Poems are used to describe how people feel about a situation or what that person believes in. Also it helps that poet to alleviate on his/her emotions and maybe express some things in a creative way that could help the audience or reader learn something new in such a detailed manner. In John Donne’s, “A Valediction” Forbidding Mourning,” it depicts how normal peoples’ love is so boring and sublunary, but on the other hand his love is unbreakable and celestial. Then in Judith Minty’s “Conjoined,” it represents a marriage poem, and shows how love is like conjoined twins who go through some complications during their journey. Both of the authors demonstrate this through imagery, simile, and diction.
Imagery gives off the illusion of what is expected to be seen in the time of the event and how it is being portrayed. For example, from “Conjoined,” “The onion in my cupboard, a monster, actually two joined under one transparent skin,” is an easy illustration and can actually capture the reader to see how a twin can be attached through the image of an onion. She wants that hard detail of how inseparable twins and lovers could be and are meant to be together. However, being attached to one another could cause some problems and like a “monster” there shall be some difficulties along the way. Along with that, in “A Valediction,” he explains how “they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses are two; thy soul, the fix foot, makes no show to move, but doth, of th’other do,” illustrates how his love would be linked to that of a twin and how it should be identical to that. Not only that, but there is an immense type of level of how his love is so strong because he uses the imagination of how each lover should be like twins with sync movements and actions. It is with such delight that these two authors use imagery because it helps create scenery which helps to understand the poem in a simple way but also entertaining and keeps the audience satisfied.
Furthermore, the simile in this mostly tells how they portray love in their own point of view. Such as, from Judith’s poem, there is “an accident, like the two-headed calf rooted in one body, fighting to suck at its mother’s teats; or like those other freaks, Chang and Eng, twins joined at the chest by skin and muscle, doomed to live, even make love, together for sixty years,” which actually gives the idea of how conjoined twins seriously have it hard, which is what happens in a marriage. There will be hard times where couples fight and bicker but that is what has to be endured when they make a decision to live together for the rest of their lives. Yet again, married couples are definitely like Chang and Eng or the two-headed calf, inseparable and always challenging themselves to each obstacle that comes their way in order to live a life that they chose or was given to them. Also, from John Donne’s poem, “A breach, but an expansion like gold to airy thinness beat,” is how lovely his relationship would be and how he compares it to gold really shows how important his feelings are. Compatible to the air how lightly his love carries is such a beautiful way to describe the feelings of such a spiritual emotion that goes on and on. Also when he mentions how it beats makes it seem like a never ending devotion to his anonymous aficionada. These are indeed great views of similes and the way it is being revealed has a great impact on the meaning of each poem.
Last but not least, diction, which boosts each description or line that is being unveiled and has a hard effect on what the author really wants to be understood. For example, in the marriage poem, “Do you feel the skin that binds us together as we move, heavy in this house?” The word heavy is such a magnificent strategy of describing how the twins feel as they move together. It aids the fact that with a couple when they move along side by side and work together, there will be more heavy loads of bills, laundry, and responsibility, but with each moving step, they are there together to lean against when times are tough. There will always be a person next to them whenever each one of them falls, and it is one of the benefits of being conjoined twins or a married couple. In comparison to that, John’s poem has the stanza that states “Dulls sublunary lover’ love (whose soul is sense) cannot admit absence, because it doth remove those things which elemented it.” So much diction in there, like elemented, absence, and sublunary that honestly makes this poem worth reading and shows how normal lovers are missing the spice in their relationship. Not only that, but “dull sublunary” just shows how boring and uninterested the love is in some conditions with certain people who find it unworthy to feel and embrace the natural way of love. The energy and spark that keeps it moving is gone and the elements needed in a good couple is vanished from what is being informed from this piece of information.
Even though the two poems had different ways of revealing love and affection, they both conquered the gist of it all. It was all so heart-warming but also humorous to read which gave the poem some creativity. The literary devices in these immensely had an impact on how everything was told, the meaning behind it, and how it was understood; which definitely concludes that love is like a battlefield but also could be rewarding in the end if all goes well.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Love= :) or :( ??? keke
Poems are used to describe how people feel about a situation or what that person believes in. Also it helps that poet to alleviate on his/her emotions and maybe express some things in a creative way that could help the audience or reader learn something new in such a detailed manner. In John Donne’s, “A Valediction” Forbidding Mourning,” it depicts how normal peoples’ love is so boring and sublunary, but on the other hand his love is unbreakable and celestial. Then in Judith Minty’s “Conjoined,” it represents a marriage poem, and shows how love is like conjoined twins which are in comparison to an onion. Both of the authors demonstrate this through imagery, simile, and diction.
Imagery gives off the illusion of what is expected to be seen in the time of the event and how it is being portrayed. For example, from “Conjoined,” “The onion in my cupboard, a monster, actually two joined under one transparent skin,” is an easy illustration and can actually capture the reader to see how a twin can be attached through the image of an onion. She wants that hard detail of how inseparable twins and lovers could be and are meant to be together. Along with that, in “A Valediction,” he explains how “they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses are two; thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show to move, but doth, of th’other do,” illustrates how his love would be linked to that of a twin and how it should be identical to that. Not only that, but there is an immense type of level of how his love is so strong because he uses the imagination of how each lover should be like twins with sync movements and actions. It is with such delight that these two authors use imagery because it helps create scenery which helps to understand the poem in a simple way but also entertaining and keeps the audience satisfied.
Furthermore, the simile in this mostly tells how they portray love in their own point of view. Such as, from Judith’s poem, there is “an accident, like the two-headed calf rooted in one body, fighting to suck at its mother’s teats; or like those other freaks, Chang and Eng, twins joined at the chest by skin and muscle, doomed to live, even make love, together for sixty years,” which actually gives the idea of how conjoined twins seriously have it hard, which is what happens in a marriage. There will be hard times where couples fight and bicker but that is what has to be endured when they make a decision to live together for the rest of their lives. Yet again, married couples are definitely like Chang and Eng or the two-headed calf, inseparable and always challenging themselves to each obstacle that comes their way in order to live a life that they chose or was given to them. Also, from John Donne’s poem, “A breach, but an expansion like gold to airy thinness beat,” is how lovely his relationship would be and how he compares it to gold really shows how important his feelings are. Compatible to the air how lightly his love carries is such a beautiful way to describe the feelings of such a spiritual emotion that goes on and on. Also when he mentions how it beats makes it seem like a never ending devotion to his anonymous aficionada. These are indeed great views of similes and the way it is being revealed has a great impact on the meaning of each poem.
Last but not least, diction, which boosts each description or line that is being unveiled and has a hard effect on what the author really wants to be understood. For example, in the marriage poem, “Do you feel the skin that binds us together as we move, heavy in this house?” The word heavy is such a magnificent strategy of describing how the twins feel as they move together. It aids the fact that with a couple when they move along side by side and work together, there will be more heavy loads of bills, laundry, and responsibility, but with each moving step they are there together to lean against when times are tough. There will always be a person next to them whenever each one of them falls, and it is one of the benefits of being conjoined twins or a married couple. In comparison to that, John’s poem has the stanza that states “Dulls sublunary lover’ love (whose soul is sense) cannot admit absence, because it doth remove those things which elemented it.” So much diction in there, like elemented, absence, and sublunary that honestly makes this poem worth reading and shows how normal lovers are missing the spice in their relationship. The energy and spark that keeps it moving is gone and the elements needed in a good couple is vanished from what is being informed from this piece of information.
Even though the two poems had different ways of revealing love and affection, they both conquered the gist of it all. It was all so heart-warming but also humorous to read which gave the poem some creativity. The figurative languages in these immensely had an impact on how everything was told, the meaning behind it, and how it was understood; which definitely concludes that love is like a battlefield but also could be rewarding in the end if all goes well.
Imagery gives off the illusion of what is expected to be seen in the time of the event and how it is being portrayed. For example, from “Conjoined,” “The onion in my cupboard, a monster, actually two joined under one transparent skin,” is an easy illustration and can actually capture the reader to see how a twin can be attached through the image of an onion. She wants that hard detail of how inseparable twins and lovers could be and are meant to be together. Along with that, in “A Valediction,” he explains how “they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses are two; thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show to move, but doth, of th’other do,” illustrates how his love would be linked to that of a twin and how it should be identical to that. Not only that, but there is an immense type of level of how his love is so strong because he uses the imagination of how each lover should be like twins with sync movements and actions. It is with such delight that these two authors use imagery because it helps create scenery which helps to understand the poem in a simple way but also entertaining and keeps the audience satisfied.
Furthermore, the simile in this mostly tells how they portray love in their own point of view. Such as, from Judith’s poem, there is “an accident, like the two-headed calf rooted in one body, fighting to suck at its mother’s teats; or like those other freaks, Chang and Eng, twins joined at the chest by skin and muscle, doomed to live, even make love, together for sixty years,” which actually gives the idea of how conjoined twins seriously have it hard, which is what happens in a marriage. There will be hard times where couples fight and bicker but that is what has to be endured when they make a decision to live together for the rest of their lives. Yet again, married couples are definitely like Chang and Eng or the two-headed calf, inseparable and always challenging themselves to each obstacle that comes their way in order to live a life that they chose or was given to them. Also, from John Donne’s poem, “A breach, but an expansion like gold to airy thinness beat,” is how lovely his relationship would be and how he compares it to gold really shows how important his feelings are. Compatible to the air how lightly his love carries is such a beautiful way to describe the feelings of such a spiritual emotion that goes on and on. Also when he mentions how it beats makes it seem like a never ending devotion to his anonymous aficionada. These are indeed great views of similes and the way it is being revealed has a great impact on the meaning of each poem.
Last but not least, diction, which boosts each description or line that is being unveiled and has a hard effect on what the author really wants to be understood. For example, in the marriage poem, “Do you feel the skin that binds us together as we move, heavy in this house?” The word heavy is such a magnificent strategy of describing how the twins feel as they move together. It aids the fact that with a couple when they move along side by side and work together, there will be more heavy loads of bills, laundry, and responsibility, but with each moving step they are there together to lean against when times are tough. There will always be a person next to them whenever each one of them falls, and it is one of the benefits of being conjoined twins or a married couple. In comparison to that, John’s poem has the stanza that states “Dulls sublunary lover’ love (whose soul is sense) cannot admit absence, because it doth remove those things which elemented it.” So much diction in there, like elemented, absence, and sublunary that honestly makes this poem worth reading and shows how normal lovers are missing the spice in their relationship. The energy and spark that keeps it moving is gone and the elements needed in a good couple is vanished from what is being informed from this piece of information.
Even though the two poems had different ways of revealing love and affection, they both conquered the gist of it all. It was all so heart-warming but also humorous to read which gave the poem some creativity. The figurative languages in these immensely had an impact on how everything was told, the meaning behind it, and how it was understood; which definitely concludes that love is like a battlefield but also could be rewarding in the end if all goes well.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
O'Brien's Truth In Things
The first thought that came into my mind as I was reading the article was "WOW!! This is p-r-e-t-t-y long...." But I am glad I read it because it gave me an insight on O'Brien's strategy of demonstrating the Vietnam War stories to the readers. So now to the point, the article was to "show that Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried accords with much of the anti-totalizing strains of postmodernism, and I will argue that it is precisely this tendency in his fiction that makes it incapable of opposing the ongoing reconstruction of the war as an American tragedy." Jim Neilson practically makes The Things They Carried a victim for criticism. He has a lot of comparison about how anti the book is to postmodernism. Such as, "It is within this framework -- the belief that the war escapes understanding and representation and even makes us liars -- that O'Brien attempts to tell a true war story. There remains a tension throughout The Things They Carried, therefore, between O'Brien's affinity with postmodernism and his desire to tell the truth." Tim wants to get his war story across by conveying it as false in order to capture his audiences' emotions and make them feel how he felt because if he had just explained it straight up facts then there would not be that creative imagery he felt during the chaotic event. But the problem is that by doing so he portrays a identity of a liar which contradicts with postmodernism perhaps...?
Furthermore, this persuades me to side with the Jim instead of Tim because of all the literary analysis he rambled about made me understand that "O'Brien's imagination is virtually the only reality. O'Brien does not contextualize his experience, does not provide us with any deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of this war, and does not see beyond his individual experience to document the vastly greater suffering of the Vietnamese. In so doing, O'Brien has constructed a text that, despite its radical aesthetic, largely reaffirms the prevailing ethnocentric conception of the war." Now as a reader I see how O'Brien produces his passages in a way to make the reader mostly see what the war is like and what it does to you, but he should have gone deeper with his repetitive stories and put an explanation to why that made him and his fellow comrades feel that way. With that then his stories would have contained a more broader idea of what actually happened in the Vietnam War.
Well, so far that's all I could think of about the article and its views on The Things They Carried feel free to give me more insight...GRACIAS!! =))))
Monday, February 1, 2010
The Things They Carried
In the beginning of the book i did not find it that interesting until i got to like chapter 2 or 3. Once the book started to mentions sad stories of O'brien and his fellow friend from the war that's when I thought it was getting pretty intense. I did not like the fact that the author included the long very long dreams or thoughts about Jim Cross and his girlfriend. I know he did that so there was a meaning behind everything but seriously I could care less about Cross's relationship.
Well, onto the ideas i have about the stories. One idea I have conjured up was the moment when Curt Lemon died and Rat Kiley, who was his best friend, was really upset and randomly shot the baby ox they had discovered. At that moment i was like wow this guy is really nuts, but if i were in his shoes, in the Vietnam war, and knew I could die any moment, made me realize that shooting the ox was the way to express Rat's feelings and how the war affected him. Also there was a line that really caught my attention and it said "Mitchell Sanders took out his yo-yo. "Well that's Nam," he said. "Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original"(80). That statement is true and reflects back on the idea that being in a situation where life and death was your everyday thought on your mind 24/7 could take a toll on you and the sin that Kiley had done made him vulnerable to his own sins. Nam is just a slowly dying country and evil is what has taken control of it.
All and all when you tell a war story, you could never tell if it's true or not because the person could just be making it up to make it seem like he was a hero or because I wanted to make it sound happier than it is. As long as there was emotion and he made his audience feel the pain that he suffered in then I think that story counts. It sounds pretty awkward that someone would tell you a fake story, but when you look at it this way, then maybe you could understand that the main idea is to capture the emotions and picture it in your mind. Well, that's what I have so far and I am still trying to understand some characters but I hope you understood this and I'll have more to blog about next time. =)
Well, onto the ideas i have about the stories. One idea I have conjured up was the moment when Curt Lemon died and Rat Kiley, who was his best friend, was really upset and randomly shot the baby ox they had discovered. At that moment i was like wow this guy is really nuts, but if i were in his shoes, in the Vietnam war, and knew I could die any moment, made me realize that shooting the ox was the way to express Rat's feelings and how the war affected him. Also there was a line that really caught my attention and it said "Mitchell Sanders took out his yo-yo. "Well that's Nam," he said. "Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original"(80). That statement is true and reflects back on the idea that being in a situation where life and death was your everyday thought on your mind 24/7 could take a toll on you and the sin that Kiley had done made him vulnerable to his own sins. Nam is just a slowly dying country and evil is what has taken control of it.
All and all when you tell a war story, you could never tell if it's true or not because the person could just be making it up to make it seem like he was a hero or because I wanted to make it sound happier than it is. As long as there was emotion and he made his audience feel the pain that he suffered in then I think that story counts. It sounds pretty awkward that someone would tell you a fake story, but when you look at it this way, then maybe you could understand that the main idea is to capture the emotions and picture it in your mind. Well, that's what I have so far and I am still trying to understand some characters but I hope you understood this and I'll have more to blog about next time. =)
Monday, January 25, 2010
OutLoOk On Life....
Postmodernism gave me a different outlook on life and the way society runs and act. People in the world tend to care less about other individuals than themselves; it's a pretty harsh world out there but true. When you take a very blunt but very honest person into consideration think of them as doing you a favor because they go straight to the central idea instead of dreading to admit the truth and doubting that the their opinions actually matter. In all honesty those kind of people care and if it weren't for them then how would our community even come to terms. Well, I am mentioning this today in my blog because it compares to the fact that in our somewhat "wholesome" society we tend to not look at the big cheese of things and as postmodernism continues to show, life can be difficult to comprehend if you do not accept the different thoughts of others and their well-being. It is like a competition to see who is better but in reality everyone has to come together in order to proceed in a well developing country.
I even remember in the last question, it mentioned something about the nature of postmodernism and that is when you can include religion as an demonstration to how this world functions. For example, the author describes how Buddhism is the perfect definition of everything going on in this piled mass of connecting wires. This religion isn't just focusing on one socratic circle or individual but a whole mob of each and every different person. It obtains the views of others and when you take Catholicism, Mormon, or Christianity for instance they tend to make you focus on one single individual which is jesus, or god or any type of other powerful form of leader. But in Buddhism people follow the monk or Buddha but when you observe the religion it is not as difficult to follow along with other than other religions and their strict dieting and such; this is not a bash on how other religions are not as good to enlighten humanity with cooperation and understanding of other opinions and connect the world as one, but it is rather a lesson to learn that Buddhism is like a peaceful well put together basket that accepts anything and takes that soul minded person and include it into their vast connection of society.
"Accepting" is the key factor in this and how this religion does not deny any outcast and looks at the world in such an open-minded but wise way puts us in a pickle jar to think about the unfinished business we need to complete. Meaning that this vast progressing postmodern world equals the idea of how a Buddhist thinks and operates. The main big central idea is a combination of all the smaller ideas put together.....and this is how life is. Each and everyone of us put forth all our self worthiness and voices in this web of forces to form one huge central outlook on life and that's is when we wait to see how far it takes us in the future.. :D
I even remember in the last question, it mentioned something about the nature of postmodernism and that is when you can include religion as an demonstration to how this world functions. For example, the author describes how Buddhism is the perfect definition of everything going on in this piled mass of connecting wires. This religion isn't just focusing on one socratic circle or individual but a whole mob of each and every different person. It obtains the views of others and when you take Catholicism, Mormon, or Christianity for instance they tend to make you focus on one single individual which is jesus, or god or any type of other powerful form of leader. But in Buddhism people follow the monk or Buddha but when you observe the religion it is not as difficult to follow along with other than other religions and their strict dieting and such; this is not a bash on how other religions are not as good to enlighten humanity with cooperation and understanding of other opinions and connect the world as one, but it is rather a lesson to learn that Buddhism is like a peaceful well put together basket that accepts anything and takes that soul minded person and include it into their vast connection of society.
"Accepting" is the key factor in this and how this religion does not deny any outcast and looks at the world in such an open-minded but wise way puts us in a pickle jar to think about the unfinished business we need to complete. Meaning that this vast progressing postmodern world equals the idea of how a Buddhist thinks and operates. The main big central idea is a combination of all the smaller ideas put together.....and this is how life is. Each and everyone of us put forth all our self worthiness and voices in this web of forces to form one huge central outlook on life and that's is when we wait to see how far it takes us in the future.. :D
Friday, December 18, 2009
Holocaust+Mouse=Maus :D
After I have read this amazing book, I took into an account that there was more to tell behind the narratives than just a story about Art's father's experience in the jewish camps. It dealt with the fact that it was a story from Art's point of view, and showed how he pictured it as he listened to his dad's recorded tapes. As Vladek, Art's father, told him about his "holocaust life", his son only centered all is focus on finishing his book and forgot about his dad's health and love for him. There were moments when he was embarrassed of his father for returning used groceries, but he didn't take the initiative that his father can never waste any little thing because of what he went through. The imagery Art creates as he is being informed haunts him like little flies and does not seem to go away. It's like the flies are reminding him that he endured a lesson he acknowledged from his father and will be forever with him to show him that all the horrific deaths should not occur again. This should be a consideration to everyone that these events were unnatural and will be seen as "mankind no more."
Years pass and now I see their father and son relationship as a bitter sweet love. You have controversy between Vladek and his son but also love for his son that keeps his father alive. His devotion to get the story across is all senseless since it does not make sense. The senseless is from the fact that his father's story does not highlight the purpose of why all murders took place; he just rambles off about how he survived and got to where he is now. There are definitely different views from other survivors and even if Art tried to interview those group of people, it would all just be a blotch of stories that have a variety of purposes. Which leaves us to why would Hitler order to kill all the Jews? We will never really know the true answer to that because every one of us has a different perspective, and with that, it gives perhaps a slap in the face to make us humans realize that what mankind does is sometimes "senseless" and could possibly never intellectually make sense.
In comparison to that, it has come to my attention of why the author portrayed each character as animals. In society there will always be different social class, and from that, that is how he relates the mouses as the Jews, the cat as a higher authority towards the rodent, and the oh so powerful dog that controls all of them. Not only that, but the idea of masks during Art's interviews and is appointment with Pavel illustrated how each human being has an identity and sometimes takes time to find out who we really are and how each day of our lives impact us in a way to make us feel that we need to figure out our purpose on earth. Like Art, there are times when we feel like shrinking because we have fear, and don't know the correct answers to the questions that is asked of us. True emotions are sometimes hidden to allow that person to feel comfortable in his/her situation; such as, when Vladek stated he had a happily ever after with Anja, but that was really not the case because deep inside he knew that reality is way harder to face than an imagination of your own.
Yeah..... all of my ideas were kind of out of order and as of right now I am still trying to figure out how I can make a good essay with it. Sorry for the unnecessary confusion I caused while you wondered about in my blog, so now I print my two thesis that I may or may not use for your benefit.
1. As Art progresses in his father's view of the Holocaust, it becomes a burden on him in each chapter of the book.
2. In the Maus II, by Spiegelman, it holds the intentions of lessons learned throughout your life that can not be unforgettable.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Is Internet bad or good??????
Sometime long ago,an earnest man named Frederick Winslow Taylor, had the ability and determination to increase man's labor in a more efficient manner to increase productivity. He did this in a way by performing many experiments and taking the time to observe how technology can help us in the future. As he declared "In the past the man has been first,” and “in the future the system must be first.” This shows how much the differences between mankind and technology has changed a lot. The fact that how humans depended on each other and labor back then is different from how today we GREATLY depend on internet and more proven scientific facts. Now we want less labor and that means more machineries to satisfy that need. Also when he says how the system must be first, it makes it obvious that now a days it is true about how computers, robots, and etc. are like human minds but function in a way to make it look like it advances better than the humans' brains.
I am sure no one today would want a machine taking control of their lives. However, in this quote that the article stated, "The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method”—the perfect algorithm—to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come to describe as “knowledge work.” it reveals the characteristics of how scientist and manufacturers want more, more, and more advance methods and such to create a world of efficiency and more increase on productivity and how each human being is using those steps to help maintain a place of new knowledge, inventions, and discoveries in every corner.
What can Google do for you today??? It can answer all your questions and help you find out anything for your need. That is probably many of your website home pages when you click on your internet. No one can escape from the fact that we need google, but it is true to some people that it exceeds more information that 20 humans together would know. Its a devastating thing to know but in the future Google will most likely contain all the answers to every random question you have, and without it life would be much more difficult to comprehend and function. It's something that everybody uses everyday and the more knowledge we get from Google means that there is going to be more input of events and such onto Google. Hey I know for a fact that I do not hold the amount of data that Google does but with it i can increase my knowledge and i don't mind it taking control of the world.... =) Just makes it one less question to worry about.
DID IT MAKES SENSE??? IT BETTER ... or else...... lol jk
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