing for a Prince which is very similar to what the poem is describing. "The forest all around is in flower.
I long for my lover.
The forest all around is in flower;
whence is my lover gone?
He rode away on his horse.
Alas, who will love me now?" Both depict the Woman yearning for a lover. Because of this similarity and visual our group used a picture of snow white in the forest and also hearts. Together these two represented the yearning for love while feeling misplaced in the forest. Overall our whole section we had reminded me of fairytales because it talked of forests and love, red cheeks ("Salesman! give me colored paint,
to paint my cheeks so crimson red") and metaphors of the Ocean. Therefore we used several photos such as princesses with red cheeks, oceans and love symbols to represents these sections of the Opera. I am excited to see it live since I also took French for 3 years!
Taylor Ingrum
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My group was assigned sections 1,2, and 24. Of these sections, this passage stood out to me the most:
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes.
This passage created a very strong visual aid for me. Starting out with "O'Fortune" gave me a kind of majestic feeling to the piece. Then, it says. "like the moon". I immediately pictured the moon shinning bright and beautiful against a dark black sky, making it seem even more majestic. The passage goes on to say, "ever waxing ever waning". A picture of the stages of the moon popped into my head and reminded me of a woman and how she is always changing her mind but still beautiful and majestic just like the moon. "Hateful life, first oppresses, then soothes". This was a section of the passage I wasn't sure of at first. I originally imagined a harsh woman that may have been scared or angered by love, but then eventually accepts his love and becomes soothed or cured by it. Bright colors like white, red and orange were very prominent in my imagination of this poem as I think they signify the "deep love" aspect. On the other hand, I imagined dark colors like grey, blue and black to signify the loneliness that some of this poem created.
Alison Mowry
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This week i'll be writing about Carmina Burana. My group in particular read sections 7-10 which were mostly about longing for a lover. The specific lines that i will be talking about are in section 8. "Good men, love women who are worthy of love! Love ennobles your spirit and gives you honour. This line stood out to me the most throughout the sections that we were reading because these sections in particular showed the desperation of this person to find a lover and be loved, but within these few lines you could see that there was reasoning behind that desperation, and it wasn't a longing for lust which is something that is very different. The visual image that is portrayed through all four sections makes me think of someone so desperate for love that they are very frantically moving around, but in these particular lines there is a sense of calm and reasoning behind that action. I think this is important to the context of the poem because it shows a more humanized side of what they are expressing.
Sophea Thach
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11- Burning inside
"If it is the way
Of the wise man
To build
Foundations on stone,
Then I am a fool, like
A flowing stream,
Which in its course
Never changes."
When I hear this I visualize a waterfall. But it's in one of those water fountains. Because it's just a constant flowing stream of water that never stops. Yet, even though it's still flowing, the course it's taking doesn't change. It doesn't fall out of the water fountain and go off course. It just stays in. It sounds like someone is the "fool" and they're falling into the same routine and people who are smarter, are going their own ways.
Grace Nelson
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I wrote about The Importance of Being Ernest Last week so this week I will talk about my lines from Carmina Burana. My group had lines 1,2,24, and 25. We started and ended the class off so it was important to make a big impact. The lines I chose to analyze were from song two: winter flees, and now spring sucks at summer's breast: A wretched soul is he who does not live or lust under summer's rule. Ah! I think these lines refer to the passing of seasons and enjoying them. I can relate to these lines because I also think the seasons roll by way too fast. Also I agree with the idea that if a man cannot enjoy summer then he is a wretched man. I believe that the different seasons can affect one's personality. I think that summer puts almost everyone in a good mood because of the sunshine and lower amounts of stress. I myself have been waiting months for summer because I feel happiest during that time of year.
Wyatt Smith P.4
ReplyDeleteThis week i am going to write about Carmina Burana. My group had section 7, 8, 9, and 10. one part that stood out to me was "The noble forest
is decked with flowers and leaves.
Where is my old
my long-lost lover?
He rode away on his horse.
Alas, who will love me now?"
This reminds me of almost every Disney princess movie there is. They are all awaiting there long lost lover, and for some reason finding this "prince" is the only thing that is going to make them feel better. Which is actually kind of degrading to women because it is basically saying that girls NEED a man. I thought Carmina Burana was really cool because we got to translate music from other languages into English, and it was interesting to see how music is put together in other countries.
Joey Keating
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"A wretched soul is he who does not live or lust under summer's rule. Ah! (Carmina Burana)"
A soul can be a person, a life, an animal or a creature. Wretched is a nasty, unfortunate person in a state of mind. Lust is an intense emotion inside ones body that gives interest. When I imagine a wretched soul I see a nasty, angry and mean person or life form trying to escape from something. Too me summer's rule represents the sun and that the heat controls all and that is mother natures rule. To lust for mother natures rule is to want, look and hope for its intensity and ruling heat. Also, the word under is used as if it has a higher power. To me this quote means that a person or soul is only someone like this if they are not under the heat of summer.
Jace Brandmeier
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So for Carmina Burana my group did poems 19 through 23. One of the first lines says, “Prudery is driven away, an ineffable game begins in their limbs, arms and lips.” For “prudery is driven away”, we chose to use a weird picture of Miley Cyrus. She was sticking her tongue out. At the same time she was wearing non-school appropriate clothing. We chose this because Miley Cyrus is just an interesting person and makes everything weird all by herself. Nothing else needed to be said. For the line “an ineffable game begins in their limbs, arms and lips”. We featured a picture of some people playing twister, because it didn’t really explain what the poem was saying, but was another way of looking at the lines. Some other lines we did were “My virginity makes me frisky, my simplicity holds me back.” For these lines we chose to use a playful puppy because frisky means playful and the puppy is an innocent playful creature. While for “my simplicity holds me back”, we showed a picture of a simple girl wearing all white being held back by strings from an unknown location. These few lines represent the other poems and how they work together because they show a small portion of the entire play. Each poem can be a story of its own. Even our shortest poem number 23 had a story of its own, while being only 2 lines long.
Claire Kennedy
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"Shopkeeper, give me colour to make my cheeks red, so that I can make the young men love me, against their will"
At first, I wasn't sure what was being said here. But I find this kind of interesting and funny at the same time. The speaker says 'give me colour' so that she can attract young men. As if make up were able to make men love her 'against their will'. I'm sure make up was a new concept at the time, so probably exciting to men just as much as women. Seeing as it supposedly enhances certain facial features, most likely ignored or overlooked before. Throughout the poem, it seems as though the speaker is pleading for her 'lover' to come back to her. Although at first it seems that she is talking about a specific person, in this exact part of the poem we see that's not the case. What I believe is that she is pining for a lover, not her lover. She wants attention in general, not from a specific man. In the first part of the poem she says 'my lover' a few times, alluding to her own man. I found this part of the poem interesting not only because of the make up part, but also because it is kind of a pivotal part of the poem. We see what she truly desires in the end. Especially when the next line is 'Look at me, young men! Let me please you!'.
Joshua Scheck period 2
ReplyDeleteFor this entry, I am choosing to write about the section On The Green in Carmina Burana. In my opinion, this whole section is dedicated to love. Each of the subsections illustrate longing and love. For an example in the subsection The Noble Woods Are Burgeoning, there is a women longing for her lover during the growth of plants. The imagined spring time with plants started to become green again. The particular image I had was a field of newly grown long grass, with a shady man on a horse riding into the woods. It would be quite gloomy since the picture would be quite illustrative of longing. However, the plants would be growing once again causing it to be a somewhat happy/gloomy picture. Then in the next subsection, I imagined that there was a woman begging for make up in order to get men to be attracted to her. So those two subsections are pretty much illustrative of the whole section. The main topic is love but also longing since in each subsection/story, there was someone who was longing for others. Either someone left them or they simply wanted someone to notice them. So I feel like Carmina Burana is trying to be illustrative of life. But the whole piece really consists of several different stories that meld to one another in order to create a life story. Each section is different, however each section consists of several unique subsections that are related to each other. And it is quite apparent that several aspects of a life cycle are trying to be illustrated.
Mimi Gerhardt, Period 4
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This week, I will be writing about the poems from Carmina Burana that my group did, because last week I wrote about "The Importance of Being Earnest". We had the "Court of Love" section, numbers 15-18. A quote that really stood out to me was
"The girl without a lover
misses out on all pleasures". I found this quote very interesting. I know this poem is about love and everything that comes with it. However, it seems like an over exaggeration. Clearly, the world doesn't revolve around sexual pleasures. Immediately, this quote reminds me of love, romance, and especially sexual desire. I don't have a specific image I think of when reading this quote, but rather those emotions. What I found interesting about this quote is that it specifically says "The girl without a lover" rather than something gender-neutral. This gives the impression that the author of these poems believe that women easily fall in love, both becoming lovestruck and heartbroken. Alternatively, men seem to be the opposite. The author makes it sound like men don't need a specific "lover" to have "all pleasures".
Campbell Gunnell
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for the reading my group was in charge of 15, 16, 17 and 18. now the line I have chosen is "what i have in mind; that I may loose the chains of her virginity.". obviously we couldn't do a very descriptive image for this line in our slide but and I think it deserves better. I think this poem really embodies our section because all the poems are about love and sex. the only difference with this line is that it doesn't beat around the bush, it just comes right out and says it. I think an ideal image for this line would be something along the lines of two people on a beach with the guy obviously trying to hard and the girl a little disinterested. yeah a little disheartening but really though.
Sean Rankin
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We read 1,2,24,25
In the first poem O Fortune the lines
well-being is vain and always fades to nothing
In this poem we know that fate is a whirling wheel sometimes your on top and life is great. Sometimes your on bottom and life is tough. I just picture a wheel that rotates through cycles of fortune and misfortune. Here we can see that well being is in vain because the when the wheel makes its complete all the good stuff will "fade away to nothing". This showing us the cruelty of life according to the poem.
Alex Rees
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This week I am writing about my part in Carmina Burana. My group did the woods are bourgening. I felt that our group was reading our part with mixed genders. The whole part we read was most likely a girls part because it goes and talks about how a woman's lover has left. And she is searching for her lover. Then goes on to talk about how we can influence the men to think that we are pretty and beautiful making every man fall head over heals in love with us. I though though that the way our coral reading went we portrayed it very well even though it was meant for a woman's part.
Noah Manns-Taylor
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I think for me the most interesting poem of our section was the last one, Sweetest One, which only had two lines. "ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" and "I give myself to you totally". I thought this was interesting because you have these beautiful poems all throughout the book, and then theres just this poem, which is more of a side note. I don't know if I would call this a poem, but the context of this is what really intrigues me. It could mean an infinite number of things and that's what really interesting.
My group had the second to last section of Carmina Burana. I did enjoy the acting out of the poems that we did in class, I think it helped me to understand the opera a little better for when we go to see it as a class. I think our section of the play was very intimate and definitely related to sex. An example from our section of the opera: "If a boy with a girl tarries in a little room,
ReplyDeletehappy is their coupling. Love rises up, and between them prudery is driven away, an ineffable game begins in their limbs, arms and lips." To my group, this line definitely was speaking about sex so although it may have been a little awkward to act it out, we made it work! Although we didn't know which gender was speaking which lines, we divided our poems into male and female speaking parts which I thought flowed very nicely. I also thought our backdrops related to our poems perfectly, and I think that my group did a very nice job.
Desirae Lopes
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The Importance of Being Ernest was a very entertaining play. I enjoyed the changes of the sets. Also, the props that were used added life. For example, the cucumber sandwiches that Algy was eating really made a statement about his character. the statement said that he was higher then Jack because jack couldn't have any, and that eating was one of his pass times. The butler was funny. He walked in on the worst of times and herd only snippets of what was really being said. That added humor to each scene he was in. Another prop that was used was Cecily's diary. She used it to write in when Algy was taking to her and as proof of his proposal. The looks and actions of the actors brought the play to life. Jack and Algy had chemistry that was not read of in the play. The way they looked at each other at certain times must have been rehearsed a thousand times. Like when the girls finally called each other sisters, that look they gave each other was priceless.