Janessa Gil

9 MORE DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS

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8 MORE DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE

In the two poems, Sonnet 90 and Sonnet 292 by Fancesco Petrarch they were really adorable.

Sonnet 292, the speaker is a man mourning the loss of a loved one he was romanticizing the woman he loved and making sure she would be out to a goddess. The tone was that the speaker looks back on the perfection of his beloved and with that perfection, she made his world a paradise. In lines 1-7, he writes about how wonderfully perfect her physical aspect was. He describes the woman as perfect, flawless, and much like a goddess to him. Another way I felt more sadness when I was reading was in lines 8-13 was that he admits that his "goddess" is dead now and he feels alone and vulnerable, he thought he was a decrepit boat out on the sea. While I was reading I pick up 3 themes in the poem, one is facing reality, the second one is lost love, and the last one is Destruction of beauty the reason why this 3 theme is to me is that he shows us that the speaker shows us how his lover looked and telling us how beautiful she can be.

#10 Social Context: Around 1185, Andreas Capellanus wrote The Art of Country Love. In this influential work, Capellanus states, "Love makes an ugly and rude person shine with all beauty, knows how to endow with nobility even one of humble birth, cab even lend humility to the proud." In what ways does "The Wife of Bath's Tale" reflect Capellanus's understanding of love and its transforming power?

What is loneliness? Well, loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company. I feel loneliness every day and it's hard for me to explain to someone how I'm feeling about it. When I think about loneliness it hurts me knowing that we all don't have true friends that will be there for you. My parents always call them "acquaintances" and to be honest it's true cause they'll not be there for you when you go through things, it might hurt but you must know that God is your only true friend.

When I was reading the three-story for Brit.lit (The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament) I felt there were no connection between how I was thinking about "loneliness" but this one Disney princess came into mind and that one princess was Cinderella cause she felt lonely through the movie, she never connect to her step-mother or her step-sisters the only friends she had was Jaq, Gus, Perla, Suzp, Bert, Mert, Luke, Bruno, and the prince.

How she went through it? Throughout the movie, she entourage her animal's friends to never stop dreaming and hopefully one day it will come true. Her dream was to meet the prince and it did come true because all she did was keep dreaming.

When she was singing her song "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" that song means to me a lot because she was talking to her mice and birds friends saying that "they can't order me to stop dreaming..." cause they can't and they won't stop us from DREAMING we all have dreams that want to come true like mine dream is to become a Park Ranger and do my best to help families and others who are in need.

She believed in dreams, but also she also believed in doing something about them for example in the movie she believed that she had time making a dress for the ball, but she didn't cause her stepmother told her to clean up the whole house when she was done she went up to her room and found a beautiful dress that her little friends made for her. There so many examples but, this one stands out to me cause the mice to know that she wasn't going to have time making it before the ball.

In conclusion, I feel like Cinderella cause I do feel lonely all day cause it's like I'm left out on everything and I try to fit in, but I can't fit in, the only person who understands me the most was Eliesse Kwok cause she knows what I went through as a kid, not cause I know her parents and she knows mine but we connect as one and we hope to still be connected with each other.