Poetry

Running Away

Love please can we run away together now?

It’s time for us to make our own start.

I’m not sure what we are going to do or how,

But I know I love you with all my heart

Lets run away like there’s no tomorrow!

We will get in the car and drive as far as we can

Until we cannot look back and see our sorrows

Because I am your woman and your my man.

I think it is time to start our happy life.

I’m excited to be with you forever

And I can’t wait to be your beautiful wife.

I could never leave you, oh I could never.

I am glad that I can call you my love

Cause you were an angel sent from above.

"The soonet is aversatile poem of fourteen lines." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. 9th ed. New York; Pearson, 2009. 900. Print

Mlitary love

I look into your eyes and see a fire.
Your face shows passionate looks of desire.
I know you leave soon and it makes me sad
because I want to be with you so bad.
I miss it when you hold me so tight,
tell me you love me, and kiss me goodnight.
But these are dreams I made up in my head.
Reality sets in and I feel dread.
But everytime I receive a letter.
It makes me feel a little bit better.

The word-Poetry

When I hear the word poetry, I think of romance. I love it when I hear a guy recite a poem to a girl. I think poetry is very beautiful and meaningful.  I also think of death, unhappiness, lost, and pain. Poetry can be beautiful but it can also be painful and depressing, expressing extreme sorrow.  Poetry can put you on cloud nine or it can make you down in the dumps. Poetry that has a rhyme scheme to it seems to flow better and I tend to like to read it more than ones that don’t.

Disturbing truth

“A Rose for Emily” is a very disturbing story. The quote “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” basically says it all because the thought of finding a dead corpse then seeing an indentation where someone else had lying beside the corpse is a little past creepy . Emily must have been insane not only because she had a dead body in her house but the dead body was the guy that she supposedly loved and murdered him. Losing her father must have really affected her mental. The way she stays by her fathers bed denying the fact that he is actually dead kind of shows that she has the mental capacity of a child that doesn’t really understand death as a whole until they get older.

The surprising face was that the town didn’t say anything even when it smelled horrible. The quote “will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” is bewildering because body odor usually doesn’t smell like rotting carcass. Did no one question where Homer went to? Did people in the town ever question why Emily stayed in her house all the time? How did her family members not know? There is so many unanswered questions that readers would want to know. Overall this was a kind of interesting story even though it was disturbing.

If I Was A Man

Why do woman and men just assume things about each other? Men have yet to figure out women and women have yet to figure out men. In the story “The Chrysanthemums”, Henry has no clue that his wife is unhappy and needs some excitement in her life. When Henry states “I don’t think you’d like it” when he is discussing whether or not Elisa would want to go to the fight, He needs to think about the fact that if she is asking about it maybe she has some interest in it or that she just wants to do something different. The fact that he is taking her to a nice dinner is sweet but that’s not exciting if it’s the millionth time they have done that. Relationships need new things to do or they tend to get boring after a while. Putting all the blame on Henry isn’t fair though because Elisa hides the fact that she is upset about everything in the end when it says “She turned her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly—like an old woman.”.  This is kind of sad that she conceals the pain that she is feeling. The thing that Elisa needs to be ashamed of though is the fact that she was going to cheat on her husband with this man that wants to fix her pots and things. The man may have been able to fix many things but Henry and Elisa’s marriage wasn’t one of those things and he was a “true man” to be able to turn Elisa down after she was lusting for him. Cheating is not the way to solve an unhappy marriage. Elisa should really open up to her husband more and let him know that excitement needs to be restored in their marriage so they can stay together and be faithful.

Unhappy Marriage

An "unhappy marriage" is two very contradicting words when put together. Isn't marriage suppose to be happy? “The Story of an Hour “ by Kate Chopin was an interesting story that made me think about marriage. Is a woman still sad and lonely even if she is married? Why do husbands not pay more attention to their wife?  Would someone really be happy if their husband died? All these questions were crossing my mind. Story on the news has shown cases where the wife kills her husband and shows no remorse but usually the case is abuse or something extreme not just being lonely. If marriage is this unhappy then maybe the couple should end it before it comes to bad circumstances.

The quote "And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not." shows that marriage doesn’t give that happy ending that most people want and that even though a wife loves a husband her needs of companionship and communication have to fulfilled of then the marriage will just become unhappy.

Another question that was brought up was the fact that this husband wasn’t dead at all and the fact that he hadn’t been near the wreck at all. Where was he truly at? Was he just as unhappy in their marriage as she seemed to be? I wish the author would have answered more of the unanswered questions that the readers may have.

At the end of the story when the wife passed away from the surprise that her husband was actually alive was a mind-blowing scene.  The quote "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills.” was a very strange way for a doctor stating her death. The beginning of the story stated "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death."  And if she would have not seen her husband by surprise would she have still passed away from the realization that she is not free?

Over all “The Story of an Hour” was an astonishing story that many readers would enjoy. Marriage should be about happiness. If a person is wishing for freedom then the relationship should end cause people one get one chance in life and need to make the best out of it.

Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour". Literature: An introduction to Reading and Writing.Roberts, Edgar. 9th edition. New York: Pearson Education, 2009.pg 331-332. Print

Edgy Friends

Edgy Friends

The gory scene of cutting someone’s throat made my stomach kind of turn, other than that Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street is actually a pretty “interesting” movie to watch. I had never been interested in watching musicals very much but I must say Tim Burton captivated my attention with the way he chose to director this movie. I think the way he portrayed the characters was brilliant.

Sweeney himself had grown so overwhelmed with revenge that in the end he died anyways and killed the love of his life. I think if Sweeney would have actually tried to look for Joanna and Lucy then he would have realized that neither was dead and he might have had a chance to return to happiness like he was before he was falsely accused by Judge Turpin. I guess that wouldn’t make this a dark comedy with the killing and revenge aspect behind it.

The fact that Sweeney says “my friend, my faith friend” singing to his razors definitely showed how unbalanced he had become. The razors being personified as if they are the only things that are loyal to him and they are the tools used to help him carry out his plan of retaliation but ultimately they kill both him and Lucy. It almost seems that murdering people and the blood itself is Sweeney’s emotional release; he is more passionate when slashing a throat than any other times in the movie. When Sweeney is singing “There's a hole in the world like a great black pit” and he is talking about London, I am wondering if he only can back to London and get revenge and if he planned to do anything else or was dying kind of a release from the bad things that had happened.

This movie is definitely worth watching again and picking up on more things this time that I didn’t notice the first time I watched it.


Sweeny Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Screenplay
         Stephen Sondheim.Dir. Tim Burton.2007. Dreamworks,
         2008.DVD