plog 2-forbbiding mourning

in john donne's forbidding mounring, he usues circular imagery as a symbol for the love and bond between these two people. through the use of rhyme and circular images and language he creates an empathetic and sentimental tone along with other lit techniques such as emjambent and the overall structure of the poem which helps to show the soothing and somber mood of the poem.
the use of circular images in stanzas 3 and 9 are literal and specifi refernces to circles as doone uses the words 'sphere' and 'circle' to show the imagery of a circle. in stanzas 6, 8, and again 9. in stanza 6 the speaker talks about two souls that are one which creates an image of commitment, which could be seen as a circle since the two are together and there's nothing seperating them like how a circle has no beginning or end. in stanza 8 he talks about a pivoting foot where you would go around and be back where you started which is also an image of a circle. in stanza 9 along with the literal image of a circle he also creates the image of a circle in the last line where he says " and makes me end, where i begun" this creates the effect of a circle because he is going around from the beginning and enging at the beginning. with the use of the circular images he creates the image of strong, unbreakable bond between the two.
the rhyming through out the poem also creates a soothing effect that goes along with the overall mood of the poem. he uses end rhyme along with some internal rhyme to achieve this. the structure of the line indentures and the emjambents also help to emphasis and control the flow of the poem.

plog 1

the diction of this poem is very old style and a little confusing at first as the reader may not be used to such an old style of writing. the use of thee and thine and morrow and t'was, etc. make the poem have a very old world feel that we don't have in poetry now. it makes it seem a lot older, mainly because it is. it was difficult at first read of the first stanza because of this and because of the use of commas and questions. the way the lines are broken up make it hard to read through but once you get the rhytm of the poem down it goes by smoother and not as choppy. Also the geographical diction used to describe the lovers. It starts in the second stanza where Donne talks about the sea-discoveres finding new worlds and the maps deal. he continues in the third stanza with the geographical references about the hemispheres and north and west. it puts the two lovers love into a better context than just they love eachother a lot. when he talks about possesing a world, worlds are rather large and this means that their love for eachother is also rather large. hemishperes are also very large, he's saying they are two halves of a whole and together they make the world.

my act

so me, j'mag, talor, and talor's sister all wore shirts with a picture of african and the words africa and aids on them. the map showed the density of aids in africa and how in south africa there were a ton of people who had aids. the reaction we got, or that i got wasn't really anything out of the ordinary, people looked maybe they read the shirt but i don't think they got anything out of it, i don't think it made them think anymore about aids in africa than they did in the 5 seconds before they saw the shirts. most people know many people in africa have aids or are hiv+ so it's not really anything crazy/radical that they were like woah omg, i need to help out with that. but the shirts did help rais awarness even if it was just to a few people who may have already known. overall i think the project was good and we should have more like it.

i'll need a slower reading

i think if i had read this play slower than i did i would be able to appreciate all of the subtle things about it such as the language and the poetry of the choruses. i got the main jist of it but i read it as i would read a book. i didn't really take the neccessary pauses or read with the line alignment like i could have and i think if i go back and do that i would better grasp the poeticness of the text and see a more vivid picture. i might go back and do that when i have time, but then again what ib student has time?

what kind of stage would this be on?

there seems to be a lot of movement and set changes during this play so i'm wondering what kind and how big of a stage this would be played on. with the choruses and the main actors and other extras in all the scences it seems like a rather large stage would be needed for this to all work like it should without anyone being crowded or the audience feeling as though they can't get the full picture of what is going on. i would like to be able to see this acted out on a stage just to see how they overcame that obstable of space.

you've reached the answering machine of...

make love, not war, please leave a message after the beep. beeeeeep. that's what i hear whenever i call my friend natalie and she doesn't answer. she's very anti war and pro peace. that whole theme of make love, not war fits with lysistrata very well because the men wanted to make love but first they had to end the war. so once the war was done they were allowed to be with their women again. confirming that they would much rather make love than war. this as an overall theme of the play would be good because it sticks very closely to the story. sometimes themes don't fit as well as this one does.

this is SPARTA!!!

so why were the spartans part southern? i mean what was with that dialect and why was it chosen? Lampito and the other spartans sounded plumb crazy when they wasa talkin' and gettin' on and stuff. it was just hard for me to imagine these characters as spartans or athenians when they talked like that. it was a funny scence in my head. it would be all these women in greek wear and then there would be a woman in a ten gallon hat and a cowboy shirt with chaps and a lasoo hanging out with them. that's just what i imagined when any spartan was around. the spartans dialect was very different from any of the other characters and i think it would be interesting to know if this is how they really talked way back when. i mean i doubt aristophanes knew that some where years in the future people in the rural southern united states would speak like this. where did this dialect come from?