There’s no place like home

Well a lot of people likes to live by their own, and a lot love to stay in their home with their parents or family, but as a cheesy saying, home is where the love belongs, so where ever i can find love, i will be able to find home. My home is, after all, wherever my family is. If I was forced to leave this town along with my family, then everything would be OK, because we would stick together. Obviously, our house has a whole lot of sentimental value, but it is all about who inhabits it

Rotten to the core?

Vandalism has become on of the most out of control things in the world, because, I dont know the because but i sure do know the why…children dont have the required the education in these days and they get along with the flow of violence so easy that they dont really distinguish the difference beteween whats good or what is bad, so the are like the perfect recruits for a gang, easy to model up in the way the gang leader wants, easy to convince and finally they are unprotected and thats what mainly a gang treats about, “the member” protection. Well there is a innate human reaction and in a shooting or something no one will be protecting the others, they will only protect the gangs name, because at the end a name its worth more than a life for them.

Dear oyu:

Recently some vandals broke into my house and robbed me, this is the main reason im writing you. Im not going to ask for any help or something i just wanted for you to know what happened to me so we could gather and talk about it some time in the future. I dont really know why they broke into my house because i dont have a lot of valuable objects and i sure havent had any inconvinient with any thief or gang member ultimately so reason is so unclear for me as it is for you. But im sure about is that they were like 5, and the made my house a mess. I went to dinenr with my girlfriend that night to a italian restaurant, and then we went to see a movie. Then after the movie i dropped her at her house and few minutes later i was standing in front of my broken door, as i entered i saw a chaos. It was like a stampede of wild animals had crossed my living room. Everything was either broken or dropped down onto the floor. I didnt want to touch anything because of the insurance and the cops, so i stepped outside my house and called the cops and then the insurance. I slept that night in a motel that was in the front of the comissary, well i couldnt get a lot of rest so i woke up and wrote down a letter….

Love, love, love

Robert Browning: Mad for love

As the poem begins, the speaker is almost despairing; he is anxious and his emotion is almost too much for him to bear. As the poem goes on, he is soothed by the appearance of his love. He is tranquil, and finds relief. When she gets near him and tells him that she loves him, he grows more and more excited, he goes frantic. He never recognizes the fault in killing her, he is calm and satisfied.

He is crazy, there´s no other explanation.

Elizabeth Barret Browning: Love without limits

Look ahead. Sonnet 43 View Collage

Yes, I do. Love is something so peculiar for each person, but it makes us feel in the same ways. Love is, or at least it should be, pure, free, peaceful, faithful, happy, and endless.

Probably because love does not only have one form, but it varies in time and person. There is not one defined manifestation of love, every person chooses to share it according to feelings, mood, and decision.

Love and Loss

The author uses adjectives like fresh, sad and strange. These adjectives may have a lot in common, like the feeling you feel when you have these. But as reffered in the poem they dont have any similarity nor a positive comparisson.

The tone could be explained as a weird tone, a tone where you can have any feeling. The tone is a like a open door where you can imagine anything behind it so when you read everyone will have a different idea of it. Like a dasboard with unlimited pins and post sticks.

The author represents in this poem all the moments that he wont live again, like that glass of water you wont drink again anytime because just once it had that flavour you liked and even if you keep your life searching for the flavour it wont be the same again.

He is both miserable and joyous about the past because you never have just good moments, you also have bad moments.

The power of nature.

In the eagle poem fragment, the author describes in a short way how the nature is and how it has been represented by a lot of minds. The nature is a symbol of the power of something hidden in the world. The world is something hidden in the universe, and the universe is something hidden in our minds.So he introduces us into his minds for us to see how beauty is nature and how we should treat it but in different words.

In the flower in the crannied wall fragment, he wants us to see, how simple a thing can be, but it can be greater than the universe, because the cmplexity of a simple object in the world is more complex than the world itself, so by describing one simple flower in a crannied world hes describing us how the universe is.

Shadows of the Past

There are simply days when you feel better than others. One morning you wake up and you feel like laughing until your eyeballs come out of their sockets, and other mornings you just feel like staying home and not talking to anybody. There are days you just feel like crying and you don´t know why, it’s not about being crazy, it just happens that way.

The ability to feel anxious, terrified, and despairing. It could be related to Adam and Eve’s story because, like the poem, this story portrays the errors that human beings are doomed to commit. Probably this story does reflect some of the things that make the speaker sad, such as the inability to prevent mistakes.

Even more, I cannot believe anyone completely adverse to this phrase. Many people can go through life not knowing what to do, what they want, or even what they want out of their days. This can pretty much resemble death in life. Personally, I believe this line is the essence of the poem because it reflects the speaker’s existential ideals. Yes, I have, it is hard to determine what you want out of life, especially when you are a senior and you have to decide what career to choose.

Swept away

I think that everybody has. I do not remember the exact time when this happened. I only remember I was a very small child and that I was with my parents. I don´t even know the exact place where I was. The thing is, we were on a trip my younger sister was still a baby, she could not even walk. So we were walking in this parking lot, my parents with my little sister in the stroller and me, and suddenly this wind came rushing through. The palm trees shook and bent all around, clouds practically surfed in the sky, the sun was no where to be seen, and nobody but us four dared to walk outside. You see, we did not know there was a weather oddity coming, so we just ventured outsided wanting to seize the day! When the wind started blowing I felt like I was going to fly away like a kite, no seriously, I did. I held on to my mom who in turn held on to my dad. Somehow we could not walk forward because the wind was pushing us back. Suddenly I cried, “Leave the stroller and run!”…No, no, now that I am joking about, can you imagine a baby flying through the air in a stroller? No, no, we were able to push the stroller back to the hotel and stay safely in the apartment till the storm was over.

The Test of Time

Suppose you’re a creator. Among architecture, sculpture, music, and literature, which do you think offers the most promise of an enduring monument? Explain your answer.

Probably architecture. If you think about it, sculptures can be moved from place to place and evetually be lost, music changes immensely through time, literature depends highly upon the taste of the person and requires a very good writer. Therefore, I choose architecture because it is the most enduring. In architecture one can reflect thoughts, portray culture, and make the perishing perpetual.

Irony is the discrepancy between expectations and reality. Explain the fundamental irony in the sonnet.

King Ozymandias was a powerful man in his time trying to make changes for history. In the present, nothing remains of this king, all his expectations were lost with the sand, and no sculptures rise to the sky, except for those made from sand.

Discuss what you think is the speaker’s message about pride -and whether it also applies to artists.

No matter how gradious or majestic one might think one is, time is more powerful than anything. Time is able to erase anything, even the great achievements of a king. Even though the Ozymandias felt like this deeds were lasting forever, time was wiser and erased everything he did.

Could this poem apply to any contemporary figures who wield political power? Explain.

Probably yes. Many times we know people by name or even by face, but we don´t exactly know what that person has done. There are many who have accomplished great deeds in life, many deeds we are to know. Sadly, we only know this person has done something, but do not know what this is exactly.

The eye of the bedholder

• what in the woman’s appearance does the speaker praise? what conclusions does he draw about her character and personality?

1. Well in the poem the author emphasize the women appearance, like the face, and praise his eyes, his hair, her lips, cheeks, etc.
2.  He expresses that such beauty is graceful, sweet and innocent. She is pure and soft. Calm but at the same time eloquent.

• This poem has been criticized as sentimental and dependent on clichés. Tell me whether or not you agree and why.

1. Maybe I will say that I agree, because  the inward nature for me is reflected in ones personality and way to behave, because the personification of it is the like the reflection of ones mirrors. For me the personality is like a window where you can see through, and watch the inward nature of ones self and others.

• Do you think that inward nature can be revealed by outward appearances? Explain.

1. Yes. I believe that when one finds harmony and peace inside, then that reflects on the outside. Self-esteem is one of the most important features in relation to beauty. One does not necessarily have to be a certain height or weight; to be beautiful, a woman has to be herself and be comfortable with it.

water, water, everywhere

• Find four stanzas that strike you as particularly quotable. What situations in contemporary life would you apply the lines to?

1. And all the boards did shrink ;
   Water, water, every where,
   Nor any drop to drink.
   We stuck, nor breath nor motion ;
   As idle as a painted ship
   Upon a painted ocean.

   And some in dreams assuréd were
   Of the Spirit that plagued us so ;
   Nine fathom deep he had followed us
   From the land of mist and snow.

   The many men, so beautiful !
   And they all dead did lie :
   And a thousand thousand slimy things
   Lived on ; and so did I.

2. The stanzas are quotable because they present a somewhat moral representation beneath similes, metaphors, or symbolizations. I would apply these stanzas in everyday life in situations such as when I go fishing with my family, when you do something so much, that it becomes a habit and loses all sense, having a positive attitude, and egocentrism.

• Do you agree or disagree with Coleridge about the message in this poem? Why?

1. Probably no because many writers believe that one has to hide meanings, make metaphors, apply symbols, and use similes for a literary work to be good. I think that this may be mistaken. The only rule that I have for literature is that is has to have a purpose, either hidden under symbols or directly shared. Personally, I prefer literary works that have direct messages because one can fully comprehend what the writer is trying to imply. Also, it is always good when the work has a moral.

• Find examples of especially effective examples of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance and internal rhyme (one of each).

1. Simile: “Red as a rose is she…”

   Metaphor:”…the Albatross about my neck was hung.”

   Personification: “…he shone bright” (the Sun)

   Alliteration: “Water, water, every where…”

   Assonance:”It cracked and growled, and roared and howled…”

   Internal Rhyme: “There passed a weary time. Each throat
   Was parched, and glazed each eye.
   A weary time ! a weary time !
   How glazed each weary eye,
   When looking westward, I beheld
   A something in the sky.”

The power of imagination

• create associations from the words circus, outdoors and camping. And don’t forget “lowly” animals like bugs and mice: any experience that raises lingering feelings or questions is a good topic.

1. Well since I was very young I had a good relationship with all my pets and I have had a lot of pets, like dogs, cats, fishes, turtles, chikens, birds and more. I remember my first dog, it was a cocker spaniel I love him a lot I was like five years when my dad brought it and then when I was like ten he scaped from home because we left the door open, and he disapeared for like a week, so I was really worried and one day I was going to go out and look for him but my dad said that that was not going to be possible because a car had hit him and he died, when I heared these I was really sad and angry with the man that hit my dog, it was like part of the family and now he was dead. But then my dad brought us another dog we only had him for a month because again we left the door open and he left. And when I was like thirteen my dad brought us the dog we had now that is called Brandi, and then we get another dog called nashka. And that are the only pets y have for now and that I will have for now, because they ate a lot.

• Write a poem to another creature, -fly, cockroach, spider, moth. Imitate Robert Burns’ poem To A Mouse.

1. When I was young I did not have pets, I was sad but then he came
2. it was a little cochinito, i like him a lot we had a lot of fun, we even have our own game,
3. his name was nicanor, and play me with me when I was young his favorite food was pie
4. But one day my cochinito did not move, he was a mad a little ball, and then i realize he die
5. my dad try to bought me other pets but I don want any more, I want my nicananor
6. it is amazing how much fun  we got, we go up and down with my nicanor.
7. I know it was only a bug, but in my heart it was the best of all
8. so when I remember him, I only think of the good times thats all.

•  Why do human beings do evil? Why do evil people sometimes prosper? Why does God allow innocent children to suffer?

1. They do evil because I like to think that they make sins, like steal, rape, kill, etc. And they are tempted to do this because his values are not good and his parents we not so good to make them go in the right way.
2. WEll sometimes evil people try to make things good and stop being evil, because they were chagend by something or someone.
3. Suffering, I believe, is a chance that human beings have to repent from their evil and redeem to the path of good. If one accepts suffering properly and deals with it, then one becomes closer to Heaven.

• If you could cry out against an evil of our day -and get people to listen-, which social problem would you choose? Why would you choose it?

1. I would choose violence and criminality. Is it fair that one has to give up the things that one most loves just because the situation in the country does not allow one to do it?  Is it fair that honest people work hard for their money and they are forced to pay it to thief authorities in the government? It is very sad how people pledge their loyalty to a cause or person but as soon as something better than this person or loyalty comes along their way they choose to give their backs to what the had been believing all along. People do not have values now adays. . It is not always easy to do the right thing, but you have to do it.

• What happens to anger that is allowed to grow and fester, anger that is nurtured with our own deceit?

1.  WEl when you have aqnger and you do not let it out, someday anger will explote because the anger you have inside and that no one knows will start to grow, until you will do something that you do not expect.

• What does confession mean to you? What purpose does confession have for the teller and listener? Is a listener even necessary? Why do you think the act of confession plays such an important part in law and religion?

1. Confession is a sacrament. The confession has only positive purposes, for the teller, the heart becomes clean once again and the soul is opened. The person recognizes personal fault and is willing to avoid acting the same way in the future. One commits oneself to be a better person. The listener, in turn, blesses the soul that is confessing and helps it attain peace. It is part of the sacrifice one has to make. Many people have argued if a listener is even necessary, I believe he or she is. Not because one cannot know oneself, but because religion dictates it. One is not to question God, but to follow Him.