Estoy bien y tu?

The film, set in Japan during the Showa Era, tells the story of Chiyo Sakamoto (portrayed by Suzuka Ohgo as a child, and by Zhang Ziyi as an adult), who is sold into a life of servitude by her parents when she is nine years old. Chiyo is taken in by the proprietress of a geisha house, Mother (Kaori Momoi), where she works to pay off the debt of her purchase and the soiling of a silk kimono owned by a well-known geisha, Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), which Chiyo was blackmailed into defacing by another geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li).

The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented change. It was the beginning of the modern era,

and it saw a revolution in almost every aspect of life. The century opened with the discovery of a new

continent.And the chapter give us the following parts, THE COURT AND THE CITY, RENAISSANCE HUMANISM, THE REFORMATION, A FEMALE MONARCH IN A MALE WORLD, THE KINDOM IN DANGER

and THE ENGLISH AND OTHERNESS.

In my opnion, the sixteenth century is changing and the changing is good for human. Different from the Middle Ages,

the sixteenth century present the better aspect of life, like the Renaissance and Reformation and so on. People have

more options to choose and they are progressing at that specific period of time.

諜對諜的劇情隨處可見

但這次色戒裡面更是有男女情愛方面的因素為大

王佳芝愛上了易先生

那易先生有愛上王佳芝嗎?

上次聽老師講解之後

我深深覺得易先生是愛她的

只是他更愛自己而已罷了

所以他才會為了保全自己讓她被處死吧

所以或許愛 裡面還是有一點自私的吧?

作者在本書闡述了很多他對於關於愛的看法

我覺得對我們其實很有幫助

畢竟台灣的教育並沒有好好教導我們兩性的相處問題

而作者也在本書提及性愛既存在於性的結合之中

更主要地存在於感情的和諧之中

愛是信心和勇氣的行為，誰沒有信心和勇氣，誰就沒有愛。

這點我還蠻贊同的 :)

以前的禁書真的讓我見識到了為什麼是禁書

書中著墨了很多關於性愛的方面

但還是老話一句

我們要以藝術的眼光去看待這本名著XD

其實在羶腥的性愛背後

我讀到了更多更多女主角放縱背後的悲哀無奈

究竟身心靈的愛情如何獲得也是大家想知道的問題

Sir Philip Sidney's The Defense of Poesy is an attempt to raise poetry above the criticism that had been directed at it by contemporary critics and to establish it as the highest of the arts, best fitted both to please men and to instruct them. The first part of The Defense of Poesy is primarily theoretical: Sidney weighs the respective merits of philosophy, history, and poetry as teachers of virtue. In the final section, he surveys the state of English literature soon after 1580.
  

Sidney's first argument for the supremacy of poetry, and by poetry he means all imaginative writing in both verse and prose, is that it was the "first light-giver to ignorance"; the first great works of science, philosophy, history, and even law were poems. Both the Italian and the English languages were polished and perfected by their poets, Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch on the one hand, Chaucer and Gower on the other. Even Plato illuminated his philosophy with myths and dramatic scenes.
  

Both the Hebrews and the Romans gave high distinction to poets, considering them prophets, messengers of God or the gods. The Greeks called their writers "makers," creators, who alone could rise above this world to make a "golden" one.  Sidney writes of the poet: "So as he goes hand in hand with Nature."

愛頌　十四行詩之68　Edmund Spenser

最榮耀的生命之主！在這天，
你勝過了死亡和罪凱旋；
征服踐踏了地獄，戰勝
擄掠我們這些曾被擄掠的：
親愛的主，這喜樂日是喜樂的開始；
求賜我們：永遠在喜樂中生活！
因你為我們受死，
用你的寶血潔淨一切罪惡。
使我們能看重你愛的可貴，
也能更新對你同樣的愛；
愛那些同被你重價買贖的，
為了你，能彼此以愛相待。
寶貴的愛，我們愛如當盡的責任，
愛的功課是主所教導我們。

The sonnets of Amoretti draw heavily on authors of the Petrarchan tradition, most obviously Torquato Tasso and

Petrarch himself^. “In Amoretti Spenser often uses the established topoi, for his sequence imitates in its own way the

traditions of Petrarchan courtship and its associated Neo-Platonic conceits” . Apart from the general neo-platonic

conceit of spiritual love in opposition to physical love, he borrows specific images and metaphors, including those that

portray the beloved or love itself as cruel tormenter. Many critics, in light of what they see as his overworking of old

themes, view Spenser as being a less original and important sonneteer than contemporaries such as Shakespeare and

Sir Philip Sidney.

However, Spenser also revised the tradition that he was drawing from. Amoretti breaks with conventional love

in a number of ways. In most sonnet sequences in the Petrarchan tradition, the speaker yearns for a lover who is

sexually unavailable. Not only is there a conflict between spiritual and physical love, but the love object is often

married; it is an adulterous love. “Spenser’s innovation was to dedicate an entire sequence to a woman he could

honorably win” . Elizabeth Boyle was an unmarried woman, and their love affair eventually ended in marriage.

As a purely poetic work, The Faerie Queene was neither original nor always remarkable; Spenser depends heavily

on his Italian romantic sources (Ariosto & Tasso), as well as medieval and classical works like The Romance of the

Rose and The Aeneid. It is Spenser's blending of such diverse sources with a high-minded allegory that makes the

poem unique and remarkable. He is able to take images from superficial romances, courtly love stories, and tragic

epics alike, and give them real importance in the context of the poem. No image is let fall from Spenser's pen that

does not have grave significance, and this gives The Faerie Queene the richness that has kept it high among the ranks

of the greatest poetry in the English language

1. Discuss the issues of class, heir (son), orgasm, and industrial revolution in the second part of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in your blog

當時的階級制度非常地嚴重

因為階級制度即代表了你在這社會上的力量

所以Lady Chatterley 也才會因門當戶對這個原因嫁給了她先生

然後子嗣也尤其重要

從先生因為癱瘓而不能行房而要求太太與別人行房生下小孩就不難看出

我想或許是工業化地太快速導致人們價值觀扭曲

有太多黑暗面了

Q1. Compare the several aspects, such as, entertainment, working system, city management, occupations, social relations and values, travels, religion, education, public laws, and the value of happiness, and so onof Utopia with our Taiwan’s society.

 Entertainment- 

Utopians:  They  play music and amuse themselves with conversation.

Taiwan: They have lots of entertainment.

Working system- 

Utopia: six hours a day

Taiwan: variety

City management- Both Taiwan and Utopia have the system that they elect the officials. But the system in Taiwan is developed more maturely than in Utopia.

Occupations-

Utopia: agriculture most

Taiwan: have  lots of different jobs

Social relations and values-

Utopia: blood-relations

Taiwan:no restriction

Travels-

Utopia: have to obtain permission

Taiwan: many ways to travel

Religion-

Utopia: monotheism

Taiwan: variety

The value of happiness-

Utopia: lifetime: knowledge  after desth: bliss of soul

Taiwan: everyone is different

Q2. Do you like Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s poems? Why?

I do like Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s poems because his words are so vivid and beautiful that I enjoy reading tem.