• Class February 21
    • Bacon--Novum Organum LX
      • The idols imposed by words on the understanding are of two kinds. They are either names of things which do not exist (for as there are things left unnamed through lack of observation, so likewise are there names which result from fantastic suppositions and to which nothing in reality corresponds), or they are names of things which exist, but yet confused and ill-defined, and hastily and irregularly derived from realities.
    • [Mat 13:3]
      • And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; [Mat 13:4] And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up...
      • [Mat 13:9] Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
      • [Mat 13:10] And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? [Mat 13:11] He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. [Mat 13:12] For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
      • [Mat 13:13] Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. [Mat 13:14] And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
      • [Mat 13:15] For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. [Mat 13:16] But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
  • Donne: Expost. 19
    • thou art a figurative, a metaphorical God too; a God in whose words there is such a height of figures, such voyages, such peregrinations to fetch remote and precious metaphors, such extensions, such spreadings, such curtains of allegories, such third heavens of hyperboles, so harmonious elocutions, so retired and so reserved expressions, so commanding persuasions, so persuading commandments, such sinews even in thy milk, and such things in thy words, as all profane authors seem of the seed of the serpent that creeps, thou art the Dove that flies. ..
    • Neither art thou thus a figurative, a metaphorical God in thy word only, but in thy works too. The style of thy works, the phrase of thine actions, is metaphorical. The institution of thy whole worship in the old law was a continual allegory; types and figures overspread all, and figures flowed into figures, and poured themselves out into farther figures; circumcision carried a figure of baptism, and baptism carries a figure of that purity which we shall have in perfection in the new Jerusalem.
  • Psalms
    • See metrical psalms by Sidney and Lady Mary Herbert p. 1010
    • Personal, choric, ritual
      • 1
        • Content: bifurcation: good vs. evil--cf. Revelation, etc. Obedient, disobedient
        • Form follows content
          • Parallelism and contrast--and/not--similarity and difference, 0's and 1's
          • Contrast within parallels
          • Metaphor/simile
            • Tree;
            • planted by water;
            • bringeth forth;
            • not wither
            • prosper
            • chaff--wind driveth; perish
          • proceeds and circles
    • Intensification; rhetoric of power
      • Illusion, rebellion, against Lord and anointed...freedom, Heigh ho
      • God will have them in derision--laugh
      • Legitimation of king--land conveyed as inheritance
      • Threats and vaunts
      • Serve and Kiss
      • 19
        • Metaphor and parallelism
          • Heavens declare--symbolic language; Firmament shows
          • Days speak, so do nights--the order of things
          • Comprehensive
          • Heavens are tabernacle for sun
            • Sun worship: bridegroom coming out of chamber; strong man to run a race
          • Then come the laws
          • Then comes the value for the person
          • Then the prayer of faith--words of my mouth--his speech be united with God's speech
      • 22 [like Job]
        • Complaint--moving to direct address; asking or vowing and pledging
          • Forsaken--quoted by X on cross
          • Contrast to previous deliverance--fathers trusted
          • I am a worm--despised and mocked
          • Previous deliverance--taken from womb
          • I am contemned and beset--predicting Passion of Jesus
          • Beg for help
          • Pledge to pay vows--declare to others
            • Bacon about those shipwrecked ones
          • Offering the tribute of the future--my story will bring them close to you
      • 23
        • pastoral--guardianship; protection
        • total well being of sheep; god as shepherd--good shepherd
        • Ideal of faith and security in pastoral landscape

      • 24

        • processional--choral exchange--the ark of the covenant--voices on both sides--triumphant entry of conquering army--king of glory
      • 42
        • Soul pants after God--like water--desire--cf. Song of Songs
        • Tears of complaint--searching; cut off from multitude
        • Waterspouts and waves and billows--down in the depths
        • Faith in place of enemies; cant get to the temple in Jerusalem
      • 51
        • Confession--David after Bathsheba
        • Revealing all
        • Purge me
        • Begging for renewal
        • Promise to convert sinners if saved
        • God wants not sacrifice but a broken heart
        • Doctrine of affliction and sincerity
        • Reversal--restoration of sacrifices--conflicting doctrines about material worship
      • 137
        • Rivers of Babylong we wept; hung up harps on willows
        • No singing; lament; irony of demand
        • Pledge not to sing, to take fierce revenge against the babies of enemies
      • 148
        • Praise the Lord--all creation
      • 150
        • Praise the Lord--music; crash of cymbals
  • Song of Songs
    • Erotic and spiritual
      • Praise and exaltation of psalms
      • Ch. 3--by night I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him but I found him not....Psalm 42--Soul pants after God
      • Seek and not finding--dreamlike
      • Cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke
      • Bridegroom comes--king Solomon--Ps. 19--Sun like bridegroom coming out of chamber
      • Ch.4--fountain and garden; his blazon of her