Feelings towards The Lamb - Linda Gregg

This poem hits the heart of war veterans. It explains the aftermath of a battle and the pain one goes through. The poem focused more on the bright side rather than what was lost. It kept a "glass half full" attitude. The Lamb at the end expresses the innocence in most people during a time like this. They walk around the rubble of what once was and all they have left are memories.
Three of my favorite lines would be "The ruined city still seemed noble.", "The cathedral with its roof blown off was not less godly", and "walks a single lamb, tilting its head, curious, unafraid, hungry". These line are where the heart of the poem lay.

Exam Rewrite/Essay Paragraph

As similar as She’s the Man is to Twelfth Night, there is still one major theme missing from the plot. Shakespeare’s play is meant to be a comedy, and most of the comedy does not come from the main story. In order to compensate, Shakespeare created the character Malvolio and his 3 annoyances, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria. The mischief caused to Malvolio by Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria is what gives Shakespeare’s play its comedic element. In Fickman’s She’s the Man, Malvolio is not a character in the movie, but a pet spider. The three other mischievous characters are still in the movie, however, they do not follow the same plot to earn laughter as Shakespeare did. In fact, the three characters are completely detached from Malvolio in the movie. This is the only major difference when comparing the two pieces.

Tri 1 exam rewrite

Speaker: Malvolio
Person Spoken to: Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria

My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

What is going on when this passage is spoken?: Malvolio is yelling at Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria for being drunk and singing and making a ruckus. It's late at night and Malvolio wants to give them a hard time.

Comment: This is one of the examples of the on-going conflict and comedy that arises from these characters in Twelfth Night.

Perf: First Thoughts of Character

Character: Sir Toby Belch

I am playing Sir Toby Belch in my group presentation. In the scene we are presenting, Sir Toby is with 2 other characters and they are watching Malvolio make a fool of himself as he reads a letter forged by Maria. It is a comical scene and Sir Toby laughs at and mocks Malvolio. Two words to describe this scene would be mockery and comical. In order for me to express the way Sir Toby is feeling in the scene, I will maintain a grin and an attitude of mockery toward Malvolio. I have to remain hidden and watch Malvolio make a fool of himself. This scene should be fun.

The Lamb
by: Linda Gregg

It was a picture I had after the war.

A bombed English church. I was too young   

to know the word English or war,

but I knew the picture.

The ruined city still seemed noble.   

The cathedral with its roof blown off

was not less godly. The church was the same   

plus rain and sky. Birds flew in and out   

of the holes God’s fist made in the walls.   

All our desire for love or children   

is treated like rags by the enemy.

I knew so much and sang anyway.   

Like a bird who will sing until

it is brought down. When they take   

away the trees, the child picks up a stick   

and says, this is a tree, this the house

and the family. As we might. Through a door   

of what had been a house, into the field   

of rubble, walks a single lamb, tilting   

its head, curious, unafraid, hungry.