power point independent reading

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power point independent reading

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the mystery in the cave

In the poem “The Mystery of the Caves” the speaker does not feel any emotions, he just longs for a purpose and guidance. The first stanza describes the speaker wandering in caverns slowly filling up with water. In the second stanza the water symbolizes parts of life like the environment someone is raised in. The water can guide the speaker to a better place where his problems are solved or he can sink to the bottom where he already dwells in darkness. There are several examples of symbolism in the poem that suggest the speaker is lost. In stanzas 5 to 7 the writer describes the speaker to be on his last stand through a chaotic period of time. The writer says, “One yellow finger of flame wavered on his last match.” The speaker has little hope left and the chances of slipping into darkness are elevated. His mother breaking perfume bottles in her struggle and his father portray the chaos he is witnessing.

            The poem obviously describes the rough life of a child, the speaker, who witnesses an intense battle between his parents. The poem’s theme about searching and longing suggest that the speaker must find his own path. He will be frozen in time, doomed to experience the same hardships again and again if he does not find a solution to his problems.

           

Existentialist ideas

“The idea that I am born into a particular time, place, family, and
economic environment is absurd.”

Everybody is born into a specific home and family. Some are born into wealth while others are born into poverty and despair. The statement above is what defines parenthood. A soon to be mom or dad will strive to make his or her offspring’s future the best it can be. At times the family, time, and economic environment of birth are definite, but that is what growing up and experiencing life is about. Being born into a royal family in Britain will be a different life of someone who is born in an African village.

“In life, I must make choices regardless of what’s best for others. I can
only choose what’s best for me.”

I completely disagree. Life is all about the sacrifices you make for others. If everyone chose what was best for them the world would be a very cruel place to live in. A quick scenario would be a child lost in a mall, I am in the mall but I have to make the bus home or ill be late. According to the statement above I should ignore the helpless child and head for the bus but where would that leave the child? Humans chose to help each other every day and that’s how close knit communities are formed. If everyone made selfish choices then there would be no communities or even neighbors.

fire and ice

Love is a majestic relationship between humans. Are their conditions for a man and women in order to love one another? Does a woman have to have the same interest and beliefs as a man in order to love him and vice versa? That is not true because people tend to be attracted to other people that are complete opposites. In Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spencer the speaker describes himself as fire and the woman he is attracted to is ice. Fire and ice cannot coexist but the writer’s desire for ice does not fade away even though as fire he can melt what he desires most. It can be suggested then that humans are attracted to their own weaknesses, but in the poem ice makes fire burn even brighter and fire polishes ice.

            The speaker can be pursuing ice to obtain balance. Humans desire love because they lack something. This desire will push people to go against the odds and fight for what they want. Why fight for something that is so indifferent when compared to you? In science, oppositely charged particles attract each other just like a mere commoner can win the love of a princess. The reasoning supporting this can be found in lines nine to twelve, “What more miraculous thing may be told that fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice:
and ice which is congealed with senseless cold,
should kindle fire by wonderful device?

 The commoner and princess represent fire and ice and are of completely different worlds, but that is what brings them together.

            Love is a method of filling in the weak spots in one’s life. Most people excel at one thing and improve at it, in doing so they allow another trait to decline. The trait that becomes dull can range from social skills to self happiness. In love, opposites attract so the trait that declines will improve because the void will be filled by the other person. There is an utter acceptance to learn and change in order to keep the revolving door of love spinning.   

            Love is not meant to be associated with pain but it is. The emotions someone encounters in love can be beautiful but they can also cause a pain that is like no other. In love there is death and with death comes pain and loss. The writer pursues love because he desires the ice but if the ice were to melt it would cause him devastating pain. Love can be a double edged sword in the way that it can be so grand and perfect at one point and then ugly and depressing at another.

            Love is a rare function in life that does not have conditions. Opposites like fire and ice will continue to attract each other to fulfill and improve each other’s flaws. In hindsight just like a mother would sacrifice herself for her child, ice would melt for fire.

             

echo sonnet

In “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page by Robert Pack, the speaker is in a deep internal struggle with himself. He is trying to overcome a loss that is causing his depression. He is speaking to his emotions, or the echo, with his rational mind, the voice, and in doing so he creates a battle between his voice and his emotions.

            In the first couple of lines the voice states, “How from emptiness can I make a start?” “And in starting, must I master joy or grief?” The echo replies, “Start” and “Grief” which means to imply that the only way to beat depression is to attack it by accepting grief. Grief is to not be just accepted, but utterly understood. What led up to this grief, and why does the speaker feel the grief he does? The answers will lead him to salvation. The speaker questions whether salvation or even happiness is achievable. The voice says, “I’d leap into the dark if dark were true.” “And in that night would you rejoice or weep?” The echo replies “True” and “Weep.” When someone succumbs to the darkness they cross the point of no return, in this case that point is suicide. The echo supports the speaker’s desire to commit suicide so that he can find happiness, and the echo weeping can suggest that the speaker half heartily takes his own life.

            “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page” depicts the hardships a person will endure to find happiness. People achieve their goals by being supported and pushed by other people. The speaker is isolated and alone so he leans on himself for guidance. The sonnet suggests that surviving and getting through an injury of any kind, whether it is to the mind, body, or spirit is completely impossible.

sonnetv 130 essay

William Shakespeare's sonnet 130 takes a new direction in describing women. His usual sonnets depict women to be majestic creatures that are on a different plateau then everybody else. He uses exaggeration to conceal the flaws women have but in sonnet 130 the speaker expresses the true beauty of his lover by using similes to admit her flaws and embrace them.

Poets tend to compare women to the sun relating her to its beautiful radiant glow. The speaker begins using the simile" My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun". He is saying that her eyes do not stand out to him and that they are dull. The speaker accepts the fact that his lover's eyes are not overwhelmingly gorgeous.

At first the speaker seems to be insulting his lover by describing her voice to be annoying and her breath to reek terribly. He is state’s her flaws so that he can conclude with his overall point. At the end of sonnet 130 the speaker says, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." This simile explains that the speaker’s feelings for his lover are incomparable in the face of women who are over-exaggerated. A women's natural beauty is superb to beauty engulfed in falsehood.

sonnet 30 fire and ice

Love is a majestic relationship between humans. Are their conditions for a man and women in order to love one another? Does a woman have to have the same interest and beliefs as a man in order to love him and vice versa? That is not true because people tend to be attracted to other people that are complete opposites. In Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spencer the speaker describes himself as fire and the woman he is attracted to is ice. Fire and ice cannot coexist but the writer’s desire for ice does not fade away even though as fire he can melt what he desires most. It can be suggested then that humans are attracted to their own weaknesses, but in the poem ice makes fire burn even brighter and fire polishes ice.

            The speaker can be pursuing ice to obtain balance. Humans desire love because they lack something. This desire will push people to go against the odds and fight for what they want. Why fight for something that is so indifferent when compared to you? In science, oppositely charged particles attract each other just like a mere commoner can win the love of a princess. The reasoning supporting this can be found in lines nine to twelve, “What more miraculous thing may be told that fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice:
and ice which is congealed with senseless cold,
should kindle fire by wonderful device?

 The commoner and princess represent fire and ice and are of completely different worlds, but that is what brings them together.

            Love is a method of filling in the weak spots in one’s life. Most people excel at one thing and improve at it, in doing so they allow another trait to decline. The trait that becomes dull can range from social skills to self happiness. In love, opposites attract so the trait that declines will improve because the void will be filled by the other person. There is an utter acceptance to learn and change in order to keep the revolving door of love spinning.   

            Love is not meant to be associated with pain but it is. The emotions someone encounters in love can be beautiful but they can also cause a pain that is like no other. In love there is death and with death comes pain and loss. The writer pursues love because he desires the ice but if the ice were to melt it would cause him devastating pain. Love can be a double edged sword in the way that it can be so grand and perfect at one point and then ugly and depressing at another.

            Love is a rare function in life that does not have conditions. Opposites like fire and ice will continue to attract each other to fulfill and improve each other’s flaws. In hindsight just like a mother would sacrifice herself for her child, ice would melt for fire.