Wednesday, April 23, 2008

"To His Coy Mistress"

If you knew how much i loved you, you would pay attenion to what i am trying to say.
But your not listeneing and you won't give me you in the way that want you.
Therefore we won't be able to being together our love to become what I have longed for.

No, I don't think this argument is valid, because you are supposed to love them even when they become old not just when they are young. You are supposed to be with someone forever not just for one night to furfill this fantasy he has been dreaming about. You can't always get what you want, and she is waiting for marriage and doesn't trust him enough to give him herself yet, which he, nor understand, excpets, or likes.

Monday, April 21, 2008

"The Hound"

1. The only word i did not know was equivocal.

2. The speaker is someone that is very confused with this hound. This person or animal does not know whether it will become friends with this dog, or the dog will bite it or tackle it. The line, "Either to rend me. Or to befriend me." Is showing that there is a lot of confusion of where these to figures stand in terms of their relationship. Another line that shows the confusion is, "At my bare hand, With teeth or tounge." It stands there nto knowing what to do until this hound dog makes the first move. The speaker is frightened and nervoulsy awaiting this hounds' first move.

3.The stiuation is nervously awaiting a hound's move to determine a friendship that could end up great or just end.

4. The hound dog is scoping out this figure to tell whether it will attack it or befriend it, the scenary is not specific and when it is happening isn't very specific either.

5. The tone is scared, nervous, fightened, anxious.

6. The phrase, "Life the hound, Equivocal, Comes at a bound." is very confusing. I think it is trying to say that the hound's life is equil to what will happen next in this next period of time. "Meanwhile I stand And wait the event." Meaning this figure is not moving until he/she finds out what will happen with them and this hound dog.

7. The theme of this poem is to show that you can never know who your friends are and sometimes you can make a dissision that determines who your friends are, whether you will attack them as enemies or give the a chance as a friend.

8. The author ahieves this by making the speaker sound pretrified to find out what this hound is going to do. The author makes it so you will be guessing until the end, then they never end up telling you if the hound befriends them or not it is just a mystery until the end.

Bereft

There is the person who is very lonely and fearful. They don't have much time because the seasons are changing almost instantly and fear lies ahead. The fear of fall and being lonley again another season. Implies that fall is something to be afraid of with the line "Change like to a deeper roar." All memories of summer are fading. "Summer was past and day was past." The tone of the poem is anger, frusteration, and some sort of fear. "Something sinister in the tone", is showing that fall is like a sin. This person seems like he has some sort of religous views, because it talks about being "sinister"and the last line in the poem is, "Word I had no one left but God." The speaker could either be outside watching teh mystery of the chaning seasons or inside observing the sunny skies turn grey. It is most like outside though, since in the middle of the poem it states, "Blindly struck at me knees and missed." It is talking about the wind, meaning that it is not fall yet, but the more the wind comes the more summer and the season of happiness and calirity disapeers.

Friday, April 18, 2008

“Out, Out----“

1. There was only one word that I did not recognized, which was Ether.

2. The speaker is this outsider who is watching this little boy do all this work, which he is struggling with. He can barley handle this work load because it is meant for a man not a little child. “ Since he was old enough to know, big boy, doing a man’s work, through a child heart.” The speaker could have been this child’s sister, the one he cries out to when they want to cut off his arm.

3. The situation is that there is this hard working little boy who works all the time and does jobs that are a huge challenge for him. He does them anyway though. Then this doctor comes to their house and wants to cut off his arm. He cries out to his sister to tell her no, but the doctor went through with the pursedure. This ended in the little boy’s death. “No more to build on there.” This means that since the little boy has passed there was going to be no more building, no harder jobs that would be completed.

4. This is happening in the 40’s or 50’s. The three characters are the little boy, who works like an older man, the sister, and the doctor. This is all happening when the little boy is done working (building) and it is placed at his house.

5. The tone is more of a depressing, angry, and very fast paced. They give you very little time to explain the characters and go straight into the death of the little boy. At the beginning everything is pleasant and dandy, but then when the doctor arrives it is as if everything had gone down hill right then and there. Nothing had happened according to plan and in a way the tone was shocking.

6. Important phrases include:
“ That boy counts so much when saved from work.”
“ Doing a man’s work, through a child at heart.”
“ The doctor put him in the dark of ether.”
“ Little less nothing! And that ending it.”
“ No more to build on there.”

7. The theme of this poem is uncertainty is life. That life could end at any minute and that for this little boy it was a terrible loss of talent and potential. He dedicated his life to do a man’s job and was wiped out in return.

8. The Author achieves this by making the boy so irresistible and hard working that when this tragedy happens you feel so sad. You want to ask so many questions because since the author made the little boy such a hard worker and was pushed to grow older made him more of a great kid who didn’t deserve what had happened to him.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Greenleaf

The Greenleaf family is this some-what normal well preserved nice family who has the children that every parent dreams of. Even though they don’t have a lot of money Mrs. Greenleaf is a little psychotic the children have turned out beautifully they are kind, compassionate, are married and have a wonderful life. Mrs. May is discussed by this she has money and had what she thought of as a well-rounded family. Then her husband passed and now her children are one big nightmare. They still live at home and don’t appreciate her one bit. All they care about is themselves and what will make them happy in the future, but that their mother is working as hard as she can to leave them something when she passes and is struggling to make a better life for them. Mrs. May probably gets more social credibility and has a better social life, but she secretly envied the life of Mrs. Greenleaf. In the long run the Greenleaf family will be better off and Mrs. May will still be struggling with her work and family that is so passed perfect there is not point of trying to fix it.