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This wouldn't copy-paste, but I'll show it to you in class. :)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Poem on an important memory
I continue to talk
about the same boring stuff
You continue to shush
shush
shush
shush me
You're embarrassed to be around me?
"Forgive Me," I say
"I have nothing else to talk about."
Our hearts,
once one, are separate and throbbing.
Do you remember I exist?
Salty water stains my cheeks
Those are not tears
(It's the ocean)
This is not a love poem
(Love, Ha!)
Watch me float out into the water,
so far that the I'm way past where waves crash
You don't come to me
You turn your back
My heart is not one with any person
My heart is one with the water.
about the same boring stuff
You continue to shush
shush
shush
shush me
You're embarrassed to be around me?
"Forgive Me," I say
"I have nothing else to talk about."
Our hearts,
once one, are separate and throbbing.
Do you remember I exist?
Salty water stains my cheeks
Those are not tears
(It's the ocean)
This is not a love poem
(Love, Ha!)
Watch me float out into the water,
so far that the I'm way past where waves crash
You don't come to me
You turn your back
My heart is not one with any person
My heart is one with the water.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Response to "The Starry Night."
In class, we established that Anne Sexton is writing autobiographically about the woes of her life in this poem. We established that she was a very sad woman, and this shows through her violent imagery.
Sentences like "one black haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the sky," and "even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children,"show the violent images in the mind of this sad, depressed woman.
Another signification that this poem is very personal and about the author's sadness is the repetition of the line "I want to die." Every stanza ends with "Oh starry starry night! This is how/ I want to die."
A different theme i find in this poem is the author's feelings towards the sky. It seems as if she's confused.
In some lines, she shows it as being harsh, violent: "The night boils with eleven stars."
But mostly, it just seems like she loves the sky, and, like Van Gogh, feels more connected to it than she does to the world: "The town does not exist," and "Oh starry, starry night! This is how i want to die."
I can connect to her (mildly) in that way. I know how it feels to feel like you feel more connected to some place than the world you live in. For me it's the ocean, or water in general. I can literally feel like it can just lift me away and take me. And i wouldn't resist. The water is where i belong.
This poem is really nice.
I LIKE it.
Sentences like "one black haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the sky," and "even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children,"show the violent images in the mind of this sad, depressed woman.
Another signification that this poem is very personal and about the author's sadness is the repetition of the line "I want to die." Every stanza ends with "Oh starry starry night! This is how/ I want to die."
A different theme i find in this poem is the author's feelings towards the sky. It seems as if she's confused.
In some lines, she shows it as being harsh, violent: "The night boils with eleven stars."
But mostly, it just seems like she loves the sky, and, like Van Gogh, feels more connected to it than she does to the world: "The town does not exist," and "Oh starry, starry night! This is how i want to die."
I can connect to her (mildly) in that way. I know how it feels to feel like you feel more connected to some place than the world you live in. For me it's the ocean, or water in general. I can literally feel like it can just lift me away and take me. And i wouldn't resist. The water is where i belong.
This poem is really nice.
I LIKE it.
Monday, January 10, 2011
My Interpretation of an Art Piece
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^That is my amazingly long ling to Salvador Dali's painting, "The persistence of memory."
Observations:
I notice that not only is the land and everything dull and flat in this painting, the clocks are flat too.
The clocks have the look of a balloon without air.
The clocks look wilted.
There's a large gray thing on the floor, which i first thought was a walrus or dolphin or something? Now, I'm pretty positive it's a surreal drawing of a sad, gray face. With a very large nose.
The colors are very bold and the way the image was painted doesn't match the surrealist art period it belongs to, or the surrealist painter. (Otherwise, this painting is pretty surrealist.)
Inferences/Interpretations:
I inferred that the wilting, disturbing clocks have a deeper meaning. It could do with memory, as the poem is titled "The persistence of memory." I'm guessing that the painter is showing something about how time has wilted since some big event happened, by showing clocks that are...deflated, for lack of a better term.
The clocks can also have kind of a "time stands still" meaning, where he depicts the clocks not working to show how time has paused.
A third idea is that he has a very pessimistic, neurotic view on the world. He shows this with having the land be flat and barren, brown and gloomy. < I'm guessing this means that he feels his life is dull and he isn't satisfied with it. As for the big, gray face lying on the ground in the painting, I still can't really infer what that means. The eye is closed with the eyelashes hanging over the bottom part, which could show that this weird, gray thing is either tired or sad. I'mma guess sad.
The one thing that gets me confused about this painting is the background. Whereas the foreground looks barren and sad, the mountains contrast this, and so do the jolly colors of the sea.
I feel that the artist is using the background to represent happiness, as if happiness was far away, long gone in the past or the future. (THE CLOCKS.) Or, that happiness was just not with him.
Either way, I see the artist making himself the gray person and living a sad, flat life. I think he saw his world as very depressed, and that time made him depressed, or the way that time functioned.
^That is my amazingly long ling to Salvador Dali's painting, "The persistence of memory."
Observations:
I notice that not only is the land and everything dull and flat in this painting, the clocks are flat too.
The clocks have the look of a balloon without air.
The clocks look wilted.
There's a large gray thing on the floor, which i first thought was a walrus or dolphin or something? Now, I'm pretty positive it's a surreal drawing of a sad, gray face. With a very large nose.
The colors are very bold and the way the image was painted doesn't match the surrealist art period it belongs to, or the surrealist painter. (Otherwise, this painting is pretty surrealist.)
Inferences/Interpretations:
I inferred that the wilting, disturbing clocks have a deeper meaning. It could do with memory, as the poem is titled "The persistence of memory." I'm guessing that the painter is showing something about how time has wilted since some big event happened, by showing clocks that are...deflated, for lack of a better term.
The clocks can also have kind of a "time stands still" meaning, where he depicts the clocks not working to show how time has paused.
A third idea is that he has a very pessimistic, neurotic view on the world. He shows this with having the land be flat and barren, brown and gloomy. < I'm guessing this means that he feels his life is dull and he isn't satisfied with it. As for the big, gray face lying on the ground in the painting, I still can't really infer what that means. The eye is closed with the eyelashes hanging over the bottom part, which could show that this weird, gray thing is either tired or sad. I'mma guess sad.
The one thing that gets me confused about this painting is the background. Whereas the foreground looks barren and sad, the mountains contrast this, and so do the jolly colors of the sea.
I feel that the artist is using the background to represent happiness, as if happiness was far away, long gone in the past or the future. (THE CLOCKS.) Or, that happiness was just not with him.
Either way, I see the artist making himself the gray person and living a sad, flat life. I think he saw his world as very depressed, and that time made him depressed, or the way that time functioned.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Entry#12: Research on Child Abduction Response.
I did some research about child abduction, hoping to find about the trauma victims of child abduction have. I thought I would find some solid, cruel facts. However, what I came up with was more than cruel-It was very twisted. Children who are abducted at a young age often suffer little to no psychological trauma at all. You'd think this was good, right? Well, think again.
The reason their abductions don't haunt them isn't that abductors who target children very young are kinder to them than people who abduct kids closer to their teens. It isn't that because their very young, they'll totally forget about all that has happened to them later.
Children who are abducted before they reach around 8 years old have no clue that what is happening to them is wrong. They often don't even know they're in danger. Because that's the tricky thing about abductors, they lull children into a false sense of security. I've heard way too many stories of kids who only get found when they are nearing adulthood; children who were repeatedly raped and otherwise violated, who were comfortable with their lives before they were saved. I distinctly remember hearing a story on the today show of a woman who was abducted when she was 7, and never tried to leave. She actually had 3 of her abductor's children.
That actually appalls me. It scares me. And the deep root is that these kids are too young to know what is right and what isn't yet. They can be persuaded easily. Kids believe abductors who tell them that their parents were just lying to him or her, to keep them from from having fun. Kids believe abductors when they say that the reason they're hurting them is because they love them. And kids are so easily impressionable that the beliefs of their abductors often stay their beliefs.
For instance, there is the case of David Goldman trying to retrieve his son Sean from Brazil.
Although it's true that Sean wasn't treated poorly in Brazil, how he was snatched is illegal and immoral. However, Sean didn't want to go back home to his father. No, he wanted to stay with the family he'd lived with his whole life; no matter the circumstances of how he got there. In Sean's perspective, a man he hadn't seen in over five years was trying to bring him back to a life he didn't want to go to. Although much of the reason it took so long to return Sean to David was the Brazilian government not acting; Sean also didn't want to return. The family he was living with had convinced him that they were who he really belonged with, and Sean is a child, impressionable.
This case and so many others show the cruelty of abduction. Not only does it take children from their parents, split apart families, leave physical marks on children and leave mental marks, children who were abducted and then rescued often hate their life after they get saved.
Really, it comes down to who we are as humans. Not just kids. As humans, we love the familiar. We believe what we are told and find it hard to question what we are told. And that one "insignificant" flaw can be the difference of a child who tries to escape and a child who is willing to stay in a dangerous situation.
OTHER FACTS:
-Girls between ages 10 and 14 are most at risk of attempted abduction. It scares me that I fit into this group.
-A large portion of children who are abducted are abducted by family. This happens often when parents divorce and one parent gets full custody of the kids while the other never gets to see them. This often makes the other parent do crazy things. Because the children are familiar with who has taken them, they often don't see it as an abduction. This happened to my 2nd cousin.
-In most cases of attempted abduction, kids' own pure strength and resistance help them get away. In only 16% of cases do adults step in to help.
The reason their abductions don't haunt them isn't that abductors who target children very young are kinder to them than people who abduct kids closer to their teens. It isn't that because their very young, they'll totally forget about all that has happened to them later.
Children who are abducted before they reach around 8 years old have no clue that what is happening to them is wrong. They often don't even know they're in danger. Because that's the tricky thing about abductors, they lull children into a false sense of security. I've heard way too many stories of kids who only get found when they are nearing adulthood; children who were repeatedly raped and otherwise violated, who were comfortable with their lives before they were saved. I distinctly remember hearing a story on the today show of a woman who was abducted when she was 7, and never tried to leave. She actually had 3 of her abductor's children.
That actually appalls me. It scares me. And the deep root is that these kids are too young to know what is right and what isn't yet. They can be persuaded easily. Kids believe abductors who tell them that their parents were just lying to him or her, to keep them from from having fun. Kids believe abductors when they say that the reason they're hurting them is because they love them. And kids are so easily impressionable that the beliefs of their abductors often stay their beliefs.
For instance, there is the case of David Goldman trying to retrieve his son Sean from Brazil.
Although it's true that Sean wasn't treated poorly in Brazil, how he was snatched is illegal and immoral. However, Sean didn't want to go back home to his father. No, he wanted to stay with the family he'd lived with his whole life; no matter the circumstances of how he got there. In Sean's perspective, a man he hadn't seen in over five years was trying to bring him back to a life he didn't want to go to. Although much of the reason it took so long to return Sean to David was the Brazilian government not acting; Sean also didn't want to return. The family he was living with had convinced him that they were who he really belonged with, and Sean is a child, impressionable.
This case and so many others show the cruelty of abduction. Not only does it take children from their parents, split apart families, leave physical marks on children and leave mental marks, children who were abducted and then rescued often hate their life after they get saved.
Really, it comes down to who we are as humans. Not just kids. As humans, we love the familiar. We believe what we are told and find it hard to question what we are told. And that one "insignificant" flaw can be the difference of a child who tries to escape and a child who is willing to stay in a dangerous situation.
OTHER FACTS:
-Girls between ages 10 and 14 are most at risk of attempted abduction. It scares me that I fit into this group.
-A large portion of children who are abducted are abducted by family. This happens often when parents divorce and one parent gets full custody of the kids while the other never gets to see them. This often makes the other parent do crazy things. Because the children are familiar with who has taken them, they often don't see it as an abduction. This happened to my 2nd cousin.
-In most cases of attempted abduction, kids' own pure strength and resistance help them get away. In only 16% of cases do adults step in to help.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Social Awareness Week 2-Two more things off of the list.
Analyze Social Problems In IRP.
Well, currently I'm not really reading a book with outlying social injustices.
So I'm going to go back to "Story Of A Girl", which I read in about a day a little while ago.
Story Of A Girl is a novel by Sara Zarr, about how the life of a small-town girl is completely turned around when she is caught having sex with a high school junior-at thirteen. For the rest of her high school life, everyone thinks of her as the school slut, because nobody forgets these things in small towns. Or anywhere, really.
Some of the issues in this book just deal with how unfair society is: How we are all programmed to believe in certain things, and we can't break this programming; how people are never really forgiven; the ways we label people; and what we'll do merely to do something.
In the town the character, Deanna, lives in, there really isn't anything to do. And so she does what teenagers are supposed to do in small towns when they have nothing better to do-get drunk, high, have sex and be stupid.And she gets a reputation for being a slut that no matter what, she can't rub off. I am so happy to live in New York where there are actual things to do with my time.
Another issue in the class system in our country. Deanna has it tough because she lives in the less wealthy section of her town. And just because she doesn't have a family with income, it basically prevents her from leading a healthy life. Her parents are never home, she does no extracurriculars, her brother Darren and his girlfriend live in her parent's basement. Their the typical "white trash" family-- teenaged boy knocks up girlfriend, and they have no means of their own income because they're busy caring for the baby.
Deanna herself has no aspirations, she accepts the hardships of her life and she doesn't even try to run away from them. She works in a Pizzeria, hoping to get enough money so she can rent an apartment with her brother when she turns 18. She doesn't even want to go to college. It's truly upsetting that just being born from a family with low income assures you a bad life. It really is sad.
A True Story About Someone Who Changes The World Every Day
The Dalai Lama is someone who changes the world every day. In fact, it's hard to come up with a story on him just because it seems like every other day he is enlightening new people.
This isn't biased, I'm not talking about his buddhism speeches. I'm not writing this because I'm a strong buddhist, in fact I have no religion. But the Dalai Lama teaches about peace, and how we can work to make our world peaceful.
The Dalai Lama won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, at the age of 59, and even now as he gets older he continues to fly around delivering his messages of peace to everyone. After 9/11, he delivered a speech that many people took into mind. He doesn't just fund causes to earn the name of a good person. He really cares. His speech on 9/11 was so moving that it made many people cry. In it, he talked of how events of this kind of hatred "make it clear that if we allow our human intelligence to be guided and controlled by negative emotions like hatred, the consequences are disastrous." He analyzes our souls in ways that make it clear how truly brilliant he is. (Okay, this is starting to sound really stupid.)
Also in his 9/11 speech, he gives americans guidelines for how to respond to an attack like this. He doesn't just hate the people who committed the crime, he digs deeper into why the did what he did. For more on his 9/11 speech: http://www.dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/9-11
That speech is just one of the many he has delivered.
Well, currently I'm not really reading a book with outlying social injustices.
So I'm going to go back to "Story Of A Girl", which I read in about a day a little while ago.
Story Of A Girl is a novel by Sara Zarr, about how the life of a small-town girl is completely turned around when she is caught having sex with a high school junior-at thirteen. For the rest of her high school life, everyone thinks of her as the school slut, because nobody forgets these things in small towns. Or anywhere, really.
Some of the issues in this book just deal with how unfair society is: How we are all programmed to believe in certain things, and we can't break this programming; how people are never really forgiven; the ways we label people; and what we'll do merely to do something.
In the town the character, Deanna, lives in, there really isn't anything to do. And so she does what teenagers are supposed to do in small towns when they have nothing better to do-get drunk, high, have sex and be stupid.And she gets a reputation for being a slut that no matter what, she can't rub off. I am so happy to live in New York where there are actual things to do with my time.
Another issue in the class system in our country. Deanna has it tough because she lives in the less wealthy section of her town. And just because she doesn't have a family with income, it basically prevents her from leading a healthy life. Her parents are never home, she does no extracurriculars, her brother Darren and his girlfriend live in her parent's basement. Their the typical "white trash" family-- teenaged boy knocks up girlfriend, and they have no means of their own income because they're busy caring for the baby.
Deanna herself has no aspirations, she accepts the hardships of her life and she doesn't even try to run away from them. She works in a Pizzeria, hoping to get enough money so she can rent an apartment with her brother when she turns 18. She doesn't even want to go to college. It's truly upsetting that just being born from a family with low income assures you a bad life. It really is sad.
A True Story About Someone Who Changes The World Every Day
The Dalai Lama is someone who changes the world every day. In fact, it's hard to come up with a story on him just because it seems like every other day he is enlightening new people.
This isn't biased, I'm not talking about his buddhism speeches. I'm not writing this because I'm a strong buddhist, in fact I have no religion. But the Dalai Lama teaches about peace, and how we can work to make our world peaceful.
The Dalai Lama won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, at the age of 59, and even now as he gets older he continues to fly around delivering his messages of peace to everyone. After 9/11, he delivered a speech that many people took into mind. He doesn't just fund causes to earn the name of a good person. He really cares. His speech on 9/11 was so moving that it made many people cry. In it, he talked of how events of this kind of hatred "make it clear that if we allow our human intelligence to be guided and controlled by negative emotions like hatred, the consequences are disastrous." He analyzes our souls in ways that make it clear how truly brilliant he is. (Okay, this is starting to sound really stupid.)
Also in his 9/11 speech, he gives americans guidelines for how to respond to an attack like this. He doesn't just hate the people who committed the crime, he digs deeper into why the did what he did. For more on his 9/11 speech: http://www.dalailama.com/messages/world-peace/9-11
That speech is just one of the many he has delivered.
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