Thursday, December 10, 2015
Blog Post #23 Poetry Response #4
Lily Sale
At first glance of this poem, I see simplicity. Uncapitalized words, and four, two lined stanzas. When reading the simplicity carried over as well. The whole poem in a nutshell, with a very basic understanding is a useful red wheelbarrow, that has been rained on, is sitting by some white chickens. So yes, maybe this was William's intentions, but I highly doubt it. After reading this poem multiple times, personally I think that Williams is wanting his audience to see the importance of simple things. His first line leads me to think that is his message. “so much depends upon”. This tone set at the beginning is strong, even passionate? It's odd to use the word passionate when talking about a wheelbarrow. The tone then shifts to a transparent feel. The next three stanzas are kind of extra detail provide the audience with what is important, the red wheelbarrow; its state, glazed with rain water; and its position, next to the white chickens. The rain and chicken detail in my opinion take away from the wheelbarrow, kinda puts it in the background, camouflages it. Because when you read about the rain and the white chickens you think about and picture rain and white chickens not the wheelbarrow. Maybe, these were Wiliams intentions, to show you how easy it is to forget about something so purposeful. Something so simple can get lost and unappreciated in its setting. So yes, a red wheelbarrow is glazed with rain water and is next to some white chickens, but we cannot forget that so much depends on this wheelbarrow, of course if we are on a farm. It's a very useful tool.
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams
At first glance of this poem, I see simplicity. Uncapitalized words, and four, two lined stanzas. When reading the simplicity carried over as well. The whole poem in a nutshell, with a very basic understanding is a useful red wheelbarrow, that has been rained on, is sitting by some white chickens. So yes, maybe this was William's intentions, but I highly doubt it. After reading this poem multiple times, personally I think that Williams is wanting his audience to see the importance of simple things. His first line leads me to think that is his message. “so much depends upon”. This tone set at the beginning is strong, even passionate? It's odd to use the word passionate when talking about a wheelbarrow. The tone then shifts to a transparent feel. The next three stanzas are kind of extra detail provide the audience with what is important, the red wheelbarrow; its state, glazed with rain water; and its position, next to the white chickens. The rain and chicken detail in my opinion take away from the wheelbarrow, kinda puts it in the background, camouflages it. Because when you read about the rain and the white chickens you think about and picture rain and white chickens not the wheelbarrow. Maybe, these were Wiliams intentions, to show you how easy it is to forget about something so purposeful. Something so simple can get lost and unappreciated in its setting. So yes, a red wheelbarrow is glazed with rain water and is next to some white chickens, but we cannot forget that so much depends on this wheelbarrow, of course if we are on a farm. It's a very useful tool.
Blog Post #19: Reflection Blog
Gatsby Socratic Seminar:
In all honesty, Socratic seminars and CCCRs, and such just really make me nervous. So overall reflecting on my performance of the Gatsby Seminar, I think I made some good points; however no where close to where I want to be in Socratic Seminars. I really have good things to say, but I just freeze, I feel weird hopping in, I feel weird starting conversations, I just feel weird. A point I really wanted to talk about that people only briefly touched on was Fitzgerald's use of colors. The whole novel I pictured these colors, I associated them with each character, I just found them really symbolic. Daisy in particular. She is represented with white, to display luxury or innocence. Gatsby is represented with gold. I find it super creative of Fitzgerald because a Daisy on the outside is white, on the inside is gold. Maybe Daisy's heart really wanted Gatsby. Anyway, when thinking about my seminar I need to take initiative and get out of my comfort zone, I know I have good things to say, I just don't say them. I really want to improve in my participation, as well as my shyness. I need to come out of my shell a little more and share my ideas and thoughts with the class. I think my best option is to start off the seminar, make the opening remark. Once I get it going, I think Ill be more comfortable for sure!
In all honesty, Socratic seminars and CCCRs, and such just really make me nervous. So overall reflecting on my performance of the Gatsby Seminar, I think I made some good points; however no where close to where I want to be in Socratic Seminars. I really have good things to say, but I just freeze, I feel weird hopping in, I feel weird starting conversations, I just feel weird. A point I really wanted to talk about that people only briefly touched on was Fitzgerald's use of colors. The whole novel I pictured these colors, I associated them with each character, I just found them really symbolic. Daisy in particular. She is represented with white, to display luxury or innocence. Gatsby is represented with gold. I find it super creative of Fitzgerald because a Daisy on the outside is white, on the inside is gold. Maybe Daisy's heart really wanted Gatsby. Anyway, when thinking about my seminar I need to take initiative and get out of my comfort zone, I know I have good things to say, I just don't say them. I really want to improve in my participation, as well as my shyness. I need to come out of my shell a little more and share my ideas and thoughts with the class. I think my best option is to start off the seminar, make the opening remark. Once I get it going, I think Ill be more comfortable for sure!
Blog Post #17 Poetry Response
Lily Sale
The Coming Of Wisdom With Time by William Butler Yeats
First, I always make a point to look at the structure of the poem. At first glance I see uncapitalized sentence to start, and only four lines. I believe that poets do everything in their work with purpose. The purpose of this uncapitalized sentence to start can be answered by the title of the poem. As he matures, he becomes more wise, “The Coming Of Wisdom With Time”. Maybe this wisdom is shown by transitioning from uncapitalized to capitalized. The overall meaning of the poem to me is growing up as an individual, becoming wise. Yeats focuses and truth telling, that's what he believes growing up is; telling the truth, stopping the lies. His first line, “through leaves are many, the root is one;” to me, I believe Yeats is talking about all the different points of views people can have. If something were to travel through leaves, it could hit others and switch direction, but traveling through a root is easy. There is only one way. The leaves represent lies, and the root represents truth. He then goes on to say, “Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;”, interpreting this I believe Yeats is trying to create this image in our heads of a carefree child. Lying didn't affect him, he swayed in the sun. But now, with time, “Now I may wither into the truth” you can’t hide from lies, or you will slowly wither. I believe Yeats is writing this from experience. Of course the use of “I” shows that, but he seems to be passionate enough to create a poem to share a story, or in this case a lesson. Now that he has grown up, he knows he must change his ways. He relies this lesson onto his audience, maybe to open the eyes of the old, or to teach the young early.
Blog Post #10: Reflection
A little side story to begin this reflection: I remember around the first week of school Mr. Allen had a whole little speech before he passed back in class essay numero uno. He said that the class was very diverse in scores. Lots fell into the 5,6 range. Couple fell into the 3,4 range, and he said only one person received a 7. When he said only one person recieved a 7 everyone starting turning heads and such, of course my head turned to Jade and Shelbi's side of the room. But when he passed my essay back, there it was, a 7. And wow to be honest, I was not expecting that. My tummy felt some butterflies and I stood up a little straighter than before.
So, when the rounds of I.C.E #2 were being passed out, I was eager. And when I saw my paper in front of me the first thing I said was, "dangit." I wanted so badly to improve and my paper had a 6 at the top. Of course along with Mr. Allen's famous smiley faces, we all love those!
Comparing in class essay 1, to in class essay 2, I see a major change in my analysis. The depth in analysis is the difference. In ice 2, I merely scratch the surface, compared to 1 where I went very in depth. I feel as if the depth of my analysis was based off of my understanding. I understood Things Fall Apart, far better than I understood The Dead. Something I definitely think I improved on, was my organization. In my first essay, I provided two paragraphs of evidence, and finished with a paragraph on theme. In my second essay I included analysis of theme after each piece of evidence, which I feel is a better approach.
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