Read bio of Tennyson, Arnold and Hardy
Do the Darkling thrush, digging grave review questions (textbook?)
Read the commentary of Dover beach
Pls don't blame me if I miss any
"Today I read nearly two pages
In the book of a mystic poet,
And I laughed as if I'd cried a lot.
Mystic poets are sick philosophers,
And philosophers are lunatics.
Because mystic poets say that flowers feel
And that stones have souls
And that rivers are filled with rapture in the moonlight.
But flowers, if they felt, wouldn't be flowers,
They would be people;
And if stones had souls, they would be living things, not stones;
And if rivers were filled with rapture in the moonlight,
Those rivers would be sick people.
Only one who doesn't know what flowers and stones and rivers are
Can talk about their feelings.
Those who talk about the soul of stones, of flowers and of rivers
Are talking about themselves and their false notions.
Thank God that stones are just stones,
And rivers nothing but rivers,
And flowers merely flowers."
-Fernando Pessoa.
