Literary Analysis: The Cask of Amontillado

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.

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.

2. In the second paragraph, discuss any type of literary elements you discovered in the story. Forget the literary elements? Look at the brief list to refresh your memory: plot structure, characterization (indirect or direct), figurative language, conflict, symbols, etc! How could you apply these elements to Frank Stockton's story?

- In this story, I was able to see quite a lot of literary elements. First, the characterization was very obvious. The description of the barbaric king was definite. The author clearly showed how the king was a barbaric person by making people choose doors of tigers and a lady. Another characterization that I thought had a deep meaning was the part where the author mentioned the princess was a "semi-barbaric" which the author would have wanted to mention the princess as a more caring person than her father.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Ballads

Traditional Ballad: The Last Rose of Summer

'Tis the last rose of summer

Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
To give sigh for sigh.

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one!
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter,
Thy leaves o'er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.

So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
From Love's shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie withered
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit,
This bleak world alone?

This poem, The Last Rose of Summer, has a rhyme scheme. The end rhyme scheme pattern is AABB. For this ballad poem, I don't see any repetition.

I think this poem was very simple, yet full of many ideas. It also had a lot of imagery that I can focus on which was very helpful. Additionally, I thought this poem was in the perspective of a rose that will soon pass away. The basic tone of the this poem is quite depressing and lonely. To view from the author's perspective into the situation during the time, I think the author was left alone during his time. And I think to express his emotions, he used metaphor and symbolism to compare the rose with the loneliness.

Modern Ballad: Hotel California
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'

Hotel California has a rhyme scheme of AABBDCCDD. Also, in this poem, repetition is also seen.

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

I think this poem is a story about the hotel scene. I think it is introducing an hotel california. Also, I think there are lots of imagery.

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MY BALLAD POEM

In To The Blank Space

Three, two, one, zero

Blast off into the cold, empty space

as if chasen by a devastating destruction

Through the asteroids that are narrow

pass the moon base

Without any instruction,

The human race sets foot on the galaxies

As humans pass Mars, the god of war they find aggression,

As humans pass Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder they find clouds,

As humans pass Saturn, the god of agriculture, justice, and strength, they find encouragement,

Three, two, one, zero

Blast off into the cold, empty space

as if chasen by a devastating destruction

Through the asteroids that are narrow

pass the moon base

Without any instruction,

The human race sets foot on the galaxies

As humans pass Uranus, the father sky, they feel freedom,

As humans pass Neptune, the god of waters and the sea, they feel overwhelmed,

And finally they meet an old friend, who had been abandoned from the solar system,

the god of the underworld.

The spaceship sets foot on the galaxies

The Boring Story - By WonJoon - Edited by Raymond -

After piles of work, I had finally reached winter break. It is also my first day of hagwon. My eyes opened suddenly this morning. I washed my filthy body, and consumed enormous amount of nutrition. After I stuffed my bag, I ran out to catch a bus. I waited and waited; however, the bus didn’t come. I got my phone and contacted my friend, and he told me that there was no hagwon bus today since it was Saturday. So I went to the bus stop, and waited for the city bus to come. Again, I waited and waited but the bus didn’t come. I became desperate. To relieve myself, I went to a convenient store to get a sushi. As soon as I was about to buy the sushi, the bus passed by. I became frustrated. I ran back to the bus stop and waited once more. The bus finally came and I longed for hagwon. Finally, I hopped off on the city hall. I strutted toward my hagwon. I took an elevator and swooshed up. As I entered the classroom, I said hi to my friends. Then we played for five minutes and started taking a test. We took the horrible test for four hours. After we finished, we ate lunch together. And finally, we fled to PC bang and had so much fun.