The Victorian Era*

The Victorian period that was around like 1837 to 1901. This era has like a classical feel to it! During this time queen Victoria ruled. Britain, was the most powerful nation.

Charles Lyell and Charles Darwn began examining the man and the world, about science and history, finally about religion and philosophy. The reason i say finally about religion, because i was wondering when that topic would come about in their lives.

Alot of legal changes in women's right to their own property like marriage, the right to divorce, and the right to fight for custody of their children if they got seperated. On the internet they say that this era was " a period of peace & economic way of life". But i also read that it was wars all the time so it makes me think where's the peace at?

After reviewing this time period i really can't say what went on. From what notes I have i think it was a period when people wanted money, also happiness, to find what the earth has to offer. Over all i think that this era was a time for discovery! For normal people doing this time i think that they had to be very wealthy to get by or to have a good time.

Porphyria's Lover

The rain set early in to-night,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its worst to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightShe shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grateBlaze up, and all the cottage warm;Which done, she rose, and from her formWithdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,And laid her soiled gloves by, untiedHer hat and let the damp hair fall,And, last, she sat down by my sideAnd called me. When no voice replied,She put my arm about her waist,And made her smooth white shoulder bare,And all her yellow hair displaced,And, stooping, made my cheek lie there,And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair,Murmuring how she loved me---sheToo weak, for all her heart's endeavour,To set its struggling passion freeFrom pride, and vainer ties dissever,And give herself to me for ever.But passion sometimes would prevail,Nor could to-night's gay feast restrainA sudden thought of one so paleFor love of her, and all in vain:So, she was come through wind and rain.Be sure I looked up at her eyesHappy and proud; at last I knewPorphyria worshipped me; surpriseMade my heart swell, and still it grewWhile I debated what to do.That moment she was mine, mine, fair,Perfectly pure and good: I foundA thing to do, and all her hairIn one long yellow string I woundThree times her little throat around,And strangled her. No pain felt she;I am quite sure she felt no pain.As a shut bud that holds a bee,I warily oped her lids: againLaughed the blue eyes without a stain.And I untightened next the tressAbout her neck; her cheek once moreBlushed bright beneath my burning kiss:I propped her head up as before,Only, this time my shoulder boreHer head, which droops upon it still:The smiling rosy little head,So glad it has its utmost will,That all it scorned at once is fled,And I, its love, am gained instead!Porphyria's love: she guessed not howHer darling one wish would be heard.And thus we sit together now,And all night long we have not stirred,And yet God has not said a word! Robert Browning

* Before reading i was warned that he was crazy! and now after reading i see that he really is. I think if i didnt know that i would have picked it up. The thing that i got from this poem is that this woman who he's in love with come to visit or something and he's happy to see her, but then next thing you know he's talking about killing her! I think it kind of strange i really wished i knew what he was getting at.

"I Said to Love"

I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All else above; Named thee the Boy, the Bright, the One Who spread a heaven beneath the sun," I said to Love. I said to him, "We now know more of thee than then; We were but weak in judgment when, With hearts abrim, We clamoured thee that thou would'st please Inflict on us thine agonies," I said to him. I said to Love, "Thou art not young, thou art not fair, No faery darts, no cherub air, Nor swan, nor dove Are thine; but features pitiless, And iron daggers of distress," I said to Love. "Depart then, Love! . . . - Man's race shall end, dost threaten thou? The age to come the man of now Know nothing of? - We fear not such a threat from thee; We are too old in apathy! Mankind shall cease.--So let it be," I said to Love. Thomas Hardy

* To me in this poem i think Thomas Hardy is talking to God about leaving the earth to go to heaven, because he keeps going on about age and how we get old. It also seems as if he has a fear of death or getting old. The poem makes my min wonders but it's ok.

Growing Old

What is it to grow old?Is it to lose the glory of the form,The lustre of the eye?Is it for beauty to forego her wreath?Yes, but not for this alone.Is it to feel our strength -Not our bloom only, but our strength -decay?Is it to feel each limbGrow stiffer, every function less exact,Each nerve more weakly strung?Yes, this, and more! but not,Ah, 'tis not what in youth we dreamed 'twould be!'Tis not to have our lifeMellowed and softened as with sunset-glow,A golden day's decline!'Tis not to see the worldAs from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,And heart profoundly stirred;And weep, and feel the fulness of the past,The years that are no more!It is to spend long daysAnd not once feel that we were ever young.It is to add, immuredIn the hot prison of the present, monthTo month with weary pain.It is to suffer this,And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel:Deep in our hidden heartFesters the dull remembrance of a change,But no emotion -none.It is -last stage of all -When we are frozen up within, and quiteThe phantom of ourselves,To hear the world applaud the hollow ghostWhich blamed the living man. Matthew Arnold

* Like wow i really needed to see this poem! To be honest i had a fear of being old or getting old. The main things i didn't want to leave was my beauty, & strenght you know like stupid simple; things. You can say that i used to be affraid of change!, but now i love change, change is good!

The big difference between Victorian and the Romantic era is the way of life. During the Victorian era , some people were happy and others were about money or trying to figure out why things happen. During the Romantic era; wow i really loved it!!! Almost everyone was into art and expressing what they felt in a positive way. Like i said i really think they were some what like hippies. Even if i did my project at the last moment i really liked it!

Romantic Era*

The Romantic Period

People were more free. When this happend beauty and art made the world more of an artistic world. People also tried to make life easier, by just being them and not worrying so much this reminds me of hippies!

In 1886 the statue of liberty was shown. The statue of liberty was a gift from the french. It was located at Bedloes island ( later liberty island) in New York Harbor. Auguste Batholdi designed it with help from Gustave Eiffle. In 1880 the Eiffle Tower was completed. It's located in Chanp de Mars, Paris. It was built by Gustave Eiffel; and today it has two restaurants in it. People didnt have simple mind sets. This era showed that people thought outside of the box rather then staying normal. I thought this was a very fun era.

After reading the events i really thought that so many great things were happening. People seem to show a new way of life by expressing the way they felt and seen things through art. When you say "normal" it makes my mind wonder???I mean i can't really say...Life for normal people may have just been fine because they didn't have much to worry about. just like the other person.

A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love

A widow bird sate mourning for her LoveUpon a wintry bough;The frozen wind crept on above,The freezing stream below.There was no leaf upon the forest bare,No flower upon the ground,And little motion in the airExcept the mill-wheel's sound. Percy Bysshe Shelley

*Here he is saying that it is winter time, and all the beautiful things are gone; but ther is still love.

Bright Star

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen maskOf snow upon the mountains and the moors--No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever--or else swoon to death. John Keats
* In this poem he is saying that he wish he was a star. During this time people really thought outside of the box and when you do that, you make other things come to life! This poem really had me going and by me looking at two opinions i understood that, when reading any poem you can't just stay in a simple mind set.




THE SICK ROSE
by: William Blake (1757-1827)
ROSE, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

*This poem is about innocence being corrupted... it is about lust... evil deeds. That's what i get from it i think i'm right! and i really like this poem!

The Restoration

The Bloodless Revolution
During this time the protestants didn't want a king any more, well a Catholic king. They thought he was going to die out. Then the king had another son and when he had another son they were lilke o no! not another Catholic leader. So the protestants ran him out so that he couldn't rule anymore. Instead of beheading him or having a war they just kicked him out.
I think this is pretty funny, but it was a wonderful idea because no one had to die for a change!



*satire*


Satire means to make jokes, I asked Brittany to help me understand and, she said like " it's when jokes are being told about real life situations" and now i understand! My example is Family Guy. I look at that show all the time. . and they pick at things so much oin there , but it's like real life situations. Even if it's sad they found something funny out of the whole thing.











The Modest Proposal*




At first i thought he was serious. And then he went on about how they liked eatting kids. I thought that was very sick, but he was saying that they treat the poor very bad, anyways so they should just go ahead and eat them as if they were somehting to eat anyways. I mean if you think about it that kind of stuff still goes on today. People get treated wrong when everyone should be treated equal no matter what.




The Diary Of Samuel Pepys*




I decided to read The Diary of Samuel Pepys, because i thought that it would be easy! The first entry i decided to read is when he wrote about what happend on July 11th, 1664 A Bad Night. The the heading really got me to want to read it. What happens on the night of July the 11th, Samuel thought that some thieves were in his house. At first i thought he was sick " to bed. And there fell into a most mighty sweat in the night" By Samuel saying this i thought he was a little under the weather. When he notice that it wasn't some thieves , he found out that it was only a dog. " it was only a dog wants a lodging and so made a noise". So by him being disturbed at the moment it effected his sleep for the rest of the night.




I also decided to read September 2,1666 The First Day of the Great Fire of London. The geat fire was a major problem. It happend on sunday Sep the 2nd to Wednesday Sep the 5th 1666. The fire went through the city of London. Samuel was very shooked by what was going on " So down, with my heart full of trouble". This let me know that he was very upset and scared about the situatuation. So many things went on that day, houses were getting burnt down, churches too! Samuel order but no one would listen to him, he tried to give order so he prayed to God for guidence." Lord, what can I do? I am spent. People will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses. but the fire overtakes us faster then we can do it." So this day, bet the people thought they were in hell.




During this time i think the most important thing to people was to live everyday like it's your last. This was a very painful era at the same time. I bet it showed how you can have something one min and the next min its gone. This event really reminds me of huricane Katrina.... even if i wasnt in their shoes i also knew that it had to be hard for the ones that had to leave family & friends behind not knowing if they were dead or alive. But they had good spirits about the whole thing even if the situation was breath taking they came together and held their heads up high and moved on with their life.

big spender!!! my bestfriend and i really would love to see Sweet Charity!!!

GET ME BODIED meets SWEET CHARITY

"The Aloof" - Rich Man's Frug the dance was Choreographed by Bob Fosse i really think that im going to study his dance style!

The Clark Sisters on TBN - "Blessed & Highly Favored"

livin i love this song! by the Clark sisters

I'll Knock You Out, Sukka!!!

Boxing log!!! 7hrs

Even if i have only 7hrs, it's better then nothing! I'm very thankful that Ive found someone, who would take time out to help me pass my class! My coach name is Chris. Chris is a UGA student here in Athens Ga. My friend Alie introduced him to me. Chris is very cool. I can't really recall the the day Chris came to Classic City to see me, but it was in the month of October! He stayed for an hour and a few min, and we went over a few things!, like why did i need him to help me and what would he be teaching me. He signed my project packet. Somehting that i forgot to do many times when i ran across two wonderful trainers!
The next time me and Chris decided to box together something came up or my dad would say i told him too late! so for weeks i was not getting any time with him at all. Then the holidays came around and he's not from Athens sooo yes he had to leave town! so i was like crap i thought that i had lost him like the other two, but by him being friends with Alie i would always see him around. I really thank God that i didnt have to because he called me and was like were going to meet on Friday i was like yaye!!! Then like he had this test and like he really wanted to study so i was like sure don't let me stop you! Then he called me back and was like Jessica i'm not the type of guy to break a promise so he offered to pick me up from work at 2pm so that we could do what we had to do on Friday. I was sooo happy that he was being very grown up about it! So he did as he said and he was out there at two. I was sooo happy! I brought my sweat pants, pumas, and hair band! it was on! Before we went to his house we went to a few places like some health food store and he bought him a few things! O yeah I wasnt the only one with him he had a friend with him and our friend Alie. We all had a wonderful time! We went to Rasin Kane because he wanted ketchup and since he's my coach he made me go get it ha ha ha! i wasn't forced it was very funny! So we dropped his friend off at his house then we, went to Chris house and got started! He has a cat named Marmalaid. You know like the engalish use on their toast! I don't like cats but his cat wasn't no problem at all! it was a pretty orange and blonde cat. The colors very cute!
We went outside to exercise <> Chris had repeated this so many time we warmed up for a very long time. He caught on that i'm a retired cheerleader lol because of the way i moved! The warm ups had me sooo ready to get started! We did this warm up where you would like; press up against the wall and twist from side to side! i loved that technique it felt so good. Then we went inside and i learned how to wrap my hands before putting on my glooves that was fun and easy. Chris made me use my weakess arm and that's my left arm, but now it's very strong & i know how to use it now! We hit the bag a few times and did a few types of foot work and stance control. Since this is some waht of a new style of fighting to me i didnt always do things right! Like when you box your head must be down, me being me couldnt keep my head down, so he made me hold an apple under my chin until i got the picture. Over all that's just a few things we did look at my slide show to see full details!