Friday, September 18, 2009

For Credit: Lines 255 - 318 (Long Life)

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

Deadline: Monday (9/21) Wednesday (9/23), start of class.

1 comment:

Andrew Rockway said...

Lines 255-266

The individual prays for a longer life, going so far as to assume that his life is indeed worth living for a longer time, regardless of circumstance. In fact, life is bad, and living it longer only makes it worse. Joys brought on by novel phenomena cease to exist, old pleasures dissipate and eventually disappear.