Poetry and paintings Long-legged Fly Genesis The West Wind “Ode to...”

Poetry and paintings

Long-legged FlyGenesisThe West Wind“Ode to . . .”

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-3. / William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

Homework

1. John Donne’s “The Flee” (cf. “the long-legged fly”) /Listen: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm

2. Write a couplet to describe a mosquito, cockroach, bee, or a small insect in daily life

(e-mail to me next Wednesday ) 3. Revise Sonnet and Ode collect your work

s 4. Browse William Blake’s “Illuminated Bo

ok” (gooling into the e-materials!)

Long-legged fly Why? Genius ~ fly

A small fly The long-legged fly or

Dolichopodids are small (4-9 mm), slender flies, which are usually brilliantly colored with metallic hues of green, blue, copper, gold, and silver.

Biological description

This is a large family of flies, and species vary in their appearance and biology. In general, adult flies are medium to small, slender flies with green, blue or copper metallic colored bodies and long legs. Their wings are clear or marked with darker areas towards the wing tips. Wing venation patterns are characteristic for identification to family.

Is a fly very common in daily life?

What makes a long-legged fly so different?

the fly defying gravity?

art, beauty, and perfection Stanza 1, politics; stanza 2, mythology;

and stanza 3, the arts. Yeats believed that pure art and pure

genius are inseparable. evidence “The 3 characters are taken out of the

physical world and achieve

transcendence for a moment, like the fly defying gravity”

A long-legged fly, (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Photo by Jackman

Genesis

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

http://tw.fgmtv.org/fgm/artcontent.asp?artID=11491

Sistine Chapel

Genesis

the painting of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

such perfect representation of the male form fertility

Note the similarity to other stanzas: Genius will only function in silence.

Time

Past-present-futureThe rise the fall the rebirthCaesar Helen Michael Ang

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