in class thematic strand

1. greedy, envy, want, desire, grow, thumb, money, Ireland, rain, shamrock

2. public, structure, citizens, community, norm, stagnant, want change, laws, rules, controlled.

3. plant, grow, harvest, plow, dig, water, cut, weed, control, have patient

4. His argument is that the tree is hard to describe because all of them are so different. The motives for the trees swaying in the wind are all different and it is hard to describe. Does it simply sway? Does it dance? Or are the branches moving only because they are dying and are easily pushed by the wind? It is hard to articulate the words because there are no words to describe nature. The author has trouble finding the right words and he fights with himself to express what he sees in the poem.

5. Dear Professor Lay,

My argument in Paper II was that Malvolio is presented as a fool in the play and can be applied to the sonnet CXXIX. It stresses the fact that others made him look foolish--that Maria understands the desires of humans and their instincts and she plays on that until Mavolio takes the bait. He becomes so engulfed in his desires that he would do anything and does do anything, until he realizes that he only looks like a madman and that he is still left with no one and nothing.

I liked the way I kept relating Malvolio to the sonnet. I kept taking quotes from the sonnet and incorporating it into my own language. I think it flowed nicely--so nicely that it sounded like the sonnet was actually made for Malvolio instead of me just relating the poem to him. If I do say so myself =]

-Jeanmarie