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.

Comment on vivis post :)

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.