After reading my Week 11Lecture Script -- in which I talk about "mythical symbols" as "the products of the imagination" of the Hellenic Mind -- perform the following activity:give attention to the following mythical symbols which you will find in the short excerpt (the "Chorus") for this module's reading:
a. snake
b. Heaven
c. Hellas
d. Peneus
e. Tempes
f. Cyclades
g. Argo
h. Orpheus
i. Ulysses
j. Calypso
Now pick at least 3 symbols from the list of symbols above-- all taken from our Module 11 excerpt, Shelley's "Chorus," and then tell me
- how do the symbols that you picked function to either "express," or "realize," or "compliment" or "prove" the utopian intention of Shelley's first line.. "The world's great age begins anew / The golden years return."
Shelley, in other words, is relying on symbolic language to prove the thesis of his first line. This is just a lesson in trying to read "symbolic" (versus ordinary) language.
* you might need to do a small bit of webresearch (Googling) to discover what each symbolic image/ allusion basically means.
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