Poetry Packet

Something that all of the poems/songs had in common was that they were all sexist in one way or another.  In Beyonce Knowles song "If I were a Boy" she was saying how if she was a boy then she would care and know how to love a girl and she would try to make her girl happy and then saying how her guy does none of that and takes her for granted--then she blames it on the fact that he is a boy.  In the second song "Sold" by John Montgomery he is telling a story about how he was at an auction and saw a "hot" girl there and knew that he wanted to get with her and wanted her to be his.  Towards the end he says that they ended up making love and they still laugh about how they met to this day. I'm not exactly sure where that relationship ended up going but from the context it sounds like they just had sex and then stayed being friends.  Then the "Sexism" poem by David Lehman is self-explanatory. He explains the happiest moment in a woman's life to be when she stays up waiting for her drunken husband and even though he has most likely screwed up, she is just happy that she has someone to sleep with. Then the guy's happiest moment is after a one night stand getting to drive away in the night. The last poem which is a children's rhyme even is sexist by saying that girls are all goody goody and that boys are just trouble and dirty.

"The flea" Interpretation

I think "The Flea" by John Donne is about a just married man and woman who get pregnant and have a baby--"And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. . . And pampered swells with one blood made of two. . . Where we almost, nay more than married are"(4,8,11). Then he kills his wife, child, then self--"Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that, self-murderer added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three"(16-18)Then he thinks it over more and says how the baby is innocent and hasn't done anything wrong--"Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?"(21-22) Then explains that killing the baby is what made him want to kill himself--"Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee" (27).

The end of Dr. Faustus

In the end of the story I'm not really sure I can say that Pride killed him.  It was just the fact that he kept wanting more and more knowledge which I suppose could be a pride thing but it was just the fact that he signed his life away.  It also ended up screwing him over because he ended up doing nothing with his new found powers. I'm not really sure what to think about this book yet--I think because I was waiting for some crazy twist at the end and nothing happened haha.

acts 6-10

I'm not really sure what to talk about when it comes to the acts we had to read because i had a hard time understanding it but I thought it was ironic that when Lucifer brought in the 7 deadly sins, the first one that reveals itself is pride.  It could be like foreshadowing if what I think is going to happen happens, that when Faustus becomes all powerful, he will fail because he becomes too prideful.

Act 5 of Faustus

In the beginning Faustus is struggling to either go to God or to keep going in magic and then the good and evil angels come in and try to persuade him. He ends up leaning toward the black magic because if he does so he figures that God can not hurt him. He cuts his arm to bleed and write a will to Lucifer saying that after he dies he is his, also that Mephastopilis is now his servant.  Faustus tries telling Meph that he doesn't believe that Hell isn't real and Meph. argues that he is living proof. Then Faustus asks for a wife and Meph kind of laughs in his face then brings him a devil dressed as a woman and explains that marriage is practically a joke and that Faustus can have any woman he desires whenever in his bed every night. Then Meph gives Faustus all the books he needs to conjure up all of his magic he wants.

Dr. Faustus Interpretation

In the end of scene one Faustus, Valdes, and Cornelius are talking about all of the things they are going to do once Faustus becomes all powerful with his magic.  I'm not really sure what is going to happen in this book. I think that maybe Faustus will begin to get really cocky with the magic he learns and ends up dying over something really stupid...not sure what...but that is what I am guessing! Haha