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The old man with the enormous wing was thought to be an angel in the story. An angel is a wing human-like creature sent from the heaven to do God’s will on earth. In the story, however, the wing man rarely does miracles. When he does miracle, it was not direct nor to be consider useful. “Besides, the few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental disorder, like the blind man who didn’t recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn’t get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers” (Marquez 454). The wing man does have the capability of doing miracles. However, these miracles are very unlikely to be God’s will. But if we take a look to the story as a whole, the wing man does bring good to the family in which he resides with. The wing man appearance has somehow lead to the child’s recovery from his sickness, and at the end the family is a lot better off after the appearance of this wing man. This wing man may not be an angel to most, even when he was considered as one. Nevertheless, this wing man appearance does save the family’s faith that he reside with. And even though he was not treated as one, he should be considered as an angel by this specific family. It is an ironic thing that people would travel across the country and pay to see this wing man they believed to be an “angel”, while the family this “angel” has saved from their misfortune treated him as a burden instead of a blessing.

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Name: Emily Grierson

Basic Information

Networks: None
Sex: Female
Hometown: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
Relation Status: It's complicated
Interested In: Men
Looking For: Leave me alone

Personal Information

Activities: Killing "rats"
Interests: China, Human properties after death.
Favorite Music: Classical




Wall:

Tax Collector: You are overdue on your taxes. Failure in paying will results in serious consequences. I do hope you taken this as a fair warning.

Emily: Kindly, talk to Colonel Sartoris. He will clear things up.

Tax Collector: Ma'am Colonel Sartoris have passed away nearly 10 years. You will have to pay these taxes sooner or later.

Emily: Later then.

Thesis

In the "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author has created an abstruse image of the true existence of the angel like creature.

When I read We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, it gives me an image of young students who play pool regularly and doing things that they please carelessly. I somehow have the feeling that the author want to tell the reader that there are things more in life then just having fun. A lot of people say otherwise. By reading other student's blog, it seems that many believe that the author wants to tell the reader that life is too short to take things too seriously. But, if we look into the whole poem aside from the last line, it does look like everything is well. The last line, however, bring a revolving ending to the sad fact of death. And if I look into the whole poem including the last line, I see an empty life. Yes, they did have fun skipping school, going out late to do as they please. But there isn't really any accomplishment, no goal, no ambition, no variation before the closing line "Die soon." There are a lot more things in life then daily fun. Life without an achievement, goal, purpose, love will be a boring life after a few months. If you don't believe me, try to do things without any plan during our 3 months-plus summer. Fill everyday with spontaneous activity, no work, no summer school, no goal. I, at least, got bored in a week.

Parody

Please don’t Be surprise

A watch was sold
the one
that your mom
has left you

you ate
my sweet and cold plums
it was
my breakfast

You should know
that I have bought some
more plums
for you too

For my parody of William Carlos Williams’s poem “This is Just to Say”; I chose to create a reply from whom Williams’s note was left for. I apply similar capitalization of the title by switching back and forward between each word. My poem has the same number of three stanzas in which each stanza has four lines. The syllabus form also mimics to what Williams’s poem has; which is (including the title): 5; 4,2,3,3; 2,5,2,3; 3,5,2,3. Also if you noticed the capitalization vertically at the beginning of each line in Williams’s poem, it would spell the word “TIF” which sounds very similar to “thieve”. If you would look at the capitalization of my poem, it mimics the location of Williams’s poem and would spell “PAY” which one could argue that it stands for “Pay Back”. The last stanza mimics Williams's poem by showing a slight feeling of guilt. But instead of saying he is sorry, he let Williams know that he did something nice for him by buying him more plums that he seems to enjoy so much. This is, his way of saying "I am sorry".

Week II Digging

In the poetry Digging by Seamus Heaney, the whole poem creates an image of a shovel, being used as a tool to dig. “Digging” in this poem does not only represent the act of creating a hole on the ground; it also represents progress, a job required to survive. More importantly, “Digging,” represent purpose.

In the beginning of the poem,

“Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

I believe that the author uses “gun” because it represents readiness, power; capable of accomplishing something that is in a far away distance. However, gun is useless if there is no intuition in using it. The next part of the poem describes how he envies his father and grandfather; digging, to make sure that the family would survive the day. And at the end, the last three lines say:

“Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests.

I’ll dig with it.”

My conclusion of the meaning of the poem the first time reading it, is that in the beginning the author believes that he is much capable of doing anything; however, he is still confused on what he should do. After he sees his father and grandfather digging for the sake of the family, he finally decided to help out to dig for his own goal. Granted with the skill of words, he writes in the pursued of fulfilling his life’s goal and be valuable to his family.

I do understand that there are many poetic form that are widely used by poets. However, as one could find many famous poems that does not exactly follow the format of a proper poetic form; it has made me wonder on how strict and how loosely can one use these forms. That's it for now,... I'll add something later on.

Poetic Form

My Last Duchess by Ferrara

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
......

Prose

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive.
I call that piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands worked busily a day, and there she stands.
......

My Last Duchess uses an AA BB CC..... form. And to fulfill the use of the form, the sentences were split for the sake of the rhyme. In the short example above, two full sentences were split to accommodate an AA BB form. By doing so, not only it created a rhyme, but it also helps to put extra stress in certain area of the sentence. For example, the sentence “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive.” Would only inform the reader of how lively the painting is. However, by separating the sentence into two: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,” and “Looking as if she were alive. I call” would imply a level of importance to that particular painting on the first section and inform the reader how she looks alive in the painting on the second. The poetic form has not only create a rhyme for the poem, it has also been used to apply a higher level of importance on certain parts of the sentence.

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