Hello everyone,
Today we started of the class with devotions from Donna about how Valentines Day originated. It was interesting to learn that the start of Valentines Day relates to religion as the king outlawed marriages fearing men would not want to leave their wives, a Catholic Bishop Valentine who understood love, began secretly marrying couples. After being put in jail he began evangelizing to the guards and other inmates.
We continued on with the presentations of The Canterbury Tales... The class listened to multiple parodies on modern occupations, we heard some about lawyers, doctors and gynaecologists to name a few. We also heard a comical skit about a talk show host interviewing some of the people who went on the pilgrimage.
We went over the 10 questions that were for review on the Renaissance period. We continued to go over the poems that were for homework: Whoso List to Hunt and Sonnet 67. Whoso List to Hunt was very relative to Valentines Day as it was a poem about a man at the back of the line attempting to win the love of this woman. Unfortunately for him, the woman did not choose him, and he was left broken-hearted. Sonnet 67 ended much differently than the first poem. This man is also chasing a woman but decides to stop, and the woman realizes he has stopped and comes to him. This is a common occurrence of a girl being chased by a guy, completely ignorant to him, until she realizes that he has stopped chasing her, and she then begins to chase after him. Both poems both fit with the theme of Valentines Day and love.
Homework: Read The Sonnet on pages 152-153
Read the two poems: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh... (supposed to be read together) Page 162
Have a great Valentines Day!
Funny Quote: Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!Jay Leno
Very Good.
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