October 2011 Literature Post Test Discussion

<p>In the “cheap lady” passage, what did the lady view herself as?</p>

<p>Wouldn’t be diplomatic to urgent because exclaimed “out of my way!” but started out with not really showing her true emotions about Sophia wanting to teach? I D K.</p>

<p>Also, was the author making fun of the arrogance of both youth and parents when he said “supereme fauvor”?</p>

<p>It wasn’t defiance or ineffectual reasoning. That was a stock answer</p>

<p>Sophia asked questions over and over “Why Not?” so it had to be adamant question g</p>

<p>I said she saw herself as a good business woman. </p>

<p>Leemonkey you’re mixing two answers but yes the one with diplomatic to direct was what I put. </p>

<p>What were the other choices for supreme favor?</p>

<p>So they were ignorant because they didn’t know each other’s thoughts or because niether knew when the other would die?</p>

<p>what two questions am I mixing up?</p>

<p>he was expressing his disdain with youth is the only other one I remembeer</p>

<p>I said they didn’t know their thoughts</p>

<p>Does anyone remember what the third poem was ? Somehting about being young and aging?</p>

<p>I said they didnt know when they were going to die.
This test seems extremely subjective to me since some answers can really go either way.</p>

<p>leemonkey1, was this it?
[url=&lt;a href=“Lord Byng”&gt;Lord Byng]Heart[/url</a>]</p>

<p>Ummmm. First - childbirth. second - Thomas heartfree
Third - mom died
Fourth - Marguerite
Fifth - Sophia
Sixth - sonnet on like summer love or youth or something</p>

<p>THIS POEM:</p>

<p>Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy. No man holds mortgage on it; it is your own; To give, to sell at auction, to destroy. When you are blind to moonlight on the bed, When you are deaf to gravel on the pane, Shall quavering caution from this house instead Cluck forth at summer mischief in the lane? All that delightful youth forbears to spend Molestful age inherits, and the ground Will have us; therefore, while we’re young, my friend-- The Latin’s vulgar, but the advice is sound. Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. </p>

<p>thoughts?</p>

<p>That was tricky. Was the motto live for today?</p>

<p>Forbears - refuse?</p>

<p>Yes, I put forbears- refuse and live for today.</p>

<p>I loved it! particularly the first 4 lines. but the rest was sad, because I don’t agree that getting old means you can’t appreciate life anymore. I like the use of house as a metaphor being used again later in the poem, I didn’t pick up on that when I read it during the test</p>

<p>I put live for today</p>

<p>can someone go over the one about the islands and love poem? i was running very low on time</p>

<p>ES: in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown.
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.</p>

<p>But when the moon their hollow lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour;</p>

<p>O then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent!
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent.
Now round us spreads the watery plain–
O might our marges meet again!</p>

<p>Who order’d that their longing’s fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool’d?
Who renders vain their deep desire?–
A God, a God their severence ruled;
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.</p>

<p>What did the summer mischeif lane represent?</p>