Monday, November 30, 2009
Oedipus 1
Point of View/Characters: The play Oedipus the King is told in third person limited so far. The reader is able to hear everyone speak, but can't see into anyone's thoughts. From the first section the reader gets a general idea of the characters. Oedipus is shown as being very proud, jealous, and quick to anger. The crowd, even though it is not a single character, is shown to be easily swayed, as long as there is proof to back up what they are being told. The seer Tiresias is shown to look out for himself, and is not very altruistic. The author shows the seer and the king as opposites, to widen the gap between them. The author also makes the reader have mixed feelings about Oedipus. He is shown in the first part to be like a graceful and merciful god, while later is is shown cursing the blind seer and accusing him of conspiring to steal his throne. This makes the reader sympathize with the seer, especially since he is blind.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Poetry 2
To Watch You Leaving
by Jocelyn Galvano-Pickett
To Watch You Leaving . . .is to know such pain, it's jagged edges tearing into my soul. As a stake from the garden tears into the warm, dark earth.To Watch You Leaving . . .knowing all the while that never again will I fit myself, warm with sleep, against your solid back.Nor hear your steady breathing. Or feel the beating of your heart.To Watch You Leaving . . .aware in every moment of every day that my dreams, my future; once tied with silken ribbons to yours, will never come to be.And the mornings once so silent and hopeful, us gazing at the mountains and so gently awaiting forever - are now but small pieces of my past.To Watch You Leaving . . .your heart a tight fist of anger and your dry eyes betraying nothing of you. I cry for both of us, my love, because you will not.To Watch You Leaving . . .is to know that I've lost my place on this earth. My station. My heart's home. That I will wander, forever a nomad. Alone and afraid. And in my troubled dreams watch you leave, again and again.For the balance of my days.
Both this poem and Pablo Neruda's poem talk about the feeling of losing love, and the feeling afterwards. Galvano-Pickett uses imagery to make the abstract feeling of love more tangible. Neruda, however, used the imagery to show a lack of clarity for the feeling of love. Although their ways are different, they have a similar effect. Both create a feeling of emptiness and isolation.
In both of the poems, the speaker still loves the person they're speaking about, but the speaker in Neruda's poem is trying to forget his love, the speaker in Galvano-Pickett's poem seems to be dwelling on it her love a lot more, talking about how in her mind she will be watching him leave again and again. This is probably because the break-up happened more recently in Galvano-Pickett's poem than in Neruda's poem. The speaker in seems to have come to terms with what happened a little more, and has put most of it past him, although there is still some degree of longing for the way things were.
by Jocelyn Galvano-Pickett
To Watch You Leaving . . .is to know such pain, it's jagged edges tearing into my soul. As a stake from the garden tears into the warm, dark earth.To Watch You Leaving . . .knowing all the while that never again will I fit myself, warm with sleep, against your solid back.Nor hear your steady breathing. Or feel the beating of your heart.To Watch You Leaving . . .aware in every moment of every day that my dreams, my future; once tied with silken ribbons to yours, will never come to be.And the mornings once so silent and hopeful, us gazing at the mountains and so gently awaiting forever - are now but small pieces of my past.To Watch You Leaving . . .your heart a tight fist of anger and your dry eyes betraying nothing of you. I cry for both of us, my love, because you will not.To Watch You Leaving . . .is to know that I've lost my place on this earth. My station. My heart's home. That I will wander, forever a nomad. Alone and afraid. And in my troubled dreams watch you leave, again and again.For the balance of my days.
Both this poem and Pablo Neruda's poem talk about the feeling of losing love, and the feeling afterwards. Galvano-Pickett uses imagery to make the abstract feeling of love more tangible. Neruda, however, used the imagery to show a lack of clarity for the feeling of love. Although their ways are different, they have a similar effect. Both create a feeling of emptiness and isolation.
In both of the poems, the speaker still loves the person they're speaking about, but the speaker in Neruda's poem is trying to forget his love, the speaker in Galvano-Pickett's poem seems to be dwelling on it her love a lot more, talking about how in her mind she will be watching him leave again and again. This is probably because the break-up happened more recently in Galvano-Pickett's poem than in Neruda's poem. The speaker in seems to have come to terms with what happened a little more, and has put most of it past him, although there is still some degree of longing for the way things were.
Poetry 1
The poem is about a man's attempts to hold on to the woman he loves. She does not want to be with him, because she is sad. The speaker cannot express how he feels for her, and ends up shutting out the world.
The speaker is a man who is trying to express his feelings about his love. He is speaking to his lover, who does really understand what he is trying to say.
The poem was written to show the author's opinion on love. The author thinks that love is confusing, and never really works out for either side.
The author uses imagery to show this. First he starts with passion, which is usually present in most serious relationships. But then the woman starts getting tired of it and sad, while the man tries to keep her with him, usually without success. Then the man feels lonely, and starts to become isolated. But he still loves her, and continues to try and express how he feels. The images used explaining his feelings for her are incoherent and abstract, with some contradicting ideas, such as "Something with the wings of a bird, something of anguish and oblivion".(I don't know how to cite this.) Using wings, which could be meant as an angel, and oblivion, or hell, are total opposites, which shows how the speaker both loves and hates love or her. The increasingly confusing images of love show that after a relationship, the man becomes unsure of himself, and if he even loved the girl at all. And in the end he becomes hardened to love, "my heart closes like a nocturnal flower". The experience was not good for the man, and ended up ruining him.
The speaker is a man who is trying to express his feelings about his love. He is speaking to his lover, who does really understand what he is trying to say.
The poem was written to show the author's opinion on love. The author thinks that love is confusing, and never really works out for either side.
The author uses imagery to show this. First he starts with passion, which is usually present in most serious relationships. But then the woman starts getting tired of it and sad, while the man tries to keep her with him, usually without success. Then the man feels lonely, and starts to become isolated. But he still loves her, and continues to try and express how he feels. The images used explaining his feelings for her are incoherent and abstract, with some contradicting ideas, such as "Something with the wings of a bird, something of anguish and oblivion".(I don't know how to cite this.) Using wings, which could be meant as an angel, and oblivion, or hell, are total opposites, which shows how the speaker both loves and hates love or her. The increasingly confusing images of love show that after a relationship, the man becomes unsure of himself, and if he even loved the girl at all. And in the end he becomes hardened to love, "my heart closes like a nocturnal flower". The experience was not good for the man, and ended up ruining him.
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