Well, I would have to say there are some pretty interesting opinions in this text. For example, the thought about Prospero and Sycorax giving birth to Caliban. I think that idea is little out of the ball park. If you were to research, you would find out that Sycorax died of old age about twelve years before Prospero and Miranda get to the island. Caliban's father was supposed to be the devil. I guess if the devil could be his father whose to say that Prospero isn't. I still think it's out of the park and over a fence kinda idea.
The other opinion that really made my head spin was Suniti Namjoshi's poetry. The article states in the poetry that it is suggested that Caliban was a female. On top of that notion has a lesbian relationship with Miranda. Talking about thinking out of the box!!! I didn't get any thought of that when reading the play.
Tormented
I'm feeling like I'm in a gas chamber
Inhaling smoke and eyes turn blood shot red,
Nothing, but pain seems to be my companion,
The skull feels like it's about to shatter,
From my confused brain throbbing of wild thoughts.
Now I find myself in an electric chair,
Patiently and waiting until it's time,
It doesn't matter 'cause my heart has die,
Nothing can hurt me, but I'm feeling much pain,
The sweet flaming sparks fly and I fade away.
Tempest: 1. a violent storm with high winds accompanied by rain, hail, or snow 2. a violent outburst
The Tempest and Me
Reading words that Don't seem to make Sense,
Seeking out Help,
But Help turned Down.
Assumptions Occur,
Bobbling around in mind.
Stereotypes, Metaphors, and Similes arise,
Then Forced to Think about,
Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise".
Confusion and Chaos sugarcoated,
And Blackness as a Shield,
Forced to Cannibalize just to Survive.
But just Face the Facts,
The Tempest and Me,
Don't see Eye to Eye.
I liked this poem, even though I didn't understand the entire thing. Going to class to discuss it, helped me a lot. I think this poem is based on a dream. Everything just moves too quickly for it to be a realistic event. The yellow fog could be part of the fading in and out of scenes. The ending was a little weird, but it ties into the first stanza.
This poem was kinda unique. I notice before I read it, there wasn't any punctuation. I had to read this poem a couple of times. I thought this was just a man asking his wife to forgive him for eating plums. It didn't dawn on me to think about Adam and Eve until I went to class. The plums in the poem symbolize the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve ate.
I enjoyed reading this poem. The poem was about the human race not acknowledging God presence. Gerard Manley Hopkins uses repetiton to get his point across.
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
I think this is one of the most powerful lines in this poem. The human race is so concerned about business that we forget to praise God for giving us nature's resources.
Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death was about someone who was dead. In this poem, death has come and is taking the person to their grave.
Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves-
And Immortality.
The carriage would be a hurst in our modren day.
While this is going on the person is having flashbacks about their life.
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess-in the Ring-
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-
We passed the Setting Sun-
I believe the person's flashbacks were about their childhood.
I like this poem. The whole poem just flows with each stanza.
After listening to everyone's opinion about the story, I was able to understand it a little more. Frankly, I couldn't really get into the story and found it a little boring. There are a couples things about the story stuck out.
The people in this story worshiped "The Machine" as if it was God. The manual about "The Machine" was like their bible. They priased it. I think it was Misheila who said that this shows that humans need to have belief in something whether it is science or television. It is human nature to believe in something.
Also, the bond between mother and child was present in this story. In the civilization children were sent to "Public Nurseries" until the become adult. When you would think the bond would be broken, but it wasn't. The mother and son died together at the end.
I beleive Dr. Jerz made reference to Y2K. That was another thought that travel throught my mind. I remember how everyone was worried about the computers shutting down. People thouhgt the world was going to come to it's end. It makes me think about "The Matrix".
I thought the story "To Build a Fire" was okay. Relationship between the man and dog, made me think about Maury, a talk show, because the man was abusing the dog. So I guess you can say the dog could be a symbol for a battered woman. On the top of page 3, the dog is referred to as the "proper wolf dog unlike its brother the wild wolf".
The proper wolf? That's kinda puzzling. The proper wolf could mean a woman who will let a man control her. The wild wolf could mean a woman who doesn't take abuse from anyone. Anyway, the man treated this "proper wolf dog" terrible. The man made the dog walk across the surface because he wanted to see if the surface would brake, which it did. Later on towards the end of the story, he wants to kill the dog because his hands were frozen. That was terrible.
The relationship between the man and dog is symbol for the relationship between the slave master and slave. The man order and hurt the dog, which would make him like a slave master. The dog would obey because the man had the upper hand.
I like the ending of the story. The man dies and the dog leaves him. The dog goes to the camp, where the are "other food providers and fire providers". The man die because of himself. He went outside when it is extremely cold and he didn't listen to the old man about having a partner with you at all times.