Poetress Archive

Who is the narrator of the poem?
A woman describing to an older audience never grow up completely because one misses some of the best things in life by trying to "kill" the kid in themselves.
What are the pros?
There are some pros to digitizing texts, which are some poetry is meant to be read than read aloud, so digitizing poems can work. Also, another positive to digitizing texts is one can have access to thousands of texts where without digitizing one would have to buy or loan them from a library to access a ride range of poems.



The poem in an HTML, Picture, and TEI format are all the same poem, but the poem itself takes on a different skin. In the TEI format the poem looks strange to the reader that has never seen a TEI format. The TEI format of the poem does not look the same as the picture or HTML poem because the normal format of the poem is broken up with different parentheses and the bulk of the poem is at the bottom half while there is a lot of "junk" in the top half which would make one not familiar with the TEI version become lost and confused from the different format than a "normal" poem.
Digitizing texts will help people understand literature and other forms of writing in a different view. People using a TEI format will be able to see a text spread out and on a computer format. Also, putting texts on digitizing will allow people to access a higher amount of texts because they will be just a click away from them. The digitizing of the texts does help Herman's aim toward art because now the art aspect is taken on in the digital realm which was not available when the poem was written, which means a new form of art is opened, TEI form, with this poem being digitized.
One can see different meanings of the poem when digitized into different versions, especially in the HTML and TEI versions .

Three novels by Mary Shelly?

Using both JUXTA and Tag Clouds there is concrete evidence for Mary Shelly writing three separate novels with the three different versions of Frankenstein. Even though the title is the same in all three novels, there are significant changes in all three novels. One interesting difference in the three versions discussed by my group was that there is a progression from the first version all the way to the third and final version. The passage describing Victor and Walton's first meeting evolves into a more descriptive and colorful dialogue by the third revision. In the first version there is less evidence for a dialogue for friendship but in the later versions words are added. For example, we find in the last verision the words "Friendship" and Dialogue." The above picture is from the 1818 version and here are less descriptive than the 1831 version.

The ablility to digitize the different verisions of Frankenstein brings to light the alterations Shelly made to the different verisions. Using JUXTA we are able to see the progression in the three editions,1818, Thomas 1818 and 1831, written by Shelly.

Heroes or everyday people?

Can there be heroes in modern life?

I believe the answer is yes. The reason I believe heroes can be in modern life is because people find the actions of people amazing. One figure in today's society that is considered a hero by many Americans and people around the world is Barack Obama, the current President of the United States of America. He is a hero for people because he is "African" American, and there has never been an African American President, and he was able to win the majority of votes in the modern day when there is still racism, especially in elderly people and people that are brought up to think one "race" is better than another.
I do not have any modern heroes, because I like the heroes of the past; for example King Arthur. The reason why I like King Arthur, is because of the mysterious history people have of him. Is he real or just a romatic story? Many people also look to Jesus of Nazereth as a hero, because he was able to treat everyone with respect, which seems to be a hard concerpt to handle in today's soceity. No matter who one's hero is there is always room for heroes in modern day life to give hope to the people of Earth.

Notes on Browning Guest Speaker

She used Opiates.

She had four miscarriages from the drugs.

Did not have the baby until she was forty-three.

Aurora is stuck in the middle of two different aspects for women, Mother-Italian amd Aunt English.

She realizes she should fit into the "grey" space between the two stereotypes for women.
She published under an anonymous name after she was married.
She was more wealthy than her husband but lost her money when her father did not approve of her marrying.

Book IV Notes Lines 320-40.

Romney is angry at Aurora for not marrying her and he has to settle for his second choice. "less mutual love than common love" (330). I believe Romney is setting up Aurora to bash her for not accepting his marriage proposal.

You did not, do not, cannot comprehend
My choice, my ends, my motives, nor myself:
No matter now–we'll let it pass, you say.
I thank you for your generous cousinship
Which helps this present; I accept for her
Your favourable thoughts. We're fallen on days,
We two, who are not poets, when to wed
Requires less mutual love than common love,
For two together to bear out at once
Upon the loveless many. Work in pairs,
In galley-couplings or in marriage-rings,
The difference lies in the honour, not the work,–
And such we're bound to, I and she. But love,
(You poets are benighted in this age;
The hour's too late for catching even moths,
You've gnats instead,) love!–love's fool-paradise
Is out of date, like Adam's (Aurora Leigh Book IV 324-40).

After Romney explains how he feels about the love between his second choice and what his love would have been if Aurora did accept his marriage offer.
(You poets are benighted in this age;
The hour's too late for catching even moths,
You've gnats instead,) love!–love's fool-paradise
Is out of date, like Adam's (Aurora Leigh Book IV 324-40).

Romney dissolves into a whiny child who did not get his way by bashing Aurora's trade with the above quote, because he decides to tell Aurora "You poets are benighted in this age;" Yet poets are never benighted because some of the most famous poets were the very educated and informed, Milton and Shakespeare.

Advice to Walton never changes

At the end of the novel Victor still cannot give up the dream of becoming someone who will be remembered for ever in time. Even though Victor was able to see his flaws he still could not put down his ultimate goal of becoming immortal in history and with his final goal still being intact his advice to Walton does not change even though Victor's admittance to his flaws does allow Walton to be careful to think things through before he makes a major decision. The advice between these two men will never change because both men have the same goal to be someone great in the world and Victor's overall aim at rising to power will never tell Walton not to be someone great, when the hunger for the immortality in Victor burns.

Monster Sympathy

The monster in Frankenstein does draw sympathy from me. A reason why I feel sympathy for the monster is that he was created by Victor, and then Victor, horrified by him, ran away. With Victor's abandoning the monster then the monster had no one to teach it the ways of the world, because the monster was brand new to the world with no one to help him and the only image he saw when he came to life was his creator running away from him, which i why I understand his hatred towards Victor and the slaying of Victor's brother. The main area of sympathy I have for Victor's abomination is with Victor not caring for the monster because his expectation of his creation was not to his. Parents always want their children to be healthy. Sometimes children do not meet the parents' expectations, but they do not abandon their children and continue to care for them. Since parents take care of their children when they are not "perfect" then Victor should have stayed and looked after his creation even though he was not the image Victor had in mind when he wanted to create life, which might have saved Victor's brother's life from ending early.