"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time"
Above is a section from Little Gidding part of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
The semester started with Demeter and Persephone and so it ends with Demeter and Persephone
psyche - soul - image of a butterfly
When you get pricked with cupids arrows not only do you fall in love with who you are looking at but you also experience ate (infatuation to the point of ruin)
Sexson suggests that we have all been transformed into asses...you can blame T.V.
Venus is the "wicked" mother in law
the tasks that Psyche had to preform for Venus
1. sort the grains
2. collect sheep's wool
3. collect pure water
4. bring back the make up (this is cosmic makeup not cosmetic makeup)
Both frames of the story (psyche and cupid along with Lucius) have to undergo their trials, or their initiations
If you want a moral of the story you have to disobey, a character can't be transformed or changed if they don't make the mistakes to change them.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
4-11
Ovid's Metamorphoses can be described by two things
1. Shit happens
2. Things change
Robert Graves - he is the translator of the version of "the golden ass" that we
read in class.
The Golden Ass also known as The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius or also known as The Transformation
Lucius was the first Mr. Ed
And once again this is a frame story
Along with being influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare, was also inspired by the Golden Ass
Cupid and Psyche, in this text, is known as the first telling of cupid and psyche
The moral of a story is the experience of the story
Dr. Sexson gives the advice to PAY ATTENTION, just LISTEN
1. Shit happens
2. Things change
Robert Graves - he is the translator of the version of "the golden ass" that we
read in class.The Golden Ass also known as The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius or also known as The Transformation
Lucius was the first Mr. Ed
And once again this is a frame story
Along with being influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Shakespeare, was also inspired by the Golden Ass
Cupid and Psyche, in this text, is known as the first telling of cupid and psyche
The moral of a story is the experience of the story
Dr. Sexson gives the advice to PAY ATTENTION, just LISTEN
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Test #2 Question
These are the questions that we came up with as a class for the test. if it has an * next to it, it means it may not be on the test or will be rewritten in a way that Sexson finds more fitting
which birds represent Procne and Philomena
-Procne is a swallow
-Philomena is a nightingale
what does ate mean
-infatuation to the point of ruin
who is the original artisan/ artificer
-daedelus
who is the god of sleep, dreams and disguises
-Morpheus
*what should we avoid at all costs
-old people
what is Aristophane's theory of the soul mate
-we were all joined together in the beginning but they became too much so they separated them into two...if you find our other half, he or she is our soul mate
tragedy focuses on the individual while comedy focuses on the community
plato's theory on the immortality of the soul
-knowledge and virtue
in the symposium, Plato claims that he learned everything from
-Diotima
what is Socratic irony
-claiming to know nothing when in fact they know a lot
what does Icarus do
-fly to close to the sun, his wax melted and he fell
what was the difference between Minerva and Arachne
-Aracne weaves about the negative portrayal of the gods while Minerva weaves a positive portrayal
the last picture in the last frame in Velasquez "the Spinners" is
-Europa or the rape of Europa
what does the name Pentheus mean
-the man of constant sorrow
how is Cadmus related to Pentheus
-grandfather
why did Ulysses believe that he deserved the arms of Achilles
-because he started it all
what Shakespearean play was partically inspired by Procne
-Titua and Andronicas
what is a characteristic of new comedy
-boy wants girl
what is anagnorisis
-recognition or critical moment of discovery
what is the first instance of frame in the metamorphoses
-pan and syrinx
grace
-the awareness of gods presence in the world
omophagia
-eating of live flesh
according to Plato, Love's parents are
-poverty and contrivance
how old will the metamorphoses be in 2008
-2000 years old
what was Daphne turned into
-a laurel tree
naso means
-nose
which birds represent Procne and Philomena
-Procne is a swallow
-Philomena is a nightingale
what does ate mean
-infatuation to the point of ruin
who is the original artisan/ artificer
-daedelus
who is the god of sleep, dreams and disguises
-Morpheus
*what should we avoid at all costs
-old people
what is Aristophane's theory of the soul mate
-we were all joined together in the beginning but they became too much so they separated them into two...if you find our other half, he or she is our soul mate
tragedy focuses on the individual while comedy focuses on the community
plato's theory on the immortality of the soul
-knowledge and virtue
in the symposium, Plato claims that he learned everything from
-Diotima
what is Socratic irony
-claiming to know nothing when in fact they know a lot
what does Icarus do
-fly to close to the sun, his wax melted and he fell
what was the difference between Minerva and Arachne
-Aracne weaves about the negative portrayal of the gods while Minerva weaves a positive portrayal
the last picture in the last frame in Velasquez "the Spinners" is
-Europa or the rape of Europa
what does the name Pentheus mean
-the man of constant sorrow
how is Cadmus related to Pentheus
-grandfather
why did Ulysses believe that he deserved the arms of Achilles
-because he started it all
what Shakespearean play was partically inspired by Procne
-Titua and Andronicas
what is a characteristic of new comedy
-boy wants girl
what is anagnorisis
-recognition or critical moment of discovery
what is the first instance of frame in the metamorphoses
-pan and syrinx
grace
-the awareness of gods presence in the world
omophagia
-eating of live flesh
according to Plato, Love's parents are
-poverty and contrivance
how old will the metamorphoses be in 2008
-2000 years old
what was Daphne turned into
-a laurel tree
naso means
-nose
4-4
Don't try to find the moral of the story in the Metamorphoses instead you should be left with the thought of "what's this all about"
art is redemptive, but it does not justify
Shakespeare's sonnet 65 is what we are left with
SONNET 65
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Sexson suggests that we watch the movie "Andre Rublev"
-he says it is like a 3 hour Russian movie that is so slow - but he says you need to watch the whole movie
art is redemptive, but it does not justify
Shakespeare's sonnet 65 is what we are left with
SONNET 65
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Sexson suggests that we watch the movie "Andre Rublev"
-he says it is like a 3 hour Russian movie that is so slow - but he says you need to watch the whole movie
4-2
Homer created the phrase "he bit the dust" - i can't help but thinking of Queen's song another one bites the dust
We all picked 5 lines from The Metamorphoses and Sexson choose the award winning lines to be on page 73. these were the lines the Ashely choose...he says to check out her blog for the explanation
-these lines are about Europa being ravished or carried away
Europa had a basket that was given to her that visual told the story of her life. she didn't stop and look at the basket...we never stop at take a look around
Sexson picked certain stories from Ovid to take a close look at and if you have read them you will notice that they are all about art or the artist.
Minerva isn't telling the whole story about the gods because she is in power - page 80
to invite the gods it ruins our relationship with them, but it sets history into motion
Stories are what makes life interesting
Shakespeare created you - because he has influenced everything that is still influencing you
the word catholic means everything
Oscar Wilde explains that no book is immoral or moral but instead well written or badly written
True art has three things
-wholeness
-harmony
-radiance
Pygmalion is Richard Gear in Pretty woman...this story is also represented in the Stepford wives
always ask...what did you gain and what did you gain and what did you lose
We all picked 5 lines from The Metamorphoses and Sexson choose the award winning lines to be on page 73. these were the lines the Ashely choose...he says to check out her blog for the explanation
-these lines are about Europa being ravished or carried away
Europa had a basket that was given to her that visual told the story of her life. she didn't stop and look at the basket...we never stop at take a look around
Sexson picked certain stories from Ovid to take a close look at and if you have read them you will notice that they are all about art or the artist.
Minerva isn't telling the whole story about the gods because she is in power - page 80
to invite the gods it ruins our relationship with them, but it sets history into motion
Stories are what makes life interesting
Shakespeare created you - because he has influenced everything that is still influencing you
the word catholic means everything
Oscar Wilde explains that no book is immoral or moral but instead well written or badly written
True art has three things
-wholeness
-harmony
-radiance
Pygmalion is Richard Gear in Pretty woman...this story is also represented in the Stepford wives
always ask...what did you gain and what did you gain and what did you lose
3-30
Joyce changed the spelling of phenomenal to funanimal
To be in love is madness
ate - infatuation (a type of love) to the point of ruin
Sophocles suggests that life can't be complete without ate
Pan - the greek god of nature
everything changes - nothing dies
To be in love is madness
ate - infatuation (a type of love) to the point of ruin
Sophocles suggests that life can't be complete without ate
Pan - the greek god of nature
everything changes - nothing dies
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
3-28
Redemptive power of art
Art redeems us from the horrors of the world because it transforms the world into art.
Buddha as baby, tried to avoid three things
*sickness
*old age
*death
Shakespeare was inspired by Ovid...try and think of one of his works that doesn't contain any influence from the Metamorphoses
What does Dr. Sexson say that James Joyce, Shakespeare and Ovid all have in common....
if you read all of their works it can and will transform your life.
James Joyces' Finnegan's Wake is a version of the Metamorphoses
-this story (along with many in the metamorphoses) ends in the same place that it started
James Joyce wrote a book called "the portrait of an artists as a young man" this book is said to be his autobiography. The name that he gave to the main character was : Steven Daedalus. Hmm, i think that name sounds familiar...maybe because the name Daedalus comes straight from book eight of Ovid's Metamorphoses
You don't have to understand it, you only have to be there, to be apart of it....this was said when talking about James Joyce, but really i think it can be applied to anything in life.
weaving is a metaphor for art
imagination - keeping your imagination open
Ovid changes similes to metaphors the person goes from being like a bird to being a bird
In the book of Tereus, Procne and Philomela each of these people turn into a bird. Today you can see
Philometa as a nightingale, Procne can be seen as a swallow and Tereus is a hoopoe
tragedy - what's the worse thing that you can possible imagine
Ovid is not a moralist
Art redeems us from the horrors of the world because it transforms the world into art.
Buddha as baby, tried to avoid three things
*sickness
*old age
*death
Shakespeare was inspired by Ovid...try and think of one of his works that doesn't contain any influence from the Metamorphoses
What does Dr. Sexson say that James Joyce, Shakespeare and Ovid all have in common....
if you read all of their works it can and will transform your life.
James Joyces' Finnegan's Wake is a version of the Metamorphoses
-this story (along with many in the metamorphoses) ends in the same place that it started
James Joyce wrote a book called "the portrait of an artists as a young man" this book is said to be his autobiography. The name that he gave to the main character was : Steven Daedalus. Hmm, i think that name sounds familiar...maybe because the name Daedalus comes straight from book eight of Ovid's Metamorphoses
You don't have to understand it, you only have to be there, to be apart of it....this was said when talking about James Joyce, but really i think it can be applied to anything in life.
weaving is a metaphor for art
imagination - keeping your imagination open
Ovid changes similes to metaphors the person goes from being like a bird to being a bird
In the book of Tereus, Procne and Philomela each of these people turn into a bird. Today you can see
Philometa as a nightingale, Procne can be seen as a swallow and Tereus is a hoopoe
tragedy - what's the worse thing that you can possible imagine
Ovid is not a moralist
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