Friday February 9

stichomythia: row of speech

laughter: has many different meanings

Wallace Stevens: A Postcard From the Volcano

Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;

And that in autumn, when the grapes
Made sharp air sharper by their smell
These had a being, breathing frost;

And least will guess that with our bones
We left much more, left what still is
The look of things, left what we felt

At what we saw. The spring clouds blow
Above the shuttered mansion-house,
Beyond our gate and the windy sky

Cries out a literate despair.
We knew for long the mansion's look
And what we said of it became

A part of what it is... Children,
Still weaving budded aureoles,
Will speak our speech and never know,

Will say of the mansion that it seems
As if he that lived there left behind
A spirit storming in blank walls,

A dirty house in a gutted world,
A tatter of shadows peaked to white,
Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.

~

each of us enacts Persephone

Dr Sexson on death:

"Hades dragging you into the underworld, or Shakespeare taking you the other way."

Is a person your

• Rescuer or abductor?
• Devil or deliverer?

gone with the wind

• was Leslie her rescuer or abductor? She loved him so much that it ruined her marriage
• was Rhett the devil or her deliverer? He loved her so much it caused him to go a little mad

lotus eater: "The irony of the story is that Wilson moves to Capri due to the boredom of his "everyday routine" of working/living in London and after relocating to Capri he falls into a new, but equally boring routine." I believe that this is the most important part of the wiki article

The characters of Antigone (Elizabeth), Ismene (Megan) and Creon (Mick)

Antigone: she is outgoing, and believes that her family is more important than the government

Ismene: timid, and doesn't like confrontation with anyone, she too believes that her family is more important than the government, but is too timid to fight for her beliefs. She values her life enough to 'not fight city hall,' she doesn't have the 'cojones' of her sister, so she won't stand up for what she believes in

Creon: he believes that the law comes before family, but I believe that he may have changed his mind at the end

SOPHOCLES

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ASCALES ------------------EURIPIDES

Aeschylus: the birth of Greece (the beginning), he wrote Oresteia (Agamemnon has to fight in the Trojan War- they needed a virgin to sacrifice, so he allowed them to kill his daughter, which made his wife Clytemnestra very angry, so she slashed him into tiny pieces)

Sophocles: Greece at it's zenith, this was the time of perfection and the height of articulation

Euripides: thought of as 'loose,' untranslatable, disjointed, and random, but passionate, intense and emotional

enthusiastic: entheos= god inside you

Cassandra

Matriarchs

The Furies or Erinyes: the gods of the underworld