Thursday, April 30, 2009

Marks by Linda Pastan

The author in the poem demostrate how this women is interested in the way her family grades her by the way she does things for and with each menber of the family. Her worst grade is the I (incomplete) which her husband gave this could be convert to an A upon completion. So the speaker is making pretty good grades, meaning that her family is satisfied with her performance, but also realize that they must be constantly evaluating her, or why else would the speaker feel the need to observe their evaluations and comment on them. At the end of the poem after this grades she takes a decision of "droping out" this could be interpreted in different ways for example she is going to commit suicide or leave the family. But because her grades are good, and also because the tone of the poem is playful, it is unlikely that her "dropping out" signals such a drastic action. Still there is room for multiple interpretations in the poem.

To my Dear Loving Husband by Anna Bradstreet

On a literal level there is a sincere meaning found in the poem. There is suitable evidence that support Bradstreet's sincere love, such as metaphors, in addition to several lines in
the poem. The poem tends to take on an ironic insight to the situation and there are indications that Bradstreet was trying to depict a different message to her husband.

The Tell-Tale Heart

The story is about a mad person who, after killing a companion for no apparent reason, hears an interminable heartbeat and releases his overwhelming sense of guilt by shouting his confession to the police. Indeed, some early critics saw the story as a straightforward parable about self-betrayal by the criminal’s conscience.

Araby by James Joyce

This story deal with the passion of a teenage boy for his friend's sister, shows how poverty and despair tarnish even the purest of childhood dreams.

A & P

Sammy, the teenaged narrator, begins the story describing the three girls who have walked into the A & P grocery store where he works. They are wearing nothing but bathing suits. He is so distracted by them that he cannot remember if he rang up a box of crackers or not. As it turns out, he did ring them up, a fact that his customer, "a witch about fifty," lets him know quickly and loudly.

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

Phoenix makes a periodic journey into town to obtain medicine for her little grandson, who has swallowed lye and will probably never wholly recover. Phoenix has made this journey so often that she can do it by a kind of interior radar, and thus her mind is free to wander while her feet stay on track. She meets only one person on the road, and thus the beginning of the story is dictated by her interior thoughts.

Everyday Use

Alice Walker tells the story of a mother and her two daughters' conflicting ideas about their identities and ancestry. The mother narrates the story of the day one daughter, Dee, visits from college and clashes with the other daughter, Maggie, over the possession of some heirloom quilts.

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

In the story Cathedral by Raymond Carver the author demostrated the characters relantionship and how they communicated. At the beginnig of the story the husband seems to be not sure about the blind man coming to his house to see her wife. Once the wife introduced "Robert" the blind man to her husband, the husband started to speak sarcams words to any of the conversations they had. In the middle of the story I thought that the husband was jealous. But when they started to know each other all was different. I think that as a human being cannot be rud with a person if you don't know him/her very well. I think we have to get to know the person and then decided and come with their own conclusion.

The Story of an Hour

I think the irony is present in the passage of "Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin. In addition I think Mrs Mallard was affected about her husband but what she really wanted was to be a free woman. But at the end who really dead was Mallard when she saw her husband walking and still in love.

Digging

In the poem , the author write about sees his father give him the ability to write such as thoughtful poem. In the poem he seem like he cant follow his father footsteps. The poem is simple to read and to understand the language.

Poem "Beauty"

Keats is saying us that beauty is truth. In my opinion what I really understant is that saying always the truth is the best thing that person can have in virtue. The honesty is what makes people say what they feel and like.

We real cool

This poem is so short and so simply that tells you about kids now days, and how they do stupid things. Also the author talks about the kids dropping school and they think that they are cool with that.

Homage to my hips

WOW!! This author wrote this poem like a journal. It is very free in words. This poem talks about someone adimirng their hips, for example, she say that they are big and need space to move aound

The emperos of Ice Cream

There is scene in the poem that the author want to express, by the death of the woman, there is a funeral while childrens drees as they like. This poem is complicated. I don't even understant what the author is trying to say by the emperor of ice cream. I think the emperor of ice cream is the pleasure to eat it!!!!!

Oepidus

What a drama!!! I wish I could go to the theater to see one of those drama like that. Oedipus is a fantastic character that impacted me. He was a man with attitude and a king with confidence. I like this charater very much because Oedipus was a person with no fear or anything, and he could express and say what was is wish to say.

HAMLET( the revenge)

Shakespeare overall message in this dramatic master piece were the main character thinking that he has the opportunity to avenge the death of his father by killing the murder that after his father the king dies took the throne and marry his mother. The act of taking vengeance makes Hamlet goes crazy after all the tries with no success were he finishes killing blameless people. At the end of the play he doesn’t get anything of this obsession because he ends up dead together with his family and friends. In the play Hamlet let himself be guide for his father ghost, who tells him to get revenge to inflict punishment in return for his death.