The poem
“Death be not proud” by John Donne was another good poem, it was basically about
how death thinks he special because it
has the power to life, but he really is not because he has to take everyone’s
life, it does not matter who you are. So that pretty much saying that he is a
slave to everyone out there. The reason why death is not at all powerful is because
there are also other things that can take our lives such as sickness and
poison. Also even though death can take our life, when we go to the afterlife, and
doing that time we are living forever and death seizes to exist. What I got
from this poem was to live your life because nothing is guarantee, and it gives
me a whole new perspective on what life mean. It makes me feel bad about the ones that are
out there sick, fighting for their lives. Not knowing what to expect they just
live their lives and wait till death takes them away. Other than that I think John
Donne is a very inspirational.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
"The Fish"
The poem
“The Fish” was a very good one too, it was about a fisherman who catches a fish
and he talked about what the fish looked like and how it was beat up. The
fisherman then describes the fish and notice that he was not the only one that
has tried to catch it. The fish had fought with the other fishermen and when he
had encounter it he saw it. He knew that the fish had given up on life, that’s
why he let the fisherman catch him. After realizing all that the fish had been
through, he finally decide to throw the fish back in the water and let it free.
If I was in his shoes, after realizing what the fish had been through I
honestly would have let him go because if I was in the fish position I would
feel the same way. Other people would have not agreed with me, some would rather
eat the fish because they caught it, and I understand that, but after going
through what that fish did it’s the right thing.
"The Road not Taken"
We read
a couple of poems but the one that I liked the most was the “Road not taken” it
was writing by Robert frost. This poem was mainly about a man who approaches these
roads and had to make a decision on which one to take. He had to choose a path,
not knowing where either one leads. He compared both roads, picking out the one
that best fits him, and coming to a decision. At the beginning he looked down
both roads to see which one was the right one, and one road was filled with
leaves and the other was clear. Robert frost is interpret that we all have
decisions in life and different roads to get to where we want to be, mostly
everybody takes the easy road to get the easy way out. After making a decision
he planned to take a different road realizing that he cannot come back, because
one a choice is made it leads to different things and going back is not going
to be a suitable option for to rely on. What I learned from this poem is never
let go of your goals, and if you one something go after it.
Monday, April 22, 2013
"How to become a writer"
The Story
“How to become a writer” was very interesting. When I first started to read it
was kind of confusing at the start, and when I continued to read it I began to
understand what she was trying to say, and also I could relate to it how she
was messing up on papers, and having really challenging papers to write Everything
was pretty much what we do now and some of the things that we go through. She
talking to us the audience and trying to get us to understand that becoming a
writer is difficult. She also talked about how you can put your all in a paper
and have it rejected. She wanted us to experience what she was pretty much
talking about, like how to become a writer and the different circumstances that
come along with trying to achieve at something and be the best that you can be.
There were some laughter within the story, but it was mainly about how you
follow your dream or passion, and how to accomplish something. After reading it
you understand that if becoming a writer is something you want to do, you are
going to encounter a lot of challenges before reaching your goal.
Monday, April 1, 2013
"The cask of amontillado"
The cask
of amontillado is about the narrator seeking revenge on fortunato, he didn’t like
fortunato because he explained that fortunato hurt him. The narrator also
mentions that fortunato insulted him. Hey wanted to get revenge on him. When
they met each other at a carnival celebration, and he told fortunato that he
had found something rare called amontillado, and he wanted to figure out what
it was. The narrator lead fortunato into an underground graveyard, on their way
down fortunato kept drinking, and since he was already drunk, it just made
everything worst from that point on. So while on their way down fortunato was becoming
sick and he keep on talking about the rare amontillado. When they got closer
fortunato caught himself in a trap and was chain onto the wall. Fortunato was
then cover up with bricks. As he was lying the bricks fortunato begin to yell and
when he was almost done the only thing he could hear was the noise of fortunato
clothes. He then began to torture fortunato until he started to beg for mercy and
he called out his name screaming “montresor”. He then covered fortunato with
the last bricks and left him there to die.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Another
story we read was “A Good man is Hard to Find” which was written by Flannery O’Conner.
This was about an elderly woman and her family. She lived with her son bailey,
his wife and their two kids. Bailey’s mother decided that they should go on a road
trip to Tennessee and not Florida, because she had read in the newspaper that a
misfit was heading that way. On the day of the trip, the grandmother hides he
cat and on their way she tells the kid stories. While in the car the
grandmother explain that there was another house, and claimed that she knew a
shortcut. So on their way there, the grandmother realizes that she was wrong
and accidentally let the cat go, which resulted into bailey wrecking the car. After
the wreck they were approached by three men, and one happened to be the misfit,
and the grandmother knowing him, pointed him out. The grandmother tried to
convince the misfit, telling him that he a good man, and he told his friends
that they should take bailey and his son into the woods, Bailey came back and
was later killed by the misfit, so was the grandmother.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
The Yellow Wallpaper was another good story that we had to read. It was about a woman who
was going through some mental issue, and she was taken into care by her
husband. John her husband was her
doctor, who put her in an isolated room with nothing but yellow wallpaper. She spends
months in the room, with nothing to do. After some time she became insane, and
started to illusionate that there was a women within the yellow wall paper. As time
went by she began to lose a grip of reality, and started to become distant from
her friends and family. While in the
room she was trying to accomplish one thing and that was to set the lady free
within the wallpaper. This symbolize her becoming free from the room She became
obsessed with the wallpaper. Jennie who was the sister of the husband begins to
notice some strange thing around the room, like yellow stain over the wall and
stuff. She eventually ripped the wallpaper off the wall and began to crawl over
the place, and was later approached by her husband at the door where he
fainted, and she was left free to leave the room.
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