The Art of Poetry; Monday, First Period [02/07].

[sake_shinigami]

"I understand that I may have a bit of a...cultural bias," said Shunsui, settled in their little poetry ring, as he poured for each of the girls a cup of this week's tea and passed them on before settling in with his own, "but I've always been far more partial to the sweet simplicity," aka ease, "of most styles of Eastern poetry, especially when moving toward the far more structured forms of poetry that arise in Western cultures. Take, for example, the quintessential form of Western poetry, the sonnet ♥. Originated in Italy in the thirteenth century, sonnet loosely means 'little song,' and was chiefly used as a method to express courtly and romantic love, but in a very specific structured style, that gained a great deal of popularity in the Rennaissance. Now, obviously, as we've mentioned before working with Japanese and Chinese poetry, translations and languages can make a difference, and there is a vast array of difference sin the details of sonnets based on languages, so, for simplicity's sake, we will, of course, but focusing on the English sonnets, which came about during the sixteenth century ♥.

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"These examples," Shunsui concluded, with a sleepy sort of smile as he cradled his tea, "merely scratch the surface of possibilities, which is why I have brought today some rather old and dusty books with plenty more for guidance, or you can just set off and work on your own sonnets if you're already feeling quite inspired ♥. A bit more involved than your haiku and tanka, but we'll see what you come up with by the end of class ♥. Any questions before I leave you to your verses, mmm ♥?"

Mythbusting- Monday- 3rd period

[throughaphase]

They were still in the Danger Shop workshop but there were bean bag chairs and a tv rolled out in front of the class today.

"It's going to be a movie day today," Kitty said. "Luckily what we show in this class is super predictable, so enjoy seeing some movie myths."

Exit Strategies, Monday, Period 2

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra had the holoprojector out, which meant only one thing.

"Now, kids, I realise that I'm covering a wide skill-base here, and that's because it's good to know a little bit of everything, you never know what's going to come in handy when, but not everyone's a generalist, and that's okay," she said. "That's why we had that class on teamwork, because while there's nothing wrong with being a specialist, the narrower your focus, the more people you need around you to get anything done.

"Especially if what you want to accomplish is something spectacular."

Look, it was Aphra's favourite holo. She would find a way to work it into every class.