The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century

The Glorious Revolution ( Bloodless Revolution)
Charles the Second with no legal heir died in 1685, but he was succeeded by his brother James the Second, a practicing Romen Catholic. Most of the English people were utterly opposed to James because it was believed that the Roman Catholic had set fire to London and were plotting to hand the country over to the pope. After James had a little boy, pressure on his royal family became so great that in 1688 they fled to France. James was succeeded by his Protestant daughter, Mary and her Dutch husband, Willam of Orange and thus the so-called Glorious Revolution was accomplished (1688). This period played an important role on our American history. If things would have went differently with King Charles the Second and his crew, nothing would be as the are now in American. The events that took place gave brith to a continuing thriving Nation. That people were now on a new road towards thinking, writing, and speaking about.

"satire"- Instead of saying I love Literature, I'm going to tell you how much a hate it. The sun is good, warm, beautiful, and gives us life; (instead) The sun is bad, ugly, too hot, and drains the life out of us. Like the news, movies, and tv shows they always tell a portion of what's the truth. "Almost...well" everthing that broadcast something does this, they "satire"- ridicule, banter (teasing), gossip, and make a mockly of what's the truth.

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift (1729) talks about the children of poor people in Ireland, from being aburden to their parents, country, and for making them beneficial to the public. Unless I was the knig I can't find myself living in Ireland in these times, but I see a similar relationship with today time . In Swift article, it's hard living under the king trying to make a good living. In order to do that you must work, so having babies growing up doing the work for you was a big plus, but it takes food, time, and loving care to do this. Same for today, you must work or do something to support a family let alone youself. Which in most cases if you just do nothing, you like 2pac said "I'm hungry so I'm loking for a purse to snatch," your either going to died or live. Jonathan's article uses satire in a way how the Irish just let their people suffer and go through bull that they don't even have to. This proposal, where he suggests that the Irish eat their own children, is one of his most drastic pieces. He devoted much of his writing to the struggle for Ireland against the English hegemony.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys
It seems Sannuel Pepys live an exciting life and his diary is proof of it. On October 13, 1660 there was a public excution and a private explosion. When Sannuel got his chance to see the king beheaded at Whitehall; to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the king at Charing Cross. Then the private explosion with Sannuel and his wife which lead to him breaking a basket that he bought her. Sannuel life seems to be full of action but non less than an normal life. He had good days and bad nights but non as bad as the first day of the great fire of London. It seems that day he really didn't care about the fire but at the same time it was just one of those days. The fact that he lost his home didn't even phase him, but as for everyone in the town they where going nuts. People can learn a lot from Sannuel, not just the events he witness but his true characther at heart and soul. Sannuel to me is a guy who lives his life to the fullest each day and don't matter how may things may turn out in the end they would be ok. That's the way people today should look at things, your always going to have good and bads days but how you take them about is up to you!

What I think was most important to people living in this time was living in leisure, comfort, elegance, and like an gentleman. "Pepys was not a writer but an official in the goverment office that maintained the Royal Navy and provided it with ships and supplies. The head of the iffice was Pepys's cousin Edward Montague, a great frien and supporter of King Clarkes II." "Pepys had an insatiable appetite for experience, a vast capacity for pleasure, and an immense deise for learning-languages, literature, science, and everything connected with naval occupation." "He liked expensive cloths and oil paintings, in everything he sought pleasure he usually found it." "His house was full of creatures: cats, two dogs, a whistling blackbird, canaries, even for a time an eagle." "He owned many books, carpenters' tools, maps and charts, a telescope, and several musical instruments which he could play." "Whenever his head ached from business or his wife was angry at him for flirting wiht another women, he took refuge in the theater." "Now if that don't sound like a guy living it up big then I don't know what is."

The Renaissance

The Renaissance
To me this sounds like the period when everyone is starting to come to their sinces. The new theories about life, philosophy, religion, and art were strengthened by a group known as the Humanists, they are the one's to me that sounds like they were the first to gang some since. The Reformation is another example that people were starting to think for they selves, and another major contention was the tremendous corruption within the Church's hierarchy, all the way up to the Bishop of Rome, who appointed individuals to various positions within the Church (bishop, cardinal, etc.) on the basis of financial contributions.Thanks to the printing press this also help lowered the cost of books and other printed items and they no longer relied on the Pope to translate the messages in the Bible for them. As for King Henry the eight, well how cool is to be king and not only that to have six wives. Things seems to be good in his shoes till one of his own wife out lives him, but other than that the future were in the people hands now.

The Renaissance--The Sonnets
The difference between Shakespeare poet and Spencer poet is the rhyme scheme. While both Shakespeare and Spencer uses the same first rhyme scheme the rest is different; Shakespeare uses a ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme, and Spencer uses ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. I like Shakespeare way saying things in his poem, I like Spencer poem too but Shakespeare poem just has more heart in it to me. He literally made this poem eternal throught out the ages of men.

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
First Section: ask a question should he compare me to a summer's day, but then he shouldn't because I am more temperate and lovely than the rough winds about in the summer of May.
Second Section: sometimes too hot the summer sun shines but not always it does, as well for everything and everyone's beauty it fades alway.
Third Section: that my eternal summer and beauty shall not fade, nor should death brag and take me in his shade with this poem.
Conclusion: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this poem, and gives life to thee.

Sonnet 30
Edmund Spencer
First Section: He is referring his love to a girl as fire to ice. Why is that the more his fire burns the colder her ice gets.
Second Section: Here he is wandering why can feel his love burning him up in a boiling sweat and feel his flames augmented manifold; Is not delayed by her heart frozen ice cold.
Third Section:
Conclusion:That the power of love can change the course of nature.

William Shakespeare Sonnet 1

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

First Section; As beautiful people grow old and die, they are pass on through their child
Second Section; Selfish people do not last long
Third Section; Don't take things of this earth for granted
Conclusion; All things of earth will evently die


Edmund Spencer
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand"

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize!
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;

Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

First Section; Spencer one day wrote his wife name down in the sands on a beach, but the tides washed it away
Second Section; Spencer's wife tells him things of a mortal world were not mint to last forever
Third Section; Spencer comes up with a way to do so with his poems,
Conclusion; their love would give them a new life even after death

My Sonnet
Antonio Hitchcock, it is my name
With an essence in my body and soul
An gigantic question is in my brain
Entitices are convincing me to go
To grow, love, and prosper is my motto
Voices are telling me to be about
I would live like there is no tomorrow
Hisitation is in my body like grouch
For no mistake or reason I am here
To of creation or abolition I appear
Analyis of life is only to fear
Who inspire or discourage become peers
Interrogation is only to thy self
As destined for one to wear thy owns belt

Section1.) I question life
Section2.) To grow, love, and prosper
Section3.) Tohate, destroy, decline
Section4) Turn; To do nothing
Conclusion) No question just live your life