Why can’t the dragon just eat RedCrosse Knight while he’s in the fountain? This is a question that might be on our minds for a while after reading book 1 canto 11 of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. From a regular person’s perspective, this would make little sense because the dragon gave the knightContinue reading “Christianity and Religion in “The Faerie Queene””
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Final Project
For my final project, I chose to analyze a poem written by Sir Philip Sidney titled “Leave me, O’ Love, which reachest but to dust.” This poem was part of one of Sidney’s collections titled “Certain Sonnets” that he wrote in the 1570s into the 1580s. It is noted that Sidney’s poems were not publicizedContinue reading “Final Project”
Themes in Equiano / First Major Project
Madisen Bentzlin / Themes in Equiano – Jeopardy Game For my visual (displayed in picture form on page three), I decided to choose to do a small jeopardy game including themes in The Life of Olaudah Equiano. On the visual, there are clues being quotes from the reading that the audience or reader would have toContinue reading “Themes in Equiano / First Major Project”
Religion and Literature in the Medieval Era
I thought it would be interesting to research and discover how religion may have impacted writing and art from the Medieval time period. But before diving into that, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the Middle Ages as a whole. And as a visual learner, I turned to Youtube to find some credibleContinue reading “Religion and Literature in the Medieval Era”
First Project
For this project, I wanted to look at the commonalities from stories told in the past to the stories that we tell now. Specifically, stories regarding black people have been watered down to appeal to the white mind. For those who don’t know what the image is meant to represent, it is a silhouette ofContinue reading “First Project”
Sprockets and Springes 