How was everyone's weekend? Mine was great!
Quick review on this week's readings:
Aug 12 "A Courtin'" by Lowell: 0/5 This could be a Burns poem!
Aug 13 “After Blenheim” and "The Scholar" by Southey: 1/5 Well, at least these ones are readable..
Aug 14 Two Years Before the Mast by Dana: 3/5 Reasonably interesting story, and we could all learn to take a joke..
Aug 15 The Song of Roland: 3/5 Casually murdering your protagonist 2/3 of the way through the poem is bold.
Aug 16 Plasms 109-119: 0/5 Repetitive and reductive.
Aug 17 Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate by Luther: 3/5 Wow! That's a title.
Aug 18 Cellini's Autobiography: 2/5 Cellini is just weird.
Average: 1.71 Bad poems and questionable religious writing in the same week as good poems and good religious writing.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
The contrast is really the story this week. Lowell is unreadable and Southey is generic. Roland is exciting and takes some chances with killing the protagonist early. The Plasms are generic "everything is terrible; except God, who is perfect" Christianity, while Luther emphasizes questioning and reasoning. Again, I sometimes wonder how "thematic" Eliot wants to be week to week. This week, it feels kind of intentional, but I don't think he's really going to pick "bad" stuff just to put it next to good.
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