Friday, September 18, 2009

For Credit: Lines 49 - 72 (Laughter and Social Critique)

If you want to paraphrase 6 to 10 lines from the section of poem in which Johnson discusses laughter (and social critique), post your paraphrase as a comment here.

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

Alonzo Rico said...

If one of the world's greatest minds saw how little human life progressed and how corrupted they have become he would be disgusted with disdainful anger; the sight of arrogant self-serving human beings, who bend the laws of an already chaotic society, in order to satisfy their own personal needs along with those they favor. No matter where he looks he will never find a decent human being.

September 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Eduardo Patino Jr. said...

I can laugh at society now like Democritus did before, because modern society is comparable to those times where kings and jesters existed. A time where money was power and people were arrogant and full of pride. Where people didn
t r cared how qualified a king was to rule. Where government positions were not solely obtained by law but by social favoritism and connections. (49-60)

September 21, 2009 at 5:31 AM
Jill T said...

You should pay close attention to the truth and faslehood of matters and your natural ability to mentally distinguish between the two. View each situation with a reasonable, sensible and critical eye.
Currently you are seeing everything as though it were a mere representation of life itself, a drama or play with human emotions as mere clothing props to the characters. This is a development of a story line without the development of characters.
While you maintain an ignorance and false gaiety about the situation, your emotions, such as joy and grief, are generated by a fake sense of self and will therefore have no effect and be in complete vain. (Lines 63-69)

September 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM

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