Tuesday, Nov 3, we had our presential class.I returned your mid-term essays with my comments.REMINDER: CABRI project essay (you got instructions by email) is due in Nov (send by email according to your instructions and have printout to be given to me)1)We checked initially Comma Splices and Run-ons in production from our classmates. To do this, we saw some jokes and some exercises in the powerpoint below:http://127.0.0.1:4664/redir?url=file%3A%2F%2FC%3A%5CDocuments+and+Settings%5COwner%2EYOUR%2DFC01586646%5CMy+Documents%5CaaawritngMaugust2009%5CComma+Splices%2Eppt%3Fevent%5Fid%3D162809%26schema%5Fid%3D6%26q%3D%2522comma%2Bsplice%2522%252B%2Bppt&src=8&schema=6&s=ytdKFeRnxbBRMbi-mB651aRtcWU2) We introduced the online task for Nov 24, with the videos below (having watched parts of them in class)YOUR TASK:Our last task on Robert Frost : write a 1 2 -1 essay, responding to the poem. You may focus on form, comparing both Portuguese and Spanish translations and/or go into more practical considerations about love. NO NEED to follow Marine Parks ModelSome say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.Portuguese translation: Fogo e Gelo O mundo findara em fogo, ouco aqui, Em gelo, ouco ali. Conheco bem o desejo, logo Sou a favor do fim em fogo. Mas se houvesse dois finais, Creio que sei do odio a ponto De afirmar: ao destruir, o gelo Funciona bem; Nao fica aquem. ( tentou-se conservar, na medida do possivel, as rimas, as aliteracoes e as assonancias. Exemplos: no primeiro verso de "Fire and Ice", a aliteracao "Some say..." foi adaptada para "... findara em fogo...". Nesse mesmo poema, o esquema de rimas foi alterado, e ha mesmo um verso da traducao, o quinto, que curiosamente rima com o original. ) // Spanish translation Unos dicen que el mundo terminara en fuego, / Otros dicen que el hielo. / Por lo que he gustado del deseo,/Estoy con los partidarios del fuego. / Pero si tuviera que sucumbir dos veces, / Creo saber bastante acerca del odio / Como para decir que en la destruccion el hielo / Tambien es poderoso/ Y bastaria //1)Watch Stacy in his small lecture: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZRSIevoc3c 2) Listen to the poem being read aloud by Robert Frost:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwWkbiO7RE3) See some comments on Fire and Ice belowSummary Sparknotes http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section9.rhtml Form : "Fire and Ice" follows an invented form, irregularly interweaving three rhymes and two line lengths into a poem of nine lines. Each line ends either with an -ire, -ice, or -ate rhyme. Each line contains either four or eight syllables. Each line can be read naturally as iambic, although this is not strictly necessary for several lines. Frost employs strong enjambment in line 7 to great effect. / Commentary : An extremely compact little lyric, "Fire and Ice" combines humor, fury, detachment, forthrightness, and reserve in an airtight package. Not a syllable is wasted. The aim is aphorism--the slaying of the elusive Truth-beast with one unerring stroke. But for Frost, as usual, the truth remains ambiguous and the question goes unanswered; to settle for aphorism would be to oversimplify. We can attribute part of