"Ozymandias"
Breakdown: line 1: simile. line 2: simile. - line 3: simile. line 4- simile. line 5- simle. Rest of lines: similes
the breakdown of these poems brings me to my conclusion that this poem is almost all similes. There is two quotes, and one metaphor.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
"To His Coy Mistress"
3. "if you please, refuse", "But none, I think, do there embrace", "therefor, while the youthful hue". The arguement is very valid. He is arguing that the youth should refuse what is bad and embrace what is good. That arguement is valid because of simply what it is, arguing for good and against evil. That is a good argument any way you put it, and in any situatuon or scenario it is a good argument.
3. "if you please, refuse", "But none, I think, do there embrace", "therefor, while the youthful hue". The arguement is very valid. He is arguing that the youth should refuse what is bad and embrace what is good. That arguement is valid because of simply what it is, arguing for good and against evil. That is a good argument any way you put it, and in any situatuon or scenario it is a good argument.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
"A "Dream Deffered"
1. The one metaphor in the poem is, "does it fester like a sore, and then run?". The position is good, it is in the top of the middle and it comes in right after a few simiies, and is then followed by a few similies. Its effectiveness is very high. It stands out from the rest of the poem because it is the one metahphor and it is the most powerful line because it is a metaphor and not a similie among a poem full of them.
"Song of Powers"
4. The final stanza says that the power of nature is only what you make it. It says that paper snuffs rock, that is metaphorical to "rock, paper, scissors". Psychical power is destructive and affirmative. It is hard to select just one to use because psychical power is more complicated then it seems. Yes it does desetruct things psychically but also mentally.
1. The one metaphor in the poem is, "does it fester like a sore, and then run?". The position is good, it is in the top of the middle and it comes in right after a few simiies, and is then followed by a few similies. Its effectiveness is very high. It stands out from the rest of the poem because it is the one metahphor and it is the most powerful line because it is a metaphor and not a similie among a poem full of them.
"Song of Powers"
4. The final stanza says that the power of nature is only what you make it. It says that paper snuffs rock, that is metaphorical to "rock, paper, scissors". Psychical power is destructive and affirmative. It is hard to select just one to use because psychical power is more complicated then it seems. Yes it does desetruct things psychically but also mentally.
Monday, April 21, 2008
"The Hound"
1. Equivocal means open to more than one interpretation. This is a key word in the poem because its can be interpreted in so many diferent mays throughout the poem. The wording in the poem supports this anwser because the words support double meanings and can mislead or redirect the reader.
1. Equivocal means open to more than one interpretation. This is a key word in the poem because its can be interpreted in so many diferent mays throughout the poem. The wording in the poem supports this anwser because the words support double meanings and can mislead or redirect the reader.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
“Those Winter Sundays” pg. 64
4. The speaker views the subject mater of the poem from a week day, not a Sunday, possibly a Monday. In the interval, the speaker has realized that nobody had ever gave his father credit for all the work he did, and he realized this on a Sunday because of all the work he went through to make everyone happy and get everyone to church. His father could possibly be dead and he just realized this and wrote is.
“Woman Work” pg. 188
3. The chores that are not woman’s work, reveal that the woman is indeed a slave, and those chores are slave work. It reveals the extremity and hardness of the works she does everyday, and how event though she does woman’s work, she must do hard labor slave work out in the fields.
4. The speaker views the subject mater of the poem from a week day, not a Sunday, possibly a Monday. In the interval, the speaker has realized that nobody had ever gave his father credit for all the work he did, and he realized this on a Sunday because of all the work he went through to make everyone happy and get everyone to church. His father could possibly be dead and he just realized this and wrote is.
“Woman Work” pg. 188
3. The chores that are not woman’s work, reveal that the woman is indeed a slave, and those chores are slave work. It reveals the extremity and hardness of the works she does everyday, and how event though she does woman’s work, she must do hard labor slave work out in the fields.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
”Hazel Tells Laverne” pg. 141-142
3. The poems use of irony is when u think that the girl is going to want to kiss the frog and become a princess, she instead quickly hits it with a mop and flushes it down the toilet, unlike what everyone else does in stories like this where they find talking animals or enchanted frogs they usually embrace them and praise them, not this girl, as soon as it talked and told her to kiss it she flushed it down as fast as she could.
3. The poems use of irony is when u think that the girl is going to want to kiss the frog and become a princess, she instead quickly hits it with a mop and flushes it down the toilet, unlike what everyone else does in stories like this where they find talking animals or enchanted frogs they usually embrace them and praise them, not this girl, as soon as it talked and told her to kiss it she flushed it down as fast as she could.
Friday, April 11, 2008
“We Real Cool” pg. 188
3. The poetic device the critis misunderstood was, yes he was talking about immoral things but he was following it all by saying they were bad by sayin “we die soon”. The reader is not talking about himself even though it might sound so, what he is doing could be a minor form of mockery.
“Richard Cory” pg. 397-398
The reason Richard killed himself was because he was lonely and unhappy. On the outside he appeared to be this happy man, who was wealthy and single. But on the inside, his being wealthy was making him even unhappier, he had no wife, nor children, he is the only family member left in his family. It all boils down to him being very lonely.
“Good Times” pg. 349
My familys good times are similar to her families good times. I don’t have the lights turned out very often, but what other good times we have in the family is to watch a movie or to play cards.
3. The poetic device the critis misunderstood was, yes he was talking about immoral things but he was following it all by saying they were bad by sayin “we die soon”. The reader is not talking about himself even though it might sound so, what he is doing could be a minor form of mockery.
“Richard Cory” pg. 397-398
The reason Richard killed himself was because he was lonely and unhappy. On the outside he appeared to be this happy man, who was wealthy and single. But on the inside, his being wealthy was making him even unhappier, he had no wife, nor children, he is the only family member left in his family. It all boils down to him being very lonely.
“Good Times” pg. 349
My familys good times are similar to her families good times. I don’t have the lights turned out very often, but what other good times we have in the family is to watch a movie or to play cards.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
“A Pathedy of Manners” pg. 44-45
4. The speaker shifts her language about the person in the poem about half way through the poem. At first she talks about how popular and beautiful she is and then halfway through she starts to talk about how lonely and sad she is after losing her husband and getting older. Examples from the writing that show this are when she sais “illusions of lost opportunity” and when she sais “they had an ideal marriage”.
“Cross” pg. 48-49
1. The connoations the title has is that black and white don’t mean skin color but maybe it represents them on the inside. The denotations are that white and black mean the color of the skin abut then it sais he is neither white nor black which would contradict that completely.
4. The speaker shifts her language about the person in the poem about half way through the poem. At first she talks about how popular and beautiful she is and then halfway through she starts to talk about how lonely and sad she is after losing her husband and getting older. Examples from the writing that show this are when she sais “illusions of lost opportunity” and when she sais “they had an ideal marriage”.
“Cross” pg. 48-49
1. The connoations the title has is that black and white don’t mean skin color but maybe it represents them on the inside. The denotations are that white and black mean the color of the skin abut then it sais he is neither white nor black which would contradict that completely.
“A Study of Reading Habits” 4/7/08
1. The three stages in the stanzas that the poem detonates are his childhood years where he went to school, his middle age years where he was very sexually active and his old man years.
2. The speaker is a very self contained, quiet person. It seems like he might have been bullied in school and that he doesn’t have much trust for mankind. The kind of books he reads is books with villains and superheroes, and books with Draculla and Frankenstein. No, I don’t think that the man in the poem is the poet.
1. The three stages in the stanzas that the poem detonates are his childhood years where he went to school, his middle age years where he was very sexually active and his old man years.
2. The speaker is a very self contained, quiet person. It seems like he might have been bullied in school and that he doesn’t have much trust for mankind. The kind of books he reads is books with villains and superheroes, and books with Draculla and Frankenstein. No, I don’t think that the man in the poem is the poet.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Introduction to Literature
Griffin Carew
4/2/08
“Mirror” ”Is my team plowing”
#2 and #3
2. Unlike a person Like a person Like a lake
-it is a lake - it can express thought - it retains water
-it is water -it can think - it gives off a reflection
-it reflects the woman - it has feeling
3. The three different meanings suggested by the word sleep are to rest your mind, rest your body, and rest your soul. There are two meanings suggested by the word bed, a place for you to lay psychically and mentally.
Griffin Carew
4/2/08
“Mirror” ”Is my team plowing”
#2 and #3
2. Unlike a person Like a person Like a lake
-it is a lake - it can express thought - it retains water
-it is water -it can think - it gives off a reflection
-it reflects the woman - it has feeling
3. The three different meanings suggested by the word sleep are to rest your mind, rest your body, and rest your soul. There are two meanings suggested by the word bed, a place for you to lay psychically and mentally.
“A Study of Reading Habits” 4/4/08
1. The three stages in the stanzas that the poem detonates are his childhood years where he went to school, his middle age years where he was very sexually active and his old man years.
2. The speaker is a very self contained, quiet person. It seems like he might have been bullied in school and that he doesn’t have much trust for mankind. The kind of books he reads is books with villains and superheroes, and books with Draculla and Frankenstein. No, I don’t think that the man in the poem is the poet.
1. The three stages in the stanzas that the poem detonates are his childhood years where he went to school, his middle age years where he was very sexually active and his old man years.
2. The speaker is a very self contained, quiet person. It seems like he might have been bullied in school and that he doesn’t have much trust for mankind. The kind of books he reads is books with villains and superheroes, and books with Draculla and Frankenstein. No, I don’t think that the man in the poem is the poet.
Friday, January 18, 2008
The "Doll House" had a great ending. In its entirety i didnt like the story very much, i liked parts of it but overall i didnt like the story. But the ending made me like it alot more. I found it interesting, mysterious and exciting at the same time. Helmer, Krogstad, Nora, Mrs. Linde, it all fits together now. Like a puzzle. Overall it was a decent story but i would say i would read it again.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
This part of the story was very exciting, all the pieces of the story are starting to fall into place, Krogstad, Helmer, ora, Linde, it is all starting to make sense now, now i understand the story much better than i did, still a little confused at some parts, but for the most part i understand, it was very interesting, i like this part, probably my favorite part of the entire story, best part by very far.
I did not like this part of the story, incredibly scandulous, but yet not too excting, bored me to much, yes she was funny, but not that funny, i did like the whole sexual part but it really wasnt that good, i found all the other parts of the story to be extrememly boring and not interesting, besides taht it was pretty good, so i hope the next part of the story is much more interesting.
Friday, January 11, 2008
This part of the story bored me. Although Krogstad convinces Nora to talk to her husband using blackmail, i still was not interested. Helmer is smarter than that and he will know what she is up to. I think Krogstad will end up vanishing. I thnik Mr. Helmer will end up dying or being murdered before the end of the story. Nora will murder Torvald or the doctor will kill himself. This is very interesting to me because i dont get this story at all.I cant wait to see how t turns out.
I found this part of the story very interesting. Nora acts more childish than ever and Torvaldr treats her like a child more than ever. It seems like she is going to snap pretty soon because she cant take Torvald treating her like he has.When the doctor comes to there house I am confused on what they are talking about. Maybe killing Mr. Helmer, maybe killing himself. Im not sure but whatever it is i think it is very important to the story. Anne- Marie must be only an ok friend with Nora it seems like. The maid has nos signifigance to the story it seems like. I think Helmer s going to die of a sicknes or be murdered.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
I found it very interesting that Nora had a squirrel rummaging around her house. That was very unusual. I also found it interesting that they took a stand againsst their mortgage it sounds like. I think Mr. Helmer is sick with something, that is why he has a doctor here to see him and that is why he does not want to see visitors. i found it interesting the Torvald (Mr. Helmer) has the qualifications to just switch his job from a lawyer to a bank manager, it shows he is very well educated.
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