John Keats - Bright Star

The Tyger: Mikael, Troels and Dennis

1) http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=tiger#/dpzthg
because the poem was about a tiger, that was either good or evil. look into it eyes and decide for yourself.
2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw
- We have choosen this piece of music, because it really captures the atmosphere in the poem. Its giving us the idea of a prowling tiger.
3)In the first stansa, Balke asks who has created the Tiger, which is described as a frightening beauty. He then goes on to talk about the distant location of the creation of the tiger and refers to both Icarus and Prometheus who, were characters in greek mythology, defiant to the gods. The greek god Hefaistos was the God of crafts and fire and helped Prometheus steal the fire and give it to the humans. Blake refers to this god when he asks where the tigers brain was forged. The stars that throw down their spears in the 5th stansa are in reference to Zeus' characterizing lightning-stick. When the heavens are watered with their tears it is the gods being replaced with new gods. God?
What Blake is using all these greek mythology references for, is to create a feeling of the tiger being of ancient origin (older than Gods meddling with man). When Blake asks if he who made the lamb also made the tiger, it may not be a rhetorical question. If God is as described in 'the lamb', how could he possibly have created something as frightening and wild as the tiger? It's not that Blake belives in greek mythology, but it is somthing that existed before the bible and serves well to create the atmosphere he wants to contrast 'the lamb'.
4) The lamb is the good side of god, and the tiger is the bad side of god. its a contrast to eachtoghter. in the lamb, we are told that god calls himself a lamb, but in the tyger poem, gods benevolense is questioned.

-Mikael, Dennis(?) og Troels.

The Tyger: Bastian

Blake asks:
Who made the tiger?
Such a fearful creature, this wandering image of fire, this slaughterer of lambs. Innocence does not pervade the tiger; though it does the lamb. And so Blake suggests that the tiger be the work of the devil, by the rough, violent way, as it were, of a blacksmith; and that the lamb, on the contrary, be the work of a pure God who, like the lamb, is "meek and mild" and innocent.
Yet Blake describes the tiger as a beautiful, majestic animal all the same. This is his song of experience.

The Tyger: Casper Skovgaard

The Tyger: Casper

The Tyger: Alexander and Tharsan

The Tyger: Suganth

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTa9MQq9oEY

 

The Tyger: Cecilie

The Tyger: Samuel

The Tyger: Stinna

The Tyger: Katrine

The Tyger: Nila and Kirstine

The Tyger by Michelle and Sasha

Jack C. Richards Video Casts (afspilningsliste)

William Blake: The Tyger

 

1. Post a picture which in your opinion captures the atmosphere in Blake's poem The Tyger (p. E11). Explain your choice!

2. Post a link to a piece of music which in your opinion captures the atmosphere in the poem. Explain your choice.

3. Write a text in which you sum up and conclude on the analysis of the poem. Use our work in class and the thoughts behind your choice of music and picture.

4. Put into perspective by comparing to The Lamb (p. E9)

Don't forget to put your name on the comment! It will count as a written assignment and must be posted before the Christmas break.

Time and Distance Overcome

1. Post your notes on genre, themes and main points
2. Post the quotes and ideas that, in your view, exemplify the significance of the composition of the text.
3. Post quotes and ideas on the intention of the essay.
If you have questions, ideas or comments, you may also post them here for your classmates to comment on.

Look up procatrinating and you'll find a picture of...

Sound like anyone you know.....

The power of repetition, the repetition of power

Create a comment for your text (Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongues, Sujata Bhatt: Search for my Tongue, Film: Educating Rita, John Agard: Mr. Oxford Don, Defoe: "Robinson Crusoe)

1. What role does standard/non-standard English play in the text?
2. What variations are presented or discussed (grammar, spelling, pronunciation...)?
3. What role does language play for our understanding of the character(s) in the text?
4. How is identity connected to language?
6. What are the attitudes and sympathies of the author regarding the language issues in the text (especially problems of personal and national identity)?
7. Put your text into perspective with one of the other texts - compare similarities or differences.

Your answers and notes will serve as shared notes for the theme so do your best! Don't forget your names :)

John Agard: Therapeutic Exercise with the Union Jack

1. Explain the title and discuss its connection to the theme/message of the poem

2. Explain connections in the poem: red-tongue-blood, white-bone-sceleton, blue-sea-sky. Comment on the coneection between the words red-white-blue and black-night-word

3. Discuss the last sentence "Think one beginning" at the end of the poem

See also the questions on the page.

John Agard: Mr Oxford Don

1. Find three grammatical irregularities in the poem. Correct them and EXPLAIN in Danish what the problem is. If all errors are found and explained you can elaborate or comment on the effect.
2. How would the poem and its message change if it were written in standard English?

Finally! The Whole World is Going to Speak Proper English again

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

(You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').

2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of '-ize.'

3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.

8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
PS: Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!

Checking Out Me History - Audio

Aflever til tiden!

The Empire Writes Back

A few notes on the tradition of Indian literature in English

Educating Rita

1.      Rita: How does she change? How does she not change? How does she perceive education? What does literature signify for her? Why is it so important for Rita to be educated?
2.      Frank: How does Frank change? How does he not change? Why does it become so important for him to educate Rita? Describe the development in his feelings towards this “project”.
3.      Learning and education: At one point, Frank realizes that he has failed as a poet       because he has tried too hard to write literature - what does he mean by that? What does Frank’s classroom represent for him? What does it represent for Rita? Does that change?
4.      England: What impression do you get of British society and the different social classes?
5.      What is this film doing in a theme on Language and Power?

 

Hvordan du skriver et engelsk essay

This is an instruction to essay on English B but you can use it as a guide - just take the differences in the assignment into consideration. Remember: You ARE expected to write very thorough analysis!

Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongues

1.      Find at least one good quote in the essay and explain why you find it important.

2.      Discuss how Zadie Smith has experienced her development of “voice”.

3.      Look at the passage about Eliza (p. 135). Characterize her change of voice (note that you have an excerpt of Pygmalion in the compendium)

4.      Put the text into a Danish perspective - could the text have been written by a Dane? If so, under which conditions? If not, why not?

5.      Explain how Zadie Smith sees the liminal/middling space of having multiple “voices” as strength. Provide textual examples (you may use the passage on Obama on p. 136ff as a reference point).

6.      Come up with a question for the next person to answer/discuss.

7.      Answer the question posted by the previous student (if you’re first - well, it’s your lucky day ;))

I want you to discuss and comment on each other's points rather than just answering the questions. Keep in mind that this work replaces 4 English lessons and is to replace a written assignment. Make an effort!

NW, Zadie Smith - 9781594203978

1. What impression do you get of Zadie Smith's novel "NW"?
2. What can you say about her use of language and sociolect based on the excerpt she reads here?

I want you to discuss and comment on each other's points rather than just answering the questions.

Save as many as you ruin

This post is about your essay on "Save as many as you ruin". Here you can ask/answer questions and share observations.
BTW it might be a good idea to look at this link for stream of consciousness - use it if you can. It may help you get a grip on the writing style and perhaps understand the text a little better.

Obama: "Grant Park Speech"

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Robert Kennedy: On the Mindless Menace of Violence

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.



John Winthrop: City upon a Hill

 

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

My fav' speech

Write a comment on the following questions:

1. Which speech was your favourite?

2. What made it better than the others?

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Clothes

Find three quotes in the text which illustrate the central themes of the story.
Explain - in depth - how each exemplifies and elaborates the theme you've chosen.
You may choose to elaborate on one theme exclusively or pick three different themes.
It is important that you analyse in depth - that is consider both content, language and structure where it is relevant.

We will work on your quotes next time in class.

De tre appelformer: Logos, pathos og ethos

Crash

1. What is/are the theme(s) of the film?
2. This movie is set in Los Angeles, a city rich in diversity? Do you think that an area with such diversity would be more open or close minded about differences? Why?
3. Characterize one or several characters from the film.
4. Which connection(s) between characters did you find most interesting?
5. What might the burning car and falling ashes symbolize? Think about what is burning; think about who witnesses the burning; think about what burning does to an object.
6. Comment on the title.
7. Could you relate this film to other texts, we have dealt with in relation to our theme “Aspects of the American Dream.”

Michael Lee Cohen: Adam

1.What is the genre?
2.Who is speaking in the text?
3.What is his view on the American Dream?
4.React to his view on Capital punishment? How is this view related to the American Dream?5.Discuss his view upon love and marriage
6.Is his view upon the American Dream exceptional? Think Arnold Schwarzenegger!
7.What seems to be the topic?
8.To whom is the text directed?
9.How does our generation seek the American Dream? Has the concept changed?

I, Too by Langston Hughes

Here is a link to some useful notes for I, Too by Langston Hughes with a short reference to I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Tells It like it is - Part 1/2

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate

Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963

Det retoriske pentagram

Ethos, Logos, Pathos

Crevecoeur

1.What does Crèvecoeur's piece (1781) tell us about late 18th century America?


2.How does he describe Americans?- Who are they?- What values do they have?- Put into perspective of the declaration of Independence and historical context


3.In contrast how does he describe the Europeans?


4.Discuss whether the meaning of being an American has changed


5.Put into perspective of the definition of the American Dream


6.Discuss whether this is a reliable source

7. Use the painting as inspiration for writing about the American dream as seen from the perspective of the immigrants. You must include the following: Why did people migrate? What did they leave? What did they hope to find? Use Crevecoeur and the Declaration as inspiration.

The Declaration of Independence

1. What is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? What does it do?

2. What are the most basic rights of an American citizen and where do they come from?

3. What view on government is presented?

4. Compare their view on government to what they have experienced under the rule of Great Britain. What does despotism mean?

Bastian - poetry slam

Black Swan

1. How can this film be seen as an example og horror?
2. Is it terror, horror or gross out? Elaborate and provide examples.
3. Compare the film to other texts/films from class

Grammatikregler

Delprøve 1- et par regler du bør kende!


#1 Ordstilling: Engelsk har altid ligefrem ordstilling. Små adverbier placeres mellem subjekt og verbum, men ellers adskilles disse ikke.

# 2 Kongruens fejl: Overensstemmelse mellem subjekt og verbum. Når substantivet står i 3. Person ental skal der -s på verbet i NUTID. Husk også at do-omskrivning skal følges af infinitiv eg. She does not likes him (she does not like him), det samme med mådeudsagnsord eg. she could likes him (she could like him)

#3 Uregelmæssigt verbum: bøjes ikke som regelmæssige og kan derfor ikke tage- ed formen i datid.

#4 Ubestemt artikel: nationaliteter/ stillingsbetegnelser/religion ideologi tager ubestemt artikel (vokal an, konsonant a)
Bestemt artikel ved noget specifikt, utællelige abstrakte substantiver - artikel e.g. love, war, time, society etc.

5# Aldrig præposition før that eller infinitiv: 1) udelad præposition 2) tilføj ’the fact’ 3) eller afliv sætningen med en ing-form

#6 adjektiv/adverbium: Adjektiver beskriver substantiver. Adverbium beskriver verbum, adjektiver, adverbium og tager oftest endelse -ly
#7 Pronominen: De engelske relative pronominer er who, which, that, whose og what. (Formen whom brugtes tidligere som objektsform af who og som styrelse for en præposition. Kun den sidste funktion bruges stadig, om end sjældent, i almindeligt, ikke-formelt sprog)
who fører tilbage til personer (og undertiden kæledyr); which fører tilbage til alt andet, dvs. ting, begreber, dyr; that kan bruges om både personer og ting mm. - men KUN i definerende relativsætninger (= en relativsætning som præciserer, hvem/hvad der tales om); whose er genitivsform (= hvis) og bruges om både personer og ting mm.
#8 Genitive: hvis ordet ender på s =s´, hvis ordet ikke ender på s=´s, of-konstruktion når ting omtaler ting.

#9 støtteord ved adjektiver: Adjektiver skal normalt have et støtteord, og her skal du huske at skrive hvilket adjektiv som behøver støtteord (på dansk kan de oftest stå som substantiv, men ikke på engelsk): thing/one/man/woman etc.

#10 Pluralis og singularis:
- Uregelmæssige Substantiv: normalt tilføjes -s i flertal, men ikke de uregelmæssige: visse tager endelsen-ve (calf-calves), mens andre ændrer vokal (man-men)
- Utællelige substantiv: money, advice, furniture, information, news etc. (S.59)
- Logisk flertal på engelsk: People´s lives, their hearts, our problems etc.

#11 Tricky verb patterns: En del verbum skal følges af ing-form og ikke infinitiv (s.38-40). Husk at skrive hvilket ord som bestemmer eg. I cannot risk losing you (verbet risk skal følges af ing-form)

#12 Forkert brug af ord: her skal du blot forklare forskellen.

Horror project

Choose one of the songs/poems on the blog. You must listen to all of them.

You must give a short summary of the song/poem.

Analyse the content. Your focus should be on the themes and how they are conveyed. Yu must also apply relevant theoretical material.

Put the song/poem into perspective by comparing it to at least one of the texts we have read in class.

Product: Prepare a presentation of your work. You must post relevant notes as comments under the song/poem of your choice.

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Chris Brown - Wall To Wall

Engelsk komma 2

Engelsk komma 1

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Suffer the little children

1) Wherein lies the horror?
2) What happens with Buddy Jenkins?
3) Is it all in Miss Sidley´s mind or are the children actually evil little monsters, or perhaps there is a third solution?
4) What does the title imply?
5) Who is the narrator and how does the language effect the story?
6) Think about the contrasting themes of good/evil; madness/sanity; chaos/order etc. in terms of message.

Apply the theories below to the story:
1) Freud´s model of the mind (id, ego, superego)
2) The Uncanny- Freud´s concept of things being familiar andforeign at the same time)
3) Cognitive dissonance (the uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously).
4) Thodorov´s literary theory of the Fantastic.

Dracula

1. Characterize the environment with a focus on gothic elements (look up the characteristics if you are in doubt)

2. How can we use Freud's model of the mind in our reading of this story? Provide textual examples.

3. What view on sexuality and death are depicted in the story?

4. Why is this story sooooo fantastic? - Objectively speaking(!)

Poe fan site

Here is a facebook fan site for Edgar Allan Poe - in case you're interested

Jesper - Poetry slam

Metallica - Enter Sandman

The Raven - narrated by James Earl Jones, Music Moonlight Sonata subtitles

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry Lee

Where The Wild Roses Grow