Write a paragraph to answer the following questions:

Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?

Welcome: Take 5 minutes and…

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

~Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American

Poet, Theologian, Philosopher

Beauty makes the heart break. ~Sara Teasdale American Lyrical Poet

Other voices…

Beauty suspends the desire to be elsewhere.

~Ken Weber in The Eye of the Spirit

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the

proportion.

~Francis Bacon from “Of Beauty” English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

“The Birth-mark” March 1843 Nathanial Hawthorne

What do you remember from “The Birthmark?”

1. Resonance / Resistance2. What question does the text ask?3. What did I learn about writing?4. How did rhetorical appeals operate? (use

handout)EthosPathosLogos

Discussion

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Pied Beauty     Glory be to God for dappled things—         For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;             For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;     Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;         Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;             And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.     All things counter, original, spáre, strange;         Whatever is fickle, frecklèd (who knows how?)             With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím;     He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change:

                                                Práise hím.  

Rhetorical Appeals in first two paragraphs of The Wonderful MistakeEthos: How does Thomas make himself

trustworthy?Pathos: How does Thomas entrap our

emotions?Logos: How does Thomas engage

our reasoning / logic?

Discussion

Define a major or career: What sorts of careers have the texts tried to

define?