Poems or something.

This week what has caught my attention the most in class was today’s poem by John Donne. I really like the metaphysical style of the work. It is interesting to me because it sounds less like a song ad more like a deep thought as you read the lines. As you said, these poems really make you have to think. The poem today used an extended metaphor of finances and money. He looked at love in terms of finance, which, I am pretty sure, was not done often. The writers of this motion would use words and phrases that make the reader question the meaning.

Collette, Andrea, Maggie, and Allie really made class interesting today with that lovely Hamlet video! I can not wait to see Reuben’s! I only wish I had made a video! Haha. Give them a 100000000. because #40000dollarsisalot.

Now I will analyze some poetry or something.   I choose “The Apparition”   by John Donne.

When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead 

         And that thou think'st thee free 

From all solicitation from me, 

Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, 

And thee, feign'd vestal, in worse arms shall see; 

Then thy sick taper will begin to wink, 

And he, whose thou art then, being tir'd before, 

Will, if thou stir, or pinch to wake him, think 

         Thou call'st for more, 

And in false sleep will from thee shrink; 

And then, poor aspen wretch, neglected thou 

Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lie 

         A verier ghost than I. 

What I will say, I will not tell thee now, 

Lest that preserve thee; and since my love is spent, 

I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent, 

Than by my threat'nings rest still innocent.

The poem is about being rejected by your love.  He feels that he is being rejectedfrom someone that is not

 as great as he is. Like he is better and she is crazy to not go for it. Te first lines create the idea that he is 

dead, lost, confused and the girl “thinkst” free.  He writes “From all solicitation from me, Then shall my ghost 

come to thy bed” meaning that after all your pleading then the ghost will come to the 

bedside. The ghost, I thinks is sorta like the girls conscience following her and making her miserable. In the

 next lines he talks about how the “sick taper will begin to wink” which reminds me of death. The next three 

line are the guy getting tired of her horridness. The next lines, “And then, poor aspen wretch, neglected thou,

 Bath’d in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lie” are saying that energy has just run out the aspen is neglected, he 

has given up. There is nothing left but cold disregard. The shift is in the last quatrain. Here Donne talks about 

how he has spent his love on her and he has no love left for her.

HAMLET AND ANATOMY? WHAT?!!!

I have been noticing so many Hamlet refrences in everyday life it almost makes me crazy. I was watching Grey's Anatomy this weekend and I noticed many sayings from Hamlet in Grey's Anatomy! In the episode Izze and george had sex and that was something they regretted because George and Calliope are newly married and they care deeply for eachother. They continue to fight for days. During one of the confrontational fights. Izzie tries to convince George that their little adventure was not a shameful, bad thing. George dissagre's and says "I'm going to hold my tongue" because he cares so much for Callie. I thought this was very strange.
There is also a Hamlet refrence in "The Lion King." Simba is like Hamlet. Simba is born to be the sucessor King and he can not deny his duties. Hamlet and Simba are both carefree in the beginning but as they realize their duties they become more serious. Simba acts as a child would and then, later on, he realizes that he must assume duties after the loss of his father, as does Hamlet. Hamlet is completley enthrawled in discovering the truth. Mufasa is King Hamlet. Scar is like Claudius because they are both undesired and they are the antagonists of the plot. Scar does everything that he can to prevent Simba from succeeding. Actually, he does this to basically everyone. Claudius does this too. For example, Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy and get information from Hamlet. Both characters are the enemy of the main character. Claudius murders King Hamlet by poisoning him in the ear and Scar murders Musafa by pushing him down from the hill and let the wildebeest stamp on Musafa and kill him. Claudius is killed with poison! Woah! In the end of both stories, the villains both are killed in the same exact way they tried to harm other people that they are supposed to look up to. Claudius is forced to drink the poison he prepares for Hamlet, while Scar falls off the cliff and gets killed by the folk of hyenas. The deaths are so similair!

Nala is Ophelia, sweet and daring. Nala and Simba have a cute relation similar to that of Ophelia and Hamlet. The only difference is that they do not really get angry with eachother.
I also noticed that when Mufasa is still ruling pride rock is and sunny and bright and when scar rules(or tries to) it becomes dark and gloomy. This also happens in Hamlet. When Claudius takes over it becomes dark and gloomy. just as it does in Lion king.
Also, Is "whos the fairest of them all?" evolved from Hamlet or was that just a common phrase of the time period?