Literary Analysis Week 6

Literary Analysis 

Week 6

3/1/18

Ode to Tropical Agriculture

In this section of text on pg. 388-389, "Ode to Tropical Agriculture" is an imaginary rollercoaster of a poem while reading. I really appreciate the theme of showing love for the beautiful surroundings us humans live in everyday. The words are jumping off the page and shows the connection and time the author Andres Bello took in writing his poetry. Although in the short introduction before the poetry on pg. 388 it says that in the poetry "what he praises is not wilderness but human cultivation". Or in other words he most likely appreciated the beauty of the wilderness but in his poem he was focus on how great humans take the wilderness and transform it into even more beauty. Although I believe that he was praising the wilderness in saying things like "it ask no care by human arts, but freely yields its fruit". Then continues the admiration in the future lines by using literary devices like metaphors to describe the growing process the plants go through, "It grows with swiftness, and when it is outgrown its full-grown children take its place". In this excerpt from the poems gives readers a bit of text to read between the lines to understand how he talks about the children of the plants. This type of writing being the most popular because it makes readers like me think and dive deeper into the poem of what it means. The last sentence of the introduction paragraph for Andres Bello explains how poet's should be in touch with their surroundings because it can play a huge role and gaining inspiration from "their native landscapes". Bello believed that geography will shape the future for extreme and profound art for future artist. As a fan of poverty I understand the inspiration you can absorb from the setting you are in and it can inspire some powerful imagery poems that Andres Bello sees taking over the future of how artist approach their craft. 

Reading Notes week 6 Part B: The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the citizen

Reading Notes 

Part B 

2/28/18

week 6

• Only July 14, 1789, leaders of the French Revolution came together to make a declaration of right and on August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizens flooded the streets of France. 
• Similar to the name of our Declaration of Independence, France's rights is in many ways  different. Even though the man to write our declaration helped France with there drafting process. 
• Some of the Declarations that stood at to me was 7 when it says, "but every citizen summoned or seized in virtue of a law ought to render instant obedience; he makes himself guilty by resistance". on pg. 22 
• I believe it is saying that if they call you to court over breaking the law and you ignore the call you will be assumed guilty by not showing up. That is different from our law 
• Also with declaration 9 it says " Every man is presumed innocent until he has been pronounced guilty" 
• This is really different from our law of being innocent until proven guilty but in France it's not the same 
• The people who control the laws or the judges have more power over if a person is guilty or not 
• Olympe De Gouges or other wise known as Marie Gouges was on of the most radical women rights voice you would hear in 1748- 1793
• pg. 23 " She was advance highly progressive ideas, including the abolition of slavery and the rights of orphans and unwed mothers".
• "if women can be executed then surely they should be permitted to make public speeches". In this time women couldn't even speak in public and Gouges was determine to spark a change with her radically although in todays age rational ideas. 
• Sadly Olympe de Gouges was guillotine during the Reign Of Terror because she used "inflammatory words" and she died a "public enemy"
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Reading Notes Week 6: An Age of Revolutions inEurope and the Americas Part A

Reading Notes 

Week 6

Part A 

An age of revelations in Europe and America 

• People born on 1765 and who were able to live a pretty long life would be a witness to two powerful revolutions 
• The revolutions sparked a change in society where everyone had to learn a new vocabulary and add more political vocabulary to their daily lives and job they were soon to join.
• This time sparked an industrial revolution on pg. 4 "The first of the two great upheavals was the industrial revolution, which began in England and radiated outward, as other nations copied English innovations. 
• A piece of the text that stood out to me personally was on both pg. 4 and pg.5 " The great spur for this new global economy was cotton. Grown and harvested by slaves in the colonies". 
• This slave picked cotton was used to make cloth and in this time period these farmers turned "entrepreneurs" because they profited off of slave labor. But the one in charge profits. 
• I appreciate the picture given on pg. 5 of the homeless people in late 19th-century and how they had a different name as squalor. 
• Some workers even starved in the economy poor growth. 
• On pg. 8 and 9 it gives a clear illustration of the Slave Trade across maps and countries from 1560-1850
• This map shows the estimated number of slaves being transported from each of the countries at the time and this is a great addition for a learner such as me being more visual actually having something to look at. 
• Napoleon ruled by dictatorship and reinstated slavery in France and had other laws that made him a small but fierce leader.

Declaration Of Independence

• Written by Thomas Jefferson The Declaration was a replica of principals by the Enlightenment philosophers believed in. 
• In congress on July 4th 1776 the Declaration of Independence was a unanimous declaration by the thirteen states of America. 
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