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Welcome to AP English Literature and Composition
Ms. McNeely |
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Happy Valentine's Day !!
Edmund Spenser - Sonnet 75 - One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
- But came the waves and washed it away:
- Again I wrote it with a second hand,
- But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
- Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay
- A mortal thing so to immortalize,
- For I myself shall like to this decay,
- And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
- Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
- To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
- My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
- And in the heavens write your glorious name.
- Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
- Out love shall live, and later life renew.
"Enlightenment is the human being's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is inability to make use of one's own understanding without direction from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude ! Have courage to make use of your own understanding !: that is the practical saying of enlightenment."
Immanuel Kant
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you”
Joubert
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
Nietzsche
McNeely's AP Lit. at the Bay !
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