Mr. Filsinger's Blog by Benjamin Filsinger https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger en-us 2019-01-14 16:21:27 UTC 2019-02-13 22:17:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Favourite Poems? bjfilsinger748 https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/323993633 "Clod and the Pebble" by William Blake
  • This short poem expresses two opposed views of the nature of love. 
  • The narrator lets both the clod and pebble speak for themselves and does not take a side.
  • Where both views are similar is that they view love as a disruption to the neutral state of human experience. 

"Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman" by William Wordsworth 
  • This is one of my favourite poems. More than anything else, it conveys a certain sadness that is not often expressed in poetry: the sadness that comes from pity and the catharsis that comes from someone showing gratitude. 

"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley 
  • Ominous, understandable, yet still has an interpretative nature. In a few short lines, Shelley digs into three levels of narrative and voice that comment upon the destructive nature of time and the folly of believing in the omnipotence of one's self or time. 

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]]> 2019-01-24 16:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/323993633 Lord Byron smstewart836 https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/324358810 Hey ,
 
Great poem analysis. I'm especially intrigued by your analysis of "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley. Although I don't have a favourite poet, I really enjoy poetry from the Romantic period (as you also probably do considering your analysis of poems by Blake, Wordsworth, and Shelley). 
 
To add to this thread, I'll discuss "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron. 
At first glance, the poem is about the speaker's admiration of a woman. However, the juxtaposition between light and dark creates fascinating imagery about who this woman is and what she represents to the speaker. Also, I admire the way the speaker concludes that the woman's outer beauty is a reflection of her inner beauty. 
]]> 2019-01-25 15:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/324358810 Sonnet 55 - Shakespeare meohara237 https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/324931403 Hi,
 I became intrigued by your analysis on "Clod and the Pebble" and for the first time read the poem. I found it to be a fascinating juxtaposition on the way we can view love. The way it's set up with the clod talking first and than the pebble with the differentiation happening in-between takes the poem on a journey. 

I enjoy many poems, however, one of my all time favourites is "Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare. His sonnets follow a pattern of talking about or to his beloved. In this particular sonnet he is expressing the idea that by writing about his beloved in verse they become immortal and will I've forever. He begins with "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this rhyme" and follows this theme throughout. It's a beautiful poem about the longitivtiy of words and love that other man made and material items can't compare to. There's a beauty in that message of everlasting existence and a bitterness in the destruction of all material things we cling to. ]]> 2019-01-28 14:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bjfilsinger748/4766benfilsinger/wish/324931403