Romantic Artists Poem : Saturn Devouring One of His Children

I fear what I spawn, so I kill what I create.

If I know one thing of my children, it is their fate.

I will eat them alive, straight from the womb.

My stomach then must become their tomb.

I must not allow my children to grow old.

For the prophecy foretells one will be bold.

And strip away my crown and place it on their head.

I will not be dethroned I will say and I have said.

Shakespeare Sonnet Commentary

Sonnet 12:
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard;
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow,
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense
Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence.

I feel like this sonnet depicts time as an ultimately powerful weapon. Something that nothing can beat. It stands through anything and can be the downfall of the most powerful things. Time turns hair gray, and takes the leaves away from the trees. It questions beauty and can change and alter it. Things that were once beatiful can be changed because of time. Nothing can go against time. But you can breed and it makes time feel a lot longer, and ultimately helps you in getting old.

Is the Wife of Bath Someone Women Should Be Proud of?

No, definitley not. If women want a women who sleeps with numerous men to gain their fortunes after their deaths, then women need a reality check. Wife of Bath to me has no morals and the one man she loved beat her. Is that what woman really want? Is that what my mother and my little sister should look up to? No, I don't think so. However she was an individual in her society. Her ways of thinking about sex and virginity were unique, but a little hoeish. I mean if your gift is having sex then you really have a problem. She felt that being a virgin was for people who were perfect and she knew that she wasn't. She was married 5 times and only one of them was for love, and even the one she loved beat her. This is sad that a women in order to feel loved needs to be denied and mistreated. Is that really the way to show your love.

Who is the Modern Day Pardoner?

After reading "The Pardoner's Tale" in "The Canterbury Tales", many ideas come up as who is the modern day pardoner. Well the modern day pardoner is a variety of tangible as well intangible things. The innapropritate pop-up advertisements convincing you to buy you-know-whats, the infomercials trying to get you to buy things that are just too good to be true, as well as the numerous preachers accused of stealing from their congregations. These are all things that will trick you out of your money using false and immoral tactics. These are the modern day pardoners. 

Riddle...

If I were never created you wouldn't be reading this riddle.
I swiftly manifest your thoughts and ideas.
I come in many colors.

Is Grendel A Monster?

Is Grendel a monster? In Beowulf's eyes, yes of course. Grendel terrorized a town and killed people, therefore he deserves to die. Now, in Grendel's eyes, he feels like a social outcast. He isn't allowed to be apart of the festivities and drink mead with the others, therefore he feels alone. He can't stand listening to them party in the hall and not be allowed to be apart of it. Is it Grendel's fault that he looks the way he does? It's not, and clearly he is human in some way. Whether it be his actions in the film where he shows mercy towards Hrothgar's wife, or his sadness when he's dying basically in his mother arms. He doesn't want to be the way he is and Beowulf makes him up to be so much more, but that doesn't mean Beowulf is wrong.  Beowulf was sent to kill and rid "the monster" and his intentions were solely that so he had no time to recognize Grendel for being more than just a monster. Yet, Grendel still killed innocent people having a good time because of his insecurities which is wrong, but I don't think Grendel truly knows it's wrong and naturally his mother condones this behavior so she's the true monster, not Grendel.

Nabokov's Good Readers and Writers

Wow, this was an interesting article. I felt like Nabokov's point of view on reading and writing was thorough but...a tad bit overboard. I mean come on, is it really necessary to do half the stuff that he talked about? I felt like he was on point with the arguments of when literature was created. But still his ideas on fondling details and basically reading with a magnifying glass was a little far-fetched if you ask me. The idea of having to read something twice just seems like too much. If I don't catch something the first time, then obviously i'm not that interested in the book and clearly don't want to read again...plain and simple. You don't need a certain type of imagination to read a book (well), you just need a brain and reading skills. Why stay a little aloof  in a story than actually think. Have ideas about what's going to happen and make predictions, it makes reading a lot more fun to me. Not being able to predict and staying in the dark the whole time is just stupid.