Today I should be mostly Doing Reading
Feb. 28th, 2009 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI realise the point of the renaissance module is to see how the renaissance was different, and I realise poetry is an important type of lit, and I do know that studying the language in such detail one sonnet at a time is valuable for close reading of all sorts, but...
if sonnet sequences only lasted for a generation 500 years ago, are they really still so interesting we must study them now? For weeks and weeks when we could be doing more plays?
*sigh*
Last time I did poetry I got through it by deciding the fixed form was quite a lot like TV, having a set length and particular turning points and a tag. I wrote a poem about Torchwood. It's a bit out of date now.
I could try writing a sonnet sequence about Torchwood. One poem per episode. If I was right about the fixed form part then it'll be easy to figure out which bit goes in what quatrain.
The sonnet sequences we looked at in class so far seem to set out what they're going to be about in the first sonnet, like, this will be about love and also about why we're writing poems about it. Except for the Shakespeare one which is possibly about semen and masturbation and why we're writing poems about it. Or possibly about money. ANYway: Does first episode of a series set out what the sequence is going to be about? Is it still about love and poems? Or death and poems? Well, television instead of poems.
I am going to go and Do Reading. And I am not to listen to Doctor Who until I have done the bit of reading on the handouts. And then I shall read at least one chapter out of the library books that I probably should just take back and swap for ones that are particularly about poems but then all my reading would be about poems and I'd never get around to doing any of it. I'm pretty sure there's a chapter about wars or stuff blowing up around here somewhere.
studious student is studying.
right after lunch.
if sonnet sequences only lasted for a generation 500 years ago, are they really still so interesting we must study them now? For weeks and weeks when we could be doing more plays?
*sigh*
Last time I did poetry I got through it by deciding the fixed form was quite a lot like TV, having a set length and particular turning points and a tag. I wrote a poem about Torchwood. It's a bit out of date now.
I could try writing a sonnet sequence about Torchwood. One poem per episode. If I was right about the fixed form part then it'll be easy to figure out which bit goes in what quatrain.
The sonnet sequences we looked at in class so far seem to set out what they're going to be about in the first sonnet, like, this will be about love and also about why we're writing poems about it. Except for the Shakespeare one which is possibly about semen and masturbation and why we're writing poems about it. Or possibly about money. ANYway: Does first episode of a series set out what the sequence is going to be about? Is it still about love and poems? Or death and poems? Well, television instead of poems.
I am going to go and Do Reading. And I am not to listen to Doctor Who until I have done the bit of reading on the handouts. And then I shall read at least one chapter out of the library books that I probably should just take back and swap for ones that are particularly about poems but then all my reading would be about poems and I'd never get around to doing any of it. I'm pretty sure there's a chapter about wars or stuff blowing up around here somewhere.
studious student is studying.
right after lunch.