Thursday 1-24

In the poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, the shepherd is the main speaker of the poem. He is addressing the matter of a proposal to a woman that he loves. In the first stanza, he basically comes out and asks for her love and marriage, in return she would receive all the pleasures and desires that she could ever want. He goes through the poem advertising the things that he would adorn her with including, the finest cloth, jewelry, flowers, not having to work. After all the descriptive wording, he says that she would make him the happiest man alive if she would accept his hand. This poem is a love poem that was meant to court a woman.

For the response to the poem, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, the woman basically expresses why she thinks all he said was very unrealistic. She does in fact say that she could love him but what he says just isn't true. In the beginning she talks about how if they lived in an ideal world, he promises could happen. Although, since this is not the case, typical life situations would have to happen, they would not be able to go without working since he was just a poor shepherd, his love for her would run dry like everything else in the world, and all the valuable and pretty things that he offered her would break and go out of fashion. The Nymph also replies with that even with all the beautiful things in the world, they are still not a substitute for love. At the end, she says that even without these things, if he really did love her and didn't try to marry her with these promises, she could love him back.

In the poem To His Coy Mistress, the author is very much in love with a woman. From line to line, he starts out saying that she could play games with him forever if times was not an issue. They could spend lazy days together and he would appreciate her more and more every day. His love for her would grow and be so present that he compared it to be larger than an empire. After this, he starts describing how he'd spend so much time admiring her beauty, timing in the years. And although no other woman could dare tempt him, if he should slip up and be unfaithful, he would never be good enough for her again and not bother to dare dishonor her. Since they are both young, the author suggests that they seize the day and make the most of it with their love. Especially after this, they need to be able to appreciate each other so that their love would last a lifetime.


6-D
Names such as "Black Elvis", "June Star", and "Red Sammy" seem the most metaphoric. Black Elvis is a contradictory metaphor since Elvis was far from being black. Also with this name, we are given an insight on what the story has in store for us. We are able to figure out aspects that this will be dealing with African Americans and music. With "A Good Man is Hard to Find", these names describe important things. Stars in June are similar to a good man by meaning that good men are very special. Also with Red Sammy, I think of baseball and all things related. The names give us a hint that this story will in a way be quite juvenile in comparison to the impression that the name gives.

6-E
Grandmother, in literal terms, manes your mothers mother. It also gives me the sense of someone that cares for you, loves you, and spoils you. Grandmother can also describe a strong backbone in a family.