Choose a sentence or two from this chapter that you agreed with/disagreed with, write the sentence and page number, and then respond to it. Why did you choose it? What do you agree/disagree with and why?
Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons. I totally agree with this sentence. It's like if you had a summer love and it was perfect and you really thought it was going to last, until September hits and Summer isn't there anymore. It's fall and time for changing so that relationship fades away. It was as if summer had worked "magic" on you. I also agree that writers can work magic with seasons. Usually in a book if something bad or sad is about to happen it will be winter. Because winter is harsh , gloomy, and rainy. Also many writers will make it spring if a "rebirth" of some sort is happening to someone.
Shakespeare didn't invent this metaphor. This fall/middle age cliche was pretty creaky in the knees long before he got a hold of it. What he does brilliantly is to invest it with a specificity and a continuity that force us to really see not only the thing be describes...Page 176. I agree with this. Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers and i think that this was the reason. He related to human experience very well.
For about as long as anyone's been writing anything, the season's have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe it's hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death. This pattern is so deeply ingrainded in our cultural experience that we don't even have to stop and think about it. (page 178) I agree with these 3 sentences completely. With as much as symbolism has been talked about, which earlier in this book it talked about weather, seasons always represent the same thing, usually. I know for sure spring is always referred to as rebirth and freedom and so on, just like in the "Story of an Hour" which was a short story we read not to long ago. It used imagery of spring to get the point across the the wife was going to have a new beginning, a new life. Just like summerhas to do with passion and summer romances. It's the same for all seasons and I do believe it is becasue thats how it is in our cultural experince in each season. We know what the season's represent because we, ourselves experience them. (I hope that made sense, I tried to explain what I'm thinking)
I agree with the quote on page 178, second paragraph. "For about as long as anyone's been writing anything, the season have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe its hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance, and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death." I chose this quote because its so true. During books and movies, people choose the season to help set the mood for the audience. The different seasons represent a different mood or age. To me the seasons are ages, growing throughout the year.
Page 176.. "What he does, brilliantly, is to invest it with a specificity and a countinuity that force us to really see not only the things he describes- the end of autumn and the coming of winter- but the thing he's really talking about, namely the speaker's standing on the edge of old age." I agree with this because it is like they are jumping from the temperate mild cold weather of middle age to the cold rigid weather of old age. Page 176. " nor is the issue always age. Happiness and dissatisfaction have thier seasons." Winter would be a discontent because it is so cold and you cant do much because the weather makes you want to stay inside. Also spring is like happiness because everything is blooming and to warm enough to go outside after a harsh winter.
-Happiness and dissatisfaction have their seasons. I defiantly agree with this. People seem to be a lot happier in the spring and summer time because of how everything outside is so pretty and we can go outside and do things more than in the winter.
-Death and rebirth, growth and harvest and death, year after year. I definatly see where he's coming from on this one. He is just trying to say that life goes on. People die and new ones come into the earth every day.
Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons. Page 184 I like this quote its just so magical. It just sums the whole chapter up and makes me all happy inside. It shows how the seasons are so important in stories like Lexi mentioned its like having a summer love then it being over when the season changes. Seasons are so important!
"For as long as anyone's been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings." Page 178
I completely agree. I think it's just a basic rule of nature, because everything happens within the course of seasons. Since the beginning of time, we know as a general principle that it gets cold and everything will die or sleep in winter. In spring, it starts to get warm, and the plants come back to life.
"Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons."
I agree with this, seasons in real life work wonders on us, they give us certain feelings like fall gives me the feeling of comfort cause it's cool (the best way for the weather to be) and you can chill inside if you want reading or doing something else or you can go outside in a sweatshirt and play football and other things without dying of heat stroke.
When an author uses a season everything is intensified, or so it seems to me. They always seem to capture the best parts of that season and describe them in a way that if someone didn't like the particular season they're describing, they're going to want to after they read that.
page 176 -Happiness and dissatisfaction have their seasons. I agree with this. People seem to be a lot happier in the spring and summer time because of how everything outside. You can go outside and do things. I personaly like fall the best jeans and jackets are def the way to go. but winter is cold barren and miserable so the seasons can almost represent emotions if you think. Spring and summer are happier where fall and winter are a little more down.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" page 176. Haha this is classic. i love it, i dont know why but i think this quote that shakespere writes relates to me because im a corny dude and love to make dumb quotes and pick up lines. im not saying the quote is dumb though, i think its cool
Page 177 - "Summer is passion and love; winter, anger and hatred. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us that to everything there is a season." I agree and disagree. Summer to me can be a few things. There's summer love, which takes on a seasonal contract. Fall can be a new beginning, new start, settling in, the beginning of death, no emotion, hibernating. Winter can be cold, non-feeling, emotionally numb, or quite the opposite with anger in a harsh way. Winter could also be romantic. It's been proven that more children are conceived during the winter than any other season. We stand by the one we want to spend the rest of the year with on New Years Eve, ready to kiss them when the clock strikes 12. Spring can be a new beginning, fresh start. Or maybe the realization that nothing will be the same again (senior, right here). It can be frightening, exhilarating. Seasons can have different meanings. It just depends on how the author plays it. I know attitudes and moods can have seasons. When I'm angry, winter. When I'm sad, the beginning of spring. Passionate/carefree? Summer. Mellow and content? Fall. So on and so forth. To liken an emotion or mood to a season is lovely purely because there are only 4. Once you choose which one it is, you can run with it and figure even more out by simply knowing the season.
page 176. I do think that Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers of all time and i do like what the author says about the whole fall and the middle ages cliche. All in all this who book has been pretty good and the author makes a ton of great points, and a few of them about what all Shakespeare did for writing.
"Maybe it's hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death." This sentence is found on page 178. I agree with it. I believe that the different seasons has different feelings associated with them in literature. This goes back to my analytical mind. I always try to analyze everything. Everything in literature has a purpose. Even the season the story is taking place. Nothing is free from being purposeful in a piece of literature. The seasons do have different effects on readers. And i believe that the author did a good job explaining these.
Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons. I totally agree with this sentence. It's like if you had a summer love and it was perfect and you really thought it was going to last, until September hits and Summer isn't there anymore. It's fall and time for changing so that relationship fades away. It was as if summer had worked "magic" on you. I also agree that writers can work magic with seasons. Usually in a book if something bad or sad is about to happen it will be winter. Because winter is harsh , gloomy, and rainy. Also many writers will make it spring if a "rebirth" of some sort is happening to someone.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare didn't invent this metaphor. This fall/middle age cliche was pretty creaky in the knees long before he got a hold of it. What he does brilliantly is to invest it with a specificity and a continuity that force us to really see not only the thing be describes...Page 176. I agree with this. Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers and i think that this was the reason. He related to human experience very well.
ReplyDeleteFor about as long as anyone's been writing anything, the season's have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe it's hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death. This pattern is so deeply ingrainded in our cultural experience that we don't even have to stop and think about it. (page 178)
ReplyDeleteI agree with these 3 sentences completely. With as much as symbolism has been talked about, which earlier in this book it talked about weather, seasons always represent the same thing, usually. I know for sure spring is always referred to as rebirth and freedom and so on, just like in the "Story of an Hour" which was a short story we read not to long ago. It used imagery of spring to get the point across the the wife was going to have a new beginning, a new life. Just like summerhas to do with passion and summer romances. It's the same for all seasons and I do believe it is becasue thats how it is in our cultural experince in each season. We know what the season's represent because we, ourselves experience them. (I hope that made sense, I tried to explain what I'm thinking)
I agree with the quote on page 178, second paragraph. "For about as long as anyone's been writing anything, the season have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe its hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance, and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death." I chose this quote because its so true. During books and movies, people choose the season to help set the mood for the audience. The different seasons represent a different mood or age. To me the seasons are ages, growing throughout the year.
ReplyDeletePage 176.. "What he does, brilliantly, is to invest it with a specificity and a countinuity that force us to really see not only the things he describes- the end of autumn and the coming of winter- but the thing he's really talking about, namely the speaker's standing on the edge of old age." I agree with this because it is like they are jumping from the temperate mild cold weather of middle age to the cold rigid weather of old age. Page 176. " nor is the issue always age. Happiness and dissatisfaction have thier seasons." Winter would be a discontent because it is so cold and you cant do much because the weather makes you want to stay inside. Also spring is like happiness because everything is blooming and to warm enough to go outside after a harsh winter.
ReplyDelete-Happiness and dissatisfaction have their seasons.
ReplyDeleteI defiantly agree with this. People seem to be a lot happier in the spring and summer time because of how everything outside is so pretty and we can go outside and do things more than in the winter.
-Death and rebirth, growth and harvest and death, year after year.
I definatly see where he's coming from on this one. He is just trying to say that life goes on. People die and new ones come into the earth every day.
Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons. Page 184 I like this quote its just so magical. It just sums the whole chapter up and makes me all happy inside. It shows how the seasons are so important in stories like Lexi mentioned its like having a summer love then it being over when the season changes. Seasons are so important!
ReplyDelete"For as long as anyone's been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings." Page 178
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I think it's just a basic rule of nature, because everything happens within the course of seasons. Since the beginning of time, we know as a general principle that it gets cold and everything will die or sleep in winter. In spring, it starts to get warm, and the plants come back to life.
"Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons."
ReplyDeleteI agree with this, seasons in real life work wonders on us, they give us certain feelings like fall gives me the feeling of comfort cause it's cool (the best way for the weather to be) and you can chill inside if you want reading or doing something else or you can go outside in a sweatshirt and play football and other things without dying of heat stroke.
When an author uses a season everything is intensified, or so it seems to me. They always seem to capture the best parts of that season and describe them in a way that if someone didn't like the particular season they're describing, they're going to want to after they read that.
page 176 -Happiness and dissatisfaction have their seasons.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this. People seem to be a lot happier in the spring and summer time because of how everything outside. You can go outside and do things. I personaly like fall the best jeans and jackets are def the way to go. but winter is cold barren and miserable so the seasons can almost represent emotions if you think. Spring and summer are happier where fall and winter are a little more down.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" page 176. Haha this is classic. i love it, i dont know why but i think this quote that shakespere writes relates to me because im a corny dude and love to make dumb quotes and pick up lines. im not saying the quote is dumb though, i think its cool
ReplyDeletePage 177 - "Summer is passion and love; winter, anger and hatred. The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us that to everything there is a season."
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree. Summer to me can be a few things. There's summer love, which takes on a seasonal contract. Fall can be a new beginning, new start, settling in, the beginning of death, no emotion, hibernating. Winter can be cold, non-feeling, emotionally numb, or quite the opposite with anger in a harsh way. Winter could also be romantic. It's been proven that more children are conceived during the winter than any other season. We stand by the one we want to spend the rest of the year with on New Years Eve, ready to kiss them when the clock strikes 12. Spring can be a new beginning, fresh start. Or maybe the realization that nothing will be the same again (senior, right here). It can be frightening, exhilarating. Seasons can have different meanings. It just depends on how the author plays it. I know attitudes and moods can have seasons. When I'm angry, winter. When I'm sad, the beginning of spring. Passionate/carefree? Summer. Mellow and content? Fall. So on and so forth. To liken an emotion or mood to a season is lovely purely because there are only 4. Once you choose which one it is, you can run with it and figure even more out by simply knowing the season.
page 176. I do think that Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers of all time and i do like what the author says about the whole fall and the middle ages cliche. All in all this who book has been pretty good and the author makes a ton of great points, and a few of them about what all Shakespeare did for writing.
ReplyDelete"Maybe it's hardwired into us that spring has to do with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness but also harvest, winter with old age and resentment and death." This sentence is found on page 178. I agree with it. I believe that the different seasons has different feelings associated with them in literature. This goes back to my analytical mind. I always try to analyze everything. Everything in literature has a purpose. Even the season the story is taking place. Nothing is free from being purposeful in a piece of literature. The seasons do have different effects on readers. And i believe that the author did a good job explaining these.
ReplyDelete