Week 11:


         Both "Araby" and "Eveline" written by James Joyce are set in Ireland. The boy and Eveline both are outsiders in there societies. Evelin and the boy both have dreams of what there life can be like. Also have to remember in both of the stories the characters experienced poverty much like most of Ireland in that time period.

         For the boy his dream was to be with his friend Magnans much older sister. He goes to the Araby to by her a gift. Eveline has a vision of what her life will be like once she leaves her brother and abusive father behind in Ireland while she wants to leave with her lover frank to live in buenos aires. But like the boy in "Araby " who has second thoughts about buying her the gift, Eveline can only think about the good times she shared with with father and brother and forgetting all the bad.

          At this moment both the boy and Eveline 's thoughts over came them they started over thinking there current decisions and they both began to have a meltdown. They both begin to second guess everything wondering if they were wrong , if Magnans sister never told the boy to go to the Araby or if she really wanted to abandon her family even though she promised her dead mother she would maintain the home.

week 10:


1.
 New car smell filled the 2004 civic, covering up the musky stench left by the over powering linger of cigarette smoke. The blue and green coloured freshener had done its job, it hung lifeless and now scent free by a thin yellow rope from the finger print filled, rear view mirror. Although the awful smell had been masked, the rest of the car displayed a completely different feel then the new car smell would make you predict before looking around.The dashboard has a thick layer of grayish white dust which is slowly clogging up the cars beige air vents that line the bug smeared front windshield. The seats are slightly stained a pale blue. The new jeans yet to have been washed which would have remove the lingering dye still trapped within the fabric, That dye now forever in the drivers seat cushion. just below the smeared window lays a burn hole in the seat caused by a smoker with a clumsy hand. The carpets, stained by spilled black coffee,salt and mud tracked in by passengers. Hardly opened chemistry, biology, and physics textbooks forever remain in the dark pit of garbage that lingers in the back seat that no one dares to enter. No even the disgusted owner.

2.
An old civic which is dirty , coffee filled, and dusty, has a car freshener that takes the smoke smell away. however the garbage and dirt remains left behind. stuff in the back seat will never be used again. no one likes being in the car,including the driver.

3.
The civic had a freshener to cover up the dirty smell withing the car. However did nothing for the eyes.

Week 9 -Theme


1. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is a story about a man who in a dream almost left his faith behind.
              1. Faith represents his relgion and his wifes name is Faith so it has a double meaning within           the story.
                 1.In The dream,Young goodman brown leaves his wife behind when he intended to join the colt in the woods.
                 2. He left his religous faith behind when he made up his decision to go against his relgion and join.

              2. This Dream Causes him to see the community differently
                    1. After seeing the member of his community in his dream join the colt, who he had believed to be relgious people, he lost respect for them and changed his mind from joining
                    2. The hatered for his neighbours and fellow community, and their sins caused him to go "crazy".

               3. That fearful dream causes family issues for the Browns
                    1. young goodman brown baracades his family away from the community because they are "evil" and sinners.
                    2. by doing so the family becomes isolated and alone, young goodman brown dies a bitter religous man, and it doesnt affect anyone."they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone"(171)

   

 

Week 6:

 

              "Voices of Earth" by Archibald Lampman

 

              We have not heard the music of the spheres,

              The song of star to star, but there are sounds

              More deep than human joy and human tears,

              That Nature uses in her common rounds;

              The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain

              The oak, the roaring of the sea's surge, might 

              Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain

              That falls by minutes in the summer night.

              These are the voices of earth's secret soul,

              Uttering the mystery from which she came.

              To him who hears them grief beyond control,

              Or joy inscrutable without a name,

              Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled,

              Before the birth and making of the world.




              We have
                                                         but
                                                                                tears,

                              streams

                                                                off


              Uttering
                                                         grief beyond control,

              Wakes     his heart
                                                              of the world.

Week 4:

        In Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" the tone is one of misery or gloom. The poem is about a traveller who meets a man on his journey. The man tells the traveller about a place hes been where there is a destroyed statue in the sand of a man.

       On the statue that is now " two vast and trunkless legs of stone, stand in the desert."(line2-3)
read the words " My name is Ozymandias king of all kings"(line10).Ozymandias believed that he would always be important and remembered, even if his people hated him like they did. But even Ozymandias would not surpass the harsh bitterness of time.Ozymandias was vain, he was the only one who thought of himself so greatly. Now all that's left of him legacy, is a statue in the middle of no where for no one to see. That is why the poem has a tone that shows the misery or even melancholy attitude to its readers.

Week 3 Sonnet:

Our love can not be compared
To anything thats less then great,
Its usually not commonly shared
With someone who comes home so late,
You said you would be here at nine,
But its half past ten and you arent seen,
Even though your late thats fine,
We fit together like a pair of jean,
We can always be together,
Even when your no where near,
The days we spend together will last forever
When ever I hear,
Your voice sing that sweet song
I know picking you was never wrong.

Week 2: Form

Haiku

The winter sun glows
off of the fresh new snow flakes
that surround the town.


Limerick

There was a young woman whose head
got stuck under her bed
she kept trying to pull it out
but, it was stuck with no doubt
so she gave up instead

Reflection:

     The form of both the Haiku and the Limerick, forces the writer to conform to a set of rules.I believe that poetry should be free to express your creativity without borders.