18th Century

This week we talked about prose and ﾓ A Modest Proposelﾔ. Topic was different and interesting for me.

At first, literature was changed in 18th century. They believed reasons and science. Ratioanalism was so important. They tried to find balance between events. In addition to this political events was complicated. But I didn't like these issues.

In literature, novels gained importance. We can see journals in this term. Poetry and emotions lost their power. People rejected immorality.

Secondly, we talked about A Modest Proposal. It was written by Jonathan Swift. He satired poor of century by funny way. I think he was clever. His ideas were really interesting and important. When I was read it I didn't understand. Than we talked about it in class and I understood it's real mean.

As a result, I liked this period. Thanks to Jonathan Swift I learned features of term clearly.

MacFlecknoe

 This week our topic was different from the others. We introduced critical poem “MacFlecknoe” by John Dryden. 

 Firstly I want to talk about poem. We can see a satire upon the political events. Thanks to this feature, MacFlecknoe was seperate from other poems which we read. Love was not seen in this poem. 

 I had no idea about poet,poem and its topic before course. Now that, I can talk about them and their properties. We was talking about poems which consisted love for several week. So another topic satire is interesting for me. 

 Secondly, John Dryden is an important poet. He was satiring events of his term. I think, he didn't fall in love. So he wrote about historical and political events. Dryden created his own style which was an effective. 

 To sum up, we learned different and interesting ideas. We gains general ideas about literature day by day. 

Civil War and Restoration

                                      Civil War and Restoration
 Last week, we talked about Civil War and Restoration. I didn't like this topic. Because it includes informatin so much. For example; dates,names,features etc. We can see conflict between two groups who have different ideas in this period. So they effected their country.
 At the same time we talked about " To his Coy Mistress ". It was written by Andrew Marwell. While we were talking about poem, we mentioned "Carpe Diem".  Poem is related to live the moment.
In fact, I agreed with poet. Time is passing so fast. We are getting older. We should seize the day. But we should not exceed our limits.
 When we look at the period, we see physical love. 
   In my opinion love is not only physical but also emotional.

Metaphysical Poets

                              Metaphysical Poets 

  We started the course with Metaphysical Poets. Before course I didn't have any information about these poets. 

  Firstly, I've learned characteristics of 17th literature period and compared them with Elizabethan Age. I could see that love was more physical,not platonic and tangible. Poems adressed to reasons. We couldn't see inconstancy in there. They mixed logic and feelings in love. 

  Secondly, we talked about John Donne and his poem “The Flea”. He was the great representer of the metaphysical poets. The poem was an interesting for me. When you think about it deeply, you can realize the deep meaning. He tried to depict love with flea. He established a mutual relation                                                  between love and flea. 

  To sum up, this period is more rational than the others as I see it. Because lovers didn't feel much pain. Love was mutual and philosophical.