Dryden's Satire

1. According to the first paragraph of "Of Satire," what is the purpose of satire? What does Dryden say in the second paragraph is the type of satire he admires most, and to what does he attribute one's ability to use this type of satire successfully? What words does he use to show his disapproval of harsher forms of satire?

A One Day Diary

I can't tell you about this morning unless I tell you about last night. Understand something about me, I love my sleep. Last night was suppose to be the night that I got to go to sleep early. I got in bed and forgot to do the homework that I was suppose to do. I finally finished it, snuggling back into bed, and I forgot to wash my face and brush my teeth. I get up and do those things so I can finally go to sleep. During that I was texting three people, all of which fell sleep on me. Therefore, that tells you how late I really stayed up. Finally I went to sleep. Now, getting to today, I woke up to two of the three people saying sorry for falling asleep. It was a rough night with barely any sleep, and worst of all it was a monday. I rushed to get ready so I could make it to school on time, but while doing this I didn't get to eat breakfast. While I was getting out of my car to go to homeroom, I realized I forgot my laptop and my binder that has all my homework in it. Not only that, but I was starving. I waited till first period where I had a study hall and I could go to the snack store. I got a chimichanga, some poptarts, and an otter pop. After I finished that, I was still hungry. Thankfully, I forgot my binder and laptop so I asked my mom to bring me it at lunch. I might have added to bring me some food with that too. The most important part of the day arrived, lunch. I went to the parking lot, and realized my sister had brought me what I forgot and four tacos from tacobell. I thanked her and ate happily. Periods seven, eight, and nine roll by. By then I'm extremely tired, but I have to get myself awake because I know I have basketball practice. 4:30 pm comes along and the team and I are all ready to practice. Coach firmly scolds us about how we need to do better and then we went through another strenuous practice. Finally the clock rolls 6 pm and basketball practice ends. As 6 pm ends basketball practice, but it signals that play practice is starting. During that I looked through some cyber monday deals, and sang what I have to sing in the play. The clock strikes 8 pm and it's time to go home. As I walked in the door, I greeted my family but rushed up to do my homework. I couldn't wait to finish this and go get something to eat because I am currently starving again. Hopefully tonight I can go to sleep early and not have any distractions.

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Love Figuration

"Christmas" by George Herbert

This poem, "Christmas" by George Herbert, is the second of two poems he wrote about Christmas. This poem is perfect, especially as the Christmas season is soon approaching. This poem really speaks about not only the scenery, but the feel and holiness of being with Jesus as He was born. 

The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be? 
      My God, no hymn for Thee? {Herbert is trying to paint a picture in the readers' mind of Jesus' birth, so quiet and calm.}
My soul's a shepherd too; a flock it feeds {This talks about something greater and deeper. God takes care of our souls and is the shepherd over that. We should trust in Him to take care of our souls.}
      Of thoughts, and words, and deeds.
The pasture is Thy word: the streams, Thy grace
      Enriching all the place.
Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers
      Outsing the daylight hours. {We will sing His name forever}
Then will we chide the sun for letting night
      Take up his place and right:
We sing one common Lord; wherefore he should
      Himself the candle hold.
I will go searching, till I find a sun
      Shall stay, till we have done;
A willing shiner, that shall shine as gladly, {Herbert is getting deep and personal and talking about how he wants to be the salt and light unto the world. He wants to show others Christ and that's how we should be too.}
      As frost-nipped suns look sadly.
Then will we sing, and shine all our own day,
      And one another pay:
His beams shall cheer my breast, and both so twine,
Till ev'n His beams sing, and my music shine. {Herbert means that we will keep singing forever. We will worship God forever, as He should be.}

I honestly just picked this poem out of the title of Christmas. I didn't know that it would paint such a vivid and detailed picture of the nativity scene. This poem really gets you in the mood for Christmas, but not only that, it gets you in the right mindset of Christmas. Presents are fun, but the true meaning is the celebration of Jesus Christ. Although that may be just a cliche thing we hear all the time during Christmas, we have to remember that. 

"Still to be Neat" by Ben Jonson

This poem is an amazing poem just because of the depth, sincerity, and meaning it has behind it. This poem not only was applicable to the men and women of that day and age but of today too. This poem talks about the struggles of women and the problems of men not addressing them.

Still to be neat, still to be dressed

As you were going to a feast;

Still to be powdered, still perfumed;

{Jonson is talking about these lovely girls just getting ready for banquets and balls and just going out. This is his introduction, leading up to his true point.}

Lady, it is to be presumed,

Though art’s hid causes are not found,

All is not sweet, all is not sound.

{In these three lines, I think of how girls put on so much makeup during the day. Jonson is asking, "what is there to hide?" because girls are pretty without their makeup. Maybe this might be more of the mens fault because they don't remind girls too often.}

                 

Give me a look, give me a face, 

That makes simplicity a grace; {Jonson is really looking for girls that have little to no makeup on. Therefore, he can see a girl for what she really is, not what she has to hide behind.}

Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;

Such sweet neglect more taketh me {Jonson is saying how much more beautiful girls are when they have that look of just getting up in the morning or that natural look.}

Than all th’ adulteries of art.

They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. {Yes, girls can be pretty with makeup and it will look attractive. But that's just it, it will look attractive the the eyes, not to the heart. When a man can see your true beauty, without the makeup, that will make his heart pay attention.}

I honestly had no clue what this poem meant. I read it, and I was just thinking to myself that this poem is just written in Old English, and there was no way I was going to understand it. I started to read deeper into this though. The author really likes girls. Of course, being Colby, I can relate to this a lot. So I thought to myself, "this guy knows what's going on, I have to look into this a bit more." Jonson is talking about how girls put on this shield or this mask to hide behind when they shouldn't! They're beautiful just as they are. Why would they have to cover themselves? It's like wiping a dog's poop all over a diamond ring. Why would someone do that? This is a problem with today's society because the media of today is just putting out false advertisements of young women that should dress like this. That girls should be like this or conform to this way. That's wrong! Though it's not wrong to put on makeup, and girls can look pretty doing it, but it will probably attract mens eyes not the heart. This is not only a woman problem, but also a problem for the men. Women should not have to feel this way because the men should be reminding women how beautiful they truly are. People of today, both men and women, need to apply themselves to this poem and fix this problem.

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 1992. 303. Print. 

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