Diego's Reading Padlet by Diego PANIAGUA SILVA (G10)

Diego's Reading Padlet by Diego PANIAGUA SILVA (G10) https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld Made with charm en-us 2021-09-07 13:51:37 UTC 2025-08-26 18:23:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Love Poetry in Renaissance England - by Emily Mayne 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1721967547 This article, written by Emily Mayne, was published in March 2017 and talks about the variety and different types of love poetry in England during the Renaissance era. This article states that there were varied purposes to love poetry during the Renaissance, purposes that could range from simple declarations of love or desire to socio-political commentary. It also talks about where love poetry actually originated, it discuses Ovid's erotic poems and how they spread faster during the Renaissance thanks to the discovery of printing. It also talks about the sonnet, which was invented during the 13th century in Italy, the author mentions Petrarch, a famous Italian poet, as an example of a sonneteer. The author mentions the arrival of love poetry to England and how it was shifted by Sir Thomas Wyatt and the aristocrat Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey towards a focus on the beloved rather than the lover. Closer to the end of the article the author talks about how it is a pirated printing of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella that truly sparked the popularity of sonnets in England. This article allowed me to learn a few details I was unaware of, such as the deep political commentary of some love poems and the way that sonnets started being popular during the Renaissance]]> 2021-09-07 14:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1721967547 An introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets - by Hannah Crawforth 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1740886724 This article allowed me to learn a few interesting facts about Sonnets. To begin with I learnt that Shakespeare’s Sonnets were often written with a perspective towards the future, which allowed these poems to stay relevant even in the modern world. I also learnt the complex nature of the love stories told in the sonnets and how they explore gender and sexuality in ways that were uncommon for his time.

I learnt a few technical details about sonnets as well, such as how Shakespeare’s changed the structure he used in his sonnets to differ from the previous sonneteers by rejecting the Italian Petrarch and changing his rhyme scheme. He also wrote final couplets made to conclude his poems, a more unique ending compared to his predecessors. His use of language was also masterful, for example he used words to describe the act of writing those same words.

]]> 2021-09-14 23:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1740886724 Duffy’s biography 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1758578850 The biography of Carole Ann Duffy helped me understand the complex context of her poems. With her career being dedicated to creating poetry that puts in question society’s rules and limitations you can see how her poems can have underlying meanings that we might not expect at first.]]> 2021-09-21 23:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1758578850 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pqo1nBrm-trlEaQ_FqOMDT3WmYlvLu0vJGcCsf1UHF8/edit?usp=sharing 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1764974002 2021-09-24 06:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1764974002 The end of the affair 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1794692445 Reynolds praises Duffy’s writing in many ways, he starts by expanding on how she uses many other’s lines and pieces of poems to emphasise her own writing, a proof of her skill not only a poet but also as a reader of said poems. Reynolds also praises her ability to create poems that feel real and up to date, she is able to write things that will make the modern human feel the emotions she is trying to convey in ways that poems of the past cannot.
She is also praised for her use of words and the fact that she sticks to sticks to structure and ryhmes unlike many modern poets, Reynolds states that she can truly make us feel strong emotions by her use of words and sounds.

I think out of all the poets that we have studied Duffy is the one that has been the one I have liked the most, her poems are definitely more modern and appealing to me. They have deep meaning but it is hidden under less layers than Shakespeare’s or Browning’s, those layers might be more related to the fact that the poems are older therefore there is a part of the past’s collective imaginary that we do not have nowadays but I still believe Duffy relies less on mystery and more on direct emotional effect which I find more appealing.

]]> 2021-10-05 23:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1794692445 My own poetry - Lost 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1827506715

I was lost when you found me

Wandering alone in the darkness

But we were young and carefree

Unaware of our own starkness

I embraced love once again

Forgetting the past, and my wit

I embraced its stresses and its pain

And was lost again, before I knew it

I had forgotten its constricting restrain

Now I was stuck, just as you wanted it

Left ignorant of the reasons of your refit

For months, I was a prisoner

A Prisoner in a Mercury cage

Imprisoned by my own listener

Forced to read again the same title page

Clinging to the hopes of a new age

Who I fell in love with

A girl of kindness in the rainbow

Was now nothing but a myth

When at last, you let me go

I could not find the strength to forego

I was lost again, just as before

Or even more, with my heart sore

]]> 2021-10-19 15:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1827506715 Summative Rewrite 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1835599528 2021-10-22 06:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1835599528 The Roaring Twenties 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1853891322 1. A
2. B
3. D
4. The era went through multiple phases, starting with the returning American soldiers and their pride, money, and ambition. The economy boomed as people bought more and more consumer goods, that is when the true prosperity of the twenties peaked. It then started to fade as the people of America fell into the trap of the stock market, believing stocks would never go down. That is when the debt contracted during the rise of consumption came back to bite them, the stock market crashed and the world plunged into the Great Depression, making the Roaring Twenties a thing of the past.
5. It shows that people in America, even people in power, realized the dangers of speculation. It shows us that the American people were looking straight at the edge of doom and simply decided to jump believing that the economy could not collapse.]]> 2021-10-29 13:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1853891322 The Great Gatsby Cover 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1862124787 2021-11-02 16:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1862124787 The Lost Generation 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1878415381 1. F
2. A, B
3. A
4. B
5. Those details allow us to understand how far the artists of the Lost Generation strayed from the fundamentally democratic and progressive values of America

1. It was inevitable in many ways, World War 1 was horrible in all the ways it could be. It proved how far humankind can go when it is determined to fight itself and how little the single human can do to stop the inexorable hunger for war that our species possesses.
2. The authors that supported Adolf Hitler were no less “astute” than the ones that supported the democratic values of America, however they were lost in their beliefs after witnessing the distress of America during the Great Depression and world war 1. Their moral compass was clouded and their thought blinded by the dramatic events they had witnessed, so their raw skill of analysis and explanation was oriented in the wrong direction by the fact they chose to focus on everything except the country they consider failed, the United States of America.
3. What makes you how you are? Well in the context of this text you are made from the marking experiences you live in your lifetime. I know I am who I am because of what I have lived as much as because of who I am fundamentally, and that is visible around the world. When dramatic events happen, such as WW1, WW2, or for a more recent example 9/11, the society changes and morphs to adapt to the tragedy. I was born in a post-9/11 generation so I did not grow up with that even in mind, but our own “tragedy” is probably COVID-19. COVID-19 will have built part of how we are, the consequences and causes of the pandemic will forever stay in our minds, we will not take our freedoms for granted as we will know that at any point, any year, another deadly pandemic could happen and once again send the world into isolation.
4. America slowly drifted to a more socially progressive nature that aligned with democracy as well as progress. These authors that rejected America and then embraced it later had either to coldly crash against reality, as when Dos Passos witnessed the atrocities of Stalinists during the Spanish Civil War, or ended up finding a true compromise in America’s new progressive Democrat faction.
5. Nothing is less humane, but more human, than war. War changes those who are in it as they realize the destructive potential of the human species. When we are at war we thrive and progress like never before. In WW1 aeroplanes were put into practice to survey the battlefields, women flocked into the workforce to feed the war beasts of Europe and America, a dozen nations ranging from the Yugoslav countries to the Arab states freed themselves from their oppressors. But all of that comes at a great cost, at the cost of letting loose our restrains and unleashing the devastation that our human minds can muster, and that is a depressing and morally ambiguous fact that is imprinted into the minds of anyone who has witnessed war first hand, as they are in the face of the destruction and death that us humans are capable of creating. ]]> 2021-11-09 14:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1878415381 Wider Reading Nov 17 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1897105716 The article talks about the way Fitzgerald represented the roaring twenties and more specifically the horrors of it. It talks about alcohol and the prohibition and the ways it affected American society, and in turn, explained how it is portrayed in the novel. It also talked about how the increase in advertising was shown in the novel for example in the Valley of Ashes. There is also mention of cars which as we know are very symbolic of the downfall of Gatsby by the end of the novel. ]]> 2021-11-17 15:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1897105716 Keeping up with the Joneses 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1909424093 The list of the 400 have people a clear indication of who were the “high up” social icons of the time a bit like social media celebrities nowadays. This pushed them to try and be like them, in a hope that they too would be part of the list one day. People find it easier to follow a manual than come up with their own way of creating a social identity.

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A]]> 2021-11-23 23:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1909424093 Is there a cheater high 20074312 https://padlet.com/20074312/5ubvg2x15tuitxld/wish/1933730378 1. B
2. A
3. A
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5. It provides good scientific evidence to back up the arguments made by the writer by providing a real study that supports his view. It shows how people are influenced by the emotional high they feel after succesfully cheating more than by the risk of getting caught.

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