Hi Literature-ee's, thank you for tuning into CarverLit tonight. It was a wild day of fun, excitement, and (if you were lucky) riding tall roller coasters.
However, for the rest of
us liberal art hippies who chose not to take any science classes this semester,
we were plagued with attending regular class, like normal people.
Our morning consisted of
sitting around and waiting for Joshua Jackson (substitute for Trevor
Jackson) to come and fix the power point so Tayler and myself (Jeff De Leo) could
begin presenting our aquatic masterpiece.
The poem read today was Lord Byron's Apostrophe to the Ocean. We talked about how handsome the Lord looked with his cleft chin and nasty clubfoot.
I think that just about balances out nicely. Lord Byron was a rebel/ladies man who clearly might have had some mother issues. He was the ancient version of Barney Stinson, except with less functional feet.
The presentation today started off with a guitar song that was much too loud, but can be hear by clicking here! Then Tayler and I proceed to walk the class through the calming poem about the ocean, while remaining safe on dry land.
Apostrophe to the Ocean is a thrilling ode to the 2/3rds of the earth we don't live on. It made us appreciate the power and majesty of earth's blood (an expression I just made up to symbolize water, cool eh?)
We came to the conclusion that Lord Byron was a water lover, and might have been the original tree hugger, except trees don't grow underwater. He might have been a kelp hugger.
As we continued reading, Tayler encouraged the class to read over the poem and maybe chill by your desktop and listen to some wave sounds.
Homework:
- Jeff De Leo needs to blog (check!)
- Prepare your presentation
- Watch this video
- Rinse, repeat
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