ode on a grecian urn

Posted on October 29th, 2009 in Uncategorized by sillysally444

After doing a little bit a research and reading and annotating the poem Ode on a Grecian Urnby John Keats, I delved into different themes like Keats not being able to see the difference between the real and imaginary world and how the poem portrays the beauty and art in nature/ everyday life. This poem was difficult to understand because of the use of old time English, but like most English poems the context was filled with “flowery” diction. This specific dictionpointed the spot light of the audience right on to this grecian urn that was magnificent, but cursed to be silent and never to reach its goals. I mean that the paintings on the urns are stuck in mid action creating a false sense of time or artificial time that will never allow the lovers to finally kiss or the tree limbs not being able to shed their leaves. Keats in this poem becomes consumed by this grecian urn not only for its beauty but his imagination takes him to a different places that the images of the urn provoke. He is able to see beauty in many things that he comes to a conclusion after pondering at the urn.

Evening Hawk rewrite

Posted on October 26th, 2009 in Uncategorized by sillysally444

If I was able to redo the timed write on the Evening Hawk poem I would first start with the theme. The theme is chose was about how the hawk acts like a bystanderin the world, seeing every fact from a different perspective, but I would like to change that to the hawk watching as the world changes around it. The poem illustrates more of a evolution theme rather than a descriptiveimage being created. The next thing I would like to change is my general understanding of the poem. First off, I had no clue why there was a bat and how that related with the poem, and also the last stanza seemed to be out of place. I later came to learn that if the central theme was the changes of the world that the last stanza made the changes seem insignificant. Like the pipe leaking in the cellar, the last stanza down plays the importance of the wind. There are a lot changes I would like to have made but the final one i want to illustrate are the lines about the earth’s geometry. I believe this select part had more importance than I gave it and would have liked to expand my narrative about it.

War Dances

Posted on October 13th, 2009 in Uncategorized by sillysally444

In the story War Dances by Sherman Alexie, the narrator takes the audience through key points in his life where his culture and his personality intertwine. The first account is when the narrator talks about the last days of his father and what his life was like and also what his fathers life meant to him. While the commentary of getting a blanket was hilarious, it served a saddening theme which is how does one deal with a parent that has become disfigured and delusional? The blanket scene really sticks out in my head because of the traditions that are stereotyped to be traditions of all Native Americanswere some what of a joke to the son of the very spiritual older man. This lack of belief makes the man seem disingenuous and fake, but his talk about all Indians having blankets was funny and served as a comic release.

I would say that the short story is a story of literary quality because, their is a guy who is confused about his own identity in the beginning. Then later on he asks questions to an older veteran about his grandfathers life and goes through tough ordeals about having a brain tumor. Developing character is emphasis of the story and the Indian narrator takes the reader along in the journey of self trepidation.