Oct. Literature Discussion

Archive SAT Subject Test Preparation
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<p>lets talk about the poems</p>

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<p>Mr. Sidney. Let’s see… I remember it took me a moment to put down creative impasse. The most difficult question, for me, was related to the personfication of Invention and Study. I believe I ended up putting down originality and imitation.</p>

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<p>And the other one

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<p>yeah i got the same answers as you for creative impasse and orginality/imitation. I had trouble with Knowledge ==> knowledge of his misery?? and what “Muse” referred to-- whether his muse was his Invention, the girl, or his woe</p>

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<p>Knowledge of his misery is correct. Muse is referring to Invention (the most obvious) I believe. I didn’t think there was much of a direct refernce to either his girl or his woe as being the actual muse. Furthermore, the line with Invention was written in the past tense and should suggest that something might change by the turn of the sonnet.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the poems, I actually enjoyed reading them in the test.

  1. Yay, that’s what I got, too.
  2. Muse=Invention; I really don’t have a good justification for this, and therefore it might also be the girl; muse has a traditional association with artistic innovation; the speaker’s problem also seems to be finding a way to express himself, not finding a way to court the girl so it would make sense that the final line is from personified invention</p>
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<p>What was the knowledge question?</p>

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<p>hahaha you guys are amazing ( :
this thread makes me smile</p>

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<p>the Knowledge question was what does “Knowledge” refer to</p>

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<p>jack’s mistress: whoa, i just got that allusion. anyways, are you being sarcastic?</p>

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<p>The bowl of water/carnation poem was easier, I thought. I was uncertain as to what the “bitterness” referred to, though. Was it imperfection, or I forget the exact answer choices</p>

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<p>tripNip, what were the choices again?</p>

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<p>and what are you alluding to jack?</p>

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<p>Jack’s Mistress=Prostitute=Flayed by Jack the Ripper=Dead? Is that right? Or perhaps it is more complicated.</p>

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<p>The choice ReJoyce and i picked was “knowledge of his misery” or something, and the others were about wisdom and intellect or something, and about knowing if he is really in love</p>

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<p>yeaa, im pretty sure imperfection is right</p>

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<p>anyways, what are the choices for the knowledge question? plz and ty
second, bitterness refers to (i’m so going to get axed for posting answers to the sat)…okay, let’s present some premises and then you can lead yourself to the answer…this is childish, but it can only refer to:

  1. imperfection sucks
  2. perfection sucks
    which one does stanza two spend focusing on?
    screw this, i think it’s the second choice since he arrives at the conclusion that imperfection isn’t that bad…perfection is bitter because he arrives at the image of perfection but finds it isn’t enough</p>
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<p>Hmm…Well the allusion is a lot less grisly than I thought.
Come on! It says pity for God’s sake. It has to be knowledge of his misery.</p>

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<p>damn, it’s a while since i saw the test, but that’s the first question i know i screwed up
ReJoyce, what does S_S mean?</p>

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<p>It means I misspelled your name and was referring to your statement on Joyce (“The greatest writer in the English since Milton” quod T.S. Eliot). I was referring to my inspiration for the name–it was a hateful book by Anthony Burgess also entitled ReJoyce. Nevertheless, he is a good Joyce scholar. I quite liked Blooms of Dublin. I’m very happy that I just got the 1967 version of Ulysses through interlibrary loan (it makes a great substitute for Netflix).</p>