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Poetry and paintings

Their wings are clear or marked with darker areas towards the wing tips. ... art, beauty, and perfection. Stanza 1, politics; stanza 2, mythology; and stanza 3, the ...

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Poetry and paintings

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    Slide 1:Poetry and paintings

    Long-legged Fly Genesis The West Wind “Ode to . . .”

    Slide 2:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-3. / William Blake

    What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

    Slide 3:Homework

    1. John Donne’s “The Flee” (cf. “the long-legged fly”) /Listen: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm 2. Write a couplet to describe a mosquito, cockroach, bee, or a small insect in daily life (e-mail to me next Wednesday ? ) 3. Revise Sonnet and Ode? collect your works 4. Browse William Blake’s “Illuminated Book” (gooling into the e-materials!)

    Slide 4:Long-legged fly

    Why? Genius ~ fly

    Slide 5:A small fly ?

    The long-legged fly or Dolichopodids are small (4-9 mm), slender flies, which are usually brilliantly colored with metallic hues of green, blue, copper, gold, and silver.

    Slide 6:Biological description

    This is a large family of flies, and species vary in their appearance and biology. In general, adult flies are medium to small, slender flies with green, blue or copper metallic colored bodies and long legs. Their wings are clear or marked with darker areas towards the wing tips. Wing venation patterns are characteristic for identification to family.

    Slide 7:Is a fly very common in daily life?

    What makes a long-legged fly so different?

    Slide 8:the fly defying gravity?

    art, beauty, and perfection Stanza 1, politics; stanza 2, mythology; and stanza 3, the arts. Yeats believed that pure art and pure genius are inseparable. ? evidence “The 3 characters are taken out of the physical world and achieve transcendence for a moment, like the fly defying gravity”

    Slide 9:A long-legged fly, (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Photo by Jackman

    Slide 10:Genesis

    Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

    Slide 11:http://tw.fgmtv.org/fgm/artcontent.asp?artID=11491

    Slide 12:Sistine Chapel

    Slide 15:Genesis

    the painting of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. such perfect representation of the male form ? fertility Note the similarity to other stanzas: Genius will only function in silence.

    Slide 16:Time

    Past-present-future The rise ? the fall ? the rebirth Caesar ? Helen ? Michael Angelo

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