Friday, September 18, 2009

For Credit: Lines 21 - 48 (Wealth)

If you want to paraphrase 6 to 10 lines from the section of poem in which Johnson discusses wealth, post your paraphrase as a comment here.

Deadline: Monday (9/21), start of class.
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3 comments:

Julia said...

History reminds us of rivals ruling the same lands, and how false titles confused their people. Tax laws take bit by bit what violence has already begun. The worker is much safer than the lord in this time; the laborer is unnoticed beneath the power of the lords and leaves the traitor alone in the Tower of London. His home is safe and his sleep is sound, even with circling vultures ready to take away his wealth. (Lines 29-36)

September 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Xiu Ling said...
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September 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Xiu Ling said...

In exchange for monetary wealth, men will kill.
In exchange for monetary wealth, even men, whose place in society is purported to adhere to and represent ideals of justice and righteousness, will compromise their principles.
Men will continue to slavishly indulge in materialistic wealth which has no concern to honor truth or security of one's fellow men.
This only further perpetuates the dangerous nature of human vanity.
History reveals the unrest amongst rivaling lords.
The bullying authority from those possessing wealth and nobility inflicts chaos on the land,
And the imposition of tax laws only instigate the people to act out in physical rebellion.
Who is safe?
The humble farmer continues to labor without drawing attention as the violence of those rivaling for power ensues,
and the lords who have sold their humanity to the avarice of wealth hides away in The Tower of London,
sleeping with a sense of safe security,
even though others also hungry for wealth and power seek to rob their wealth.

(Lines 25 to 36).

September 20, 2009 at 6:53 PM

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