Protogenos- first born of immortals
Eros- Protegonos of generation, Son of Aphrodite
-one of the first to emerge at creation
Protogenos of sexual desire
-driving force of Procreation
Younger Eros (Cupid)- boy with bow and arrows
Eros known as Amor or Cupido = god of love
-also faithful companion of aphrodite
Hesiod represents him as a cosmic god who emerged self born
He lit the flame of love in gods and mens hearts
- armed with bows and arrows or a flaming torch
- portrayed as a child but fiercely loyal also depicted and portrayed many different ways
brought order and harmony to caotic world through love
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
What is Love? (Free Write)
Love is more than a feeling. It deals with ones emotions from the inside and the outside. Love is more than just the feeling one gets for another it is the actions they do for them. It tells you how they feel about someone. The feeling of love can be deep or shallow, but its actions speak for themselves. Love can represent so much more than a feeling. It can steer you down the right or wrong path. Can it be trusted? Where is the balance? It relies in the sacrifice one makes for love.
What is Love? (Poem)
Love is a feeling
It is also an action
Can actions speak of love
Or does love remain a feeling
Is love a search for another
or is love what we strive for
Is love all we need
can it be enough to satisfy us
Love should be our goal
What is Love?
Love is the Ultimate Sacrifice
It is also an action
Can actions speak of love
Or does love remain a feeling
Is love a search for another
or is love what we strive for
Is love all we need
can it be enough to satisfy us
Love should be our goal
What is Love?
Love is the Ultimate Sacrifice
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Comments
Check out Adam Kilwine's Dreamworld blog and
Aimee's Wallace Stevens blog for some great insight
Aimee's Wallace Stevens blog for some great insight
Lost Book Found
Lost book found is a documentary about a man who discovers a journal with seeming random writings about events, ideas, objects, notes, and listings. Later though he discovers that these random objects and events could hold the key to understanding the meaning of the city. The movie points to the writings of the journal as revealing the secret meanings of the city that open the doors to the underground life of the city. The journal could represent the real parts of the city. The journal points to the little things in life as the defining pieces of our lives. The little things that we disregard hold so much more meaning than we think and could be the key to understanding ourselves better.
draft #2
Tony Gaffke
Wayne Berg
English 121
Feb. 12, 2007
Imagination
Is Imagination the key to finding ones self? Can someone escape the everyday struggles of life and find their true meaning through dreaming? In John Krakauer’s, Jorge Borges’s, and Wallace Stevens Poem, they all point to escaping the dangers of society by escaping into nature by dreaming, writing, or hiking. Each of the stories deals with the main characters search for something more than what society or the city has given them. Escaping society and searching for ones self, is a common theme between all the authors. Although each author explores the meaning of searching for ones self differently, they all try to escape the grip of society by using their imaginations to think outside the box and to take them to new places.
Krakauer uses the story of Chris McCandless to find the meaning of why he left society to live on his own in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer points out that McCandless became restless and tired with the faults and grinds of everyday life and tried to find relief in the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout most of his life, he was consumed with exploring the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Living by himself in the heart of Alaska allowed Chris to feel at home, forgetting the poisoning effects of society. Krakauer refers to Chris’s journey as a soul-flight of the adolescents, a journey that allowed him to find out who he really was (NHR, 306). McCandless felt that he had to be by himself in a place that had no contact with people or the outside world. He accomplished this by throwing out the map. Without a map, McCandless could be anywhere. This allowed McCandless to use his imagination and do whatever he wanted to do. It allowed him to escape and be by himself, in the middle of nowhere away from it all.
McCandless’s story does not go unparalleled. In Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”, Stevens talks about escaping the never ending grasp of society. Stevens’s writes about how his poetry allowed him to flee from the effects of society. His poetry allowed him to use his imagination to become who he actually wanted to be, in a place where he felt whole. Stevens felt that writing poetry allowed him to reflect on his life and reminisce about the events that changed him into who he had become. It gave him a new perspective about himself and the world around him, just as McCandless felt that going into the wilderness allowed him to gain a better understanding of himself and of nature. Stevens’s poetry allowed himself to find his own world, just like McCandless threw out the map to discover his.
Borges approaches this soul-searching idea in a little different way. In his poem “Break of Day”, he refers to society as being tainted. Borges's Poem seems to point to the darkness of night as refuge from the tainted light of dawn. He refers to the light as being infected by the belongings of civilization while nighttime gives relief to the people of society. Nighttime allows people to sleep, which in return allows them to dream and imagine whatever comes to their head. Borges points out that dreaming is a way of evading the tainted light of society so one can explore the deeper thoughts of their imagination. He writes about how those who dream are in a place of refuge until the light comes and the effects of humanity take place. He also goes as far as pointing out that the whole world could be one big dream that is full of mental activities.
In Borges short story, “Circular Ruins”, he writes about a man who escapes into nature to dream. His dreams then take him too many different places and allow him to experience many different things. He dreams to escape the affects society has had on him. He retreats to the jungle to find out more about himself. His dreams allow him to imagine many different things. In the end he realizes that he too, is just a dream. He is just a figment of ones imagination.
Borges refers to the light of day as being the destroyer of the dream of life while dreams offer escape from the effects of society. McCandless too tried to escape the effects of humanity by throwing out the map and letting his imagination take him to new heights. Stevens used his poetry to let his imagination run wild and take him to new places where he could examine his life. Each one of these poems or stories talks about ones soul-flight to find their place in life. Using their imagination has allowed these characters and writers to search for their place and meaning in life.
Wayne Berg
English 121
Feb. 12, 2007
Imagination
Is Imagination the key to finding ones self? Can someone escape the everyday struggles of life and find their true meaning through dreaming? In John Krakauer’s, Jorge Borges’s, and Wallace Stevens Poem, they all point to escaping the dangers of society by escaping into nature by dreaming, writing, or hiking. Each of the stories deals with the main characters search for something more than what society or the city has given them. Escaping society and searching for ones self, is a common theme between all the authors. Although each author explores the meaning of searching for ones self differently, they all try to escape the grip of society by using their imaginations to think outside the box and to take them to new places.
Krakauer uses the story of Chris McCandless to find the meaning of why he left society to live on his own in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer points out that McCandless became restless and tired with the faults and grinds of everyday life and tried to find relief in the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout most of his life, he was consumed with exploring the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Living by himself in the heart of Alaska allowed Chris to feel at home, forgetting the poisoning effects of society. Krakauer refers to Chris’s journey as a soul-flight of the adolescents, a journey that allowed him to find out who he really was (NHR, 306). McCandless felt that he had to be by himself in a place that had no contact with people or the outside world. He accomplished this by throwing out the map. Without a map, McCandless could be anywhere. This allowed McCandless to use his imagination and do whatever he wanted to do. It allowed him to escape and be by himself, in the middle of nowhere away from it all.
McCandless’s story does not go unparalleled. In Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”, Stevens talks about escaping the never ending grasp of society. Stevens’s writes about how his poetry allowed him to flee from the effects of society. His poetry allowed him to use his imagination to become who he actually wanted to be, in a place where he felt whole. Stevens felt that writing poetry allowed him to reflect on his life and reminisce about the events that changed him into who he had become. It gave him a new perspective about himself and the world around him, just as McCandless felt that going into the wilderness allowed him to gain a better understanding of himself and of nature. Stevens’s poetry allowed himself to find his own world, just like McCandless threw out the map to discover his.
Borges approaches this soul-searching idea in a little different way. In his poem “Break of Day”, he refers to society as being tainted. Borges's Poem seems to point to the darkness of night as refuge from the tainted light of dawn. He refers to the light as being infected by the belongings of civilization while nighttime gives relief to the people of society. Nighttime allows people to sleep, which in return allows them to dream and imagine whatever comes to their head. Borges points out that dreaming is a way of evading the tainted light of society so one can explore the deeper thoughts of their imagination. He writes about how those who dream are in a place of refuge until the light comes and the effects of humanity take place. He also goes as far as pointing out that the whole world could be one big dream that is full of mental activities.
In Borges short story, “Circular Ruins”, he writes about a man who escapes into nature to dream. His dreams then take him too many different places and allow him to experience many different things. He dreams to escape the affects society has had on him. He retreats to the jungle to find out more about himself. His dreams allow him to imagine many different things. In the end he realizes that he too, is just a dream. He is just a figment of ones imagination.
Borges refers to the light of day as being the destroyer of the dream of life while dreams offer escape from the effects of society. McCandless too tried to escape the effects of humanity by throwing out the map and letting his imagination take him to new heights. Stevens used his poetry to let his imagination run wild and take him to new places where he could examine his life. Each one of these poems or stories talks about ones soul-flight to find their place in life. Using their imagination has allowed these characters and writers to search for their place and meaning in life.
circ. ruins
In Borges short story, “Circular Ruins”, he writes about a man who escapes into nature to dream. His dreams then take him too many different places and allow him to experience many different things. He dreams to escape the affects society has had on him. He retreats to the jungle to find out more about himself. His dreams allow him to imagine many different things. In the end he realizes that he too, is just a dream. He is just a figment of ones imagination.
Borges seems to use his dreams to escape the effects of society. Can one find their true meaning in life by dreaming? Borges seems to point that way both in his short story and poem. Dreaming allows one to be who they want to be or who they think they are. This difference or idea could lead to finding out who one really is when society and its effects our thrown out.
Borges seems to use his dreams to escape the effects of society. Can one find their true meaning in life by dreaming? Borges seems to point that way both in his short story and poem. Dreaming allows one to be who they want to be or who they think they are. This difference or idea could lead to finding out who one really is when society and its effects our thrown out.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Example of Metaphors from the reading
and if this teeming Buenos Aires is no more than a dream
the world is a mental activity
the world is a mental activity
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Metaphor
A Metaphor stands for someting other than itself. It is a comparison of two different words. A metaphor stands for something deeper. A metaphor brings together seemingly unrelated subjects or ideas to represent something else. A metaphor is a way of looking at things in a different light, it allows the author to express ideas in a new way. Metaphors allow for different interpretations and meanings.
Essay #1 ruft draft
Tony Gaffke
Wayne Berg
English 121
02/02/07
Selections from into the Wild
Why did McCandless enter the wild north unprepared? Why did he leave all he had behind to live and die by himself in the wilderness? Was it to escape the effects of society, or was it to prove to someone he could do it? These are all questions that the author John Krakauer searches for when he retraces the footsteps of Chris McCandless into the wild, rugged terrain of Alaskan Wilderness. Krakauer begins searching for the answer to these questions by trying to relive and explore the path that McCandless took into the Alaskan wilderness. By following the path of McCandless, Krakauer realizes the grip that nature has on the American imagination (Krakauer, 285). McCandless, consumed by the mysteries of the wilderness, went on this adventure to find a blank spot on the map.
In today’s world finding a blank spot on the map can be quite a difficult thing to do. McCandless though, was determined to conquer the dangers of living in the wild by himself. Throughout most of his life, he was consumed with exploring the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Living by himself in the heart of Alaska allowed Chris to feel at home, forgetting the poisoning effects of society. Krakauer refers to Chris’s journey as a soul-flight of the adolescents, a journey that allowed him to find out who he really was (Krakauer, 306. McCandless though felt that he had to be by himself in a place that had no contact with people or the outside world. He accomplished this by throwing out the map. Without a map, McCandless could be anywhere. He could do whatever wanted to, without being bothered by anybody. Krakauer though points out that not having a map led to McCandless’s death.
McCandless’s story though does not go unparalleled. In Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”, also talks about escaping the death grip of society. Stevens’s writes about his poetry allowed him to flee from the everyday struggled of the everyday life. His poetry allowed him to discover himself and be who he actually wanted to be. Stevens felt that writing poetry allowed him to reflect on his life and take a moment to reminisce about his life. It gave him a new perspective about himself and the world around him, just as McCandless felt that going into the wilderness allowed him to gain a better understanding of himself and of nature. Stevens’s poetry allowed himself to find his own world, just like McCandless threw out the map to discover his.
Works Cited
New Humanities reader
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
Wayne Berg
English 121
02/02/07
Selections from into the Wild
Why did McCandless enter the wild north unprepared? Why did he leave all he had behind to live and die by himself in the wilderness? Was it to escape the effects of society, or was it to prove to someone he could do it? These are all questions that the author John Krakauer searches for when he retraces the footsteps of Chris McCandless into the wild, rugged terrain of Alaskan Wilderness. Krakauer begins searching for the answer to these questions by trying to relive and explore the path that McCandless took into the Alaskan wilderness. By following the path of McCandless, Krakauer realizes the grip that nature has on the American imagination (Krakauer, 285). McCandless, consumed by the mysteries of the wilderness, went on this adventure to find a blank spot on the map.
In today’s world finding a blank spot on the map can be quite a difficult thing to do. McCandless though, was determined to conquer the dangers of living in the wild by himself. Throughout most of his life, he was consumed with exploring the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Living by himself in the heart of Alaska allowed Chris to feel at home, forgetting the poisoning effects of society. Krakauer refers to Chris’s journey as a soul-flight of the adolescents, a journey that allowed him to find out who he really was (Krakauer, 306. McCandless though felt that he had to be by himself in a place that had no contact with people or the outside world. He accomplished this by throwing out the map. Without a map, McCandless could be anywhere. He could do whatever wanted to, without being bothered by anybody. Krakauer though points out that not having a map led to McCandless’s death.
McCandless’s story though does not go unparalleled. In Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”, also talks about escaping the death grip of society. Stevens’s writes about his poetry allowed him to flee from the everyday struggled of the everyday life. His poetry allowed him to discover himself and be who he actually wanted to be. Stevens felt that writing poetry allowed him to reflect on his life and take a moment to reminisce about his life. It gave him a new perspective about himself and the world around him, just as McCandless felt that going into the wilderness allowed him to gain a better understanding of himself and of nature. Stevens’s poetry allowed himself to find his own world, just like McCandless threw out the map to discover his.
Works Cited
New Humanities reader
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
Break of Day
Jorge Luis Borges's Poem "Break of Day" like Wallace Stevens poem talks about the faults of Society. Borges's Poem seems to point to the darkness of night as refuge from the tainted light of dawn. He refers to the light as being tainted while nighttime gives relief to the people of society. Nighttime allows the people of society to take a step back and dream of the things to come. Stevens also tries to escape the trouble of society by writing poetry. Poetry like dreaming allows people to retreat into their own world and escape away from the everyday life. Borges's poem refers to the night as a refuge for people to escape the troubles and problems of society.
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