1. Write a paragraph analyzing three components of the short story that stand out to you and why. (Remember to choose from the basics found on the Literary Analysis Power Point!)
- Point of View: First person's point of view using "I".
I thought the way the author went through the story was very strange because the story sounded as if the author was talking to us like a narrator in a play.
- Irony: Verbal and situational irony is found in the part where Fortunato is dressed in a clown-looking way and is purposely made a fool. Also, it is also ironic how Montresor says, "How remarkably well you are looking to-day."
- Symbol: As the title mentions the cask of Amontillado, I think this has a symbolic meaning deep inside. I think this cask of Amontillado represents the greed because of how the cask and the wine drew Fortunato into Montresor's grasp.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
1. Analyze the following question in the first paragraph: Who came out of the opened door - the lady, or the tiger? Why? What textual evidence can be used to support your analysis?
The man stands alone wandering what to do. He does not know whether he should choose the left door or the right door. He looks at the princess, seeking for a clue to salvation. The princess points to the right door. The lover reaches out his hand to the right door hoping that something will occur. Then, the story ends leaving questions to the reader to think about. Was it the tiger that had came out the right door and devoured the lover, or was it the lovely lady who came out and hugged the lover? I personally think that the princess had led the lover to the lady even though she was a barbaric and jealous person. This is because I thought that if a person is barbaric, why would that person love someone, when that person is barbaric? Even though the story reminds us that the princess was a cruel person, (Think of it, fair reader, not as if the decision of the question depended upon yourself, but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have him?) I think the love that was within the princess would have prevented the princess from leading her love to the door of the tiger. Also, the story reminds us that she had made her decision very quickly, (Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she would be asked, she had decided what she would answer, and, without the slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right.) and when people make their decisions quickly, they tend to do what is very deep inside their mind and heart. The princess I believe had the man in her heart and would not have wanted to see her love tear into pieces by the tiger.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Ghazal
Bright Light
by Raymond Kim
With the holy one, the world will shine bright
with the chosen one, the unity will shine bright.
When the sky shines with the holy light,
the small world in his eyes will shine bright.
When the blue waters sprinkle with delight,
the round sphere of blue will shine bright.
When the fertile ground is purified with his might,
the earth of the Earth will shine bright.
But this is only the beginning of the night,
who knows when the world will shine bright.
by Raymond Kim
With the holy one, the world will shine bright
with the chosen one, the unity will shine bright.
When the sky shines with the holy light,
the small world in his eyes will shine bright.
When the blue waters sprinkle with delight,
the round sphere of blue will shine bright.
When the fertile ground is purified with his might,
the earth of the Earth will shine bright.
But this is only the beginning of the night,
who knows when the world will shine bright.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Ode: The Lonely Guitarra
The Lonely Guitarra
by Raymond Kim
Six lines of stream flowing out and out
onto the '8' shaped land, and onto the wide blue strand
Once the land is troubled with a stroke, the body lets out a shout
The harmonious sound disappears into the holy land
The lonely guitar cries with a sorrowful agony
As the stream of lines flow out into freedom of joy
The body of land echoes; only,
for the remembrance of the sorrow like the deaths of the Troy
The abandoned guitar cries, cries, and cries,
letting out its melancholy out into the skies
by Raymond Kim
Six lines of stream flowing out and out
onto the '8' shaped land, and onto the wide blue strand
Once the land is troubled with a stroke, the body lets out a shout
The harmonious sound disappears into the holy land
The lonely guitar cries with a sorrowful agony
As the stream of lines flow out into freedom of joy
The body of land echoes; only,
for the remembrance of the sorrow like the deaths of the Troy
The abandoned guitar cries, cries, and cries,
letting out its melancholy out into the skies
Monday, February 1, 2010
Free Verse + Blank Verse Poetry
Balloon
By Raymond Kim
Fly sky high with a good-bye
Up to the crystal blue sky
With a heart full of hope and anticipation.
As oxygen run out, the floating bubble
of hope pops leaving the fragments
down to earth like a falling leaf
Fly sky high with a good-bye
out to outer space and
deeper into the galaxy
Fly sky high with a good-bye
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Elec Guitar
By Raymond Kim
I wait as quietly as I can calm, smooth
Waiting for someone to unleash myself
Wait, I see someone, he picks me up high,
out into freedom and unleashes my sound
I roar out as if I was inside a,
blockade for hundreds and thousands of years
My six organs make a sweet harmony
Beating with the pick and the melodious
sounds, I feel relieved inside my partner's
harmonious and melodious soul
By Raymond Kim
Fly sky high with a good-bye
Up to the crystal blue sky
With a heart full of hope and anticipation.
As oxygen run out, the floating bubble
of hope pops leaving the fragments
down to earth like a falling leaf
Fly sky high with a good-bye
out to outer space and
deeper into the galaxy
Fly sky high with a good-bye
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Elec Guitar
By Raymond Kim
I wait as quietly as I can calm, smooth
Waiting for someone to unleash myself
Wait, I see someone, he picks me up high,
out into freedom and unleashes my sound
I roar out as if I was inside a,
blockade for hundreds and thousands of years
My six organs make a sweet harmony
Beating with the pick and the melodious
sounds, I feel relieved inside my partner's
harmonious and melodious soul
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sonnet Assignment
Sonnet 1: Shakespeare's Sonnet
From fairest creatures we desire increase, (A)
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease, (A)
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, (B)
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, (C)
Making a famine where abundance lies, (B)
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. (C)
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament (D)
And only herald to the gaudy spring, (E)
Within thine own bud buriest thy content (D)
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. (E)
Pity the world, or else this glutton be, (F)
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.(F
Sonnet Modern Day Evils
By Dr. John Celes
What changes society has undergone! (A)
The modern evils are condemnable; (B)
Terrorism, bomb-cult that disable (B)
Progress and life of nations every morn! (A)
Riddled are people by bullets often; (C)
Persons are knifed in broad daylight ev’n now; (D)
Men and women with strapped-on bombs kill, Oh; (D)
Leaders assassinated by such men! (C)
Something is wrong basically today; (E)
These modern evils just paralyze life; (F)
Counter-measures are not enough anyway; (E)
Truly manmade have become death and strife. (F)
Human progress has led to more evils; (G)
To destroy lives and souls- roam these devils! (G)
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Similarity:
- Both of the poems are Sonnet poems
- Both have iambic pentameter
- 14 lines
Basically, the both of the poems, Sonnet 1 and "Modern Day Evils" are sonnet poems. This one is obvious. Additionally, since they are sonnet poems, they have an iambic pentameter with 14 lines each poem. Both of the poems use many figurative languages that catches the reader's attention. It also allows the author to communicate easily with the reader
Difference:
- The rhyme scheme of the two poems are totally different.
- Not only this, the basic theme or the idea the poem is based on is different. When Shakespeare's poem talks about hte beauty of the creatures, Dr. John Celes' poem talks about the evil.
From fairest creatures we desire increase, (A)
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease, (A)
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, (B)
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, (C)
Making a famine where abundance lies, (B)
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. (C)
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament (D)
And only herald to the gaudy spring, (E)
Within thine own bud buriest thy content (D)
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. (E)
Pity the world, or else this glutton be, (F)
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.(F
Sonnet Modern Day Evils
By Dr. John Celes
What changes society has undergone! (A)
The modern evils are condemnable; (B)
Terrorism, bomb-cult that disable (B)
Progress and life of nations every morn! (A)
Riddled are people by bullets often; (C)
Persons are knifed in broad daylight ev’n now; (D)
Men and women with strapped-on bombs kill, Oh; (D)
Leaders assassinated by such men! (C)
Something is wrong basically today; (E)
These modern evils just paralyze life; (F)
Counter-measures are not enough anyway; (E)
Truly manmade have become death and strife. (F)
Human progress has led to more evils; (G)
To destroy lives and souls- roam these devils! (G)
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Similarity:
- Both of the poems are Sonnet poems
- Both have iambic pentameter
- 14 lines
Basically, the both of the poems, Sonnet 1 and "Modern Day Evils" are sonnet poems. This one is obvious. Additionally, since they are sonnet poems, they have an iambic pentameter with 14 lines each poem. Both of the poems use many figurative languages that catches the reader's attention. It also allows the author to communicate easily with the reader
Difference:
- The rhyme scheme of the two poems are totally different.
- Not only this, the basic theme or the idea the poem is based on is different. When Shakespeare's poem talks about hte beauty of the creatures, Dr. John Celes' poem talks about the evil.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Villanelle: The Waking
The Waking
By Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close behind me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lonely worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air;
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
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This poem gives me a variety of mood and emotions. The poem somehow gives me a philosophical feeling due to the repetition of the lines in each stanzas. The stanzas establishing the rhyme and rhythm creates the flow or mood the author wants the readers to feel. I think these structure of the villanelle poetry really makes the poem moody. Personally the part where Theodore wrote "God bless the ground!" was the line that made me think of God and his creations. "The Waking" is an interesting poem that makes the reader think of many ideas. The rhyme scheme pattern is also the same as the other usual Villanelle poems. ABAABAABAABAABAABAA. I also see personification of a worm climbing up the tree which is a figurative language. The uses of figurative language by the author really caught my attention into focusing the poem. I think the basic meaning for this poem is that we should wake up from our imagination and that we should realize the fact and reality.
By Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close behind me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lonely worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air;
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
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This poem gives me a variety of mood and emotions. The poem somehow gives me a philosophical feeling due to the repetition of the lines in each stanzas. The stanzas establishing the rhyme and rhythm creates the flow or mood the author wants the readers to feel. I think these structure of the villanelle poetry really makes the poem moody. Personally the part where Theodore wrote "God bless the ground!" was the line that made me think of God and his creations. "The Waking" is an interesting poem that makes the reader think of many ideas. The rhyme scheme pattern is also the same as the other usual Villanelle poems. ABAABAABAABAABAABAA. I also see personification of a worm climbing up the tree which is a figurative language. The uses of figurative language by the author really caught my attention into focusing the poem. I think the basic meaning for this poem is that we should wake up from our imagination and that we should realize the fact and reality.
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