Keats' Song

 In Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," it talks about the awe and amazement seen in the land.  In my poem, I express how the feeling of peace feels good and how the person feeling it doesn't want it to end but it does.


Song:
Rue's Lullaby ~by District Tribute

Percy Bysshe Shelley Resume

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Date of Birth: August 4, 1792

Education

• Sion House Academy: 1802-1804
• Eton: 1804-1810
• University College, Oxford: 1810-1811
• 1811- Expelled for his involvement with the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

Experience/ Works 

• Author
•  1813- “Queen Mab”
•  1816- “Alastor”
•  1818- The Revolt of Islam
•  1819- The Cenci and “Ode to the West Wind”
•  1820- Prometheus Unbound
•  1821- “Epipsychidion” and “Adonais”

Family/Life 

• 1810- Marries Harriet Westbrook
•  1814- Meets William Godwin
•  Believed that marriage contract is not needed
•  1816- Marries Godwin’s daughter, Mary, after hearing of Harriet’s death.
•  1818- Follows Byron into social exile
•  Vegetarian

Horton, Ronald. "Percy Bysshe Shelley." British Literature. 2nd ed. Greenville: BJU, 2003. 565-67. Print.

"P. B. Shelley: An Overview." The Victorian Web: An Overview. Web. 19 Jan. 2011. <http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/shelleyov.html>.

Byron Poem

To many people,

You are no one.

They don’t think of you as an equal,

And think your words are poison.

They stare and point

As you walk by.

They think you always disappoint.

And see you as just shy.

Yet I think not

Those things they say.

To me you mean a lot,

In many ways.

You heart is so kind,

And as pure as a dove.

Those people who stare are blind;

For they see not the true self of the one I love.

This poem follows the rhyme scheme of "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year."  This poem is mean t to focus on the idea of individual over group perception.  In this poem there are people that look down on a person and basically labelling her as a outcast with trying to know her.  However, there is one person that sees her for who she really is and thinks that she is great. 

Gordon, George. "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 562-563. Print. 

Old China Voicemail

Sorry about the static and a couple odd pauses.

Lamb, Charles. "Old China." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 556-599. Print. 

What Good Comes From Bad?

Jake returned to his rundown tent after countless hours of tending to the ill villagers.  Having spent eight months in this small village hidden deep within the Amazon, Jake is a missionary doctor.  People would first think that he was raised in a good Christian family and was well educated in the path of Christ.  However, Jake has only been saved for about 8 years of his 49 years of living.  He wasn’t raised in a Christian family, and he did things that are too horrible to mention.

            Being born in a rich family in New York, it seemed that little Jake would be set for life.  He was treated like a prince by his servants although they hated him.  As the years past, Jake grew to be a horrible person; lying, stealing, torturing “friends”, and even causing physical injures along with mental scarring.  Jake was never satisfied even when he did all those terrible things.  Hating his parents, he ran away at the age of 15.  Having stolen a large amount of money from his parents, he was somehow able to get to England.

            Using the money he stole, Jake was able to live in luxury for about 3 years.  However, he soon lost it all due to all the gambling and partying over the years.  Having very little money, Jake resorted to stealing from small shops and drug dealing.  After a few years of doing this, at the age of 21, Jake was caught by England police and imprison for 10 years.  Well, it was suppose to be only 5 years, but Jake caused so much trouble in the prison that his sentence was extended.  Finally after the 10 years of being in prison, he was released and sent back to America. 

            However, instead of being sent to New York, where he was born, he was sent to Florida.  Having no money, Jake had to resort to hitchhiking and stealing in order to survive.  You would think that he would learn by now and try to return home knowing his family was wealthy but there was that feeling of hate and rebellion in Jake’s heart.  However, this all changed one dark and stormy night.  After 3 years of wandering around, Jake had to resort to an old house he thought was empty to get out of the storm.  However, it wasn’t empty, but was occupied by an old couple.  Yet instead of calling the police to turn him in for trespassing, they let him stay. 

Due to their kindness that he hadn’t experience for such a long time, Jake stayed with them and although he never once did anything good toward others, he tried to repay the couple.  This couple was Christians and treated Jake as if he was their own son and every week invited him to church.  However, he refused every time.  Then after about 3 years, the old man passed away from a heart attack.  Feeling bad for the old widow, Jake decided to go with her once to church.  This was a life changing moment in his life. That one time sparked something inside of his heart.  Not knowing what this was, Jake continued to go to church and after another year, Jake was saved at the age of 28.

Now that he was saved, Jake realized that all his life, he had been a terrible person and only caused trouble for everyone.  Feeling this guilt, Jake decided to return to his family in New York.  However, he couldn’t just leave the old woman that had taken care of him for the past 4 years, so he stayed back for another year in which she passed away.  Now he headed back to New York, only to discover that his parents had passed away 13 years ago and that they still left everything to him since he was their only son.  Yet instead of living the life of luxury again, Jake decided to instead repay all that he had stolen and even enter the medical field so that he would become a missionary doctor to people that were suffering without the knowledge of God. 

As you can tell, Jake was able to follow his new dream and although he cannot change his past, he gives his life for Christ so that others could know God, and make the wise decisions that he failed to make in life.  Although he did have the chance to live a life of luxury, he gave it up but instead of giving it up for freedom for himself, he gave it up to help others find true freedom.

~The Christian journey of sin, punishment, repentance, forgiveness, and restoration

Common Things in an Uncommon Light

This is a picture of flames.  However, instead of the usual red and orange coloring, they are blue.  This makes it look like it feels cool instead of hot and as if it wouldn't hurt.  It's beautiful how the flames dance around as the wind blows, yet it is very dangerous.
For this project, I used fotoflexer.com to edit the color and add a bit more detail to the swirls.
I think that Wordsworth lived a life full of struggles and disappointments.  However, thanks to his sister and friends, he was able to continue on and write many interesting works of art.  Some of these works seemed a bit sad and expressed a feeling of loneliness such as " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."

Blake Video Response

Blake Video Response

Blake, William. "The Lamb." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 518. Print.

Blake, William. "The Tyger." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 519. Print.