Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop - kelompok 10

Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop

Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)

By : Moh Muhin                      ( 20131111022) 

       Andi Darmawanto            ( 20131111078)

I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'

'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.

'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.'

The poem is in three stanzas. Each stanza contains six lines. It is about dialogue of  Crazy Jane (who is a slut, a terrible satirist) and the Bishop. As much as violence and sex sounds terrible. In fact, there is more of an implied meaning of sexual violence. The violence, though, is more interesting in that the violence shows itself through the characters interactive  conversations between one another, rather than through a description of physical sexual violence.

I met the Bishop on the road

And much said he and I.

Those breasts are flat and fallen now,

Those veins must soon be dry

Live in a heavenly mansion,

Not in some foul sty.

In this stanza, the Bishop is the one who is speaking where the text is located inside the quotation marks. Even though this could go toward the argument of a response at religion, try and keep any idea of religion out of mind for now because in order to see this stanza as just poetic violence (verbal abuse), the Bishop then becomes just a man saying terrible things about an older woman (who is not abstinent at all). It’s “those breast which are flat and fallen now” which implies that Crazy Jane is represented as old here. She’s so old, that her “veins must soon be dry, too” this poem looks very familiar in a way in which it describes Crazy Jane’s old bodily features.

Fair and foul are near of kin,

And fair needs foul,' I cried.

My friends are gone, but that's a truth

Nor grave nor bed denied,

Learned in bodily lowliness

And in the heart's pride.

“Fair” and “foul” then in themselves become examples of objectivity and subjectivity, in that they become interdependent on each other. The fair is life (subject) which would make foul “death” (object). Because Jane’s friends were subjected to death, she repeates in this stanza that fair needs foul. The idea of fair needing the foul makes the concept of life and death seem inevitable. And bringing this back around to the Bishop’s sexual derogatory comments he made about her breasts, the reason why her breasts seem to be in a deteriorating state is because her boobs have been subjected to the objective of old age and other people’s comments.

A woman can be proud and stiff

When on love intent,

But Love has pitched his mansion in

The place of excrement,

For nothing can be sole or whole

That has not been rent.

A woman or perhaps any person "too proud and stiff" to surrender to her sexuality loss fulfillment both of body and soul. The element of sexuality most distressing to the fastidious, the placement of sex organs near or in organs of excrement" is stressed here. The final two lines"For nothing can be sole or whole.That has not been rent." are richly suggestive. "Sole" refers to oneness or the integration of the personality achieved only by bringing together both spiritual and physical selves in one's sexuality, the word also puns on soul, one finds fulfillment for one's soul through physical experience. "Whole works in a similar manner, referring primarily to the wholeness or fulfillment of a being and punning on hole, the female sexual organ. Both soul ("sole") and body (hole) come to fulfillment in sexuality. "rent" symbolically sexual experience in general.

The Garden of Love

NURUL HIDAYATI / 2012 1111 043

 FARID AMARI A / 2011 1111 023

The Garden of Love By William Blake

I went to the Garden of Love,

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;

So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,

And tomb-stones where flowers should be:

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,

And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

In that poem it is obvious that Blake disagrees with many facts of the Christian religion as an institutionalized system. 

Though he reportedly attended a religious ceremony only three times in his life (his baptism, marriage and funeral service), he claimed himself to be a devout Christian. 

His philosophy of Christianity was considered blasphemous, but he was never charged with such a crime. 

However, he did express his critical opinions of the Church in both essay and poetic form. Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757. 

Throughout his childhood, he claimed to see fantastic things such as God at his window or angels in a tree. 

His parents strongly discouraged this "lying," but they understood that Blake was significantly different than other children his age. 

For this reason, they taught him to read and write at home rather than in a conventional school. 

At the age of ten he wanted to be an artist, yet he began writing poetry two years later. 

At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to an engraver because of the high cost of art school. 

Following the seven years he spent as an apprentice, he went to the Royal Academy to study art.

Blake's primary literary device in "The Garden of Love" is symbolism. The Garden of Love itself possibly represents the purity of the Garden of Eden. 

The Chapel indicates the Christian Church as a whole. The phrase, "Thou shalt not," serves as both a biblical illusion to the Ten Commandments and also a symbol for the rules and restrictions of the Church.

The "sweet flowers" in the second stanza represent what man naturally enjoys in life.Both the "graves" and the "tomb-stones" may stand for the same "sweet flowers" that the Church has forbidden. "Priests in black gowns" enforce the rules of the Church with strict attention as insinuated by the phrase, "And binding with briars my joys and desires." 

Another facet of the poem worth exploring is the cemetery that has taken place of the garden. "And I saw it was filled with graves, / And tomb-stones where flowers should be" . 

Blake is conveying his belief that the church focuses too much on death and eternal damn nation, also tied to the repression of humanity that the church has bestowed upon its members. 

Again, an innocent child is victim of the church's tired effort to control the mind and every aspect of spirituality. Where a child once played a church was built, and on its door were the words that read "Thou shalt not", and in all around it were graves. A bleak picture is painted by Blake because that is exactly how he viewed the church. He saw the church as a spiritually hindering institution that has misconstrued the true message of the gospels. The fertility of flowers had been replaced with graves, and the promise of new life found through the teachings of Jesus had been replaced by repressive Priests that patrolled the aisles in their black gowns.

Moral Issue of the Meadow Mouse poem by Theodore Roethke - Kelompok 5

Rusneesan Cheda/ 2013111015
Diah Widiastutik/ 20131111040

Moral Issue of the Meadow Mouse poem by Theodore Roethke

You might think a poem about the meadow mouse is the last thing you would want to read about, especially, if you consider mice pests that should be exterminated rather than be left alive. However, Roethke’s ability to create interest keeps us emotionally invested in the poem. He does this through expectation, suspicion, and discovery.

In ‘The Meadow Mouse’ , Roethke expresses his feeling about the little meadow mouse he had picked up, and how he cared for it as if it was his child. It is presented a clear image and description of what he is feeling and thinking.
Roethke describes the way the mouse acted towards him when he found him for the first time – “trembled and shook” with fear. Roethke uses parental words like “baby”, “cradled”,”little” and “puppy”. So that you as the reader would be able to tell that Roethke treats and looks at the meadow mouse as if he is looking at his own baby.

Roethke asks himself  “Do I imagine he no longer trembles when I come close to him?” whether the mouse is still trembling but he is not sure. He wanted to give the mouse a feeling of safety and protection. Roethke assumes that he had offered the mouse enough love and protection that the mouse now trust and feels safe with him. The speaker assumes that the mouse had settled in and is no longer afraid of him and had perhaps even developed a better relationship with him.

In the fourth stanza Roethke finds that the shoe box which contained the mouse “is empty”. He wonders what had happened to it; “had it gone to live by courtesy of a snake?” “Run under the eye of the owl” or “ran under the wing of the hawk?” All these are enemies of a mouse and can be fatal predators to a mouse, especially one as young as the one the speaker had picked up. The speaker fears for the mouse, fearing for the little mouse’s faith and life.

The last stanza is all the possibilities Roethke thinks has happened to his mouse, all horrifying images of helpless animals whose lives are at stake. At this point, Roethke is referring to his lost baby mouse who is out there somewhere on his own, unprotected by Roethke, who had tried everything to put the mouse under his wings of protection.

Roethke makes a human correlation, a discovery about human conditions and parental worries over a child. Even though the world is fraught with danger, in the natural scheme of things, every parent knows their child will leave the safe environment of home to seek his or her own fortune in this dangerous world; and even though the dangers are real, a parent must let the child go.

Song: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love By William Blake - Kelompok 6

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Annisaa fashalla Pargiyanto (20131111019)

Dwi Inaya Faizzati (20131111020)

Song: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love

By William Blake

            “Never Seek to tell thy love” is a poem by William Blake. William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age.He born in 1757 in London, England, William Blake began writing at an early age and claimed to have had his first vision, of a tree full of angels, at age 10. Now Blake was an established engraver, he began experimenting with printing techniques and it was not long before he compiled his first illuminated book, 'Songs of Innocence' in 1788. Blake wanted to take his poetry beyond being just words on a page and felt they needed to be illustrated to create his desired effect. Shortly after he completed 'The Book of Thel' and from 1790-3, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', which followed on from his significant Prophetic books. These books were a collection of writings on his philosophical ideas and although they have nothing to do with his poetry, it was a sign of his increasing awareness of the social injustices of his time, which led to the completion of his 'Songs of Experience' in 1794. This poem is renewed by the poet, the title of new one is Love's Secret but the contain is same.  (http://www.biography.com/people/william-blake-9214491).

            This poem tell about the writer’s experience that he falling in love to a woman but he is never tell and hiding his feeling. He has strong feeling to her and he believe and confident that his love will acceptance. Then he try to tell her feeling to woman who he love but in fact, she have a sweetheart. Exactly she leave him alone so he feel sad and regret. In addition, love is a feeling that haven by other people between man and woman. If you falling in love, love can be make happy, freak and so on. But if you hide away your feeling and lost her or his love, love can be pain. Therefore, love should be allow to flow and happen naturally. So you can feel what love and know what is true love?

Never seek to tell thy love

Love that never told can be

For the gentle wind does move

  Silently, invisible

In the first stanza. It describe about the writer falling in love to woman, but he never told his love. He only hide his feeling. However, he has a strong feeling to her but he not expressed his felling like wind that blowing fast and sometimes the wind is quite and invisible. it is show how his felling that moment.

 

I told my love, I told my love

I told her all my heart

Trembling, cold, inghastly fears ….

Ah, she doth depart

In the fifth and sixth distich, there is the word that repeat again and again is “Told”. “Told” in here tell about he will be expressed his strong felling to her. He is very confident and believe that his love will be response. Then in the seven distich, he is very nervous until all of his body like numb because of he will be expressed his feeling to her.

Soon as she was gone from me

A traveler came by

Silently, invisible ….

O, was no deny …..

In the last stanza, it told that her love is gone and leave him before he tell about his feeling to her but it’s to late. Then her sweetheart is come in the place for pick up her. the writer’s feeling is very sad and so regret. Whereas, he’s believe that his love will be respond. 

On other hand, we can look from social issue in the poem. Looking from ninth and tenth distich “Soon as she was gone from me”, “A traveler came by”. Those are told about the woman who he love leave him and choose gone with her sweetheart than she must listen the writer’s felling. Suddenly her sweetheart came. It make the writer’s felling is very sad, angry and regret to her. So their relationship is end,it is a social issue in this poem.

So the main of that poem is the writer’s experience that told about love and his regret, he has a big love, but he never told to everyone, he just hiding his feeling. When the writer want to expressed his feeling, it is to late due to the woman who he love gone with another man, so the writer feel regret “why the writer not expressed his feeling immediately?”. Therefore, if you love someone you must told immediately before he/she leave us with another people. So love should be allow to flow and happen naturally.