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Welcome: Take 5 minutes and…. Write a paragraph to answer the following questions: Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?. Other voices….
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Welcome: Take 5 minutes and… Write a paragraph to answer the following questions: Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?
Other voices… We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. ~Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American Poet, Theologian, Philosopher Beauty makes the heart break. ~Sara Teasdale American Lyrical Poet
Beauty suspends the desire to be elsewhere. ~Ken Weber in The Eye of the Spirit
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~Francis Bacon from “Of Beauty” English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)
Discussion • What do you remember from “The Birthmark?” • Resonance / Resistance • What question does the text ask? • What did I learn about writing? • How did rhetorical appeals operate? (use handout) Ethos Pathos Logos
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spáre, strange; Whatever is fickle, frecklèd (who knows how?) With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím; He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change: Práise hím.
Discussion Rhetorical Appeals in first two paragraphs of The Wonderful Mistake • Ethos: How does Thomas make himself trustworthy? • Pathos: How does Thomas entrap our emotions? • Logos: How does Thomas engage our reasoning / logic?
Define a major or career: What sorts of careers have the texts tried to define?