In Emily Dickinson's poem, "The bee is not afraid of me", the final lines of the poem sound as if they were written in Shakespeare dialect. When it came down to researching and finding out if these lines really were written by Shakespeare, they were. Dickinson seems to like to poke fun at the fact that Shakespeare wrote such sing song lines of poetry that were almost funny when read. The entire Dickinson poem just feels funny to read. It doesn't really seem to have a point or go anywhere, its just....there...
"Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists? Wherefore, O summer's day?" This line from Dickinson's poem pull different parts of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Wherefore, o summer's day sounds like it could have been a line out of "Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" It was all just the language that Dickinson was using that points a big fat finger in the direction to Shakespeare.
So either she envied Shakespeare or she just felt that his language was funny or whatever the case may have been....will we ever know?
This is the last part of the class and i feel that everything is coming to an end and my mental processes are compiling and expanding into a brillant masterpiece. The final project of the reflection paper really made me expand my horizon to a more brillant spark of interesting thoughts that actually express intilictual thoughts. i feel that i have broadened my horizon into something sparkling and spectacular.
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This is the last part of the class and i feel that everything is coming to an end and my mental processes are compiling and expanding into a brillant masterpiece. The final project of the reflection paper really made me expand my horizon to a more brillant spark of interesting thoughts that actually express intilictual thoughts. i feel that i have broadened my horizon into something sparkling and spectacular.
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Avoid Distractions
Stay On Topic
See: Sally Slacker Writes a Paper, and Sally's Professor Responds
I'm a bad stickler for this one. i always some how get side tracked on making another point apart from the one i started out talking about. its not that a train of thought is lost, it just pops up and like a spastic child with ADD you can't help but just switch and your off of a different track.
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boshing |
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The act of throwing snowballs at cars. The term was coined by Michael DeRobertis of Scarsdale, New York, in the early 1980s. The word comes from the sound made when a snowball is thrown at a car, moving or parked. The term stems from the sound created when a snowball makes a direct hit with one of these "drum-like", hollow panels - "BOSH!!!" Let's go Boshing - Throwing hard showballs, or iceballs and hitting the "drum-like", quarter panels of cars. "Bosh!!!!" I choose this word because I always hear about kids from my area doing this but I never knew that there was an actual name to it. I was amazed when I found this entry on the Urban Dictionary website. |
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chicklit |
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Books that are normally written by and for young women that are usually humorous. I love Confessions of a Shopaholic. I can relate so much I felt that this was very sexiest because what do you call literature that is written by a man? A book? I just felt that this entry was interesting. | ||
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Dueces |
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Similar to "peace" or "peace out" taken from the hand siginal that means "peace" I'm outta here, man, see you later, deuces My friend in the service always says deuces before he leaves and I never knew what he meant by that phrase until I found out the it’s the same thing as saying peace. I’m learning so much. |
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Shatner |
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Toilet paper. So named because it goes around Uranus wiping out Klingons. "Hand me the Shatner, will ya?" This entry was just funny. I never knew that there was another name for toilet paper. I was amazed when I saw this. It just made me laugh and I had to pick it. |
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shut-eye |
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Sleep,rest, or time when the body is restored Have you gotten some shut-eye recently? I choose this word because I did not know if it was a Pennsylvania thing or if another people in different states say it. But I know that there are lots of different phrases that different people use in different areas. |
Fluffy little birds that live where its cold
Flightless birds prowling the seas not skies
To feed their spouse and one day their own spawn
Just like married couples problems they'll have
With wings they'll beat and with screeches they yell
Sharp beeks can hurt but be glad it ain't you
They'll peck and nag, screech and squack to eachother
Yet still in love as the sun breaks the dawn.
Tomorrow shall be no different, still in love
They found eachother they won't ev'r let go
They'll soon hatch an egg they call their own
A perfect family of penguins, thats all.
Over the last half of the class, I feel that I'm starting to learn more and more and that things are becoming not so difficult for me to personally understand. I have been more able to express my opinon on how I've read things and interpreted them. Everything seems to have a purpose and meaning and it feels great to have the sense of accomplishment.
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"You find not the apostrashas, and so miss the accent"? Well, no, of course you don't, nobody remembers anything said by that frightful bore, and we certainly shan't detain ourselves bothering to work out what he was driving at. All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare's time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: "Fie on't! O fie!"; "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd"; and even, "I am too much i' the sun"-the latter, incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actors to adopt a knowing expression and say i'- as if this actually added anything to the meaning." (Truss 37-38)
I thought this was interesting because over time, it defined who the apostrophe should be used. like it stated, it was first just to put in the place of unused letters. and now, its used for possessions pretty much. wow how things have changed, they are not even similiar uses.
"We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else- yet we see it all the time. No one understands us seventh-sense people." (Truss 3-4)
its weird to think that someone could actually put a name to people who are grammar nazies. but most people who write any more are if you think about it. you either put so much punctuation in that its ridiculous or you don't put enough and then it sounds bland. but to actually say that its a seventh-sense makes it seem like we're all freaks. but if you are a fictional writer or even not, aren't we all freaks because of the things we think of to write about? so it does fit!!
i would just like to make a general claim about the whole entire first entire paragraph to the O'Connor reading. if i were being stalked by a peacock i think i would be freaked out ane probabley run from it not just admire it. i've had a few encounters with peacocks and they are not the nicest animals. but hey at least some people can keep their cool and just look at the good side of things. whatever works...
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