the sky is rainbow color

I liked the poem from a modern time period why? because there easier to understand from the first time period we did, there's no confusing words or different writing style. i poem that was like an normal poem then we got the worksheet where it tells us it has more to it. the red whee barrow. at first its about a wheel barrow hat in the rain and its red and is next to white chickens but then its deep meaning is about a doctor talking about a girl none helped.
so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

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The time period I like the most is the one William Blake is in. I don't remember which one that is lol. I think it was the period where the poets used logic and stuff. If so, then the poem Tyger Tyger is the poem I choose. This poem was questioning God, asking how can he create good and evil. It makes the reader actually sit down and think about these types of things. Did the one who made the goat make you? Blake is asking the tiger these questions as if the animal can answer him back. The main idea is that some questions don't really have an answer, but it takes lots of thought to come up with an idea.

Ciera.

Funeral blues

I would say "Funeral Blues". I love that poem. My favorite lines are " your are my north my south my east and west". I would say that is sooooo cute. He loved his partner but his liver dies. Thats so sad. It shows how much he loved his partner and eants everything to stop. Sad thing time can't stop.

The Red Wheel barrow

So Much Depends

upon

a Wheel

barrow

Glazed with rain

water

besides the white

chickens

by: W.C. Williams

I think this poem was from the modern time period. I like that time period because it was to the point. The poem can have many different type of meanings or it can just literally mean a red wheel barrow with rain water. The modern time period was much easier to read and understand. The poems meaning are literally what the poem is saying. I really enjoyed reading this poem because the last line I see it as been a random thing the poet saw and added it to the poem.

I'm Not Sure

Read the poem below: "Homage to My Hips"
these hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top!
-Lucille Clifton
I don't remember what type of poem this is but i agree with Vanessa this was the best poem we have read so far. It told me that big women/girls shouldn't be embarrassed of their size and their hips. The speaker of the poem was determined to get her point across. She is proud of her size/hips, but mainly her hips. She knows that not all women are skinny and she know that some women struggle with their weight. The speaker wants the reader and audience to understand her connection to big women. The speaker stays positive and and at the end was the best part. Towards the end of the poem she says how those hips also get men to do what she want them to do. They have a spell on men! Those hips are also strong. Lastly I like the the fact that i can break it down and understand the concept of the poem.! Nice Choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Modern Period!

I believe the period that i kind of liked was the Modern Period poems. I choose "The Mending Wall" is one of the poems from the Modern era. I know this is goint to sound like the last week's post, but that was kind of the only "interesting" poem from them all. This poem shows the real message of the Modern period, which was the change. Sadly, the poems shows how some people are up for a change, but the rest are pretty much afraid of chance and difference. This poem could be compared to one of my favorite stories, "The Lottery". The story hase the same message.

ROMANTICISM

Q: Of all the time periods we've studied (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, Neoclassical/Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern), which is your favorite? Choose a poem from that time period to explain why.

A: My favorite time period would Romanticism 1790-1830. Romanticism with a capital "R" that talks about a writer in a specific time period. I liked this time period because it spoke of the nature being beautiful and listening to your heart, and making your own choices. I poem that I really liked during this time period is the poem of "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake, I really liked this poem because of the way Blake describes the life of England. This poem just has so much detail in it and the way Blake takes about the boys life. ROMANTICISM RULES!!!!

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I guess In a way I would have to say that I like the Post Modern period because it wasn't just all positive, It was just realistic. This is whats happening with no sugar coating what so ever. I don't like to sugar coat things, I only like sugar in my candy XD, and if needed be Its only necessary to sugar coat things when the time is right. Only when necessary.

Poems Poems Poems

Oh my god there are sooooo many good poems out there from many time periods and it is very hard to choose from. Since I have to the poem I would choose is "Funeral Blues", this is such a good poem that shows many great emotions and feelings coming from the speaker. I absolutley loved the words that W.H Auden used to write his poem. After finding out that he was gay and that this poem might have been dedicated to his lover makes it even a better poem because you can see with your own eyes the pain that he whent through after his death. Most importantly you can realize the love he felt towards his lover and it is the most cutest thing in the world to see how well he expressed himself in the poem.

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I also loved the poem about the hips I think it is a very touching one that can hel women see how important they are. Also that poem brings back a lot of memories about slavery.

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I also loved this poem. It shows so much meaning and it is also very easy to understand what the speaker was talking about. I would defwnetly like my future husband to say this story when it is my funeral.

2+2= Fish :D

The tittle of this blog post may confuse you but that is not what this is about.

My favorite poet is W.H. Auden. Why? My research paper is about him and there is not much criticism to be found. The poem I like the best from W.H. Auden is not, "As I Walked Out One Evening", but "Funeral Blues". "Funeral Blues" is a lovely poem about a person who has just lost a loved one, particularly a lover, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. After having lost a loved one a person wonders how can the world keep going after a tragedy o this magnitude has completely changed the world to them, they just want the whole universe to stop what they are doing. That is totally understandable.

Funeral Blues

My favorite poem is "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden. I liked this poem because when i first began to read it I did not think it was about his lover. Then the poem became very personal. I loved the stanza especially the lines where he says " He was my North, my South, my East and my West". That line right there explains how much his lover meant to him. It shows so much love and strength in that line. I really liked this poem because he made it clear how much in love he was with his lover.

Here I go!

My favorite poem is Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This poem is very different than other poems I have read. This poem basically tell a story about a man name richard cory who was very rich but deep inside he was sad and not very happy. Richard killed himself because he was truly unhappy. People wonder why he would do such a thing but it was probably because money he had didn't make him haopy he wanted much more than that. But he didn't get what he thirst for so he kill himself. Anyway I love poems by Robinson i feel like when i read this poem i felt i was in the poem.

Yeahhh...I am the 1st one..lol

"Homage to My Hips"

these hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top!

-Lucille Clifton

Of all the time periods we have studied (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, Neoclassical/Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern), my favorite poem is "Homage to my Hips". Many women are ashamed of having big hips, but the speaker in the poem is so confident and honest with herself. She does not care if she has big hips. She is proud of her big hips. At the beginning of the poem on the first line "these hips are big hips", the speaker is aware of society's problems that have with female body figures.In this poem hips are describe as free and had never been enslaved, they go and do what they want to do. The speaker also describes her hips magical because her hips can do their job and put a spell on a man, in other words seduce the man.By the end of the poem her hips are magical and seductive when ever she wants them to be. I like this poem because the speaker says positive things about having big hips and she is proud of how she looks and what god gave her. Also I like it because is not to difficult to find the real meaning of the poem.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, December 11, you must post a response to the following question:

Of all the time periods we've studied (Classical, Medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, Neoclassical/Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern), which is your favorite? Choose a poem from that time period to explain why.

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

the red weel barrow

I think that this poem fits in to the idea of modern poetry because it is a very very very short poem. I still think poems can be made out of anything and dont have a big significance. This poem even though it is very short shows to symbolise something else. This poem also is very east to read and it is very simple. All that the poem talks about is white hens next to a red weel barrow with rain. All that to symbolise a pure girl that dide and blood being washed away. I think that this poem is an example of modern poetry because it is simple and short but not only that has a bigger meaning inside of it, even though the meaninge may seem small also.

That plum poem... [i forgot the title]

I think this poem its the characteristics of Modern Literature because it's just a note Williams Carlos Williams wrote to his wife. Modern Lit is described as being real. In this poem, WCW was talking about how he ate the plums that were supposed to be for breakfast. At least he was being honest. Then, he sarcastically asked for forgiveness. How much more modern can it get? This poem also makes it possible to write a poem out of anything. You could just bunch some words together and you have a poem.

Ciera.

William Carlitos Williams :D

To begin with this author might have the weirdest name but he was an excellent writer, when I first saw the poem of the plums or the red wheelbarrow I thought they were the most weird poems I have ever read. William on the other hand made those poems seems like poems and not just a simple letter than he leaves his wife asking for forgiveness. These two poems by William Carlos Williams in my opinion has all the qualities of the Modern Literature, I say this because in his works he is able to show that poetry can be found in every single word out there. The only thing needed to do is find how to put them together and be able to show meaning and symbolism. Carlos was not afraid of change that is why most of his poems include grammatical errors, for example, in the poems I stated above he uses no capitalization, no commas, only one period at the end of the poem. He in my opinion was the one that loved to experiment and come up with new ideas during the Modern Time.

Remove the Wall

I would also choose Mending wall because it's almost about making a change. And it's reality and experiential. It's about a wall that basically doesn't have to be there. One side wants to keep tradition and be a friend to his neighbor because that's what his father taught him. The other side is like scared of change. Either way change is going to happen. But i really like this poem. Making a change is good.

And I say...

So I forgot you guys said that we couldn't post comments using the ipod so here goes:

1. To Sara: I like Esbeidy's interpretation of this poem it was really funny. I think Shafferd thought the same thing to : ).
2. To Cristal: Hello Kitty really? Well, I think the red wheel barrow was a good poem. I never thought that chickens could represent angels. :D

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To Sarita: I like the plums too! It was such a weird poem you know? It was so short and simple but meant soo much.
To Yari: The Mending wall really made me think about why we celebrate things and we dont even know how it started or anything.

Hello Kitty :D

I like the poem the Red Wheel Barrow because of Hello Kitty's bow. I am just kidding. :) At First I thought it was a normal boring poem about some chickens outside next to a red wheel barrow. Something normal and insignificant but really it was about so much more. The blood is a signal of blood of someone dying. The water is a symbol for sadness and renewal. The white chickens are angels in heaven. All put together it means that even though the person is dead a new peaceful awesome life begins.

Plums.

Whatever that plum poem was called..

It is for sure modern literature. It's so brief and only one sentence, yet so many different conversations and thoughts come off of it. The wording and structure was poetic yet conversational. Such a chill idea of being blunt with a simple, "Hey, I ate your plums okay?"

When you think that everything is as understanding as the words he used, so many more interpretations could be made. Such as, it's a trick and he is getting back at someone by eating their plums or that he cheated on them and was just stating how easy and cold that person was to begin with.

I like to watch things die from a distance!

The modern literature poem I like the best is (drum roll) Out, Out-- by Robert Frost. It talks about a little kid working hard like a man, he accidentally cuts off his hand and dies bleeding. One would think that people would mourn for his lost but they just turn around and keep going with there life. That is, after all, what society encourages us to do. This poem has a much deeper meaning, it is saying that we do not pay attention to the injustices and misery around us until it is directly affecting us. Which is very true.

I choose...

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. This poem has many characteristics of the Modern period (1914-1945). For example, the Modern period is all about new ideas and experimentation, and this poem has the idea on new ideas and experimentation. The speaker of the poem (Kandy) is rebuilding the wall between his neighbor (Lisa) and him/her (Kandy), but then he/she (Kandy) starts questioning the wall. The speaker (Kandy) tries to convience his neighbor (Lisa) to have no wall and just be neighbors because he says that either way "He (Lisa) is all pine and I (Kandy) am apple orchard./ My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him" (24-26). The neighbor (Lisa) responds by saying that "Good fences make good neighbors" (27). The neighbor (Lisa), like most of the people is afraid of new ideas, changes, and the different, unlike the neighbor (Lisa), the speaker (Kandy) wants to try something new. This poem has all the characteristics of the Modern period.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, December 4, you must post a response to the following question:

Choose one of the poems from the Modern Lit Period and explain how it fits the characteristics of Modern Literature. Use specific evidence from the poem.

In addition, you must comment on two classmates' posts.

Who do You Think.?????????

I chose Whitman because unlike Emily he just expresses himself. He feels free to say whatever. He is also defiant and rebellious in a way. Now any teenager who doesn't like that is crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. He can come across as nonchalant and as if he doesn't really give to flying *beep* lol. Dickinson is good but like I said in class I prefer Whitman.

Whitman......... Yeaa.

I choose Whitman because everybody else chose Dickinson. LOL. No the real reason I chose him over her is because he's real and somewhat rebellious. For example in Song of the Open Road, he was telling everybody to stop listening to the teachers, stop reading, come with me, we about to get it in. I like that about him. He had an "I don't give care" attitude. Dickinson is so depressing and sad. Her poems weren't even supposed to get published. So yea Whitman is better in my opinion.

Ciera.

Dickinson > Whitman

I choose Dickinson because her poetry makes you think a lot. I enjoy her because you can tell in the few poems we have read that she wasnt doing it show off to other people. She was doing it for herself. The fact she was driven to write to express herself was great. HEr being locked up in the house is interesting to know. It gives more reason to point out her realism and passion as she wrote. Most people might find her crazy because she stayed in her house but that could of just been her way of being comfortable. Dickinson is a good female poet. :)

is their a third choice???

I choose Whitman because he is not afraid to express what he feels.
In the of Song of the Open Road he tells everybody to stop doing what each person is doing is go with him. Whitman doesnt care if they are problems, all he cares is that the person goes with him. He wants that person to forget about what they are doing and just leave. On the other hand Dickinson is just plain for me.She doesnt want to go more ahead. In my opinion i think she is afraid to speak up.

Dickinson Poems are better!

I have to go with Emily Dickinson's poems because she express herself more than Whitman. Whitman poems are cool but I feel its nothing he is actually experiencing on his own. Yeah Dickinson might of sat in her lonely room for years writing poems but they actually came from the heart and people could actually feel her pain after reading her poems. Though her poems might be very depressing it was because of the pain and suffering she was facing in her time. So Dickinson is a great poet in my opinion.

Emily!!!!! Emily!!!! Emily!!!! EMILY!!!

Emily Dickinson was a great poem for the simple fact that she was a great writer and wrote poems simply because they were poems. She also did not care because her poems were never meant to be published. The poems she wrote were life changing even though her poems weren't published until years later. The simple fact that people thought she crazy she was amazing and was an incredible women.

None...

I don't like any of them, but if I have to choose, I choose Dickinson. I like her better because even though she uses so many dashes and gets me irritated, the dashes add a little flavor to the poems. The way she writes her poems is unique and different from the rest of the poems. Also, what gets me more interested is her personal life related with her poems which is kind of interesting once we analyze her poems in class. Go Dickinson!

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I choose Dickinson. Her poems are very real that comes from her life. Her being trapped in her house made her poems more exciting and as well real. All her poems come from her experience in life. She wrote for herself as if it was her personal journal. She didn't write dcir other people to read. Dickinson is the best!!
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I Don't Like Either...

Seriously I don't like either. But since I have to choose I would say Whitman, Because Emily uses to many dashes and it annoys me >.>
I guess Whitman wuld have to be better because he spoke about sexuallity freely like its a natural part of life (because it is)

A is for Apples

I have something to say to you and if you want to hear it you must listen is that clear? Yes, okay. I am in love with Whitman... just kidding i like Dickinson better.  It is true, Whitman's poetry is much more catchy then Dickinson and they are certainly way less depressing and gloomy then Dickinson's but Dickinson expressed herself in a way that makes you think. She was able to express herself the only way she could, being stuck in that house, which makes her poetry a little bit more important and emotionally significant. I think she's great :D

i pick Dickinson

i like Dickinson's poems better than Whitmans. Both Dickinson and Whitman are great poets but Dickinson's poems have a greater meaning. She liked to write in a broder view. I also like her beacause her poems talked about life. Emily Dickinson was also a women and i think we should support our women writers because they never got much glory for their work. I really liked Emily Dickinsons poems:)

Dickinson.

I like Emily more than Whitman because she did poetry for herself. Real poetry is made for the benefit of poetry itself, not for other people. She wanted to express herself and that's what she did with her poetry. She might have seemed crazy for being locked up in her house all the time, but she did it because of the hurt she felt which could have been caused by so many things. Her poetry is through her personal experience and insight, not really giving a crap about what anyone in the outside world had to say. To top it off, she was a lesbian. Even though she wasn't crazy out there about being gay, she was awesome for being secure towards herself about loving a woman.

Whitman all the way :D

I choice Whitman because he was controversial and was not afraid to push it to the limit. He wrote some romantic poems. Whitman's poem "Song of the Open Road" he is asking someone to run away with him. He wants that person to forget about what they are doing and just leave. He wanted to go on an adventure with that person. (Adventure Time:). He wanted to be out and explore and the country that just got out of the Civil War wanted a quiet, calm, and peaceful dream life. He did not want that, he was different he wanted something more in his life.

TEAM DICKINSON :)

Well I personally go for my creepy friend Emily Dickinson. My reasons for choosing her and not Whitman are nothing too big or that great, but I believe she is an awesome poet and enjoyed doing what she did. Not just because she was a looser and had nothing better to do but write poems since she liked stayed in he crib for like years, but I enjoy seeing the way she expresses herself about certain things. She also has great ways of structuring her poems wich make them really unique and special. I also like Emily better because she was a lesbian and had the balls to write about certain things that other poets did not, not only about sexuality but things going on in the society.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, November 20, you must post a response to the following question:

Whitman or Dickinson? (Yes, you must choose one.) Explain. Use evidence from one of his/her poems.

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' posts.

Not being like everyone else but...

I find The Tyger interesting. I find this poem interesting because when we discussed it in class, it made me think. Blake asked a series of questions in this poem comparing how God could create good but also create evil. It also caught my attention because tiger was spelled wrong. And it was like that for no specific reason. The poet's main message is basically questioning since God made good, did he make bad too. He doesn't really get the message across because he gets the readers to think about those questions so they could provide an answer. But nobody has an answer because nobody really knows.

Ciera.

:)))

Shakespeare! I enjoyed the poem "Let me not to the marriage of minds" ! This is the poem im doing my research paper on. This poem i enjoyed soo much because it made me have an outlook on "love". It tells the ups and downs of love and how you have to stick with that person you love no matter what. Shakespeare is an amazing in so many for writting this poem. He gets his point across by explaing how there are ups and downs in love but it is a must to stick through it no matter what. He uses imagery and personification.

Like the rest of the people.....TYGER -______-

So, I liked this poem, but the thing is that I wasn't paying much attention when we went over it. The things I caught about the poem were that there are two symbols that represent good and evil. Apparently, the tyger represents evil, and the lamb represents good. This sounds religious to me and most of the poem are religious. I believe that the message is that some people are preys and some other people are the preyers. The author got this message with all the symolism and tone, and the interesting fact that he spelled tiger as "tyger".

Every day im shufflin tyygerrrrrrrr

tyger was interesting at first its just about a tiger and talking about its symmetry and how it looks, but then if you look more in to it it has a deeper meaning. That God made both the tiger and the lamb because if there's good in the world there has to be evil. The world has to have a balance because if there just good what  walls will we have to jump over the world would be too perfect. If the world is pure evil the world is doomed some people have to keep some goodness in this world....deep

batter my heart..

well the only poem i really liked so far was the one by John Donne, " Batter my heart". The peom was really interesting to me because of how it was structured. At first i didnt get what he really was trying to say but then when we went over it in class i really liked it. John Donne was really religous and the way he talked getting punished for his sins was pretty drastic. I also liked it becasue it was short and it said alot. I like poems that are short but have alot of meaning to them.

Kicking me out of the blog Noonan >.>

So Apparently I'm not a member of the blog anymore.
Comment in responce to sara's blog: I Thought that poem was okay. When I read that I had a little bit of trouble understanding the meaning of it though. I think I only got it when we actually discussed it in class.

Comment in responce to Vanessa's poem: I forgot about that poem, man. I thought that poem was cool too the way they used sarcastic Irony.

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Choose one of the poems we read this week and explain why you find it interesting. What is the poet's main message? How does he/she get that message across?
I liked the poem "The world Is Too Much For Us", by William Wordsworth (So sounds Like  a villain if only it were "Wormsworth"). I liked it because for somereason it made sense in my head. I also liked it because of the meaning. The whole poem was supposed to mean that humans in general don't care about little things or nature. I guess he used allusion to reference the pagans and how they focused on nature.

Tyger or Tiger

The poem "Tyger" was very interesting. To the author was sending this message about faith. It was interesting that the poem was asking questions. It made me want to answer them. But over all the poem was interesting and very questionable.

Poems Ugh

The poem I liked the most was "The Tyger" I liked this poem because of the message being sent of how can the same person making good, make something bad at the same time. I think the poet wrote this message through the poem because he wanted people to realize that good and evil were made by the same person but at the same time they are not to blame for all the bad that is being done in the world. The poet just wants to make people think and for them to question the way the world is.

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Well my phone does not allow me to comment normally so ill do it this way. I also liked the poem about the crule mother because of the imagery and symbolism that was used in the poem. I also found it very sad to see what women did to their children, we hardly realize that things like those happen frequently till this day. This poem overall was a good poem that also included religion in its main point.

The Tyger by William Blake

The poem I found the most interesting was William Blake poem The Tyger. I found this interesting because I like the flow of the poem and Blake does a great job by making us realize the title of the poem is misspelled. If we haven't realize the misspelled of the word tyger then something is wrong. The tyger in this poem is the person who takes over and take charge which mean he not going to let someone come in and hurt him or his family. The author gets this message across by using imagery and diction to tell this poem.

Poems Poems Poems

I like the poem "tyger" by William Blake, he is talking to a tyger. He is asking questions almost like a little kid. This poem makes me wonder if Blake ever questioned his religion. It seems like he is questioning God thru the tyger. It was interesting the way he asks if God creates good and evil. The poem seemed just like a big question. Also this poem has to do about nature and the animal being in the wild. Humans can been seen as the tyger in the posm because we are constly been question about our faith and humans do what they need to do to survive.

poems....boring jk jk

The Eagle :O

Soooooooooooooooo.. This is eagle is awesome in the poem "The Eagle", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. According to the author of the poem, he is cool. The author was descriptive according to how the eagles body form is and what he is surrounded by. He states how close the eagle is to the sun and how he stands above the rest of the world. Which shows how high an eagle can be. Also, that the "wrinkled sea" is beneath him which could symbolize a person who is young and beautiful standing above a person who is old and worn out. The eagle is very powerful because when he falls he is described as a thunderbolt. This could also be a reference to Zeus, the most important god in Greek Mythology who uses thunderbolts. For such a small poem, Tennyson is very thorough in making this eagle seem really great.

"The Tyger" RAWR! :P

Well the poem of the "Tyger" which was also spelled wrong was a good poem overall. In my opinion what William Blake wanted to do was write about the great qualities that a tiger has, the way he did this to me was in a very interesting way.I personally love poems that talk about nature and the animals in it. I also think that the imagery that Blake uses to describe this awesome animal was ok, but to me he could have done a better job. Also the tone of the poem in some cases fitted correctly to the characteristics that a tiger has. Also a lot of the symbols that were being used were also a great way to show the reader how a tiger can be classified as that for example when the speaker says that no one dares to mess up the tigers symmetry shows the power a tiger contains as an animal.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, November 6, you must post a response to the following question:

Choose one of the poems we read this week and explain why you find it interesting. What is the poet's main message? How does he/she get that message across?

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' posts.

Research paper

I am doing my research paper on the Chimmey Sweeper because I found that poem real good and cute

The wheels on the bus go round and round round and......flat -______________-

Hello people!!! I would like to inform you that the poem I will be doing my essay in is Clocks and lovers. why? I chose this poem because I actually understand this poem because we discussed it in class. I really like it but then the ending still confuses me because the clocks stopped chiming and the lovers left but the river kept on running. So then what is the river??? I guess i just need to figure it out. Oh and the author is W.H Auden.

Lalala...

The poem I chose to do my research paper on is ABC by Robert Pinsky (pg. 866). I chose this poem because it's short lol. No but forreal tho, I chose it because it's unique and clever to me in some way. I don't know, I just like it. As of now, I don't have any questions about the poem or the author. My poem was hard to understand at first, but I read it over and over and got help from one of my classmates. So now I'm good, I'm gucci.

Ciera.

Shakespeare :)

"Let me not to the marriage of minds" by shakespeare is the poem i want to do a research paper on. It took me a while to figure out what poem I wanted to do. I finally figured it out, it was a tough decisions. They are so many great poem in our Lit book. This poem is on page 587. This poem talks about the ups and downs about love. I choose this poem because a little piece of me is a "hopeless romantic". Plus i love Shakespeare because his words go sooo well with each other and he makes thinks about what he is talking about and once you figure it out it's jaw dropping!

BOo~! Muhahaha

i think im doing the broken heart by john Donne, because it was pretty good and his always comparing his heart to broken glass.. that's deep. i think it means that love has no mercy for anyone and consumes people in a matter of seconds. Also that love will leave you with a broken heart after it gets you, but even though its broken it can still love wish and hope, the only thing is its hard to love again.

Ask Me by William Stafford

The i have decided is the name of my poem. Its called Ask Me written by that man above^^^^(William Stafford). When i read it it seemed interesting and i think i can connect it to today's life and show how lit can still be alive and relate to us. I dont have any questions yet. The page number is 672.

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Q:Which poem have you decided on for your research paper? Why have you chosen that poem? What specific questions do you have about the poem and/or the poet? Include the title, poet, and page number.
A:
I've been having some trouble picking out a poem, I looked through the Lit Book and I have a couple of options I would like to choose

A)A Dream Within A dream By Edgar allan Poe;
Why I like it: It reminds me of thoughts in my head.
Questions about the poem: Why did he choose to right this poem? Was it meant for someone? Did he have a different meaning to it than I did.

B) The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

C) Anorexic By Eavan Boland; page 1088
Why I like it: I like the authors choice in diction and her use of imagery.
Questions: Dont really know what  to ask.

Oh no! A Research paper on poems

The poem that im doing for my research paper is Swan and Shadow by Jon Hollander on page 885. I chose this poem because not only the poem was shape as two swans but I really like this poem because it was interesting and sweet at the same time. I don't really have any questions about the poem or poet.

The Broken Heart by John Donne

I picked the poem "The Broken Heart" by John Donne because it talks about his feelings which guys are not capable of talking about. I like how he uses first person point of view, verbal irony, and imagery to express his feelings. In my opinion the meaning of this poem is that love can hurt. Some questions I have are did John Donne wrote this poem about someone? Did John Donne love again?

Research papers and poems...not the best!

For my research paper I'm going to write about " Shall I compare thee to a summers day" ny William Shakespeare on page 767. I chose this poem becaus it's the only one that I kinda like. Also because I like the title. I dont have any questions at the moment.

It seems that I can't comment because I'm not a member!!!!!!!!neeed help!

Shakespear! even though he's not real.

I chose to write about the poem "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" by Shakespear on page 767. I chose this poem because it is the only poem that i really like, and also because I used to think it was about romance, but it turns out that it wasn't about romance. I figured that many people see it as a romantic poem just like me and then feel dumb when they find out that the poem is about literature. I really don't think I have any questions about this yet, I'll go up to Noonan when I get stuck. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, this is where my love for clouds comes in..

I picked the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth for my research paper. Not only did i love the fact that this guy has a love for clouds as I do, but I could relate to the clouds just like the guy in the poem does. He explains the scenery of the surroundings of the clouds and how beautiful they are, but they remain lonely and spacious. He feels the same way and somehow their beauty replaces his loneliness and sadness. The clouds make everything happy and as he says, they make him "wealthy." He might just be sitting on the couch pondering and spacing out into his thoughts, but the clouds come out of nowhere, from the corner of his eye, and just through their appearance they can change his mood completely.

(:

A Valediction: Forbidding Mouring

Well I want to write my research paper on this poem because it is such a lovely poem that completely amazed me with the way John Donne decided to write it. I have also read other poems from John Donne and i believe he is a great writer, he was also a very religious person and I want to be able to research him and find out more about his life and go deeper into what his life was like. I have no questions yet about him and his work but maybe later as I get the chance to learn more about him, maybe some questions will come to mind. I just hope I find enough information to write and entire eight page research paper on him.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, October 30, you must post a response to the following question:

Which poem have you decided on for your research paper? Why have you chosen that poem? What specific questions do you have about the poem and/or the poet? Include the title, poet, and page number.

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' posts.

Clocks and Lovers

I LOVED this poem! It was a quatrain and i dont remember the rhyme scheme. I loved this poem because it showed the differences of how the clock felt and how lovers feel when they are in love. We should read more poems this cleaver. I enjyed this poem so much i told my friends and family about it. The fact that the clock was so lliteral and the Lovers were just so much in love that they didnt care what the clock thought. Many people are either like the clock when it comes to love or like Lovers when it comes to love. This poem is the best so far! I enjoyed it much!

LET'S BE REAL YOU CAN NOT CONQUER TIME:BEST POEM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clocks and Lovers was the best poem. It was a quatrain and the over all meaning of the poem was to aware the lovers that noone can ever conquer time. Its a match you can not defeat. In the poem was personafication, and hybole. It was a good poem but you had to take it step by step and read it over and over inorder to understand it. It also taked about their age and how nomatter how old they get they will always be lovers and she will always be beautiful in his eys. Then time passed by and the lovers began to see their real age and the last stanza talked about the spirit, so the overall message was to learn YOU CAN NEVER CONQUER TIME.

"Death be not proud"

In Death be not proud by John Donne the poems rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDD CAA the last six line was hard to figure out but I eventually got it. It is a 14 line poem. The poem is mocking death and because of the rhyme scheme we are capable to see that in the end it does not have the same rhyme to show that death does not win because the soul lives on. Since it rhymes in the beginning we see that humans are scared of death and fear it. The rhyme scheme is the most important because we how the poem begins and how it ends.

Lord Randall

In Lord Randall the poem is organized as a quatrain which is a 4 line stanza. The rhyme scheme is abcd. The length of the poem is long but not really because it goes by fast. The meaning of this poem is lord randall has been poison this girl he had fell in love with and he is trying to tell his mother to get his bed ready so he can lay on his death bed.

The Cruel Mother is one of my favorite poems. i like it because it shows how women didnt notice about their mental health after birth. The rhyme scheme is A B A B C B C B D B D B E B F B G B G B H B H B I B J B. The lenght of the poem is not very long, but once a person reads the poem it ends fast. The meaning of the this poem is that a mother killed her baby. The two lines that are in each stanza makes the poem the opposite of what the meaning is. many poems can trick a person thoughts.

...Vanessa...

Anonymous

The cruel mother is a very tricky poem. This poem has two lines in each stanza, that makes the poem a very happy poem. About the rhyme scheme I'm not sure if the lines that are repeated is the same letter as the first stanza.The length of the poem is not very long but once a person reads it, it catches your attention. basiccally the meaning of the poem is thata a mother killed her baby.The two lines that are repeated in each stanza makes the total oppoiste of the poem.

*crickets*

I'm picking Lord Randall since that's the one I remember the most, well kinda. This poem is a quatrain and it was pretty long. I don't remember the rhyme scheme but I know it rhymed haha. The first two lines were always repeated as well as the second two lines. The very last line changed though towards the middle. These ideas contribute to the meaning of a poem because they all go back to those poems we read in groups.

Ciera.

The Three Ravens

Even though I hate poetry the poem of "The Three Ravens" written by an anonymous author was one of my favorite poems we have read so far. Even though when I began to read it I did not understand the entire meaning of the poem I still think it is a creative one. The rhyme scheme that I have found in this poem is A,B,A,B,A,A,B,C,C,D,D,E,F,F,G, G,H,H,I,J,J,K,K, I believe that any rhyme scheme in any poem has alot to do with the meaning. It allows the reader to feel what the author wants its reader to feel. I was confused by the fact that the fist stanza was different from the rest. probably that stanza means something but we will never know what the author meant by doing that. The rest of the poem is just two lines. "The Three Ravens" in my opinion was also a well organized poem next to a well organized meaning.

Noonan i want my cookie

Clocks and Lovers ABCB its only every second and fourth line. Its a quatrain and the meaning is time is eternal  and love is temporary. that the lovers think time is stopping for them because there so in love but time is like nope you guys cant conquer time, time conquers you. Time will always be there no matter you like it or not. And that thier love they are talking about are fairy tales, which are not real.

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Choose one of the poems we've read this week and analyze its structure. How is the poem organized? What about the rhyme scheme? What about its length? How do all of these ideas contribute to the meaning of the poem?
The Poem I chose to do the post on was "The Three Ravens.The first to stanzas are complicated, I couldn't tell if it was just one stanza of seven lines or one stanza of four lines and another of three and then the rest were two line stanzas. The rhyme scheme was a b a b a a b c c d d e e f f g g h h i i j j k k, Or at least thats what I think it is and in total the whole poem was 25 lines and I guess in a way the first two stanzas were longer because it was a way to introduce the story. The two line stanzas were made to put emphasis on each of the sentences because if it was all put into a paragraph or wouldn't sound important.

"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

This poem is my favorite. By the way, I did think that the poem was a romantic poem.

This poem by Shakespear is a sonnet, 14-line poem.

The rhyme scheme is: ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

All these ideas contribute to the meaning that a poem can live for ever. In this poem Shakespear tells us that the literature, poems can live forever, but I don't believe so. I think as long as people like his poems, literature and don't get new ideas that will replace literature, they could live for some period of time not for ever.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day is a Shakesperean sonnet. A 14 line poem. It's not long and I wouldnt say boring. The first time I read it, it was confusing. I didn't know what it was talking about. I kinda have a sence if what it's saying. He wouldnt compare his love to summer because eventually it will end. But to him love will last forever. Its rhyme scheme is like a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,g I think that's how it goes. These ideas contribute because it's comparing a lover to a season. Meaning that love doesn't have to end just because the season did. Love can always go on and wouldn't die. At least that's what I think.

"Clocks and Lovers" :)

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally loved "Clocks and Lovers" because it is just a beautiful poem. The structure and connecting time and love made me feel all gooey inside. hahahaha.

The rhyme scheme is abcb and it is written in four line stanzas.

The poem talks about how eternal love can feel and how cheesy lovers are. Then time speaks and tells about how fast the time passes us by and can ruin a perfect moment or situation just by going to quickly for us to even enjoy it. In the end we cannot beat time, it always beats us and controls our lives.

I really liked this poem i thought it was nice and deep. The whole thing is the clocks proving the lovers wrong using personification. I think the fact that the clocks are talking ads more meaning to the poem because who else would know more about time then clocks. The lover uses hyperbole to show his love to emphasis love. But then again, the twist to this poem is that at the end only the river keeps flowing. The lovers leave and the clocks stop chiming. I don't think this poem has much of a rhyme scheme only the even numbered lines actually kind of have a rhyme scheme which goes like AABBCC and so on.

Q: Choose one of the poems we've read this week and analyze its structure. How is the poem organized? What about the rhyme scheme? What about its length? How do all of these ideas contribute to the meaning of the poem?

A: Clocks and Lovers one of the poems I now like. The rhyme scheme to this poem would be ABCB and it is very long. They all contribute to the meaning of the poem because it is easier to understand when the clock is speaking and when the lover is speaking. The length also helps for the reader to visualize everything through the imagery being used.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, October 23, you must post a response to the following question:

Choose one of the poems we've read this week and analyze its structure. How is the poem organized? What about the rhyme scheme? What about its length? How do all of these ideas contribute to the meaning of the poem?

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

I love Pppppppppppppooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmsssssssssss

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee poems. I don't its just something about the way the authors expresses his or her self that draws my attention. I enjoy it. I guess because it sometimes can be personal, or just because it romantice. Some poems relate to me which make me attracted even more. As many know i love music and music is nothing more than poems. Its the exact same thing, which make me like it even more. I can't wait to begin this quater.
This is my favorite poem: by Maya Angeloue
Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.I walk into a roomJust as cool as you please,And to a man,The fellows stand orFall down on their knees.Then they swarm around me,A hive of honey bees.I say,It's the fire in my eyes,And the flash of my teeth,The swing in my waist,And the joy in my feet.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Men themselves have wonderedWhat they see in me.They try so muchBut they can't touchMy inner mystery.When I try to show themThey say they still can't see.I say,It's in the arch of my back,The sun of my smile,The ride of my breasts,The grace of my style.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Now you understandJust why my head's not bowed.I don't shout or jump aboutOr have to talk real loud.When you see me passingIt ought to make you proud.I say,It's in the click of my heels,The bend of my hair,the palm of my hand,The need of my care,'Cause I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.

Yess, we starting poetry :)

I love poetry because poetry is another way to show and explain how you feel about many things whether its love or even the economy. One of favorite poems is Still I Rise by Maya Angelou:
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

That was just half of the poem because its quite long. I enjoy this poem because it is telling women stand strong and believe in yourself don't let nobody put you down because of the way you look because you are beautiful. I can't wait to start poetry in class and I hope we read some good poems.

Poems (:

Poetry is great. Some poems can be beautiful and enduring while some can make you think and try and figure out what the writer is trying to say. Most poems have many meanings behind it, it is a great feeling when you understand what is going on. Anybody can write poetry. It is just a group of emotions that a person puts into words. I enjoy poetry because anybody can write it and many people can enjoy it. In some ways poetry can branch off to a lot of things, like stories and even songs. Poetry isnt that bad, you just have to think sometimes but at the end of the day the poem can possible change your life. (:

I prefer numbers than POEMS!!!!!!!

I strongly HATE poems. Ms. Noonan, you could call me a hater, I don't CARE!!! I never liked them because ther is toooooo much analysing, and I am NOT good at that. It gets me so irritated how the authors have "secret messages" on their poems, and WE have to figure them out. I mean poetry could be romantic, and I really like romantic stuff, but not in letters or words. I prefer the Southern Gothic stories Ms. Noonan makes us read rather than these poems coming up! Ugh! I HAVE TO ENDURE THE PUNISHMENT!!!!

I HATE POETRY WITH ALL OF MY HEART!!!!

ut my fave poem is the Shakespare's one about floweres and colors and stuff, it's cute and romantic, even though i could barely get it... -___-

Thoughts on poetry...

Yeaaa, I'm not a big fan of poetry. On a scale from 1-10 (10 being love it 1 being hate it), I give poetry a 3. The main reason I don't like poetry is because a lot of it is hard to understand. The rhymes and stuff is nice, but there's always a message that we have to detect and most of the time it's hard trying to "find the mushrooms". Some poems are interesting. Some are boring. I just don't understand most, which makes me not like poetry.

Ciera.

poems to like or not to like

Poetry: love it or hate it? Explain. What's your favorite poem? If possible, copy and paste it into your entry. Why do you enjoy that poem? Any other thoughts on poetry?

i dont hate it i just dont like having to read poems that have a wierd wording. I like poems that ryhm and poems of love and poems of life but i dont think im a good poem writter not even free write poems. I liked it this one time were my english teacher was talking about how song lyrics were poems and she made us do a poem out of which ever song we liked. bad part of this i kinda lost that poem when they had to reformat my computer so thats sad :( but yeah it was from a song and we had to insert song lyrics and our own wording to the poem. i think that that was the only poem i put some thougt in to and that i liked doing. I remeber that it had light pink and purple letters thats all i remember about that poem. butas i said im not a very good poem writter im ok with reading them as long as they dont have some weird way of witting them.

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Poetry: love it or hate it? Explain. What's your favorite poem? If possible, copy and paste it into your entry. Why do you enjoy that poem? Any other thoughts on poetry?
I don't really read poetry. Out of my own memory the only poem that I can remember was Naked And The Nude. I liked that one because of the fact that it seemed like a puzzle and I like to solve puzzles. And when I figured out the point of it I got excited. It was awesome. But then again... I get tired of puzzles once in a while so then I just don't care, then I really don't care too the point where it actually annoys me. That's how I feel right now, and we only read two poems...and when it comes to writing them, that's where I just don't like them. I'm not really poetic, I stutter and misplace my words a lot, then I lose track of what I'm saying and it just gets confusing.
Another poem that I liked was:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Your name is crystal
And I hate you.

Poems...ummm....hate them!

To start of I HATE POETRY!!! Here are my reasons: i never understood it, it was always boring to me, and there were to many terms to remember. Poetry has never caught my attention. Every time we studied poetry i hated being in English class, honestly i would rather do a research paper then sit and study "the wonders of poetry" as Ms.Noonan says. Most poems are about love and death like cant they be about something else. Reading a poem is not the part i hate, its understanding it and since there so many types of poems it just confuses me!>.< Like there's sonnets, limericks, Haiku's and many more that i hate hate hate..did i say hate?..hate hate hate:) Well now you know why i have a big dislike of poetry:)

Poems= BORING!

I do not like poems. They make me fall asleep. I do like some just that others are boring and long. I hate long poems. I do not have a favorite one but one that I always here is the phenomenal women. but other than that i don't like them.
For some reason poems do not excite me. I'm not saying that I hate them i just dislike them.

Rutabegas

I think poems are fine as long as i understand it ms Noonan-"what is it trying to say?!!" me-->*throws pebble*. I like limericks :D like this one i just invented:

There once was a man named tom
he was a really stinky old bum
one day he cries and then he died
and that was the end of old tom

some poems are really hard to figure out what they mean and then all the class and I will go crazy and die. maybe some freaky scary poems would be cool no lovely dovey ones yuck... Even some poem's words use these complicated words to say something even though there's some easier words to use booooo.

Poems Ewwwwwwww -

Q: Poetry: love it or hate it? Explain. What's your favorite poem? If possible, copy and paste it into your entry. Why do you enjoy that poem? Any other thoughts on poetry?

A: I dislike poetry because I think its so hard to write and understand it. I mean I know that the words don't have to rhyme in order for it to be a poem, but its still difficult to write it. Understanding poems is also difficult because to me its hard to understand some of the metaphors being used or the way the poet expresses their feelings its just so hard to understand. I don't have a favorite poem because I really don't read any. Maybe by the end of the school year I'll be able to like poetry and I might even have a favorite poem.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, October 16, you must post a response to the following question:

Poetry: love it or hate it? Explain. What's your favorite poem? If possible, copy and paste it into your entry. Why do you enjoy that poem? Any other thoughts on poetry?

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

MY FAVORITE STORY..

my favorite shorty is the yellow wallpaper because that story had sort of a mysteries vibe and a creep atmosphere. I liked how the lady stated to see things , little in the beginning and then she went nuts at the end. those kinds of stories are interesting because they give a good imagery to give us a mental picture.

MY FAVORITE STORY IS........

My favorite story we've read this quarter is The Lottery. This is my favorite because it's suspenseful and scary. It's also very misleading. First of all, the title. When you think of the lottery, you think of competing against a million other people to win some money. I would've never thought of a lottery equaling death. That's just crazy. An example of suspense in the story would be the part where the names are being called and you're just waiting to see who won and how much they're going to win The scary part about is that the winner didn't win money; they won hand fulls of stones thrown at him or her until he or she died. Oh how nice. So I definitely agree with whoever said it should be banned.

Ciera.

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I like almost all of the stories That we read throughout the first quarter, as long as I didn't get mad at the actions of the characters in the story.
If I had to choose one story I guess it would have to be "The Yellow Wallpaper" Its  a story that I can actually relate too. My Parents and family members Used to think that I had issues when I was a kid and their version of getting me help was not letting me see the light of day again because they would be afraid that I got hurt which seems like the same type of situation that the main characters husband did to her.
In the end I turned out pretty messed up and "Crazy" I guess is a way that you could put it, just like she ended up in the end of the story.

My Favorite is...................

My favorite story I read would have to be "Where have you been, where are you going?". This story was the most interesting out of all of the other stories we have read this quarter. I love the drama in the book how connie was so hard head that she didn't have any respect for herself or the people around her. She should have listen to her parents then she would of known the possbile things that could of happen to her for lying and sneaking out. Aronld Friend is also wrong too because he didn't have the right to come to connie house and force her to come with him. Therefore this story was crazy and it made me want to find out what happen after she listen to Aronld and left.

The YEllow Wallpaper

Don't open the door to anyone!!

My favorite story is where have you been and where are you going. It caught my attention when it talked about a girl who pretty much did whatever she wanted. At a teenage year we all want to do whatever we want. The part that was crazy was when Arnold went to her house and told her everything he knew about her family. If I wA her I would have not opened the door. That was always the rule when my dad would leave us home alone. Never open the door to anyone unless it's family. I would have been terrified and would have killed myself rather than going with a stranger!

I'd say "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

I think this is my favorite story for a long list of reasons. One of the reasons is because the whole story could be taken as a realistic story, which people can connect to. It is a wonderful story that shows how weak, confused, and carzy one could be at some point of our lives. The main reason is because of the connection there was bewtween the story and my sister and I. I could connect to it from beginning to the end. It gives a normal story of our teenage years of how crazy it was, of how crazy we were.

A good man is hard to find:DDDD!!

Out of all the stories we have read so far, my favorite one is "A good man is hard to find"! AGHHHH!! I gotta say it was the best story so far that I've read. I really liked it because they way all the events happened and some were to blame because of the grandmother.

In the beginning of the story the grandmother didn't want to go to Florida, she wanted to go to Tennessee. Her grand children were really snobby kids so they complained about every little thing. She and her son didnt have a great relationship so there wasn't a lot of communication. Now the family ends up riding to Tennessee after all but on the way there they end up getting into an accident. The grandmother was to blame for this because while they rode in the car she started to tell the kids the story of house that had a secret panel. The problem to this was that when the grandmother told the story she didn't remember that the house was located in Tennessee and they were barely in Georgia:O she had gotten those two places confused! so the whole accident was her fault. Now this brought them into a bigger mess that in the end the whole family died!!! A criminal was on the lose and to their dismay he ended up passing where they were. He was known as the "misfit" and the grandmother recognized him, beacause of this she ends up calling him out and sadly he couldn't let them go knowing who he was. So he kills them all! The ending really sucked but i just loved how the author put this all together!!:DDD best story ever! I also like the part in the end that had to do with religion and how one of Jesus disciples ends up denying him 3 times just like the Misfit shot her 3 times:O

Teenage Wasteland

Q: Of all the short stories we've read this quarter, which is your favorite? Why?
Make your reasons as descriptive as possible. Don't just write, for example, "I like the story because it was crazy." BE SPECIFIC. WHY is it crazy???

A: My favorite story from all the stories we've read is Teenage Wasteland, beside it being a great song it is also a great story. I like the story because it talks from the mother's perspective and what she thinks of Donny and his actions. It makes me think about my actions and how my mom feels. I think that Daisy did a good job raising Donny but she shouldn't of left his tutor take complete control over the school situation. If she saw that her son was improving when she was helping him then she should hired the tutor but continued to be involved with the studies. Overall the story was good because of the structure it has, makes you want to continue reading the story.

Trapped inside

My favorite story so far was    "The Yellow Wallpaper" because it messed with my head. It makes me think of how easy it is to fool everyone into believing that you are fine but yet you are worst then ever before. I think its weird how when she sees the wall paper she really sees herself trapped inside. Its like she needed to find a way to be free because she felt trapped between her sickness and her husband telling her what she can do and what she can't. She just wanted to be free from the oppressor. It is like the pattern in the wallpaper that made up the prison bars was her husband and her sickness while the lady trapped inside was her hopelessly trying to escape but she couldn't.  Then when she tore the wallpaper its like she liberated herself from her husband and sickness. She wont get trapped again because the wallpaper is gone and so are her chains even if it seems that she is more trapped then before inside her head still she feels free. That's all she wanted to be free.

Favorite story o.O

My favorite story was "where are you, where have you been?"

It was so creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy and it caught my attention more than any other story. I could probably relate to connie a little bit because of the way she is with her parents. Also, its just a teen drama. What teen doesn't go through the phase of rebellion and no caring about the rest of the world? I know i sure have. I'm not really sure why else it caught my attention. I was more curious to read this story than the other ones because there was so much suspense on what Arnold was going to do to connie. Overall, this was the only not boring story :D

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, October 9, you must post a response to the following question:

Of all the short stories we've read this quarter, which is your favorite? Why?

Make your reasons as descriptive as possible. Don't just write, for example, "I like the story because it was crazy." BE SPECIFIC. WHY is it crazy???

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

Reading/Homework Schedule

Here's the tentative plan for the next couple weeks:
Due Tuesday, 10/4: Revision Assignment, Vocab Unit 3
Due Wednesday, 10/5: Read "The Story of an Hour"
Due Friday, 10/7: Essay: Florence Nightingale
Due Monday, 10/11: Read "Happy Endings"
Due Tuesday, 10/12: Vocab Quiz

FRIDAY, 10/14: QUARTER EXAM

title of the one below

it was about how the stories used symbolism to show how women back then use to be locked behind walls. Since back then women couldn't do much because men were mostly looked at women felt like they were in jail.  Some didn't want to try getting evolved with the outside world because they were scared they might be looked down at. i agreed because the only wall to free themselves from their room was to make themselves known to the outside and not be scared of what people might say.

Imprisionment and Escape: The Physchology of Confinement

It talks about women during the nineteen century. It tells us that he was a famous nerve spealist and he didnt allow Gillam to write. When Gillam got well then he'll let her write but until then she didnt have permission to write. Its just like the Yellow wallpeper, the husband was being control but it was for her better. We look at and get offened but its the truth and inorder for her to be okay it was needed. It also talked about how after the Yellow Wallaper the who treated Gillman had read it. Then soon he noticed he was wrong so he changed his tratement for the better of his patients. So i agree to a certain extent but i think that they believed it was for the good and if they didnt know better they couldnt change. Like the man in the Yellow wallpaper didnt know better he honestly beleived he helped but the doctor realized so he fixed it.

Gender and Pathology in 'The Yellow Wallpaper

Symbolism is what Fleenor talks in The Yellow Wallpaper. Their prison was their home and also their tomb. Men worked together, while women worked ALONE stuck in the four walls. Women denied the opportunity to work, and that they were prisoners in the room. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is punish by not seeing her baby and being lock in the room. It symbolizes that women did not have many rights, were not able to write and speak up. I agree that women were not as equal as men. Women were afeected physically but also mentally because being lock in a room with nothing to do, a women back in those times can think of the people she loved. also of being back with the poeple she needs. Women did not wanted to be prisioners for life and speak up for their rights as men.

...Vanessa... :)

Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement

This critisism talks about how durring the 19 century women would use symboles like houses to represent their imprisonment.This critism talks about how Gillman was teated by S. Weir Michell who wasa a famouse nerve specialist. The critisim talks about how he treated Gillam and the way he did it was by not letting her write untlill she was well again. The same happend in the yellow wall paper. It talks about if Gillman were able to write she would be able to relese some stress or things she had been holding in for a long time. Then it also talks about how after the short story of the yellow wall paper was published that same docter who treated Gillman read it. After reading the story of the yellow wall paper Gillmans docter realized that he was doing his patients wrong insted of good. After he realized this he changes his treatment. When this happend Gillmans says that she had not lived in vane because she was able to change the treatment and be able to help other paitents who were suffering the same thing she was.

Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Juliann Fleenor talks about how all three stories by Gilman connect with theme in each story. So all three stories is talking about how women are confined in four walls. Saying that females isolate themselves from the public world not getting invovled with the outside work. Also Gilman is comparing these stories to her own life which she is saying that it is punishment for women being left alone with taking care of their child. I agree with the part that women should not be left alone especially after having a child because the mother goes through all like with depression and feeling they not going to be a good parent to their child.

Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Fleenor talks about the symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper it is more than confinement, victimization, and the inability to write. It shows us that the women being trapped in the room was a symbols for women not being able to write because it was wrong. In the story one theme is punishment for becoming a mother or in another view punishment for being female. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is punish for being a mother by not been able to see her baby. The narrator is punished for been a female by having to stay in the room and not been able to write. I agree with it because women are being lock down not physically but mentally women are seen as less than men. The women need to escape that room and fight for their rights.

-Mariana Diaz

Biographical Echoes in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

I totally agree with this. Even though i said that her husband loved her in class, I could see the woman's point of view. I could see that John having his wife locked alone meant that he didn't want to be with her, meaning not loving her. The connection between the wife and John's wife is obvious. Gilman's mom loved her husband, but apparently he didn't, and this affected Gilman so much, that she wrote this story reflecting her childhood.

Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

In this Literary criticism Fleenor talks about how the story is mainly talking about women being confined into their homes. How Gilman Perkins stories relate back to each other in some kind of way. She compares a lot to the isolation of her life. She also states how the Yellow Wallpaper symbolizes many things. I agree with the criticism because she makes valid points about how she says one of the symbols is punishment for being a women let alone a mother because the child in the Yellow Wallpaper is not brought up often because the baby was token away from the mother. The tried to leave the narrator in a room as if it was a punishment.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, October 2, you must post a response to the following question:

After reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," read your assigned article of literary criticism in your textbook (see assignments below). In your blog post, post the title of the article you read, provide a brief summary, and explain whether you agree or disagree with it.

Here are the article assignments:
"Gender and Pathology in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" (p. 438): Sheirra, Esbeidy, Karina, Mariana D., Vanessa, Chante

"Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement" (p. 439): Lisa, Mariana B., JaMy'a, Karen, Carla

"Biographical Echoes..." (p. 441): Sara, Yari, Cristal, Dulce, Ciera

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

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Reading/Homework Schedule

Here's the plan for the week:
Due Monday, 9/26: Read "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Due Tuesday, 9/27: Essay Comments/Revisions
Due Wednesday, 9/28: Read "Everyday Use"
No Class Thursday (I remembered this week :)
Due Friday, 9/30: Essay

[Insert Clever Title Here]

If I had to choose one of the stories that we have read as an example of feminist literature then I guess it would have to be A Rose For Emily. It'd kind of hard to explain but I do have a point. Noonan said in class that a feminist is actually someone who makes her own option when she isn't given one.  In a way that's What Emily did.
She had a choice of looking for any other man But she picked Homer. Then When the time came she Had to let him go, Instead she mad the decision to hang on to him... By killing Him and leaving him in his bed for a couple of years. She mad a second option. Instead of choosing to to let him go and look for another mad, she didn't let him go. Its creepy But Still True

no need of a man to survive!!! oh yeah baby

Adrienes Richs is an example of feminist literature. She showed that no women needs to be under a mans control in order to survive. A women can be dependent with no mans help. They can even be better than a man. Believing..stong..confident...and unique a women can be better and have a better life. :)..

Femenist Literature!

I think that Rich's essay was an example 0f femenist literature. I mean, she wrote this essay to convence the young girls to not to let people take control over their lives, and of course to tell them that they have a second option. She says that women are not taken seriously in education, but by writing this essay and using literature correctly, she probably convenced many women or young girls. Rich wrote the essay using proper grammar, tone and symbolism, and that is how she showed everyone that women should be taken seriously.

yea...?!

the story that has most feminism is rich's, she told us that people have to take women serioulsy because you never know that those women might surpass those men. Women arnt just meant to stay home and cook meals, and take care of children, they are meant to do succeed and show men that there not to be looked down on. Even if men have the important jobs women can show them that they can have those jobs too. Also some women surpass in education and other things. One day even a women can become a president thats when men will see were not prey and weak. yup yup

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich's essay, Taking Women Students Seriously, is an example of feminist literature because she talks about how women don't get as much attention as men when it comes to school. She's on women's side and she's taking up for them, plus she's a woman so she knows how it feels. She also talks about how men shouldn't be like superior to women and that they are no better than we are. It also implies that us as women should stand up for equal education rights and not let men run all over us like a football field.

Ciera.

Adrienne Rich's ----Feminist Literature

In my own opinion I think Adrienne Rich's essay is a Feminist Literature because it is a powerful essay about women's rights. Its feminist because she cares about women having rights saying that women can have rights with the right education. She is encouraging young women to go get their education. So women won't have to cook and clean for a man. Also in her essay she was saying that women can get any job that a man can get so it all comes down to have a education. Which mean going to college and doing something with your life.

Women Rule the World!

In Rich's essay the way she empowers women to change the way the world views student women. It awakens women too see what really is going on and realize there needs to be a change. Women students are not taken seriously even though they get the same education as a man. It shows us the negative side of the way women students were seen and view. These students women were seen less and not capable of been married. They were been taken advantage by professor or people in high ranking authority because its a way for the women to advance in her career. In the essay she encourage women students to fight those negative ideas and stand together and fight them and change the way the world thinks.

-Mariana Diaz

Adrienne Rich Essay

I think that the most feminist story we have read was adrienne's essay because she was all about standing up for womens rights and being equal. She talks about how women can be as good as men are so they dont have to bee fallowing to the society of men say. Also because it showes that through out the essay she sais she had never had a women professor that there were only men. She said that the only time that women were allowed to go up front of the class room was only in special occations like when some well women had a paper on the subject of men then they were allowed to go up , and if not well they weren't. She also says that some women had doctorates but couldn't fullfill that spot because men wouldn't allow it to be that way so they had to get a lower paying job and stuff because of that times society. Over all this is why this essay is an example of feminist literature because it shows how women weren't allowed to do many things but even though they weren't women did stand out for what they believed.

Men are the head but women are the necks, you cant have a head w/o a neck :)

The first essay we read by Adrienne Rich is an example of feminist literature. I say this because her essay made valid points about how women have been treated differently just because men have to feel as if they are superior. She states how when she was in high school all her teachers were women with Phd's but had no choice but to be a teacher, but when she went to college she had not one female professor. She also talks about how men expect women to just be like a doormat when it comes to jobs, being a wife, or even being a student trying to pursue a career. Many women are afraid to do something greater then what a man can because they feel they have so much power. So many men have so much power to the point where they can make a sexual gesture to a women and will threaten the woman if they say something then he will fire her or fail her from his class. Rich states that scenario in her essay. Rich shows the dark and the bright side of being a women. She wrote this essay so women can see, and realize we can fight back we just have to have the confidence and the faith to do so.

Adrienne Rich for women.. They are better >:D

So the picture to my right is just a cool picture for the whole feminist idea, including other rights and social issues. This is obviously an old looking add that is cool because during the time of either WWII (or after that) feminists were teaching their daughters they they deserved to be treated equally as well. Along with other ideas such as racism and homophobic people that people started to notice were not equal rights. Anyway, back to focusing on the Feminist, Adrienne Rich's essay was definitely the most feminist piece of literature that we have read so far. She was all for the equal education and respect for women because of the personal first hand experiences she had with males throughout her studies and in the professional world. Rich saw and heard horrible stories on innocent women being abused both physically and mentally, but not once did she hear the same types of situations for innocent men. At the time, she was taking a stand for women and stating what was going on with them as well as the fact that women deserve to be equal to men. She states that women are more than capable to obtain knowledge, independence, freedom, and a professional life.

Men Need Us.!!! W/o Ladies/Women They Would Fail.!!!!

Adrienne Rich Essay would one of the most feminist stories we have read so far, in my opinon. It was about women studies, and it allowed us to know the true facts. One, how women and men are treated equally acording to the world, but if we really take time and study it, we will know that sometime men still have more power. Another example, is how in schools women were not allowed to be professors at certain schools: or how women who had went to school to be lawyers and doctors, had to settle to be a teacher: or how students at Harvard had goals, but the main goal for the ladies were that they marry a man from Harvard. So i would have to say that Adrienne Rich Essay was the most feminist, and it gave us the most background information as well as made us think. Though this essay was written years ago it made us realize that in 2011, we still are not completed and finish with the world as ladies. We have to stand up and take control.

Girls Rule!!!!!

In my opinion the story that I found has what it takes to be considered "Feminist Literature" is Adrienne Rich's essay. I say this because her entire point of writing that essay was to convince women to open their eyes and realize that they can be/do so much better than what men would think they can do. I do not only believe that her way of writing that essay was a feminist way, but it also showed the way she felt about the whole situation. Rich was able to do this because she went through everything that is mentioned in the essay she was a witness to the way that women were being treated. Having read that it makes us as readers in a way feel her pain and also want to stand up and make a difference to change the way many people think of us women. It is a shame to see that even though this amazing essay was written a couple of years ago change has still not been done.

You Jerks finally decided to blog ahead of time Thank You :)

The story that I found the most feminist would be our first essay assignment which was the Adrienne Rich Essay about Women Studies. I think this essay would be one of most feminist one because the way Rich describes women and the way they are treated in society. Rich makes the point that women are considered to be equal to men through law and everything but in reality they aren't as equal as they believe to be. Men are sometimes paid more then women are, even though women work equally as hard. Women should realize how men are being treated better then women and try to change that by getting an education and getting better jobs then just staying home and being stay at home moms.

Teenage Wasteland: Daisy

I would say teenage wasteland is part of feminist literature. Donny's mother Daisy is the one that should be in charge and her children need to listen to her. But when Donny turns bad and doesn't listen they took him to a man named Calvin. He was the one that Donny went to because he knew that he wasn't going to get in trouble with Calvin. But one day the history teacher called Donny"s mother because they found beer in his locker and the mother told the teacher to talk with Calvin. But the teacher said no that she should be doing something because she wouldn't do anything. That Daisy is the mother and she needs to put Donny in his place. I chose this story because to me it seems that Daisy thinks that Calvin is helping Donny when he really isn't. She should take charge and handle her son. When i told my mom about this story she was kinda mad because she said if that were her dealing with someone like that, that she would have put them in their place along time ago. She wouldn't put up with it. That's why i chose this one.

Girl Power! \m/(^-^)

The story I am choosing to write about is Adriane Rich's essay "Taking Women Students Seriously". The essay is an example of feminist literature. In her essay she describes how women should not fall under the command of men command to suppress her but instead to fight back. It is an example of feminist literature because it encourages women to fight back and it does not depict women as house wives that measure their merits by how good a wife she is. The essay shows women as a strong, confident people that do not have to sit around and wait for a men to come save them. Women are depicted as people who have gone against society and yet manage to succeed in it not by mimicking men but by being women in a world that is run by men.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, September 25, you must post a response to the following question:

Choose one of the stories we've read this quarter and explain how it is an example of feminist literature.

In addition, you must comment on at least two of your classmates' entries.

Reading/Homework Schedule

Here's the plan for this week:
Due Tuesday, 9/20: Revision Assignment
Due Wednesday, 9/21: Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (Flannery O'Connor)
Due Thursday, 9/22: Unit 2 Vocab Quiz
Due Friday, 9/23: Essay; Read "The Yellow Wallpaper"

The Lottery

I picked The Lottery because it has a couple of symbols. The main symbol was the box. It symbolized death. The sheet of paper with the dot was also a symbolism for being chosen. If you were to open the box and get the dot you would be stoned to death. Another symbol was the paint coming off which lead to the question of should the tradtion leave as well. One more symbol was the old man, it showed that you cant give away the tradtion because it has been there for all he can remebered, and people just like him could remeber. So in the lottery it was multiple symbolism.

Teenage Wasteland

In the story "Teenage Wasteland" Donnies mom is really worried about him. She sees that he is not the same anymore. Not only are his grades slipping but the way his attitude has changed really worries her. Donnie has changed completely. When he was little he had the blondest hair and the way it was cut made him look all innocent. Once he started to change his hair grew and it hanged over his face and Donnie didnt look the same. His hair symbolizes the change he has gone through and how he wanst the same anymore. As a little kid his hair was nice and neat, now it drapped over his face and it looked nasty. This shows that Donnie was going through some things and his apperance showed how he felt. A persons apperance can sometimes show you how they feel inside. His change of hair was one of the biggest symbols throught the story because Donnie was getting older and his apperence was changing.

"The Lottery"

In "The Lottery" story, I think that the box is the main symbol. The box is described as old and made out of wood. It is also painted black but the paint is pealing off. This symboilizes the tradition in that town. First, the box is painted black, black= death, meaning the stoning of the lucky winner. Second, the paint is pealing off, meaning that the tradition is getting a little bit out of control. Third, It is old, meaning that the tradition is old, and as new people come, new ideas come with them.

The Lottery

There's a lot of symbols in this short story but the one that stuck out the most was the black box. The larger theme this connects to is death. The box is black. Black is a dark color and dark colors such as black, navy blue, and gray represent death sometimes. The box was described as old, black, splintered, and other negative descriptions. At the end the lady ended up dying; she was stoned. She pulled the paper from the black box and she "won" the lottery.

Ciera.

Teenage Wasteland

In Teenage Wasteland the symbol of the basketball represents how Donny life wasnt so consist. His mother paid a lot of attention to him when he was a child and as his became older that started to lessen. His grades would go down and his mother didnt even know it. Just like a basketball that bounce up down and how when you shoot the ball it may go in and it may not.
tHats like Donny's life. One minute things are going up and the next things are going dow. He may try his best but not all the time will he succeed. His mother doesnt see how hard he is trying and that can be why there is no motivation for donny. when you dont have motivation and courage things can fall apart. Jus like Donny and his mother.

Teenage Wasteland

In the story, there was great symbolism which in the end it got us to think about what might happened to Donny. In my opinion, the ball at the end symbolizes Donny. I think say this because when Donny's mother went to pick him up from Carl's house, he was enjoying playing basketball. Which might describe Daisy had that vision. Donny was probably trying to communicate with Daisy to tell her he is saved and not dead. Since the basketball dropped in leaves it is a soft drop.

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

In this story at the end it says that granny weatherall blows out the light after she sees no sign from God. When she is about to die she is looking for her other child. She doesn't find her so she asks God for a sign, nothing happened so she think she was jilted so instead of God jilting her granny, "blows out the light", meaning she rejects going to heaven and goes into darkness, so she can jilt God. Since she got jilted when she was going to get married she didn't want to get jilted again.

Teenage Wasteland

The basketball in the end of the story is a representation of the relationship of Donny and his parents. The basketball is how their relationship was good to bad to good again n then to really bad. When Donny was younger his parents paid attention to him and paid attention to him. As his teenage years came around Donny was doing bad in school his parents did not trust him. Once Cal came around his parents trusted Donny to be out with his friends and Cal. Their relationship was a little better. Then in the end Donny leaves so that is when the basketball hits the pile of leafs representing his absence.

-Mariana Diaz :D

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I think that the box in the lottery represented out dated ideas people had. People are afraid of change and so no one wants to change anything they do even if they don't know why they are doing it for in the first place. The box represents ideas. What the author wants us to do is question those ideas and see what is wrong with them. The box is black therefor its bad, it means that the tradition/idea is bad is dark and needs to be changed. It has chips on the side, maybe the idea/tradition does not need to be completely illiminated but just changed a little. Or maybe it means that the idea is lold and falling apart so it needs to go away forever. The fact that the box never gets replaced, people do not want to change anything because they are afraid of change so they keep everything the same even if its bad.

The lottery Symbol

I thunk that one of the Lottery's main symbol's was the black box. It represented people's out dated ideas and how no matter what they followed the tradition. They didn't even know why they were even doing a lottery and why they were throwing rocks. The box was black, it was chipped on one side, and the guy in charge always wanted to replace it but the towns people never let him. Black usually means bad, the fact that the box was chipped at the side means that the box needed to be replaced or renewed, and the people did not want to change the box made them very stubborn. The big picture of the story is to question things. Why does there need to be a lottery? The box represents an idea or tradition, the color means that its a bad idea or tradition, the chipped side represents the need to change the idea or tradition, the fact that people didn't want to replace it means that the people were scared of change.

A Rose for Emily... CREEPY :O

In the short story, "A Rose for Emily," she is raised by an overprotective and rich father in which she never got the affection of another man. The story is scattered in revealing details of symbolism such as the stench of her house and Emily buying arsenic from the pharmacy, in which she does not say what she is going to use it for. She killed Homer Baron who sis not want to marry her but was with her and hid his body in her house. The fact that she killed him goes back to one of the themes of the story which was the fact that her father never let her be loved by another man. By keeping the body in her house she finally got to keep a man to love and have as her own.

Yay I'm second!!!

In the short story "The Lottery" the symbolism in this story would be the black box. This little box can represent many things. This symbol can represent death because the box is black and it is slowly falling apart. This is happening in the book when it is sitting on the stool. Since the box is old and falling aprt this means that this box been around for a decade or two. Also this gets at the fact that this small town do not like to change anything thats why things are falling apart. There is many other things in the story that symbolism other things but it all refer to traditions.

... I Guess I'll Go First... >.>

       Donnie's hair from  "Teenage Wasteland" symbol of the change in Donnie from when he was little to how he is now. When he was little he had extremely blond hair that almost looked white. Bright and blond hair when it comes to children usually means innocence or purity. This is how Daisy pictured Donnie as a child as it says in the beginning of the short story. It was also cut really short, so short that it had a cowlick in the back of his head which most people would say looks adorable on children and that really emphasizes the idea of innocence in children.
       As Donnie grows older, his hair grows darker and longer. so much that it covers his eyes and the back hair goes up to his shoulder. Dark hair usually symbolizes something evil, demonic, unclean, supernatural, and night. The fact that the hair covers his eyes makes it seem like he has something to hide. It's like he's covering a dirty soul with a blanket of hair. The change in appearance of Donnie's hair is a symbol of change from him being innocent to him being a rebellious disturbed teenager.

Granny umm weatherall

Well one symbol in granny Weatherall is the light. This symbol appeared basically at the end of the story.This symbol was shown when she was in her death bed and she was able to see the light from Cornelia's lamp. Its is like if the light not only symbolized heaven and the good side of her but also hope. The hope in that she wouldn't be jilted by God. She was jilted by the guy she was going to get married with the first time and i guess that the light here at the end represents some sort of hope since her hope was dead when she was jilted the very first time.

This sybmbol connects to the larger view of the story because she decides to turn of the light. Its like if their openign new doors to her or well heaven and she chooses not to go. The reason why she does that is I guess only because she was jilted again and well rejected what ever came from God since he jilted her for the second time.

This Week's Assignment

By 6 P.M. on Sunday, September 18, you must post a response to the following question:

Choose one symbol from any of the short stories we've read so far this year. Then explain how that symbol connects to one of the story's larger themes.

In addition, you must comment on two of your classmates' entries.

Reading/Homework Schedule

Here's the plan for this week:
Due Monday, 9/12: Read "How I Met My Husband"
Due Tuesday, 9/13: Revision Assignment
Due Wednesday, 9/14: Vocab Unit 2
Due Thursday, 9/15: Read "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
Due Friday, 9/16: Essay #3