In the article “How to Read a Poem” William Carlos says, “a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun”. This means that William wants us to understand the poem. The poem I have choose is “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks. In the first sentence I could understand what the poem is about. In the first stanza states, “Abortions will not let you forget. The poem speaks about a mother who had abortions and the author talk to her unborn children. While I been reading it too many times, I could see that the poem has rhyme and visually imagery. In the second stanza, you can see that there’s repetition with the “I”. And also, in the last stanza “I loved you”. Imagery, Brooks shows what her unborn children could have in lines 4-10 and she show emotions about the grief of her unborn children. Again, finishing to “a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun”. The summary of the poem was about a mother describing what her children could have when growing up and do. A mother expressing her emotions about her unborn children.
Melissa
Somehow my ideas haven’t changed so much. I’m still getting difficult to understand a poem because poems are difficult to understand and try to know what kind of tone the poem is.The videos and the readings been so helpful it helps us to know how poetry works and what a poem. Activity 1: Poetry lesson presentation shows different ways to define poetry and what is not a poetry. What is a Poetry? Well, a poetry has to shows any of these following: Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition, Sound, Imagery, or Form. From the video I learned that a poetry is a concise, shorter, and shorter in length. As I have seen the video, I feel like my thoughts hasn’t changed because in High School I have been go over the meanings of rhyme, rhythm, repetition, sound, Imagery, and form. And how to annotate each stanza from the poem. Activity 2: How to read a poem. While reading, I did know that we should ask ourselves questions when we read a poem. We should ask questions because that way, we could find the meaning of what the poem is trying to say and try to understand the poem. One idea about poetry has changed me: I didn’t know while reading a poem could lead us to mistakes. That the poems are difficult to understand. • Questions we should when we first read a poem: Who is the speaker? • What circumstances gave rise to the poem? • What situation is presented? • Who or what is the audience? And what is the tone? I like this one because we should know what tone the poem is.
My research paper focuses on the short story “The handsomest Drowned Man” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A Latin writer, who wrote the short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” A Tale for Children, Creative Education, was published in the 1993. I will focus to write about “Leaf Storm and Other Stories” published in 1972. Garcia Marquez, considered by many to be Colombia’s foremost writer, has gained much of his recognition by writing stories that operate on a mythical, almost allegorical, level. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” takes this type of storytelling into a realm of the fantastic that seems to have no connection to a particular time or place. Nevertheless, Garcia Marquez has been influenced by his upbringing in a coastal Colombian village during the turbulent 1930s. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” has always interested critics, both those who interpret the story as a comment on Colombian. The thesis of my essay is: “Esteban a truly great person has the power to change others, to inspire them to be better, to make them want to be extraordinary. The villager’s transformation originates entirely from within. The dead man is dead, after all, which means the villagers are responsible themselves and for the changes that they make. Therefore, my main goal is finding a great biography in context to connect to my primary source to connect with “The handsomest Drowned Man” to help me prepare for the next step.
It lay unmentioned, as the sea Develops pearl and weed, But only to himself is known The fathoms they abide. From stanza 3, It was like the sea, unmentioned, developing pearls and weeds. But only to himself (life partner) is known the deep secrets they abide. This stanza could be similar to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state towards her husband’s false death in the story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Dickinson and Chopin seems to have a strong emotional impact on husbands. “But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought”. (Lines 34-36) This quotation appears after Louise has gone alone to her room to deal with the news of Brently’s death. After an initial fit of tears, Louise looks out her window at the wide-open spaces below. This quotation is our first hint that Louise’s reaction to Brently’s death will be surprising and that Louise is very different from other women. Whereas most women would gaze reflectively at the sky and clouds, Louise’s gaze suggests something different, something shrewder or more active. What she sees as she gazes out the window is different from what other women would likely see after their husbands have died. Not long after this passage, Louise acknowledges the joyous feeling of independence that Brently’s death has given her. Here, at the window, the first breaths of these feelings are stirring, and her “intelligent thought” will quickly engage once again as she processes these feelings and allows herself to analyze what they mean.
In my opinion, the story in its interior refers to the intension of the story. In the text, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind…Now look here, Bailey,” she said, “see here, read this,” and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head…Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it”. At the beginning of the story, the grandmother uses a newspaper story of an escaped convict heading to Florida to try to convince her son, Bailey, to go to Tennessee. Whether she uses fear or guilt, her main goal stands as getting to Tennessee. However, when Bailey refuses to budge on altering the trip’s course, she willingly goes along, revealing that she never truly feared they’d run into the criminal known as The Misfit.
In reading, “Oedipus the King,” I was able to find many timeless human experiences or behaviors. Oedipus wife Jocasta tells him that Laius was killed at a three-way crossroads, just before Oedipus arrived in Thebes. Oedipus, stunned, tells his wife that he may be the one who murdered Laius. He tells Jocasta that, long ago, when he was the prince of Corinth, he heard at a banquet that he was not really the son of the king and queen, and so went to the oracle of Delphi, which did not answer him but did tell him he would murder his father and sleep with his mother. Hearing this, Oedipus fled from home, never to return. It was then, on the journey that would take him to Thebes, that Oedipus was confronted and harassed by a group of travelers, whom he killed in self-defense, at the very crossroads where Laius was killed. Oedipus shows that he truly believes he killed Laius and is willing to accept not only the responsibility but the punishment for the act.
The passage “Oedipus the King Sophocles” by David Grene. From the chorus, I have selected to analyze Oedipus. In the third section, we regain at least some of our sympathy for Oedipus, which we had lost during his ranting in the second. After Jocasta intervenes in the fight between Oedipus and Creon, Oedipus settles and remembers that he, as the ruler of Thebes, has a responsibility to answer a mystery. As a result, his questions become more focused than they were during his talks with Tiresias and Creon. In his speech at lines (848–923), Oedipus shows that he truly believes he killed Laius and is willing to accept not only the responsibility but the punishment for the act. The speech is heartbreaking because Oedipus has arrived at only half the truth. As we can see that Jocasta is careless and maternal because she tells Oedipus that the prophecies do not come true, and she uses the fact that an oracle incorrectly prophesied that Laius would be killed by his own son as evidence. The ode of the Chorus at lines (954–997), serves as a warning that neither Oedipus, Jocasta, nor the supportive audience should be at relaxed, because oracles speak to a purpose and are inspired by the gods who determine men’s fate. The Chorus had been miserable throughout the performance, wishing for the plague to end and the city to return to normal.
“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce. “Araby” is not about love story. “Araby” is really about a young boy who come from Ireland. The story opens with the narrator’s description of his home and neighborhood, in which we first see Joyce’s use of the close first-person narrator to convey the full sensory range of sensory detail like, sights, smells, colors, textures that comprise the setting. However, the action doesn’t begin in earnest until Mangan’s sister appears on the doorstep of her house, and the narrator begins to describe his obsession with her. It is an obsession with Mangan’s sister.The narrator falls in love with Mangan’s sister, a love that drives the plot of the story. Finally, we learn that the narrator lives with his uncle and aunt, despite the fact that the narrator does not go into detail about his personal life. The uncle and aunt, appear in the narrative, but the uncle plays the most important role in the storyline since he prevents the narrator from making it to the bazaar on time.
In ”The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, the two characters I choose are Sylvia and Q.T. The themes are talked about wealth and puberty. Sylvia is the narrator of the story. She is strongly affected by her surroundings and has the capacity to see the truth in things, for example, in the way her family treats Aunt Gretchen. Despite her ability to see the truth in things, she also acts in a dishonest manner; she speaks of wanting to steal hair ribbons and money from the West Indian kids, she doesn’t give the cab driver a tip, preferring to keep the money for herself, and she doesn’t give the change from the cab ride back to Miss Moore. Sylvia gets very angry during the trip to F. A. O. Schwarz, even though she claims not to know why. This anger that people could spend so much money on useless items leads her to speak to Miss Moore about her feelings, which surprises even her. The second character is Q. T. He is the youngest and quietest child in the group. His major contribution to the discussion is to openly long for the expensive sailboat and declare the unspoken—that F. A. O. Schwarz is a store for rich people.
At the beginning the narrator felt excited to see God and be saved. At the end he got up and lie. The narrator stop to believe in God. The young narrator is different from the way he was at the beginning of the story by first feeling faith and anxious waiting and to see God to be saved but by the end felt disappointing. To the narrator childhood was painful because he was waiting to be saved by God. The narrator has accept the painful about what happened in his childhood because the narrator said that he was saved but not really. Therefore, the narrator had experienced disappointment from his childhood.He come to purpose that he finally came to terms with himself, his uncertainty, and his religion through all the doubt and pain from his childhood. His aunt thinks that Langston was crying because of the Holy Ghost. But Langston is really crying because he had to lied and deceived everyone in the church.
I think professor assigned us this story “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as the first story because the story it seems to be a novel, and I believe this story will be similar to other assignments we will have. This story was like an imagination. When I first started to read from the beginning, I imagined a drowned man and seems to take on the shape. The children started to think that the drowned man was the enemy ship because they never have seen him. As the people of the town attempted to discover his identity and prepare his body for burial, they discover he taller, strong and more handsome than any man they ever have seen. When they thought he might be a whale, after they realize he is a drowned man, they treated him like he was from there and belongs there. By the end of the story, his presence has influenced them make their own village and their own lives better than they had previously imagined possible.
