Saturday, April 11, 2015
Spring Break Poetry
I chose to read and write about the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas. I think that the best prompt for this poem is the prompt that says, "Write a well organized essay in which you analyze how the formal elements of the poem contribute to its meaning." I think that this is the best prompt for this poem because the way that the formal elements are used by the author really contribute to the meaning of the work. The element that stands out the most to me in this poem is the repetition which definitely adds a lot of meaning to this piece of poetry.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Masterpiece in Progress
I've gained some new ideas recently about how to further my progress on my masterpiece. My masterpiece is about music and I wanted to maybe start writing songs and making music with my guitar. A few days ago Joey brought a great idea to me. He said that his masterpiece had to do with going on hikes and making videos about them and posting them to YouTube or other social media. With that being known, he then asked if I wanted to be the music in the background of his videos because YouTube often blocks any copyrighted songs from being used in videos. I quickly thought that it was an awesome idea and a great way to get some of my music heard so I am really looking forward to working on this more with him. I think this will turn out awesome.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Great Expectations Notes
Great Expectations--Dickens
- Bildungsroman is a novel of education. It gives us a lot about the culture in which it was produced. Relies heavily on psychology. Great expectations built around a fantasy
-embodies a typical childhood fantasy
-fantasy are not necessarily a bad thing
-Pip has been orphaned
-very strong sense of being unwanted
-he reacts more strongly than other kids might
-he feels apart from the world
-he thinks that he is meant to do greater things
-Pip wonders if he is wicked and is in someway not good enough for his parents
-he is vulnerable with older males because he has no father figure
-he wants to identify with them
-magwitch=boogie man
-magwitch is the stranger
-he eats like an animal
-implies selfishness and capacity to self indulge
-he is the threat of abandonment for pip
-pip looks at magwitch as tho he might one day be like him
-ms. Havacham is the witch
-her house is gloomy cuz she left her house the same after she was left at the alter
-her preservation of things represents her loss
-pip plays begged ur neighbor with Estella
-Estella has been trained to kill men
-pip ignores it because he is in love with Estella
-ms. H represents adulthood for pip
-pip has no family but Estella does
-Estella sounds like star in Spanish
-these two characters remind him of his insecurities
-this fantasy world gets interupted when they go to London
-when pip sees joes and Jagars he wonders if he should adopt their attitudes
-Jagars no secrets
-joes is strong
-joe lives by feeling, doesn't judge people, poetic view of the world
-Jagars lives by the letter of the law, does not trust people but does trust the facts which is often money
-Jagars uses people for personal gain
-Jagars continually says that he is involved with pip for business
-wemick is like joe at home and Jagars at work
-represents the cost and advantages of being two different people
-magwitch is different overtime
-first he is like pip and then he became evil and then good
-pip actually influences magwitch instead of vice versa
-pip confronts the bad and the good
-pip realizes his fantasy was not true
-he realizes that he was just meat for Estella and pups great expectations were not his own creation
-pip comes to realize that ideas are always being recycled
-how open r we to accept that these recycled ideas are actually there
-orlik attacks mrs.joe and pip actually enjoys it
-he realizes that life happens to everybody
-without suffering the good stuff wouldn't be so good
-pip wants the good stuff but doesn't want to have to go through the bad stuff
-this story is a reckoning at middle age
-he is reflecting back on his past so that he may not repeat it in the future
-the forge is the central moral reference
-pip is a seed
-it is an unrealized potential
Friday, December 12, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Hamlet Essay
As human beings we natural make thousands of decisions a day but some are obviously harder to make than others. Some are made without hesitation, while some are so hard and over-thought that they can consume us until that decision is what defines us. This is demonstrated in the theme and tone that Shakespeare uses in the play Hamlet through Hamlet's phrases such as "to be or not to be."
Throughout the play Hamlet pretends to go crazy but he may actually be going a little crazy over the decision he has to make about whether to kill his father. This is what is contemplated in his "to be or not to be" soliloquy. He is deciding whether "to act or not act" or "to die or to live" and this is what probably drives him insane inside. He goes back and forth on whether it would be better to live with the pain or just die. That alone is a pretty dark thought that shows signs that might be suicidal and on the verge of madness. Shakespeare uses this soliloquy to show the audience what problems Hamlet is facing internally and the madness that faces us Hamlet and all of us when dealing with tough situations.
Some words can become more than just words with definitions. When said out loud and in the right way they can have a profound impact on someone. In the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, the words that Hamlet say are spoken out loud and greatly enhance what he is thinking inside. By saying them out loud he is turning his feelings into reality. The words that he speaks are no longer just words in his head. They suddenly become more meaningful and somehow more important to him. This power that his words possess ultimately lead him to ultimately struggle with the decision that he is faced with. His words suddenly make his madness seem more real to not only him but to the audience as well.
Madness and confusion seem to be a constant theme throughout this play. The way the his words give him power in his soliloquy confirm this theme. Hamlet experiences the craziness that all of us do but we never really say it out loud to give it the power that Hamlet did. If Hamlets "to be or not to be" had been delivered in any other way the message would certainly not have gotten to Hamlet or the audience as effectively.
Throughout the play Hamlet pretends to go crazy but he may actually be going a little crazy over the decision he has to make about whether to kill his father. This is what is contemplated in his "to be or not to be" soliloquy. He is deciding whether "to act or not act" or "to die or to live" and this is what probably drives him insane inside. He goes back and forth on whether it would be better to live with the pain or just die. That alone is a pretty dark thought that shows signs that might be suicidal and on the verge of madness. Shakespeare uses this soliloquy to show the audience what problems Hamlet is facing internally and the madness that faces us Hamlet and all of us when dealing with tough situations.
Some words can become more than just words with definitions. When said out loud and in the right way they can have a profound impact on someone. In the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, the words that Hamlet say are spoken out loud and greatly enhance what he is thinking inside. By saying them out loud he is turning his feelings into reality. The words that he speaks are no longer just words in his head. They suddenly become more meaningful and somehow more important to him. This power that his words possess ultimately lead him to ultimately struggle with the decision that he is faced with. His words suddenly make his madness seem more real to not only him but to the audience as well.
Madness and confusion seem to be a constant theme throughout this play. The way the his words give him power in his soliloquy confirm this theme. Hamlet experiences the craziness that all of us do but we never really say it out loud to give it the power that Hamlet did. If Hamlets "to be or not to be" had been delivered in any other way the message would certainly not have gotten to Hamlet or the audience as effectively.
INTRO TO POETRY
Poem "Out Beyond Ideas" by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
1. The title of this poem is significant because the poem is about leaving all of our ideas behind so that we may see everyone as equals. Our ideas of right and wrong is the reason that their are problems in the world and by leaving them behind we realize that we are actually all equals.
2. I think that the tone of this poem is inspiring and hopeful because the author is hoping to inspire people to leave their ideas behind so that we may not have as many problems in the world.
3. As I read this poem I really began to think about how many problems there are in the world. I think the author is right in that if we just leave our ideas and differences aside then many of the worlds problems that are very severe could possibly be solved or maybe they would never have happened in the first place.
4. In this poem there seems to be a shift from talking about a field that sounds amazing to talking about a world that is full of problems. This shift from a positive feeling to a negative feeling confirms the overall theme of the poem.
5. The theme of this poem is that the world is filled with problems and many of them could possibly be solved if we leave our ideas and our differences aside.
1. The title of this poem is significant because the poem is about leaving all of our ideas behind so that we may see everyone as equals. Our ideas of right and wrong is the reason that their are problems in the world and by leaving them behind we realize that we are actually all equals.
2. I think that the tone of this poem is inspiring and hopeful because the author is hoping to inspire people to leave their ideas behind so that we may not have as many problems in the world.
3. As I read this poem I really began to think about how many problems there are in the world. I think the author is right in that if we just leave our ideas and differences aside then many of the worlds problems that are very severe could possibly be solved or maybe they would never have happened in the first place.
4. In this poem there seems to be a shift from talking about a field that sounds amazing to talking about a world that is full of problems. This shift from a positive feeling to a negative feeling confirms the overall theme of the poem.
5. The theme of this poem is that the world is filled with problems and many of them could possibly be solved if we leave our ideas and our differences aside.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)