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Drowning is not so pitiful - A poem by Emily Dickinson - American Poems

Emily Dickinson - Drowning is not so pitiful

Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, \'tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company --
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker\'s cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.



Awakening - she learns to swim at outset of story and how to drown at finale.

Daisy Miller

• story starts in switzerland (Vevey) on lake Geneva religious serenity. @aunt [place visted by many Ams, cafe 9 yr brat - asks for sugar; teeth hurt by europe and european things. RANDOLF. Daisy (white muslin, 100 frills and flounces, and lots of pale colored ribbon, balanced in her hand little parasol; "strikingly, admirably pretty") arrives charming, confidence in life. no qualms talks strangers -"how pretty you are, though Winterbourne");forward female; young man cannot accost young woman in polite society: CIVILITY rules of decorum: social contact couched in language of military strategy - advance, retreat
  

• eugenio "the most fastidious man I have ever met" great relish for female beauty;- sees breach of discretion. ignorance innocence. James contrasts values europe v.american. ]
  
• remarkable expressive feature - "eminently beautiful, but with a want of finish" - a coquette; from NY state

• Europe (to daisy) : lack of society, gentleman society. W never heard girl talk this way. RANDOLPH no qualms approach strange (AMERICAN ACT)

• realism "scientific record of life" all life - povert, middleclass, pornography - excluded - but James focused on middle class luxury
  

• ROMANTICISM things never can know directly - different world. james char consistent throughout bk., predictable faithful rendition character/all aspects of life

• asperity of her retort. Mrs. Miller simple, easily manageable person.
  

• "CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE" :James - means narrative - story about DM told by W - sentient center or central interlligence. w lived all life in europe - know conventions of europe but also understanding of Am, aware of her uncoventionality is she great flirt or essence of innocence? daisy pts out castle - w offers to escort. mother - acccept indiscrete go w him to castle alone
  

• james rdr learn gradually about char. as w does; pert little face no trace irony mockery sincerity, not bashful, no understand customs, confidence, independe am quals
  

• aunt aloof aristo feels need to be aattentive to Mrs.Costello already ear of scandal dm "seen heard, heard thing, made efforts keep away from xxxx" duty to not accept that kind of common

Americans, but "not after all a Comanche savage!" treat courier like familiar friend (the help)

walking around in moonlight "like an indolent sylph"
every two days she had a headache, never dined at the table d'autre
very exclusive, Daisy eager to know his aunt

walked on parapet, and in distance over starlit lake dim prospect dimly seen mtn forms
reserved, formal, social rules, social sway of aunt hierarchical constitution of that society almost oppressively striking. "You needn't be afraid."
vulgar common person, actions improper in bad taste
Aunt is a confidante to W, used by James to explain details - never meet daisy. used to show views

define exact position

proud rude W tries to conceal attitude gallantly.
W reaction to aunt's refusal is important: daisy's deportment intoxicates W and he grows ever more attracted to her, mystified, enchanted. His intrigue overrides his aunt's opposition.

He will escort Daisy to the Chateau de Chillon - I am not too innocent - curling moustache

canoe ride even worse. covers aunts refuse meet daisy as proud, rude woman

day together wonderful til new w departure to rome

daisy's free behavior, am more liberal set of rules
not hold back by restriction of social forms, limitations placed on her freedom.
CHARMING SPONTANEOUS TEASING
rome in winter
"invidious kinswoman" Costello horrified at news of trip to castle.

How far girl disregard conventions of society mantain her reputation?
by
Bring me that novel by xxx

SECTION 3
fortune hunters, Costello "very dreadful people" hopelessly vulgar to be avoided
daisy many acquaintances, ostensibly loose behavior for the gossip mill.

To the party Daisy want bring friend - a strange man!

go on walk : immproper for girl - w escort then.

pension gardens.

GIOVANNELLI "not a gentleman but a very clever imitation" - a "Music master", as anyone could see.
Daisy though is innocent, heedless of her transgressive misconduct, not a lawless woman but does
That she not conduct herself as she should. pity to let her ruin herself - Mrs Walker: Get in the carriage - and I'll tell you.

Daisy refuses to get in carriage. says she is being talked about.
She would not to know. I don't think I should like to know what you mean. - sums up dm want people respond not judge - rules seems to condemn living life.
Imperiously, GET IN
"I suspect we have lived too long in Geneva."
W urbane able to conceal feelings but dm cannot hide feelings "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence" - incultivated or indelicate?

not conform habits seem useless. likes her freedom - dm inexhaustable energy/rules good

time/reputation agreeable people/disagreeable spontaneous; admirable quals made ugly

(w sees)

at rome, d hears dm rep strange men, improper behavior "walking the streets" on street,

walker tries intercede.

PARTYdm: "i'm glad I'm not a girl of this country"

PARTY
life of party dm. her party offend host - snubbed.
innocent but impetuous - d tries warn indiscretions.
dm to "depart with what grace she might" ??

Gio always around now on - w convinced dm interested only in gio.
"the little italian" found to be minor lawyer.

flirt w win is she engaged w

no concept of propriety "inexhaustible good humor"
repre so much that is innocent, good, admirable, but made to look ugly

coliseum her cavalier
at night accidentally espies daisy + young ital - shock
roman fever- final imprudence = death - 3x sent message. tell w "she was not engaged"

cryptic at first, later understands. only after death, realize she innocent would have

welcomed intervention. she "would have appreciated someone's esteem"
W to costello, we "lived too long in foreign parts"
Gio "most innocent + woderful he ever met"
much revision all as James work
1-switzerland
2-rome

dickens balzac hawthorne

Learn Italian - 2008 November

Paradise Lost / Milton, John RIVERS

Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended, rejoicing in their matchless Chief: As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o\'erspread Heaven\'s cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o\'er the darkened landscape snow or shower, If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings. O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds; men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace, and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait! The Stygian council thus dissolved; and forth In order came the grand infernal Peers: Midst came their mighty Paramount, and seemed Alone th\' antagonist of Heaven, nor less Than Hell\'s dread Emperor, with pomp supreme, And god-like imitated state: him round A globe of fiery Seraphim enclosed With bright emblazonry, and horrent arms. Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet\'s regal sound the great result: Toward the four winds four speedy Cherubim Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy, By herald\'s voice explained; the hollow Abyss Heard far adn wide, and all the host of Hell With deafening shout returned them loud acclaim. Thence more at ease their minds, and somewhat raised By false presumptuous hope, the ranged Powers Disband; and, wandering, each his several way Pursues, as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplexed, where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours, till his great Chief return. Part on the plain, or in the air sublime, Upon the wing or in swift race contend, As at th\' Olympian games or Pythian fields; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form: As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage, more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; Hell scarce holds the wild uproar:-- As when Alcides, from Oechalia crowned With conquest, felt th\' envenomed robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into th\' Euboic sea. Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall By doom of battle, and complain that Fate Free Virtue should enthrall to Force or Chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony (What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate-- Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame: Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy!-- Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm Pain for a while or anguish, and excite Fallacious hope, or arm th\' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Another part, in squadrons and gross bands, On bold adventure to discover wide That dismal world, if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation, bend Four ways their flying march, along the banks Of four infernal rivers, that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams-- Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets-- Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th\' effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, At certain revolutions all the damned Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infixed, and frozen round Periods of time,--thence hurried back to fire. They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment, And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe, All in one moment, and so near the brink; But Fate withstands, and, to oppose th\' attempt, Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford, and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight, as once it fled The lip of Tantalus. Thus roving on In confused march forlorn, th\' adventurous bands, With shuddering horror pale, and eyes aghast, Viewed first their lamentable lot, and found No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O\'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death-- A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Obominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

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Huck Finn + Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by George Byron (canto1)

When Huck is warned he mightgo to the "bad place", he counters he'd rather go there, a change of scene.

 And now Childe Harold was sore sick at heart,
 And from his fellow bacchanals would flee;
 ’Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start,
 But pride congealed the drop within his e’e:
 Apart he stalked in joyless reverie,
 And from his native land resolved to go,
 And visit scorching climes beyond the sea;
 With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe,
And e’en for change of scene would seek the shades below.

Wronging Huck's rite of passage skewing patrilinearity, society sides with Pap -the grotesque whited sepulchre, the embodiment or core of White evil - - gifting custody despite history abuse and vice - comment South, slavery - misled blind judge give $1 to father. dad binge, drunken rage, kidnap, cabin in woods, chase "angel of death" - the boy is confused, ill-informed of moral values and consistent principles imparting meaning to existence.
A satire on society, reform.
Huck is trapped between Scylla, Charybdis. The River - archetypal idiom of life, emblem of being, Skamander, Tiber, Nile, Amazon, Thames, Congo, Volga, Arne, Yangtzi, Euphrates, Ob, Lethe, Triton, Jordan, Cocytus, offers an exit to an absurd stalement in which existence is the rarified misery of nonagency, the pupptted pawn of others. Self-interested powers act to promote personal and public agenda - hypocrites, institutionalized lobbying..
Jim and Huck returnedly discuss magic and superstitions are the lens to see fortune destiny;
environment is the surreal landscape of the human condition. Storm as King Lear's crisis.
Dead man - muse bad luck, handke discarded snakeskin; joke dead rattler next to Jim's sleep, mate stings: in the end, they (we) realize the actual bad luck as result of negative components.
volatile.

The linked fates - intertwined. an island - eye of the storm. Imperiled break from society - isle paradise - smoke, fish, berries, fantasy island sequestered from cant of society - alternative family form
houseboat signs of life - cards, whiskey bottles - Dad - son shielded from sins of fathers, dead older generation, life is a river, river current of time, ineluctable impulse forward some control.


snakes lurk on Jackson Island like sanke in garden of Eden


explosive, unstable servant celebrity of hag-ridden jim; boys to cave of imagination
prayer meaning - help others, payers only do good others; there exist 2 gods
rumor circulates pap dead. face distorted unrecognizabl as mask true identity alien

Don Juan - Sunday School Picnic enchanted Arabs, Elephants, Tom's supernatural world parallels the widow's religious scaffold - ironize sentimentality, romanticism popular genre - fairy models -
leads to Hucks skepticism = folis boyishness links opposites in mutual orbit.
Tom's lofty perspective

acculturation process - Rousseau's noble savage, Blake's innocent child, gradually snded down till become sheople.

Travel anight hide steal decoy, robbers become victims, pity robbers stranded on wreck - rapscallions - wreck of the Walter Scott - two runaways' raft sanctuart capsule free system at odds with universe. disobedience authority

fog thick lost direction - Dante lost start Inferno. Trick Jim think all storm a dream - is reality a dream? Which is reality? sowing discord.
"be lowlie wise" mind own business. explore ruined steamboat mistake, tie up to wreck stormy night dark consequences - "wandering in mazes lost"

error. There is a tiger behind every door.
overhears plotting robbers in ship.

Cairo, mouth of Ohio river - free state goal. upriver back in time old memories formative experince of innocence.

Jim cries out h only friend. hf decide handiness//morality (harbor runaways - the "right thing" How do we challenge conventional wisdom, traditional culture, authority of predecessors.

Analogy cow talk, men - animal farm : Huck less free than Jim, imprisoned mainstream thinking in white society, reject conventional morality chose internal notion of right.

[canoe disappear, collide raft steambiat separate, hub huck, dogs spokes
huck transgender Sarah]

orphan lie Huck lands midst of family feud meet mirror in rural antfarm Buck - Shepherders,
Grangerford.

raft open space, no fences walls, blocking barriers blind ignorance - what we don't know makes what we do.

See some wate mocassins - snake in grass turns out to be Jim. deadly vendetta erupts bloodbsth flee

ch19 - tartar scam removes more than plaque.
enterprising conartist marry their talents two wings of the same butterfly.

Emilys overwhelmingly bad paintings - bad taste Victorian sentimentalism, romantic conceits (huck genuine marvel at palace) propenstiy mourning melancholy - oversealous bad taste morbid subj - cruel laugh - riches concern wealt, fanily honor ridiculous notion creates ssmtifamuky, ubfs ily, afsmily, oipposite egat should. lineage of generations creates greatest foolly in novel.


Duke and Dauphin criminals who govern the space fugitives live in, power,
conners and charlatans, wield society's jovean retribution, adams eves sib of selfauthorahip
heart of darkness, conduit to freedom, wayout

22 duke prints hadbill, adverts, valency of written word. industrisl age, technos tecgnology power


to be or not to be. actors professional lyers. ROYAL NONESUCH (women, children admitted no! - patriarchy - potent but bungling insidious, incredible malice, con artist can con relig meeting because it is basiccally a con itself. playing a dangerous game, swindling masses and outwitting angry cuckolded. artful artists art fake dauphin and bilgewater.

arkansas lasy young men smoking kliafing nothing to do no thoughts in head - deataled describe

lynchmob mob power juggeranaut - sherman attacks cowardive og mob tsunami wield destructive unbridled stranth - shutgun. eloquences deplorable cowardicve of, respectable citizens who do bad in name of good

23 scarlet fever deaf daughter unable gear jim recall

smallpx ruse fool hunt for escapee, jim must be tied up to be free


con daughter gold house wilkes sisters generous charity guft ti daughtersimposters - audience selfish vindictiveness eable inept crowning
dr robinson cassandra appears self-righteous - moral cofudsion
stupid gullible wilkes sisters

victim crimal as criminals; jim beat daughter undeserved - noble humanity - forgive all but self honesty role fir huch
racist upbringing empathy for blacks

ch 26
joanna hairlip sheffield as prot minister
swindkw sweet women, duke wont leave until steal all money.

front room dead father lies in parlor

dog basement dog caught a rat - coffin never opened,
dauphin says take firls estate take to england. missing money huck blames family slaves. but joanna told confess promise silent til h able save jim
auction mob stopped real bros,
26
though huck experiience grosth, indecisive not able stopped duke etc. now acts. contradictory mss from society. (later mary-jane crying impels huck resolute - brreakup love of family - bkack family.

both seeming good - warson and bad -duke - willing to perpetuate sinful acts - separate bond of love between mother and child. serious but comic.

29 harvet Wilkes authentic english accents no sign language broken arm cannot talk
more desparate lies check coffin $$$ h lights out, fat off again, then accident duke and dauphin cross paths fortune agian. all escaped all suspect each other hid gold.

conmen start plotting suspiciously. no sign of jim, printed bills reward for jim, sold $40

confusion quandary j what to do - ashamed to be known as help slve escape.
steal jim to free him.

29-31 bungling inept charm last vestige vanish - Satan deterioted Paradise Lost. evil pursues Huck and Jim on raft. When Huck cannot pray hypocritically (god is only can tell difference), follow consciouness. accept sacrifice heaven go to hell

was anyone hirt no a nigger was killed that was lucky. devalue life.
sally basically good but blind to racist mores.

33 tom sees a ghost - h shocked at tom's spineless engagement in plan to antagonizes society pronciples tom emulate Huck's respect tom fell.

cried tar feather conscience useless makes you fell bad no matter what you do.

34. tom plan more stylish. brash romantic adventure foolish conform socisl exprctant preserve reputation, though huck willing give up booth - tim just sees opportunity adventure. dim fir watermelon. saw off jims leg.


superstitious slave sees as ghost jim to think work of witches. exploit

38 force jim inscribe autograph inside shed, mournful declarations (should be stone though - millstone) tom natural ablity to supervise. smuggle rattlesnake into shed
15 rats under sally's bed - spiders, etc. Sally rasing Cain. supper - honest rattling good day's work - bagged but not tied - all escaped. week later sally still sensed snakes

spiders disliked jim disliked spiders. circus. if ever got free never be a slave again.

letter - always significant - being in a remote place at least in voice. later anonymous letters warning poeple to attract attention, mullett-headed fools - calm seas are boring,

[Dryden Absalom and Achitophel:

name to all succeeding ages curst:
For close designs and crooked counsels fit,
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit,
Restless, unfixed in principles and place,
In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace
A fierysoul, which working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy body to decay
And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
A daring pilot in extremity,

Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 160
He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit,
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied ,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;
Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest,
Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ?
Punish a body which he could not please,
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ?
And all to leave what with his toil he won

and The Medall:

The frauds he learnt in his fanatic years

Made him uneasy in his lawful gears.

At best, as little honest as he could,

And, like white witches, mischievously good.

To his first bias longingly he leans

And rather would be great by wicked means.

Thus framed for ill, he loosed our triple hold,

(Advice unsafe, precipitous, and bold.)

From hence those tears, that Ilium was our woe:

Who helps a powerful friend forearms a foe.

What wonder if the waves prevail so far,

When he cut down the banks that made the bar?

Seas follow but their nature to invade;

But he by art our native strength betrayed.

So Samson to his foe his force confest,

And to be shorn lay slumbering on her breast. ]

remoteness in time as Don Quixote - romantic undercurrent far away long ago.

huck enthralled in tom's game, forgets the objective of rescue, jim captive powerless, snakes for fun, clouded dynamic, tom smothered out all lessons in an instant learned on raft with jim. objectification just as sally and uncke sailas janusfaced treatment free slave. little basis objective judgment.