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Annabel Lee, Romanticism and Pathetic Fallacy ...About the poem entitled  Annabel Lee . Here are some points we evoked: - it's a  melancholy  poem, yet it's a beautiful proof of love, and Poe writes positive things about his love. There might be a biographical side to it (his wife Virginia died from tuberculosis a few years before).     - It sounds like a song, there's  rhythm to it . - The first stanza is perfect, then the poem becomes dramatic and the stanzas change. So here are a few of the binaries from the poem:   - Sea / Wind / Nature (=emotions of the poet) VS the kingdom (everyday life) - Transcendantal love VS untimely death  - The Ideal (Eidolon, Plato), Fiction VS Reality    For the Romantic poet, there's but two ways to transcend reality and death, and to briefly have access to the ideal world of Ideas : Art, and Religion. We also took a look at a painting called  The Wanderer Above The Sea Of Clouds  by Austrian p...

 Poetry and Poe Poems in French and English are different in a few ways. English poems don't always rhyme. They can, though. But they have a rhythm to them : for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams u     u       /      u   u      /       u     u     /       u     u      / Stanza 1 a description of a woman. It introduces Annabel Lee. Stanza 2 It's about the love between Annabel Lee and the Narrator. Stanza 3 She was taken away from him. Seraphs took her. Stanza 4 Annabel Lee is killed and buried ( enterrée ) Stanza 5 Their love is the strongest ever. Their love can transcend death. Stanza 6 He lies next to her tomb.   Some syllables are stressed / , and others are unstressed u. You have to pronounce stressed sy...

  Test prep Wednesday's test will first be about choosing 3 documents: one literary text (we already know them), one illustration ( ibid ) and one newspaper article (we'll discover 5 of them on Friday). Then, we'll have to connect them, to try and find common points and differences between them. Something that helps : QUESTIONS & OPPOSITIONS.         Try and create a question that connects "It's just a silly dream" and Karen Thole illustration : 1. I have no idea What is interesting about these documents. 2. Jeff's nightmare (telling stories) Is life only a nightmare ? 3.Could this document evoke the lives of migrants / explorers ? 4. Is it possible to know who the statue represents ? 5. To what extent discovering new worlds a topic connecting both documents ? 6. Explorers - > to what extent are these documents about explorers ? 7. How could we explain the strangeness of this document ? 8. There are mountains in both documents, it feels like we...

Illustrations Today we took a look at several pictures we'll use for the tests. H.R. Giger, Atomic Children, 1968 : In this black & white sketch, science-fiction is merged with horror a nd eroticism in what Giger called a "biomechanical" fantasy. It looks like a nightmarish vision from a feverish dream. Giger was the designer of the Alien creature from the movies. An ombilical cord links the bottom of a hypersexualised alien to a strange looking moon.  John Harris, Building the Ark , 2017 : In the background, open skies and fluffy clouds characterize this painting. Gliders and spaceships circle around a tower and a space station. The title hints at ( evokes ) a biblical connection : the Ark links men and God. Chelsey Bonestell, Saturn from Titan , 1944 : Bonestell strived for realism ( he wanted realism) in his work. We feel we're on another planet here, it has an alien, strange perspective, and it looks like a photograph. Author and scientist Carl Sagan said ...

  - So Many Things To Learn ( Dune,  Frank Herbert, 1965) This text takes place in the castle of Caladan, before an important family leave for the planet of Arrakis. An old lady visits the queen's son. she mentions strange words like Kwisatz Haderach and Gom Jabbar. He has to know about it before going to Arrakis. Protagonists: - Paul Atreides, his mother and the old woman.  Science-Fiction ? It belongs to science-fiction : an imaginary planet (Arrakis, made of sand and rocks, full of giant worms). In addition, words are unknown, so we have so many things to learn, and it can also be about future advances / tech... - > Space Opera subgenre - Are They A Reason For Going ? ( Pale Blue Dot , Carl Sagan, 1997)  It's written in the present and the future tense. It talks about wanderers / ancestors of humanity, their habits. It also evokes the future of humanity.   Protagonists: - the wanderers (humans, humanity)  Science Fiction ? It has a link with 2001, A S...

 HOMEWORK Introduce and sum up your text briefly   5 to 7 new words? Protagonist(s) How can you show that this is science-fiction Link with encounters / imagination?   Are They A Reason For Going ? ( Pale Blue Dot , Carl Sagan, 1997) 1. It talks about humanity, who wants to go to space, and how far it's going to be. They lived in savannah, they protected their children from the wild animals like lions and hyenas . It's hard to get into space because of money, and not everybody can afford it. It's Just A Silly Dream ( Childhood's End , Arthur C. Clarke, 1953) 1.  there's a family of three, the dad is named George, his wife Jean and their son Jeff. They live on an island, they only discover the world through TV. When the son is sleeping, he's having nightmares during which he could see burning mountains and the fire was blue. The Rocket ( The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury, 1951) 1. It is about a man and an old man speaking into the night....