Welcome: Take 5 minutes and… 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?

Other voices… ~Kahlil Gibran, Beauty makes the heart break. 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

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

Discussion What do you remember from “The Birthmark?” Resonance / Resistance What question does the text ask? What did I learn about writing? How did rhetorical appeals operate? (use handout) Ethos Pathos Logos

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.  

Discussion Rhetorical Appeals in first two paragraphs of The Wonderful Mistake Ethos: How does Thomas make himself trustworthy? Pathos: How does Thomas entrap our emotions? Logos: How does Thomas engage our reasoning / logic?

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