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THE GOOD LIFE - Coggle Diagram
THE GOOD LIFE
DEATH
Remembence - “Who live , who dies, who tells your story.”-Hamiliton
Elegy: a melancholic lyric poem meditating on something, usually a death.
“Not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danes Smith
-Comments on the abundance of black child deaths
-The speaker is tired of writing About the deaths of these children
-Comments on talking about a body that no longer hold what makes that person speacial.
Monuments
“Ozymandias” (1818) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
-Even though there is a large monument built so that the name Ozymandias can live on after he dies, his legacy still fades out because none of the people cared enough to take care of it, letting it fall into ruins
LOVE
BEAUTY
William Shakesphere
Sonnet 130
-Loving a person despite not being beautiful
-Making fun of love sonnets that only talk of the audience’s beauty
“She walks in Beauty” (1815) by George Gordon, Lord Byron
-Poet was someone who embodied the live fast and die young stereotype
-Time is running out lets enjoy ourselves while we are young
Family
“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet 1678
-A parents love for their child
-The guilt the parent has for the child’s flaws
-The external judgment towards the parent when others see the child’s flaws
-The parent’s want for their child to be provided for with the best materials.
“The Gift” by Li-Young Lee
-The passing of the gift from parent to child
-The loyalty of a child for their parent.
MARRIAGE
William Shakephere
Sonnet 116
-Love will not fade from mistakes, time/old age, death
Affair
“My pain, still smother’d in my grieved breast” by Mary Wroth 1621
-The poet did have an affair and was thrown out of the court because of it even though her husband was being unfaithful as well
-The speaker talks about experiencing a pain that drives her to action in order to no longer feel that pain, except once she starts the speaker is unable to stop.
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell 1681
-The speaker is trying to persuade someone to be his mistress because while there is a possibility that the speakers love may last the ages if given time the lust the speaker has for the reader will be lost once her beauty fades
Unrequited
Sonnet: a 14-line poem, iambic pentameter. Often written in cycles, or sequences. Usually about love.
Romanticism: to deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistic fashion/ make it seem more appealing than it really is
Sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe
“To Autumn” (1820) by John Keats
-A love poem to nature
-Showing the audience that autum is a time of harvest and other wonderful things, not just the season before winter when everything starts to die
Self-love
“Wild Night” by Emily Dickinson
-Celebrating women obtaining female sexual pleasure
-Written by an independent woman, which was rare at the time.
“What my lips have kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
-The speaker speaks of multiple lovers but by the end of the oem the speaker does not need a companion or a partner to be happy.
HUMANS
Acomplishment
William Shakesphere
Sonnet 29
-Looking at others and being jealous and admiring of what they have accomplished
-The speaker wants to be as acomplished as the person they are talking about.
“When I Consider How my Light is Spent” by John Milton 1673
-The speaker is questioning themselves if they lived a fulfilled life
-A reflection on how the speaker lived
- Finding a purpose in life
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
-Burn out in academia
-A love for a subject but not a love for the profession
-In order to get a job in a subject you love you must accomplish a degree in that profession.
Acknowledgement
“A Description of a City Shower” by Jonathan Swift (1710)
-A description of a city that highlights how dirty it is. Talks about the smell and so much dirt that any attempts to clean it just spreads it around more.
-The opposite of romanticism
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751) by Thomas Gray
-Written in rememberence of his friend who passed away
-Mourns the potential peasants who are never given a chance to make their mark on history
-Everyone will eventually die and end up in a graveyard
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
-Describes the horrifying events on the battlefield the shoulders go through
-Comments on the lies that propaganda spread in order to get enough soilders to enlist and fight.
“The Song of the Mud” by Mary Borden
-The soilders are not just fighting other people they are also fighting the environment around them, because the muddy terrain will kill them the longer they stay there.
Behavior
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“Abecedarian Requiring Further Information of Anglican Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation” by Natalie Diaz
-The assimilation of the native americans into a culture and religion that has hurt them for generations -Doesn’t follow that religion , but knows the basic terms and lore through exposure through pop culture