After seeing the activities of week 11, I can say that my point of view towards poetry has changed drastically, at the beginning or even when I was a freshman in high school I thought that a poem or poetry, in general, was just a bunch of words and already. However, I realized that poetry has the power to connect, that is, when reading a poem, thousands of stories can be linked to it. A clear example is in the poem “The wife” by Emily Dickinson and “The Story of an Hour”, a short story by Kate Chopin. With just a stanza or even a verse, you can see the connection or even relate to a previously read story. Another way in which poetry can connect is with people, that is, their personal life or it can even help that person to reflect and realize something that they had not previously grasped.
Walter Macancela
The poem itself can be related to the emotional state of Mrs. Mallard in many ways since in the first stanza it can be seen when in the story it says “It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip -sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease — of the joy that kills.” This shows that referring to her emotional situation since she, seeing her husband enter and that absolutely nothing had happened to her, is something that would be difficult for anyone to process. At that moment, she knew that her freedom was over, that she would return to her previous life, that is before she learned of the “death” of her husband Brently Mallard. It was a very complicated emotional situation for her to see that everything changed radically again in her life. The story goes “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will.” upon a fellow-creature.” This is related to the last stanza of the poem since in the recently mentioned quote she clarifies that she only lived for her husband and by her own will, as her husband was the one who would dominate everything in the relationship, preventing that she can do anything she wants.
In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, Grandma is a lady with classical taste. She is older, but energetic and logical, a wonderful companion for Mr. Bailey’s children. She appreciates life and life by presenting herself as a lady in a beautiful dress. She has an instinct for pride and superiority, as she always retains her precious grace. When traveling as a family, the grandmothers talked and entertained their grandchildren with games and jokes. Her grandchildren were rude to her. There were many situations where there were negative behaviors and comments. This grandmother is also a dramatic storyteller; she tells the children that when she tells them the story they would shut up. She tells of her own story, her story of her love with Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden of Georgia, who brought her watermelon on Saturday when a Negro ate it. Grandma laughs because she thinks he’s funny but the kids don’t like him. It is noted that she had an incredibly high ego and boasted of being superior to others, she is a very negative person, however, neither her pride nor her superiority instinct could not save her from the sad end she had.
This can be considered timeless because the story deals with issues that today would not be viewed favorably by people. In one of these events, the play shows us about the deepest fears of patriarchal society, such as the case in which a son murders his father and marries his wife. When Jocasta, trying to calm Oedipus, tells him that many men have dreamed of killing his father and marrying his mother. This refers to and deals with the incest taboo, which is found in all cultures. It is something that today we could see as complete madness without any doubt. There has never been a taboo as powerful, as entrenched, as ancient as that of incest. Marriage between close relatives is prohibited throughout the world. In many countries, sexual relations between very close relatives are also prohibited. Many people have never even asked themselves the reason for the ban: it is seen as natural that there should be no erotic relationship between the father or the mother with the daughter or the son, or between siblings. The idea that these relatives form a sentimental and erotic couple, permanently or briefly, horrifies us, without asking ourselves the origin of that horror.
The passage I will analyze is (161-176). Before doing so, Oedipus insisted that all his people listen to what the oracle had to say, although Creon suggested that Oedipus should listen to him in private. When Creon retells the story of Laius’s murder, Oedipus is shocked and dismayed that the investigation into the king’s murder was dropped so quickly. Oedipus quickly made plans to deal with the suffering of his people and the unsolved murder of Laius, even anticipating the choir’s suggestion to send someone to the oracle and summon Teiresias. Finally, Oedipus strongly promises severe punishment for Laius’s murderer, even if the murderer is someone close to Oedipus himself. Oedipus’s frequent references to foresight and blindness create many moments of dramatic irony, as the audience knows that it is Oedipus’s metaphorical blindness about the relationship between his past and his present situation that ruins him. When the old priest told Oedipus that Thebes had died of the plague, Oedipus said that he could not help but see it.
This story revolves around a boy and recounts his disappointment. The boy falls in love with the older sister of his friend. To get her attention, he looks for gifts for her in the Araby market. The first part of the story takes place in and around the narrator’s home on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. At the end of the story, the action moves to a street market on the city side. The narrator of the story is a young man who attends a nearby school. Across the street lives Sister Mangan, the sister of the narrator’s friend. She is a girl. The narrator falls in love with Mangan’s sister, and this love drives the plot of the story. Finally, although the narrator does not detail his private life. his life, we know that he lives with his aunt and his uncle. You can see that one of the topics covered in the story is religion and Catholicism. As the story progresses, the narrator can be seen surrounded by Catholic characters. I have also attended a Catholic school. Catholicism played an important role in his upbringing. He also thought of Mangan’s sister in religious terms and images. He is fully associated with Catholicism. The story is about coming of age as the young man is shown to mature. However, before all these points of view come into conflict when he begins to adore Mangan’s sister and, after falling in love with this girl, he thinks that her studies of her are useless. The narrator’s infatuation and distraction with Sister Mangan suggest that his beliefs are weak. Clearly, the young man has no idea what love is since he was so blinded by adoring Magan’s sister and in the end he managed to realize it.
In ”The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, the themes that the story develops are appearance, fairness, social class, embarrassment, and education. The story unfolds through a young African-American woman named Sylvia. Sylvia is a restless and very stubborn young woman who wants to take her life into her own hands. Although Sylvia has a very special character, despite stealing Miss Moore’s money, she has a good analytical mind and a strong sense of justice. This is reflected in her anger at the unequal treatment of the toy store and her comments about her mother taking advantage of Aunt Gretchen. The worst thing about her is that she’s always quick to criticize other people’s faults, but she seems to be particularly concerned with gullibility and hypocrisy. In ”The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Mercedes’ character is one of the children of the Harlem community that Miss Moore decides to accept as her protection. This role shows that she has more understanding and maturity than other children. Also, she behaves differently than others. According to Mercedes’ comments, her situation is somewhat encouraging because, unlike the other characters, her financial situation is a bit better.
Langston Hughes explained that he was first saved from sin without actually feeling the presence of Jesus. On the last day, the children were supposed to receive salvation, he went to the revival with his aunt Reed. His aunt told him that if he was saved, she would see the light that symbolized Jesus. Having said that, she sat there waiting to look at the lights. While the preacher was preaching very well and everyone else was crying, kneeling, and praying for all the children to rise and receive salvation, Langston did not see the light of day. Most of the kids got up and were saved, except him and his friend Westley, who finally got up because he was tired of sitting there, not because he felt Jesus. After Westley woke up, Langston was the last child not to be redeemed, though his aunt continued to pray for him. That made him feel ashamed, he thought that he could do the same as Westley since he didn’t get scolded for lying. That night, he wept with shame. His aunt thought his tears were the Holy Spirit coming into his life, but he wept because he had not only deceived himself but his aunt and the congregation. He felt that if there was a God, why not come and save him, which made Langston question his beliefs.
In the story, the body of a drowning man turns up in a remote town by the sea. When the townspeople try to discover his identity and prepare to bury his body, they find that he is taller, stronger, and more handsome than any man they have ever met. At the end of the story, his presence influences them to make people and their own lives better than they ever imagined. I think Professor Conway chose it as something motivational since as the story tries to explain, a person has the great power to change others and give them extra inspiration. When the people of the town saw the body, at first they came to think that something so perfect, something so magnificent could not be real and they related it as something mythical, they realize that such magnificence can exist in the real world, the body drowned is proof of that. And, therefore, they aspire to that greatness themselves, and, at the same time, remain in reality.
