“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.

 

“Reflection on A Worn Path”

The point of view in the story and the point of view in the movie are different in a lot of ways. In the story you are obviously left to make your own images of the story, but in the movie, it helps to paint a picture of symbolism. In the story, the point of view seems to focus on the old woman. In the movie, however, it seems to reinforce the points of view of all the other people that the old woman comes across.

“Fan of Public Health Care”

Does anyone notice how ridiculous health care is today? It seems like if you get hurt nowadays you are screwed if you don’t have insurance. I have seen many cases where hospitals have simply let people die because they wouldn’t be able to pay their bills. Even if you do apply for health insurance, most agencies will look for every reason not to insure you. There is no need to worry, however; the government has come with an ingenious plan-make having health insurance the law. If someone refuses to get health insurance, they go to jail...where they get health insurance is free.

Questions for Tuesday

“A Rose for Emily”
1. The meaning of the hair being gray is that Miss Emily had to have had slept with the corpse recently.
2. The unnamed narrator is an unnamed townsman who is speaking for the entire town.
3. “A Rose for Emily” seems better told from the narrator’s point of view rather than the main character’s point of view because if it was told from Emily’s point of view, there would be no mystery.
4. When Emily bought the arsenic, it foreshadowed that she killed Homer because of his disappearance shortly after. It seemed a little obvious and therefore somewhat gave away the ending.
5. The narrator shows the contrast between a changing reality and Emily’s refusal to recognize change by sharing the time that she kept her father dead in the house for three days and her killing Homer so she wouldn’t leave her. She also refused to pay taxes.
6. The difference in the character and background of Emily and Homer is that Emily is from a high society background and Homer is a more laid back person.
7. I find the story to be grim and a little creepy since there was an old woman sleeping with a dead man.
8. I believe that Faulkner saw Emily as a sad old woman. He uses Homer as a symbol as Emily’s rose since she somewhat had him on display like a rose.

“Teenage Wasteland”

1. The story is from third person limited omniscient point of view.
2. The opening paragraph of the story signifies not only the physical but in internal changes taking place in Donnie as he grows up.
3. It leads her to let make decisions for her regarding her children and their discipline because she trusts others more than she trusts herself.
4. Daisy goes from being skeptical of Kyle to completely relying on him to being jealous to being suspicious of him and in the end she question whether the reason why Donnie left or if he is the reason the he stayed as long as he did.
5. It shows that her parents are more concerned with Donnie.
6. I would describe Tyler’s presentation of Daisy as both satirical and sympathetic. He seems sympathetic with her struggle with parenting Donnie but satirical towards her personality and self-consciousness.