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beccaelizabethIt turns out I quite like 'Ulysses'.
Now I'm annoyed, because I greatly dislike all the other bits we read.
Except Charge of the Light Brigade isn't as simples as it looks or gets used for. It's not just 'remember heroes!' it's 'remember they all got dead because of a mistake!'. And the rhyme and meter sounds like galloping at first glance but then it's sort of lumpy and irregular when I try and pin it down so it's more like stumbling. Unless I'm wrong about that.
Ulysses is about coming home and not being able to cope with it. And wanting to just go and keep going, wanting to keep finding things out forever. Plus I automatically translate it into space exploration and starships. (Mostly because Babylon 5. Though I have that stupid cartoon theme stuck in my head now.) Also it's about getting old but saying :-p to it. Living all the minutes you have left. It's about lots of good stuff, basically. So I like it.
I'm not so much pulling it apart for lessons, I just want to re-read it a few times.
Earlier I read about the Boer War. The second one, where Britain invented concentration camps. I don't think I knew that before last Friday. It seems like the kind of thing to know. I started reading on wiki about it and got so annoyed I had to stop. Wars are stupid. Worse than stupid. We should quit doing them. There's enough bad in the world without being it.
Studying Victorians is very angry making. Britain was being a bastard quite a lot.
Some things got better. Lots of work though.
So I like better the poem about going and finding things out and keeping on going forever.
Except it weren't true exactly on the water places, so I have to put it in the stars to work.
Now I'm annoyed, because I greatly dislike all the other bits we read.
Except Charge of the Light Brigade isn't as simples as it looks or gets used for. It's not just 'remember heroes!' it's 'remember they all got dead because of a mistake!'. And the rhyme and meter sounds like galloping at first glance but then it's sort of lumpy and irregular when I try and pin it down so it's more like stumbling. Unless I'm wrong about that.
Ulysses is about coming home and not being able to cope with it. And wanting to just go and keep going, wanting to keep finding things out forever. Plus I automatically translate it into space exploration and starships. (Mostly because Babylon 5. Though I have that stupid cartoon theme stuck in my head now.) Also it's about getting old but saying :-p to it. Living all the minutes you have left. It's about lots of good stuff, basically. So I like it.
I'm not so much pulling it apart for lessons, I just want to re-read it a few times.
Earlier I read about the Boer War. The second one, where Britain invented concentration camps. I don't think I knew that before last Friday. It seems like the kind of thing to know. I started reading on wiki about it and got so annoyed I had to stop. Wars are stupid. Worse than stupid. We should quit doing them. There's enough bad in the world without being it.
Studying Victorians is very angry making. Britain was being a bastard quite a lot.
Some things got better. Lots of work though.
So I like better the poem about going and finding things out and keeping on going forever.
Except it weren't true exactly on the water places, so I have to put it in the stars to work.