Of Mere Being

Wallace Stevens-Went to Harvard and New York Law school...for most of his life he was actually a lawyer. I found this fact interesting because nearly all poets, are in the nicest, lazy! He grew up in Pennsylvania and was a lawyer in Connecticut.

My view of the poem: Our own thoughts and knowledge begin with the slightest touch of our palms. The feathers of a bird, such as on a pencil bring thought to our hands and as we write, they "sing" a song. Our thoughts come alive onto a single piece of paper, just as live is given to a bird when they sing their songs throughout the days. If I look at it more factual, the birds provide us with songs of inspiration and motivation as they sway through the trees gradually and effortless.


Facts about the poem: 4 stanzas and each stanza has three lines or is a tercet. This poem is open for the readers own imagination and opinions.

I don't have too much to say for this poem because i didn't really like it sorry.!

Hamlet Quote

HAMLET

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden

That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature

Possess it merely. That it should come to this.

But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.

So excellent a king, that was to this
hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother.

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly.—Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!—

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With which she followed my poor father’s body,

Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—

O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,

My father’s brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules. Within a month,

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,

She married. O most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is not nor it cannot come to good,

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I think this quote best describes Hamlet because it shows many different sides of his emotional status and how he handles himself. This quote mentions his dad, mom, and his uncle which is nice to see who stands an importance in Hamlet's life. Hamlet seems very dramatic and emotionally stressed about his father's death and his mother's new love. Hamlet has to learn how to handle his father's death in a positive way, but it is so hard for him to focus on his emotional health when his mother moves on to a new marriage so quickly. Throughout the amount of play that i have read and understood, i believe this quote from Hamlet speaks a lot about who Hamlet is. Hamlet changes from a stressed guost hunting man into a caring, upset boy.

The Day Milliccccent Found the world

William Stafford: He is an American poet and recieved his Ph.D from University of Iowa. This is interesting to me because overall I have found that many writers do not finish college or even go to college, but the last two poets i have researched have had degrees and a very profound educationasl background.

This poem is about discovering yourself and letting adventure become a positive embrace of your soul. Millicent was obviously looking for a journey and when she kept on crawling futher into the undiscovered world, she was thrilled and couldn't help but feel whole. Aunt Dolbee was reality calling her back from the fantasy to the world again.

This poem is most definitely a ballad telling a story about a girl named Millicent.
The poem has three stanzas, the first stanza is 11 lines, second stanza is also 11 lines, and the third stanza is 7 lines. There was no rhyming but there was some diction. The diction indicates the imaginary truth that Millicent was thinking. The poem seemed more like a short story rather than a poem!

The Cat

Miroslav Holub: Was an immunologist which of course anything to do with medical i think is awesome, but im not sure why he would want to quit that and become a poet. his poems are not english they have to be translated into the english language. His poems translate into more than 30 languages.

The cat seems to be a poem about some girl that he loved and when he left him, he was devestated. The poem is very visual; you can almost imagine everything about this poem clearly as a movie. "I said to her do not go" is repeated twice making it a strong statement that if the girl left, it would be bad for her and could lead to something unwilling. "she dissolved" is also repeated twice and i also think Holub is just trying to make a stronger statement about his disbelief that she truly left. Maybev the poem could be about his daughter too. He says not ever she sees herself again, but maybe that means she left to actually find herself and she never returned to her old behaivor. Maybe she became someone with mroe confidence so no one could recognize her.

This poem has six stanzas.
1st stanza- 5 lines
2nd stanza-5 lines
3rd stanza-4 lines
4th stanza-2 lines
5th stanza-6 lines
6th stanza-6 lines
This poem has several lines and only the first two stanzas and the last two stanzas have the same amount of lines. Maybe this poem is also a ballad but there is I am unable to tell what exactly Holub is trying to express with this piece of writing. He has a sad tone but it would help if i could find better background knowledge about the poem personally.

Reading Myself

Robert Lowell: He is considered the founder of "confessional poetry" according to wikepedia.





"earned my grass" - maybe speaking of "earning his spot" or earning his land.


This poem has two stanzas, the first stanza has 7 lines and the second stanza has 8 lines.


I would say this poem is more like a ballad. Even though this poem is only 15 lines short it is still able to tell a story or memory. There is no rhyme scheme to this poem but in the second stanza there is repeated words such as "cell, circle, and honey" I think the author uses this repition to create a better understanding of the world he is proud of. Every single piece of life was doen with perfect calculations due to other parts of nature.


"Somehow never wrote something to go back to."- this line seemed to be the poets way of trying to make sense of his own poem. The poem sounds like a reflective piece, but that line in particular seemed to stand out, almost like it didn't fit in with the rest of the poem. Some of the sonnets we read in class by Shakespeare were Shakespeares way of putting his opinion about plays in his own play. Maybe this is Lowell's way of writing in his own opinion about writing.

The picture above is Parnassus, which gave me a better visual of why someone would take pride in the mountain's slopes. The beauty of the mountain and the height resemble the struggles in Lowell's life and how to overcome the struggles you can make it to the top, and earn the mountain peaks.

The tone in this poem is very built up because it is slow and then by the second stanza there is more background information and reasoning behind his story. "...my coffin"- this is a different way to end a poem because it's not very bright and happy. The poem is a bit meloncholy.

The poet also relates his life to the life of an insect.

Don't know what im doing..

Like i mentioned in class i keep thinking im ahead with the blogs so i haven't done them.. but apparently not, so i promise im not purposely not doing them. Just confusing i guess!?