INTRODUCING Ezra Pound

1. He Embraced Mussolini's Fascism And Supported Hitler.
2. After Spending 25 Days In A 6x6 Foot Outdoor Steel Cage For Treason, He Had A Mental Breakdown And Was Later Put Into A Psychiatric Hospital For Twelve Years.
3. He Wrote A Piece Of Unfinished Poetry That Has 120 Sections.
4. He Helped Shape The Work Of People Such As Robert Frost, James Joyce And Ernest Hemingway.
5. He Worked On The Cantos For Fifty Years. 
 

Spring Vocab #2

Patronage- the financia support or business provided to a store, hotel or the like.

Cadence- rythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words

Suffused- to overspread with or as with a liquid, color

Sieve- an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts

Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities

Dentifrice- a paste, powder, liquid or other preparation for cleaning the teeth

Leisure- free time off of work

Vessel- a craft for traveling on water

Phonograph- any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs

Saccharine- of the nature of or resembling that of sugar

Profusion- abundance, abundant quality

Delinquents- failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation

Gibbering- to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly

Insidious- intended to entrap or beguile

Strewn- to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface

Praetorian- person of high rank

Veiled- having a veil

Harlequin- a comic character in a commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade

Toil- hard and continuous work

Spring Vocab #1

Proboscis- the trunk of an elephant

Pantomime- the art or technique of coneying emotions, actions, feelings, etc. by gestures without speech

Proclivities- natural or habitual inelination or tendency

Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high speeds

Odious- deserving or causing hatred

Jargon- the language, especially the vocabualary, peculiar to a particular track, profession

Ravenous- extremely hungry, famished

Parlor- a room for the reception and entertainment of visitor's to one's home

Stagnant- not flowing or running

Cacophony- harsh disordenance of sound

Tamped- to force in or down

Flourish- to be in a vigorous state

Plateau- a flat stand

Rollick- to move or act in a carefree, frolicsome way

Asylum- an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill

Fahrenheit 451 (5 important things from Wikipedia)

1.) Guy Montag Meets A Girl Named Clarisse McClellan
2.) Mildred Montag Is Addicted To Sleeping Pills And Is Deeply Involved With Her Parlor.
3.) Guy Montag Is The Protagonist.
4.) Has A Lot To Do With Censorship.
5.) Montag Reads A Line Of A Book.

Spring Semester Plan 1

I Planned For Things To Go Great This Semester And So Far, They Pretty Much Have. I Planned To Get All Of My Work Done And Really Focus. Now, I'm Pretty Late With This Post Put I'll Still Try. My Plan To Be Focused Has Been Going Well In Most Classes. English Happens To Be One I Haven't Been Focused In. I Was In Class Today And Counted All Of The Things That I Should Have Posted To My Blog So Far And I Had Done One! So I Am Going To Attempt To Fill My Blog Up A Little More. My Plan Needs To Be Reinforced And I'm Doing It.

SPRING POST 1: Music As Literature

According to Dictionary.com this is what literature is: writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.

Music Is Literature Because It Is ALLLLL About Expression. It's About Feelings, Thoughts, Ideas And Opinions That Have Universal Interest So It Most Definitely Is Literature In That Aspect. It Does Say Poetry, Novels, History, Biography And Essays But I Personally Would Add Music To It.

BUT, The Fourth Definition Is: the profession of a writer or author.
And In Music The Writer And Artist Do Profess Their Words To An Audience.

Music Is Literature Mainly Because It Is Expression And Profession From The Writer And/Or Artist.

Literary Analysis Questions #1

GENERAL

1. The Book Was Simply Telling The Story Of A Girl's Life And The Impact It's Had On Her Emotionally, Socially And Physically.
2. I Think It's Simply Just Telling A Story Of Someone Who Looks Back Onto Why She's The Way She Is.
3. The Author's Tone Is Kind Of Like Pissed At The World. The Main Character, Dolores, Hates Everyone In Some Small Way. "Ma held me and rocked. "Shh, now. Easy. Just tell us what it is. Just say it" "It's her," I said. "I hate her." (During This Part She Had Pointed At Her Grandma And Said She Hated Her Grandma) "I hated Petey" (Petey Was Dolores' Mother's Bird) "At Jeanette's slumber party, I told Kitty Coffey she smelled like a hamper and I was delighted when she cried."

CHARACTERIZATION

1. "Time after time I voted for the same Rheingold girl, whose dark brown hair and red-lipped smile reminded me both of Gisele MacKenzie from "Your Hit Parade" and my own mother, the best looking of the three", "My father was proud and protective of his own dark good looks. I remember having sometimes to hop around and hold my pee until he was finished with his long grooming behind the pink bathroom door on Carter Avenue.", "Don't you ever-ever!-tell me what I can and cannot say in the privacy of my own home," my father shouted from behind the door.", "She turned abruptly toward me and caught me watching her shiny, wet breasts.  Sloshing, she strapped her arms around herself and became, again, my proper mother."
2. Dolores' Syntax/Diction Doesn't Really Change At All. She's The Same To Everyone.
3. I Would Consider Dolores To Be The Protagonist Because She Battles Her Weight And She's Dynamic Because She Does Change. She's Also Round Because She Develops Throughtout The Book.
4. I Felt Like Dolores Was A Real Person In The End Since I Got To Know A Lot About Her Life. "This is one of the patterns of our three-year marriage." She Started Out Being Four Years Old And In The End She's Married.