Just got done this weekend with the team website. It was difficult at first to understand exactly how to use Tripod (web hosting site), but after awhile I got the hang of it. I would have liked to use the Google version to build a site.

Out of the readings that we did for Lesson 6 I enjoyed William Butler Yeats "When You are Old". It is a beautiful poem about enduring love. The approach the poet takes is unusual. Rather than telling the woman of his love, he presents her with an image of herself as a graceful old woman reflecting on her life and loves. The poet imagines the old woman as she sits by the fire. As she realizes she was loved by many men, one man in particular (the poet) loved her the most. It is also about old age and memory. Notice though, that the title of the poem is "When You are Old" and not "Now That You are Old". The poet wants the woman to imagine how incomplete her life will be without him. By imagining this he wants her to avoid that lonely future and return his love now, while they are both still young and have their lives ahead of them.

Essay two- My Last Duchess

So for my second essay I had no idea what I wanted to write about. The Victorian period is such an important time for literature, a lot of our important writers and pieces of work were among this time also. I decided to do an arugmentative view on "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. Since there was a lot of discussion with this poem on our boards I thought this would be an interesting poem to write about. I discussed the different characteristics The Duke possessed, and my view on how the Duchess was killed. I am enjoying writing these papers because it gives me a chance to fully discuss my views rather than a brief overview on our discussion boards.