the details would be attached in the files, and it includes 2 parts. The first part needs an unique document for the poem annotation, and then write 100-150 words for analysis. The second part needs
Part 1:
Upload a document for the annotations from Keats’ poem: “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”, and compose a short (100-150 word) paragraph in which you explain your annotations and how they helped you understand one of the poems.
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
BY JOHN KEATS
My spirit is too weak—mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet ’tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning’s eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old time—with a billowy main—
A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.
Part 2: needs 350-500 words
About Elgin Marbles, Read https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/30/protesters-at-british-museum-call-for-the-return-of-parthenon-sculptures/ and reflect on how Keats's poems is still of value today. How does his poem participate in the debate about ownership of art? What might this article illuminate about the use of other nation's history and art to understand our own humanity?
If the link does not work, copy and paste the following link to the relevant reading:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/30/protesters-at-british-museum-call-for-the-return-of-parthenon-sculptures/