Incident
:What accounts for the effectiveness of the last stanza? Comment on the title. Is it in key with the meaning of the poem?
The last stanza shows how much the speaker is frustrated after hearing the demeaning word from a guy who is similar in his age and size. He said, “I saw the whole of Baltimore” in line 9. It describes that he views the whole Baltimore as a racist city after getting insulted. Before the speaker experienced this incident, he seems to be a friendly and naïve boy as it says in line 7 “And so I smiled”. The incident changed the boy’s view of other people and he labeled the whole city to be racist.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
"The Snow Man" break down
1. read it through
2. bough=a branch of a tree
Juniper=any of numerous shrubs or trees
Shagged=to make rough
3. The speaker can be any man who is talking in the winter trying to convey an idea.
4. The speaker is looking at shrubs glazed with ice, which looks shine but it is rough on the surface when a person touches it. The place takes in anywhere that shrub exist. It is a cold winter in the early 1900s.
5. The tone is bright but depressed at the same time. The author realizes that in life, many things seem to be great like the shining ices on shrubs. However, the reality is challenging and tough like the hard surface of the ice.
6. In the line 6, the author says, “The spruces rough in the distant glitter”. This line puts a musicality in the poem. When reading this line, a reader tends to draw into the poem. Snow is used as a tool to describe the theme
7. Theme is that many events in the world are described and shown in good ways, however, when it comes to a reality it isn’t always like that but touch and stressful.
8. The author uses “of” to start with a line for several times giving some musicality. Also in the line 10, he says “Which is the sound of the land”. The word ‘sound’ and ‘land’ gives another musicality.
2. bough=a branch of a tree
Juniper=any of numerous shrubs or trees
Shagged=to make rough
3. The speaker can be any man who is talking in the winter trying to convey an idea.
4. The speaker is looking at shrubs glazed with ice, which looks shine but it is rough on the surface when a person touches it. The place takes in anywhere that shrub exist. It is a cold winter in the early 1900s.
5. The tone is bright but depressed at the same time. The author realizes that in life, many things seem to be great like the shining ices on shrubs. However, the reality is challenging and tough like the hard surface of the ice.
6. In the line 6, the author says, “The spruces rough in the distant glitter”. This line puts a musicality in the poem. When reading this line, a reader tends to draw into the poem. Snow is used as a tool to describe the theme
7. Theme is that many events in the world are described and shown in good ways, however, when it comes to a reality it isn’t always like that but touch and stressful.
8. The author uses “of” to start with a line for several times giving some musicality. Also in the line 10, he says “Which is the sound of the land”. The word ‘sound’ and ‘land’ gives another musicality.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sound and Sense 119
The Chimney Sweeper
1. The boy seems like he has been cleansing the chimney for so long time that his brain thinks working for his master is the right thing to do. The boy certainly has positive view of life. On the other hand, the speaker has negative view. The speaker thinks selling the boy to the work is terrible and using young workers are more terrible. I guess the boy is too young to even notice what is good and what is bad, and he is brain washed by the master.
1. The boy seems like he has been cleansing the chimney for so long time that his brain thinks working for his master is the right thing to do. The boy certainly has positive view of life. On the other hand, the speaker has negative view. The speaker thinks selling the boy to the work is terrible and using young workers are more terrible. I guess the boy is too young to even notice what is good and what is bad, and he is brain washed by the master.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sound and Sense 117/121
Barbie Doll
1. The author is describing a doll as if it is a real girl. That’s one way of approaching to the readers. The personalities that are given to the girl indicate the features of the doll. The author seems to make fun of how Barbie dolls depicted the girls at that time.
Ozymandias
1. read it through
2. visage= face
3. the speaker is a guy who has been traveling.
4. the speaker had an accident and somehow stuck in a desert with broken gears. But, he looks like he survived. The situation would be in the early 1800s.
5. The tone seems exhausted from the struggle to survive from an accident and desolate as the setting is in the desert with sand blowing.
6. The word ‘sand’ makes the tone solicit and dry. It makes the speaker desperate to survive from the accident. In line 10, it says “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”. He is recalling his heydays when he was a great traveler.
7. The theme is the emptiness of life after losing what one had.
1. The author is describing a doll as if it is a real girl. That’s one way of approaching to the readers. The personalities that are given to the girl indicate the features of the doll. The author seems to make fun of how Barbie dolls depicted the girls at that time.
Ozymandias
1. read it through
2. visage= face
3. the speaker is a guy who has been traveling.
4. the speaker had an accident and somehow stuck in a desert with broken gears. But, he looks like he survived. The situation would be in the early 1800s.
5. The tone seems exhausted from the struggle to survive from an accident and desolate as the setting is in the desert with sand blowing.
6. The word ‘sand’ makes the tone solicit and dry. It makes the speaker desperate to survive from the accident. In line 10, it says “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”. He is recalling his heydays when he was a great traveler.
7. The theme is the emptiness of life after losing what one had.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sound and Sense 385/ 82
The Victoms
--The victims are the rest of the family whom the father or stepfather abandoned. Throughout the poem, we can feel the how much the rest of the family despises him. After the father left, the family seems to have mental and financial problem; therefore started taking ‘it’, which I assume to be a drug. The family wants the x father to fail in everything.
Toads
4. The speaker is reluctant to live his life the way it is. However, he is afraid to speak up to the boss and get out of it. Instead, he complains to himself by making himself look miserable. The first toad indicates the complaints to himself while the second toad represents that he is not courageous enough to say it to the boss. In other words, the second one is how he actual reacts in the reality.
5. The speaker is exhausted from the work and has tons of stress. However, he couldn’t quit because he could not survive in the world without a job. He thinks the life he has right now is not the life he wanted. He is just a ordinary workers at an office getting stress from the boss.
--The victims are the rest of the family whom the father or stepfather abandoned. Throughout the poem, we can feel the how much the rest of the family despises him. After the father left, the family seems to have mental and financial problem; therefore started taking ‘it’, which I assume to be a drug. The family wants the x father to fail in everything.
Toads
4. The speaker is reluctant to live his life the way it is. However, he is afraid to speak up to the boss and get out of it. Instead, he complains to himself by making himself look miserable. The first toad indicates the complaints to himself while the second toad represents that he is not courageous enough to say it to the boss. In other words, the second one is how he actual reacts in the reality.
5. The speaker is exhausted from the work and has tons of stress. However, he couldn’t quit because he could not survive in the world without a job. He thinks the life he has right now is not the life he wanted. He is just a ordinary workers at an office getting stress from the boss.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sound and Sense 86
3. If my girl knows the love that I have to her, she would definitely love me.
But, my feeling has not been reached her yet; still I love her
Therefore we will never be successful as I expected at the first place.
I think this is definitely a valid argument since it summarizes the feeling of the man in the poem.
But, my feeling has not been reached her yet; still I love her
Therefore we will never be successful as I expected at the first place.
I think this is definitely a valid argument since it summarizes the feeling of the man in the poem.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sound and Sense 86/ 74-75
Dream Deferred
1. The five similes in the poem are the things we can expect. For instance, sweetness, dryness, and stink are not that surprising. In fact the author seems to draw readers’ attention with these similes. But with the metaphor at the end, which says “Or does it explode”, the author changes the direction and makes readers to think and figure out where did it come from. The metaphor at the end gives meaning to the poem while making the readers to comprehend it.
Song of the Powers
4. on the last line of the final stanza says, “They all end alone as you will, you will”. The term, ‘You’, refers to human being in general and it says all the power in the world will not last forever but will end up bleak and lonely. The author believes every physical power will somehow get lost. He uses metaphors of birds and scissors to illustrate it.
1. The five similes in the poem are the things we can expect. For instance, sweetness, dryness, and stink are not that surprising. In fact the author seems to draw readers’ attention with these similes. But with the metaphor at the end, which says “Or does it explode”, the author changes the direction and makes readers to think and figure out where did it come from. The metaphor at the end gives meaning to the poem while making the readers to comprehend it.
Song of the Powers
4. on the last line of the final stanza says, “They all end alone as you will, you will”. The term, ‘You’, refers to human being in general and it says all the power in the world will not last forever but will end up bleak and lonely. The author believes every physical power will somehow get lost. He uses metaphors of birds and scissors to illustrate it.
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