Last week of school.

I am glad another semester has ended. This semester has been tough to keep up with. Work, work, work.... Nevertheless, I have learned a lot from this class. I picked up a new poet, Yeats. I read books thats been on my reading list. Thank you for all of it. Happy journey to all.

Moderism

So far, all the reading from Modernism we had to do for class, I don't like. I know I should be open minded about it all, but it's all so random. It's almost like they say one thing without explanation, and they move onto another topic. Organization! I guess thats the linear thinking in me. It's like math. You can get to answer many ways, but there is a point. But with modernism, it's like putting in a mixing bowl, mix, and pull out whatever. NOT for me. I'm sticking to the old classics. Sorry Eliot.

Post for Jan 29-Feb 4; Frankenstein part 1

The first half of the book has captured my imagination of the settings for the books; the beginning of science and the unpopularity of breaking away from the old ways. Even more importantly, the monster development of experiencing life is very harsh. Are we as human, really react violently to things and creatures that are unknown. If so, I am ashamed. If I were in a similar situation, would I react the same way? I hope not. I hope to have more compassion for a human even if it wasn’t perfect. We all have hideous scares that we carry on the outside, but it is insides that count. Mary Shelley captures the shameful characteristics of human emotion perfectly. At least on my part, I look at those hideous and shameful personalities that possibly exist within me and admit they are there. With that, I hope I can change them.

Post for week of Janurary 15-21; Coleridge

Poems with religion have been a secret favorite of mine. The complexity of religion especially for me is very fascinating. Not because I don't have my own complexity of religion. But I am drawn to other people’s insecurities and fears of good and evil. Coming from a traditional Native culture, Christianity, at least some people, has been put down my culture and called us pagan. I find it hard to take at times but I have to terms that Christianity and Navajo traditions have the same baseline for goodness and achieving a place in heaven. Anyway, I love anything with religion. Someday, I hope to get a master degree in theology.

The Dead by James Joyce

I have really enjoyed this short story. Unlike other countries such as Britain, women were becoming independent regardless of their standing in society. Lily was a rebel and had the attitude of a rebel. She went against the standard norm and chose not to marry. Miss Ivors was an awesome lady. She was Gabriel's equal in all sense of the word. He tried to bully her but she came back at with equal frankness and intelligence. She represented the future of women. I am not familiar with the history of Ireland, were women held with respects and cherished? Whatever it may be, it seems like other countries should take a lesson from Ireland.

ode to nightingale

This poem was sad and dark. The relationship between immortality and the speaker's art is fragile. When Keats comes face to face with the fact that he is dying and is leaving a world without a legacy, he begins to question his life and his happiness. It almost seems like he was in doubt of what was coming next. Was it darkness or freedom from pain or was it light and redemption? Yet, the nightingale redeems his hope and drowns out his fears.


THis was posted on Janurary 28, 2007. Just missed place in a different url.

T.S. Eliot

Okay I admit that I am not the greatest poetry analysis-er, but I like poetry and I usually can find theme of the poem. However, when it comes to T.S. Eliot's poetry this week. I don't know what the hell he is talking about the majority of the time. Because of this, I didn't want to read it at all. Give me Ann Bradstreet or even Yeats, but leave Eliot at the door please. I usually don't react this way to literature. But I can't help it. I guess I just need more of a back ground in order to understand him and his work. Reading I just dont' want to do right now. How does everyone else feel? I should read other works then what is given to us here. Maybe then I would like it better.