“Reflections on Poetry Ch. 15”

"This Is Just To Say" – William Carlos Williams

    This poem is just a note a husband would leave his wife on the fridge after eating some plums he later realized she may have been saving for herself. I like this poem because it shows that there is beauty and art in everyday life.

"Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" – E. E. Cummings

    This poem is interesting because it plays with word order. It doesn't really make sense unless you rearrange the words in each line back to their normal order. I also like how it uses words that are usually verbs as nouns and so on. It makes the poem even more interesting.

"Carnation Milk" – Anonymous

    This poem is really catchy and funny. I like it because it's true, you don't have to go milk a cow yourself to enjoy a can of carnation milk. I also like this poem because it's just plain silly.

“Reflections on Poetry Ch. 17”

"Fork" – Charles Simic

    I like this poem because it describes an everyday item in a peculiar way. It describes a fork from the point of view of someone who has never seen one before and is afraid of it. It's really interesting.

"Tired Sex" – Chana Bloch

    I found this poem quite amusing. Is this really what women think of sex? "We're trying to strike a match in a matchbook that has lain all winter under the woodpile" It's a funny metaphor. I wonder if her partner feels the same way.

"El Hombre" – William Carlos Williams

    I like this poem. He speaks of the sun in a different way. He refers to how the sun does not really rise, but we call it a sunrise. He speaks of how the sun gives him courage. It's a good poem.

“Questions on Hamlet”

I

3. Horatio has a formal sort of strictly servant like relationship, but as the play goes on, he becomes more of a friend to Hamlet.

II

3. He thinks he's a know-it-all.

4. He always manages to state the obvious well, but he never strikes me as saying much of anything useful.

III

2. Hamlet charges her with ignoring the truth. Our sympathy definitely diminishes as the play goes along.

4. That it was used to entertain everyone.

IV

2. The death of her father and the exile of Hamlet. Act IV Scene V 72-79.

3. Hamlet's madness was brought about by his inner confliction of his duty to avenge his father and his desire to be passive with the situation.

V

2. His appearance gives a different view on the situation of all the dead royalty.

GQ

1. Whether or not to do what is comfortable or to do all that you can to do the right thing. It seems to be the main crisis in the play.

2. From the moment the ghost told me.

7. The play loses some of Hamlet's inner thought.