Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Homework Thursday, January 31.

LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS


This is a cartoon video that was made by the people from Paraguay that represents their Independence in 1811. It talks about the republic and their nature and people and their beliefs. It explains the paraguayan independence that happened because they were under the reign of Spain. 

REVOLUTION IN THE ARTS 

-REALIST WORK OF ART: When I was in middle school, we studied realism and romanticism so we had to experience this kind of art. I personally enjoyed realism a lot because it represents reality just as it is and doesn't try to make things perfect by lying. 
We saw many paintings that represented realism and this is mainly how I've experienced realism, which is a form of art that tries to stick to reality as much as possible.

    

-ROMANTIC WORK OF ART: Romanticism is a form of art that portrays everything which such beauty that gets to a point where it is unreal. It doesn't try to represent realistic things, it's just based in making things prettier. I've experienced this form of art in the novel "The Scarlett letter" which according to me is a romantic novel.I've also experienced it through paintings. 


  

Kublai Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.. 
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

This is a beautiful poem about the palace of Kublai Khan; it talks about the river and the fertile area that is around it and get more exciting as you read it. It describes Kublai Khan himself ans several visions he had. 

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