Okay, good morning everybody. How are you? I bet
you had a nice weekend. Not much. Why? Okay, but
other than this, like, did you have time to write
reports and write response?
So, let us see what you have written. Let me see
you, please. Yes.
You just come here. Okay. I'm sitting on my desk
thinking of something to write in my daily report
about the previous class. Actually, I didn't have
the chance to read my report yet. But this time, I
have this gut feeling that this time, Dr. Anna...
Wow, look here. You know, look here. And this is
the beauty about like getting to write a report.
Like, you think, you know, you're not going to
read, but here she thought and she's reading.
About the last class, I really liked the themes of
the poem. It wasn't just about courtly love, as I
expected. It also could be about power and
weakness. And also, how you connected Raym with
the themes. It was very amazing. Thank you very
much. It's laconic, but what I like about this...
You know what means laconic? Very short. But what
I like about this report, is like the way she is
spontaneous and the way she is recapitulating the
previous class by talking about the theme. Okay,
yes? Yes? Report. Still like we are in the area of
report.
Say good morning, how are you? Like they are
waiting for you, yeah? And you have to look at
them. Good, good. Okay. Last class was an
interesting class because Mr. Habib completed the
last point in the poem. He used his lab and showed
some of the reports about poems, which gave us an
important information. That helped us to
understand more. A lot of students participated
with the teacher. Next, he used a new way that he
divided us for groups, only three students in the
same group.
Collaborative. I like the word collaborative work.
He wanted to ask each group of the first one to
the second one. So the lecture followed up a
discussion and a question. At last, we finished
the whole discussion. Then Mr. Hadif called us to
prepare us to a new bowl. Ah, to prepare a new
bowl. Good. Now I know somebody is like boiling.
She wants to read her report. Is anybody like?
feeling that she needs to read her report before
we shift to the response? Good. So, Henry Howard,
Errol of Surrey. Description of Spring. What do
you think? First, let me see who's ready to give a
response.
The season of buds and blooms fled away, with the
gifts he brought and every spray, with the smiles
he drew on every spot, and the gloom he erased
behind every dot. For the green hills that used to
spring, and the nightingales that always sing, the
season of love will back again, when he reignites
other hills somewhere. It's the angelic season to
blow the joy in the heart, to lob in the yards and
catch the buck's heart. It's the time when hearts
make up their minds to create a castle over
blossoms' rapid sides. Yet some might consider it
a matter of gloom, since in the party they failed
to win a room. Those should be much more aware
that life leaves us rarely fair. Good. Thank you.
I think you are becoming more poetic in your
response. So I think at the end of this course, we
are going to have a new poet. Thank you. Okay, now
let me just elicit your responses, like, you read
something about the poet, you read, like, Henry
Howard. So let me see, like, what's your response
without reading, yes?
No,
I just want you to talk without reading. What do
you think of the poet and what do you think of the
poem?
We have some similarities
and some differences.
So it seems like you are impressed by this summit
more than the previous one?
Okay,
so there is like, you know, an abrupt shift, you
know, in the whole poem. Good. I like the way you
approach the poem, like, and you know, you started
to compare and contrast. And I think comparing and
contrast between two poets is good. And I want
this angle to be developed in our course.
Yesterday, we were dealing with Henry Howard, who
was a great admirer of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the one
who introduced this sonnet. Good. Any other
response? Yes, please. by teaching them the style
of the word, and that it's also epistemic. Yeah, I
like the word ephemism, ephemistic. To be
ephemistic, like, you know how to write this word.
Ephemism, like to use nice words to express harsh
ideas. For example, sometimes it is very
embarrassing to say, I want to go to the toilet.
So a better way is say, I want to wash my hands.
Mr. X, for example, died. This is very shocking.
So he passed away. This is ephemism. But I don't
know why you say he's ephemistic. It means
he's hedging. He's not blunt. He's not direct.
Okay, it seems like we need to develop this
further. Good, thank you. Yes? Yes?
Okay. What do you think? Do you like the poem?
Okay, you can, you're free to say, we like it, we
don't like it. What was the most interesting line
for you? Like, these are, yes? Have you read the
poem? Yeah, was it disturbing? Because some people
thought it was disturbing, because you know, the
language itself is little bit. Yeah, it's archaic
language. It's not like, you know, very formal.
It's archaic. Yes? It is not old English, because
if we are talking about old English, it is
completely different, you know? This is like, you
know, it can be criticized as modern English, you
know? Yes? What about here, people? Yes, please. I
like
this.
I like this. So he was trying, like, to speak
about the internal by talking about... Yeah, and
this is like, you know, one of the differences
between the two. Yes?
It's, can you repeat that?
Good color. Nature. So you think the poem is about
like a change in nature?
He liked that change or he didn't like it? He
liked it, but he's sad because he didn't like one
of the aspects of this change or relief of nature.
He's not included with that. So because he was not
included in that change, do you want to say he was
a little bit envious? You know what's mean
envious? Like he had some envy. Good. I like this.
Yes? At first, he was describing the miracle of
nature and how everything around him is new and
changing. But at the same time, his attitude, he
couldn't change. He couldn't be part of this
change and move on. Good. I liked it. Yes? What
about the other people? Yes? What do you think? I
want to talk about the… Yeah, it seems like all of
you are doing well, but some of you are afraid to
say their opinion. Go ahead. expressed about his
love for nature and the change which happened. Do
you think like he, when he talk about nature, did
he show any feeling and attitude? Yes, he
expressed his insight by expressing about the
outside. So he used the description as a vehicle?
Good. You talked. What about the rest? Yes? You
like the poem or you don't like it?
You talked
about the message. What is the message? Yeah, but
he has a message. Do you think he has a message? I
think when we write, you know, we are having a
message. What is the message? What is the possible
message?
Yes? So, like, the message he's sending, like,
he's different, like, he's, you know, sad. He's
sad. So, he wants, like, to convey his suffering.
Good, okay. Good.
Is he trying to gain our sympathy?
Have you read that? How did you read that? First,
like, I don't know. When you read the poem, you
must have read
it aloud. So this is the poem. And thus I see
among these pleasant things, each care decays and
my sorrow springs. How would you read this? I want
you to read as if you like, when you read it at
home, you must have read it aloud. So how would
you read this last couplet? And I like, you know,
this is a copy. How did you read it? And each care
decays and you know, and thus I see among these
pleasant things, each care decays and yet my soul
springs. You mean how I read it? Yeah, yeah. How
to understand it? Yeah, how you read it aloud. And
thus I see among these pleasant things, each care
decays and yet my soul springs. Do you think this
works like this? Like does this fit with the
atmosphere? No, I want it to be very poetic, as if
you were on the stage and reading this. How would
you read it? Thus, I see among these pleasant
things each care decays and yet my soul springs.
Do you like it like this? I don't like it. Yeah.
So, yeah, there should be sadness going on. And
thus, I see among these pleasant things, each care
decays and yet my sorrow springs. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You
should feel about it. OK. But I want to read the
explanation. You want to read? OK, go ahead. I
like this. At first, I see among these pleasant
things, each care decays and yet my sorrow begins.
Good. My sorrow springs. Yeah. So you have like
this sense of like envy. And thus, I see among
these pleasant things. Each care decays on my
soul. And yet my soul springs. So it's like
focusing. There is concentration on this coupling.
Okay. It seems like this poem is very interesting.
But let me ask a last question about your response
as a Muslim reader.
Did you like the poem? And why? As a Muslim
reader, like, you know, as a reader, as a Muslim,
do you like this poem or not? And what reasons
would a Muslim have to like this poem?
Yeah,
so you think, I like this, The poet tries to
convey some new ideas that come to transfer to the
reader. And then the revolutions in the Arab
world. Ah, very good. I like this, you know. They
called it the Arabic Spring. The Arab Spring. Wow,
good. Which means a new life. This is a new
reading. This is a new political reading of the
poem. Good. A new life, a new way of even a new
way of style of life that they want to like it can
be like protected. Good. I think yes, as Muslims,
like we are interested in the idea of
regeneration. We are interested in the idea of
resurrection, rebirth. You know, resurrection
means like you are resurrected from the dead. And
we have a lot of dead images or images of death
Then suddenly, all these images were transformed
to images of love, of life and rebirth. Good. This
is very interesting. Thank you for giving me this
input. Now, let's go to the poet. Nobody told me
anything about the poet. As you see here, Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey. And this is like a title,
Errol. Errol, it's a title, like Errol to be in
response. So it seems like he was a man from the
Nobles. He was a man belonging to the court. He
was a little bit different from Sir Thomas Wyatt.
And look here. All his birth shows that he was
noble. He was the eldest son of Thomas Howard and
Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Duke. So he's
belonging to the royal family. And he was given
this title. He himself was a decision maker. And I
think he was an important, figure in English
literature for some reasons. Now Thomas Wyatt was
influential, was very important. Why? Because he
introduced the sonnet. Now we have here like
somebody who did something else. And here we are
talking about his achievement. As you see, Henry
Howard was one of the founders of the English
Renaissance poetry. So when we're talking about
Renaissance poetry, we're talking about poetry
which was influenced by Latin culture. I think he
was, he translated many of Latin writers. And his
poetry was imitating, but he was trying to develop
the Renaissance poetry. Like he wrote about love,
he wrote about death, he wrote about life. So his
spectrum of themes was very wide.
And I think he is accredited, as you see here, to
develop the sonnet. Yes, Wyatt introduced the
sonnet, but here we have a poet who developed the
sonnet. And what I mean, he developed. I'm not
talking about just like the rhyme itself, I mean
the couplet, but rather how the sonnet became into
four parts rather than two or three parts. So the
poem, the sonnet became like four parts, three
quatrains, and when I say quatrain, like four
lines, and a couplet. And this is what Shakespeare
adopted after him. So yes, he developed the
sonnet. And the sonnet became more flexible,
because if we are talking about the Italian
sonnet, an octave and assisted, it is a little bit
rigid. You are restrained to introduce the
argument in the octave, and then you are forced to
put forward the resolution or the solution. And
that was very restraining to the poet. But here,
you are gaining more flexibility. I like the way
they are comparing Wyatt and Surrey. Both of them
were the fathers of the English sonnet. Because
one introduced it, and the other developed it.
However, like one of the most interesting
achievement, and he's credited, is the invention
of blank verse. When we say blank verse, we're
talking about unrhymed
iambic pentameter. And Shakespeare is greatly
indebted to Surrey because all of Shakespeare's
plays were written in blank verse. And blank
verse, it is this unrhymed iambic pentameter. I
don't know, like, you might have read about his
life. He had unfortunate life. And you know what
happened to him? You know what happened to him?
Why didn't you read about anything about him? You
are bad today, you know? I told you you have to
read, and I gave you and the reader something
about his life. So if you keep slacking off like
this, I'll be worried about you if you slack off.
I told you sometimes it is very important to read
about the life of the poet.
Good, let me keep asking you about The lines you
like in the poem. Which line do you like? Which
line do you like? The couplet?
Okay, other than the couplet.
Other than the couplet, do you like anything else?
Yes. The title. Why do you like it?
How?
Yeah, very good. Like could
you elaborate that for me?
Okay.
Yes, there is contradiction. I wanted to show you
like the trial of the, you know, it seems like you
are not having a sound, so we have the, you have a
sound system, you are trying it. This is the trial
of him. He was trying on pigeon. Okay,
I'm sorry. We need the sound system. Like, yes,
our poet was convicted. He was executed by King
Henry Howard for the accusation of cheating. Like,
as we said when we discussed wire, like, you know,
the core of human age was born of envy.
Conspiracies. And he was accused of conspiring
against the king. And the king had no mercy on
him. He was executed. He was beheaded. And he was
executed. And after nine days, the king himself
died. So I don't know whether or not God cares. By
the will of God, he cares. Henry Meyer also was
accused of treason,
but he was not killed. So why did they kill this
man? Why did they kill him? Why did the king have
mercy on him? I think. Why? Yes, he was, so he was
likely to become a king. Why? So he was a threat.
He was a threat to the king, so the king wanted to
monopolize power, and as we said, the culture of
the time was to believe that everybody should
respect a position, and the king was appointed by
God. This is quite unfortunate about him. I wish
we had, you can watch this video It is like the
trial of Henry Auer, and you see he is now
defending himself in front of the jurors, but
since we don't have the, unfortunate that this man
is losing his life. Had he lived, he would have
been one of the most prolific poets of the 16th
century, and he could have surpassed many of the
great poets of the time. Now I think it is time to
shift to the poem and to read it aloud.
The soot season that bud forth and brings With
green hath clad the hill and eke the vale The
nightingale with feathers anew she sings The
turtle to her make hath told her tale Summer is
come for every spray now springs The heart hath
hung his old head on the pale The buck in break
his winter coat he flings The fishes fleet with a
new repaired scale The other all her slough away
she slings The swift swallow pursues the fly's
snail The busy bee her honey now she mings Winter
is warm, that was the flower's bail And thus, and
thus I see among these pleasant things Each care
decays And yet, my sorrow springs. Very beautiful,
but sad. Okay. I don't know, you mentioned like in
your response that he is, we like him because he's
atomistic. He is less, let's say, less denigrating
than, less offensive, mainly to women, than Sir
Thomas Wyatt. And okay, do you have an example of
ephemism? Because I'm interested in this word. Do
you have an example of ephemism here? So why did
you say he's ephemistic? Because not directly, his
words like Thomas, when he said about his lover,
about her touch, not even tangible. Uh-huh. So he
was not like humiliating,
he was not denigrating the woman by describing her
how she was. We don't have this description of a
woman as we had in, yeah. But I'll give you one,
yes? He didn't talk about this at all. Not all
about the poem, in the poem. But he just thinked
about the title, the title itself. Yes, he hinted
about the suffering in the title. But again, if I
want to draw your attention to a very explicit in
the poem example of ephemism. Like if you look
here, the turtle to her make hath told her tale.
Now this is very, this is an example of ephemism.
We're talking about a turtle and Her mate. A
turtle and a mate. Now, of course, we're talking
about spring. And spring is the season of rebirth.
It is the season of reproduction, regeneration,
multiplication. And without, you know, like this,
You know, I mean, this relationship among these,
you know, let's see, creatures, you know, there is
no rebirth. So it is very important, like, when we
think of the turtle telling her mate a story. What
kind of story? Like he talks about the story. But
here we are talking about intercourse. Intercourse
among like this. Because this is a month of
regeneration. But look how he spoke about this.
you know, intercourse in a very, you know,
euphemistic way. He didn't say, like, they are
making love, you know, in a way, but he say, she
is, and this is like, we understand, this is like
a love story, you know, which involves, like, you
know, this intercourse. It's an example of
euphemism. But let me go to the poem. Some of you
said that this poem is amazing. Who said that?
Yeah, you said it is amazing.
So you
want to say like this poem has very beautiful and
lively description. Why? Because of the images. We
were talking about the images. We're talking about
words that represent an image. We're talking about
you know, imagery, like visual images, sound
images, you know, kinetic images, thermal images.
Okay? There is something I want you to read, you
know, in the reader. There is something about
imagery, the types of imagery, and I think you
should read because, you know, we might discuss
this further in the next class.
Some of you said like, I was, I liked the poem
because he was shifting from the external to the
internal. He was like, he gave, you know, like the
beautiful description of spring, and suddenly, you
know, he shifted to himself.
If we look at the last couplet, we have a figure
of speech. And thus I see among these pleasant
things each care decays and yet my sorrow springs.
Like we have paradox. What is the paradox?
Yeah, but again, you should be like, what is the
paradox exactly? Yes, like the paradox. Can you
tell me this is the paradox exactly?
Yes, Leila?
It is,
you know, the paradox, that's right. It's the
paradox, you know, the paradox is like in the
sorrow springing. Like we have seen like spring
has this You know, positive connotation, like all
those creatures... ...were influenced by the
spring and everything was springing. The trees
were sprouting, blooming. You know, every creature
was involved in this rebirth. But here, what is
springing, what is sprouting, it is the sorrow.
Which is a paradox. There is an irony. I think
there is an irony. What is the irony? What is the
irony? Look here. Yes, Layla, you're doing a good
job today. The irony is that all the nature was
very beautiful because of the changing in the
atmosphere of the nature. But he himself is not
happy. Excellent. Yes. Excellent. Yes. So there is
disparity. Disparity, you know, it's been
disparity, like difference between the outside and
the inside, you know? So let me give you like
perhaps you're not familiar a lot with the irony.
Irony, we have many types of irony. We have verbal
irony. We have dramatic irony. We have situational
irony. And this is an example of a situational
irony. Why? Because here you see the change is
dominant. It dominates all the vista, but he's not
included. You see what I mean? Martin Luther King,
in his famous speech, I Have a Dream, said, you
know, and here, you know, we are living in an
island of poverty, you know, amidst an ocean of
materialistic prosperity. So how come? You are
impoverished, you are poor, in a world which was
full of opulence and richness. So here there is
disparity. So the disparity here, like the change
in nature, was dominant. It dominated the whole
vista, the whole creatures. But when it comes to
the poet, this reminds me of the rhyme of Ancient
Mariner. when the mariner was like aspiring for
something to drink, but he was in the ocean and he
said, water, water, everywhere. The board did
shrink, but there is no drop to drink. Don't you
think this is an irony? Yes. And here the irony is
like, look here, we started to talk about ironies,
images, you know, and we have not yet read the
poem or even paraphrased it. But you know, when it
comes to me, I like this line, the swift swallow
pursues the fly's mane. I like this. Why should
you like a line like this? Huh? Why should you
like, the swift swallow pursues the fly's mane?
Okay. Yes? The S sound, yes. The alliteration.
And it gives like this sound, the swift swallow.
You know, the swift swallow. It is like the sound
image. The sound image is made this, the swift
swallow. pursues the fly's mate. It's an image.
It's an image of hyperactivity, like the swift
swallow is relentless, is always following, you
know, the flower, like, going there, the flies on
the flower. And I like the buzzy bee as well. The
buzzy bee. Buzzy bee. We have a sound image here,
but we have a figure of speech also. Excellent. We
have onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia, it is like, are you familiar with
this term? Onomatopoeia. So I think, you know,
here we have a poet who has musical ear more than,
you know, our like poet.
Okay, I can write it.
Onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia, it means the sound
suggests the meaning. And the Meze B, okay, I just
write it here.
Okay.
We mentioned like, perhaps like poetry, like uses
onomatopoeia. And I think we once talked about
onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia, like onomatopoeic words like tick,
tick, like splash, you know, like kick, like hiss,
like whisper, you know, these are onomatopoeic
words.
Okay, let's look at the poem again. Were you
disturbed a little bit by, because some people
were disturbed by the soot. This is like Chaucer,
huh? Have you ever read something from Chaucer?
The soot season, it means the sweet season. Now,
the soot and the word eek, like what's been eek?
Also, you know? So these words are archaic words,
archaic words. And when we say archaic words,
words which are old words, archaic,
So poets sometimes embellish. You know what's mean
embellish? Embellish, beautify. Embellishment,
like to beautify, embellish their
poetry by using archaic words. And archaism gives
a sense of oldness, a rustic nature to the poem.
It's like it makes it very poetic. And I think
later this use of archaism will be developed more
and more by the famous Elizabethan poet, I mean
Edmund Spencer. I know we don't have time, but
I'll do my best to paraphrase with you the poem in
order to reconsider, like the poem next time, in a
very critical manner.
Let's read the poem. The soot season that bud and
bloom forth springs with green hath clad the hill
and eke the vale. It is, see here, The season of
spring is dominating the whole vista. It's
dominating the whole vista. And this shows how
entire the change is. How entire. It is very
panoramic. Very panoramic. We're talking about a
change in nature. So it included every creature
and every aspect of nature. With the greenhouse
cloud, the hill and the lake, the vale. Okay, now
we'll talk about personification, figures of
speech, imagery next time, but this is like to
preface the poem. The nightingale with feather now
she sings. The nightingale with feather now she
sings. Okay? The turtle to her make hath told her
tale. Summer is coming. For every spring now
springs. Again spring and spring. It is full of
sound, you know. The heart has hung his old head
on the... What is the heart? The male deer. The
buck. It breaks. What is the buck? Also a deer,
but it's a male. Look here. Some of the creatures
are male, and we know that males are not always
associated with rebirth. But here, why do you
think that mentioning the male is significant?
This shows How powerful the thrust of life is. You
know what it means? The thrust of life. The power
of life. It is very powerful. The motive of life
is powerful. It is so powerful that it included
even the male creatures... ...who are not
associated with rebirth. Because rebirth is all
the time associated with the feminine. With female
rather than male. Okay, the fishes float with new
repaired scale. What a wonderful image is this.
The other, all her slough away she slinks. The
other, the snake, the swift swallow pursues the
fly's male. Swallow is moving from one branch of
tree to another to follow, you know, the fly. The
busy bee here, honey now, she minks. Minks, mixes.
It is mingles, you know. Winter is one that was
flowers big. So here, the whole stanza is
recapitulated by this line. Winter is behind.
Winter is behind now. And thus, I see among these
pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my
sorrow springs. Very sad. So look here, it's a
shift. It is like, as if you see here, like we
have parallelism. Each line, there is, you know,
something changing from death to life. But
suddenly, you know, something is immune to change.
is not susceptible to change, which is like the
misery and the agony. Okay, so you see we have a
novel man who's talking about his suffering in a
very polite and gentle manner. So I think we have
a a better idea about the poem. Next time, we're
going to concentrate on this poem more, to explore
it further, to see the figures of speech, to see
the rhyme, the rhythm, the sonic, and so on. Side
by side, I want you also to prepare the second
part of the critical plan, okay? So do you have
any question? Thank you.