C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vanitas, Memento Mori, Mongrel
13 Jun 2015
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Eternally it sings quickly it flies and kills. Heavenly bodies rosaura = dawn, estrella = star. / god help me grasp what i"ve seen here! / i"m awed and not untouched by fear/ but can"t be sure what to believe/ still, isn"t. / fair heavens, won"t you disabuse my fancy"s flight? (1224f/1240f) / don"t make the sun set at the break of day. (1572f) Can"t quite place her but intuition of connectivity for past and present. Rosaura: i can"t trust my own eyes, yet must believe. Segismund: i"ve seen this loveliness before i"ve found my life again! you owe me allegiance, yet/ some strange bond links us more (1578f) More he tries to hold onto something, more his beastly nature comes out. Saw her before disguised as a man. From animal kingdom - sociability (bestial side but use of language is more sophisticated) I know i am/ some mongrel mix of man and beast (2. vi. 1546-7)
