MAJOR PLAYWRIGHT : WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564 in  in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He was well known as the greatest English writer,He managed to wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrtive poem. He was admired by many people around the world of his impressive work. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. Most of his play are used the comedies and histories as the genre. In 16th century, he began to write the plays with tragedies genre. Among of his famous plays are Romeo and Juliet,Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.William was die on 23 April 1616.

 Romeo and Julier is a tragedy  written early in the career of  William Shakespeare is  about two young lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime .Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal  young lovers. This is the synopsis of Romeo and Juliet:
    
The play, set in Verona, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet  supporters who are sworn enemies. The Prince of Verona  intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter, but Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball . Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship.


 

 Meanwhile, Benvolio  talks with his cousin Romeo , Montague's son, about Romeo's recent depression. Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequited infatuation for a girl named Rosaline, one of Capulet's nieces. Persuaded by Benvolio and Mercutio, Romeo attends the ball at the Capulet house in hopes of meeting Rosaline. However, Romeo instead meets and falls in love with Juliet. However Romeo is noticed by Juliet's cousin,  Tybalt, who intends to kill him for sneaking into a Capulet ball but is only stopped by Juliet's father, who doesn't wish to shed blood in his house. After the ball, in what is now called the "balcony scene", Romeo sneaks into the Capulet orchard and overhears Juliet at her window vowing her love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues. Romeo makes himself known to her and they agree to be married. With the help of Friar Laurence , who hopes to reconcile the two families through their children's union, they are secretly married the next day.


Tybalt, meanwhile, still incensed that Romeo had sneaked into the Capulet ball, challenges him to a duel. Romeo, now considering Tybalt his kinsman, refuses to fight. Mercutio is offended by Tybalt's insolence, as well as Romeo's "vile submission,"and accepts the duel on Romeo's behalf. Mercutio is fatally wounded when Romeo attempts to break up the fight. Grief-stricken and wracked with guilt, Romeo confronts and slays Tybalt.
Montague argues that Romeo has justly executed Tybalt for the murder of Mercutio. The Prince, now having lost a kinsman in the warring families' feud, exiles Romeo from Verona, with threat of execution upon return. Romeo secretly spends the night in Juliet's chamber, where they consummate  their marriage. Capulet, misinterpreting Juliet's grief, agrees to marry her to Count Paris and threatens to disown her when she refuses to become Paris's "joyful bride.When she then pleads for the marriage to be delayed, her mother rejects her.
Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a drug that will put her into a deathlike coma for "two and forty hours." The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan, so that he can rejoin her when she awakens. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt.

The messenger, however, does not reach Romeo and, instead, Romeo learns of Juliet's apparent death from his servant Balthasar. Heartbroken, Romeo buys poison from an apothecary  and goes to the Capulet crypt.  He encounters Paris who has come to mourn Juliet privately. Believing Romeo to be a vandal, Paris confronts him and, in the ensuing battle, Romeo kills Paris. Still believing Juliet to be dead, he drinks the poison. Juliet then awakens and, finding Romeo dead, stabs herself with his dagger. The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all three dead. Friar Laurence recounts the story of the two "star-cross'd lovers". The families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud. The play ends with the Prince's elegy for the lovers: "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"


References :

  i) http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323
  ii)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
  iii) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet

MAJOR PLAYWRIGHT : SUSAN GLASPELL

Susan Glaspell was born on 1 July 1876 in  Davenport, Iowa. The only daughter of Elmer and Alice Gaspell couple, she received her degree in philosophy from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and began to write for the Des Moines Daily News in 1899. She also did  wrote short stories for Youth's Companion, selling a total of forty-three stories over the next two decades, many of which were set in Freeport, the fictional version of Davenport. She married George Cram Cook in 1914 who was the theatrical director. This couple managed to form a theatrical group named Provincetown Player which became the most influential group in American drama. Susan was well known as the woman who rebelled against society’s expectations of women. In 1931 Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play Alison’s House

 Among of her famous works are Fidelity, in 1915,Trifles (1916) The Outside (1917), Inheritors (1921), Woman’s Honor (1918) Suppressed Desires (written with Cook in 1915), and  The Verge (1921). Talk about her most famous play,Trifles she wrote this play in 1916, basing this brief, one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack, which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News. Trifles was about the murder of John Wright and the men who involved in the investigation could not find any hint or clues related to this case. This play also exposed that the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs.Peters ,that always been looked down by the society especially the men managed to find the clues even from small thing which men assumed them as kitchen things and accused women to worry over the trifles. The major themes in this play is men do not appreciate women which can be seen the men in this play  think they are tough, serious-minded detectives, when in truth they are not nearly as observant as the female characters. Their pompous attitude causes the women to feel defensive and form ranks. Not only do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bond, but they choose to hide evidence as an act of compassion for Mrs. Wright. Stealing the box with the dead bird is an act of loyalty to their gender and an act of defiance against a callous patriarchal society.

Susan Glaspell died on July 27, 1948 due to a pulmonary embolism at the age of 66. Susan wrote nine novels, fourteen plays, countless short stories and articles.

TRIFFLES by SUSAN GLASPELL

Exploration of the text

1) Characterize Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter at the beginning of the play. How do they differ?

Mrs. Hale is a wife of the farmer, Mr.Hale. She also was a friend to Minnie Foster@ Mrs. Wright. While Mrs. Peteris the wife to the new comer sheriff,Mr.Henry Peter. There are several differences between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter. Mrs.Peter is a women who very loyal towards her husband just follow what he said since she married with the law. She also allow herself to be looked down by the men. At the first of this story, she does not want to tolerate about Mrs.Wright case due to the law,but after Mrs.Hale tell her about Minnie's experience, she changed her mind and keep silent. Mrs, Hale is the farmer's wife which braver than Mrs Peter and does not totally follow her husband instruction. She stands with her instinct to keep silent about the evidence on Minnie's action of killed her husband. She also does not want to be remain looking down by the men.


2) What clues lead the women to conclude that Minnie Wright killed her husband?

The women found the body of the dead canary with its neck has been wrung which is the same way as Mr. Wright has been killed and they make the conclusion that she killed her husband use the same way he killed her bird.Besides, they also found the ruined preserves fruit in the kitchen and unfinished quilt.


3) How do the men differ from the women? From each other?
Men always think about the serious matter and used to ignore the small things. While women will keep thinking and wondering about something even though it is only a common thing. For example in this play, the men said "Nothing here but kitchen things" which mean they never thought that it could be the clues for the murder case. But, women feel curious what is going to be happen by saw the way Mrs. Wright knitting the quilt.


4) What do the men discover? Why do the conclude  " Nothing here but kitchen things'? What do the women discover?

The men in this play only discover that Minnie Foster has killed her husband without they notice about the way and the reason why she did  the murder. The conclude is " Nothing here but kitchen things'' because the men cannot find any evidence through the kitchen things which for them is meaningless. While for the women, they found a few evidences in the kitchen. For instance, ruined fruit preserves and the bread that left out of the box.

A Day With The Poet Mr. Refaat

It was a good sharing I guess from the experience poet like Mr.Refaat.

Below is the conversation between our classmates and Mr. Refaat :

1) Q : Who is your favorite poet?
    A : John Donne 

2)  Q:  The style of poem before the war at gaza? 
     A:  Same with other country. For example, love and so on.After the war,its  more to memories.

3) Q :  Do you stay in Palestine? Why do you write about Palestine?
    A : He lives in Gaza. To write a poem, does not have to be a person who in Palestine. Poet is used to the stories or retell by the others. He is actually inspired to write by his students.

4) Q :  The status of education at that place?

    A:   There are 5 universities. Majority the students are woman and less of guy. The ratio =3:2

           15 writers = 3man. 12 woman (active than guy)

 

5) Q :  What was the situation before the war?

    A :  It was simple. It was more to agriculture.

 

6) Q :  About the picture in the blog. Does it symbolize something?

    A : Yes. The olive oil represent the traditional medicine. Pick the olive is the best thing to do in that place.But,  after the war, they did not  get the opportunity to do it. Means spend time with family.

WORLD WAR 1 POEM : THE SURVIVORS BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON

NO doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain

  Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.

Of course they're 'longing to go out again,'--

  These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.

They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed

  Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,--

Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud

  Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride...

Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;

Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad

 

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  In his poem ‘Survivors’, Siegfried Sassoon gives the readers a satirical and paradoxical take on war and its effect on the soldiers who partake in it. This particular poem was written by Sassoon when he was spending his time in the Craiglockhart hospital where he was forced into convalescence due to his strong portrayal of anti- war emotions. On arriving at the hospital he was diagnosed with neurasthenia and had it not been for the work of his psychologist Dr. Rivers, Sassoon would have paved a tragic path to his self destruction. (Anaida D'souza)

         1) 'No doubt they'll soon get well'
The opening line gives the reader a sense of misleading hope. The throw- away feeling emphasised by the assured 'No doubt' calls to mind the sinister complacency of "Does It Matter?"

          2) 'stammering, disconnected talk'
One of the symptons of shell-shock or 'neurasthenia' (as it was then termed) is a stammer, and a failure to string sentences together coherently. The conditions of some of the patients at Craglockhart are described powerfully in 'Regeneration' the opening book to Pat Barker's WWI trilogy.

          3)  'Of course they're 'longing to go out again,''
Again the disassociated, unfeeling voice make its presence felt. The flippant remark, suggesting that all soldiers were willing to return to the front, is typical of the attitude Sassoon perceived in the non-combatants at home.

         4) 'These boys with old, scared faces'
Sassoon contrasts the youth and innocence of the soldiers with the ageing process of the war. Yet, although these men are made old before their time, they are also reduced to infants having to re-learn such basic processes as how to walk 

          5) 'They'll soon forget...of friends who died'
On Sassoon's return to England in April, 1917, after receiving an injury earlier that year, his anti-war sentiments reached new heights. Angered by the attitude he perceived in the people who remained in England, and troubled by visions and nightmares in which he saw corpses littering the streets, he was moved to publish his famous declaration  against the war, which ultimately led to his spell at Craiglockhart.

           6)  '- and they'll be proud/Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride'
Again the poet presents us with a sense of hope, immediately reversed by a harsh reminder of brutal reality. The survivors, once they have managed to forget the nightmares and visions of their dead comrades, will then be able to reflect on the 'glorious war' with pride; but this, in turn, will remind them of their time spent overcoming the horror, when they had no self-esteem having been reduced to helpless children. 

            7) 'with eyes that hate you'
Sassoon ends the poem in an accusatory manner, no doubt directed at the supporters of the War, the people who can so easily push soldiers back to the front without ever knowing the horrors of trench warfare.

References:

*  http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon
*  http://theourownword.blogspot.com/2013/09/survivors-critical-analysis.html

POEM: ~ WHAT WAR IS ALL ABOUT ~ BY TETSKE VAN DER WAL

War is evil
War is the devil
War is between politicians
War is about religions
War is destruction
War is not construction
War is depression
War is an obsession
War is fighting
War is killing
War is sorrow
War is no tomorrow
War is explosions
War is confusions
War is blood
War brings tears like a flood
War makes you cry
War makes you die
War is death all around
War makes you die on foreign ground
War is fire
War is not to admire!
War is creed
War is between different breed
War is cruel
War cost a lot of fuel
War is amputations
War is mutilations
War last forever
I wonder if it ends in Heaven
War is only release
For those who are killed
It means 'PEACE'




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From my opinion, we can know that the persona hate war. He keeps mentioned about negative things about war. We can see his negative opinion even from the first line, "War is evil". He also stated that all the war was caused by the politician can give a really bad impact, "War is an obsession ,War is fighting,War is killing,War is sorrow". He also seems mocking about some believe that trust who ever died in war will be placed in the heaven. He stated "I wonder if it ends in Heaven , War is only release, For those who are killed,It means 'PEACE' ".

~ :: POETRY & DRAMA ::~

What is Poetry?





 Poetry is  words arranged in a rhythmic pattern with regular accents (like beats in music), words which are carefully selected for sound, accent and meaning to express imaginatively ideas and emotions. Each poem

has rhythm, melody, imagery, and form.

There are 6 elements in poetry. They are :

                                                                        *     Voice
                                                                        *     Tone
                                                                        *     Theme
                                                                        *      Setting
                                                                        *      Imagery
                                                                        *      Figures of speech


VOICE:

One of the best methods of interpreting poetry is to define the voice, to discover as much as possible about its quality, mood, and concerns.From the voice, we can consider:

                                                                               # Who is the speaker?
                                                                               # What is the point of view?
                                                                               # What can you tell about the speaker?
                                                                               # To whom does the speaker talk?


TONE :

The tone of a poem established the mood of piece, the changing emotions of the speaker, or the persona's attitude  towards the subject. The tone can be sad, angry, shocking, nostalgic or humorous.


THEME :

 Every poem have its own theme. We can define the theme through its voice, images and symbols. Example of theme is such as time, love, art and death.


SETTING :

The setting in the poem is not just consider about the place,but it also consider about the time and the atmosphere.


IMAGERY :

Every poem must have the imagery.  Imagery is created using descriptive words and phrases to evoke a "mental picture" of the scenes (not so much scenery, actual scenes) in a book.




FIGURES OF SPEECH :


Expression that suggest more than literal meaning, present implied or direct comparison that give readers the experience of an abstraction or an emotion. For instance, metaphor, simile, personification, synecdoche, metonymy and hyperbole.




STRUCTURES


There are a few structures in the poem that we can see. For example, stanzas,rhyme and sound, rhythm and free verse.


Stanza : The lines of poem that divided into group or units.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadows, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.  

 

# Life's  Brief Candle by William Shakespeare

Rhythm: The indispensable elements that  distinguishes poetry. Four basic categories: Traditional meters, strong stress rhythms, syllabic counts and free verse.









WHAT IS DRAMA?

 

  
Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. 

Elements of drama :  *  Character
                               *  Action
                               *  Plot
                               *  Setting
                               *  Symbolism
                               *  Irony
                               *  Theme







 

~ Turtle Soup~ by Marilyn Chin

You go home one evening tired from work,
and your mother boils you turtle soup.
Twelve hours hunched over the hearth
(who knows what else is in that cauldron).

You say, "Ma, you've poached the symbol of long life;
that turtle lived four thousand years, swam
the Wet, up the Yellow, over the Yangtze.
Witnessed the Bronze Age, the High Tang,
grazed on splendid sericulture."
(So, she boils the life out of him.)

"All our ancestors have been fools.
Remember Uncle Wu who rode ten thousand miles
to kill a famous Manchu and ended up
with his head on a pole? Eat, child,
its liver will make you strong."

"Sometimes you're the life, sometimes the sacrifice."
Her sobbing is inconsolable.
So, you spread that gentle napkin
over your lap in decorous Pasadena.

Baby, some high priestess has got it wrong.
The golden decal on the green underbelly
says "Made in Hong Kong."

Is there nothing left but the shell
and humanity's strange inscriptions,
the songs, the rites, the oracles?

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Exploration of the Text:

1. Notice the author's choice of the word "cauldron" in line 4. What images or connection does this word evoke? Why might author have chosen "cauldron" rather than "pot" ?


This "cauldron" word is usually significance with the witch. So, this can be assume that the persona himself feel hesitate to eat this turtle soup because he does not know what are the ingredients inside. Besides, this might be cannot be accept in American culture which some places in the United State it is illegal to to capture and kill this creature.


2. Chin refers to "the Wei," "the Yellow", and "the Yangtze". Why does she reference these rivers in China? Why not include the Nile, the Amazon, or the Mississippi?

This is because the persona and her mother perhaps was immigrant from China, and this place is more familiar to them rather than talk about foreign places.


3. What is the tone of the family?

The tone of this poem is ridicule. The persona himself against the culture that his mother tried to maintain in themselves. This tone can be seen in "Ma, you've poached the symbol of long life; that turtle lived four thousand years, swam the Wet, up the Yellow, over the Yangtze.  Witnessed the Bronze Age, the High Tang, grazed on splendid sericulture."




Ideas for writing: "Sometimes you're the life,sometimes the sacrifice"


Being an immigrant is not an easy things. Some might think that this is enjoyable moment  since we can see new places and new cultures. But, have they ever thought that can we adapt with the new culture,new places, new environment and the most important thing is new life?  For some people it is very hard for them to leave their culture even though they have moved very far away from their motherland. For instance, most Malaysian love to eat durian and "tempoyak",but as we know these thing have very strong smell. So, can this culture be acceptable in the new place like in western country whom well known with their fussy behavior and hate this stinky odor? Some might accept and some might not. So, this immigrant need to adapt with this situation in case to be accepted in the society.


If we can see, there are a lot of unemployed immigrant. This is because many people thought that it is easier to get a job in foreign country rather than in their mother land. It is undeniable that some immigrant got a better life after they moved abroad, but no everyone as lucky as them. Some are getting worst compare to  their life before. They had to suffer and compete with the local people to get the job especially if they did not have higher qualification. Because of beautiful image that be told by people, they daring to leave everything they had without knowing the obstacles that they are going to face.


Relating the quote "Sometimes you're the life, sometimes the sacrifice" to the an immigrant family, "Sometimes you're the life.." means when we immigrate to another country, we may improve our life such as get the better  job, new culture and proudly be a citizen of that country.While the sacrifice is the culture and identity that one or in this case the family has to give in order to survive in the new land they called home or at least be accepted in the new land. For someone who had lived in such along time in one place and used with the culture, it is hard for them to just leave it behind after immigrant to other country. They have to choose either adapt with the new culture, or keep practicing their own culture  and willing to accept any perception from the local people. In the poem Turtle Soup, the persona's mother came from the Main Land which holds more than 5000 years of civilization while The States is a relatively new land. It is seems  hard for the mother to adapt with the new culture and leave the culture that she has been practiced for a long time.



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~ Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note~ by Amiri Baraka

 


Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Or the broad edged silly music the wind
Makes when I run for a bus...

Things have come to that.

And now, each night I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.

Nobody sings anymore.

And then last night I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there...
Only she on her knees, peeking into

Her own clasped hands

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 Exploration of the Text:

1. What is the mood of the speaker in the opening lines? What images suggest his feelings?

*The mood of the speaker in the opening lines is depression. We can see the images of  of his feelings towards the words  "Lately,” “way”, “opens,” “envelopes,” “go,” “wind,” “run".


2. What is the significance of the daughter's gesture of peeking into " her own clasped hands"?

* It is significance to the praying gesture. This is means that the daughter is praying to God ,hoping that her father will never leave her alone.


3. What does the title mean? How does it explain the closing line?

* The title mean the persona is going to kill himself but not soon. And we can see the reason in the final two stanza which are  "he tiptoes upstairs, hearing his daughter talking. “…and when I opened / The door, there was no one there…” These stanza give us the message that the persona canceled his attention to commit suicide after he saw his daughter.


4. Why does Baraka have three short lines , separated as stanzas? How do they convey the message of the poem?

* These three short lines means it is the conclusion for each stanza and what had happened. The message of the poem can be seen for example in line " Things have come to that" which it tells us that the poet have decides what he has to do.


5. Why does Baraka begin stanzas with "Lately", " And now", and " And then"? What do these transition words accomplish?

* This because he wants us to look the poem in chronological order which every event took place. These transition had succeed to make me understand the poem in orderly.


6.  How does the speaker feel about his daughter? What does she represent to him?

* The speaker feel very responsible towards his daughter which she is the main reason why he canceled his intention to commit suicide. She represent the responsible that he has to keep on. Besides,for him to keep living despite the drudgery of other parts of his life. She is the one who loves him and whom he loves , means they need each other to survive.

~The Song of Freedom~

This is the song?
The song of freedom that can never be hear,
Only the sound of ruination keep playing,
This war is endless.

Sshh.I'm here for you,
Oh my dear,let me wipe your tears,
Your hand is too small,yet it holding such a huge weapon,
Where's the humanity that we keep sing about??

How strong you are to face this huge test,
You, are such an innocent child,
A bullet in your forehead,
Is that what we called as HUMANITY??

You deserve to be in the Paradise dear,
O Allah, please,please place all our heroes,
In the place that You have promised,
Which is the beautiful Heaven.

Aamin Ya Rabbal Alamin.

* This is my response towards  Naomi Shihab Nye's poem, All Things Not Considered. When i read this poem, my mind keep not stop from imagine how was my brothers and sisters doing in Palestine while i am here, in this peaceful country. So, i start google for the news in Palestine, and suddenly I saw the picture of a child with a bullet on his forehead. It makes me really upset and angry towards the heartless people there.

The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
 
 

 The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

~::Incident::~ by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart - filled, head - filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean,
Keep looking straight at me.


Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue and called me, "Nigger"

I saw the whole of Baltimore,
From May until December:
Of all things that happened there
That's all that I remembered.



Exploration of the Text:

1. What is the nature of the interaction between the two boys?

 As the kid, we used to communicate with the people around us,especially when we live in neighbourhood
In this poem, it is natural that the persona want to communicate with the person that he saw even with just give the smile.


2. Why does the speaker remember nothing than the incident, even though he stayed in Baltimore from " May until December" ?

This is what we called as behaviorism. In this theory, when a person face  with the certain experience that cannot be forget,it will effects his behavior.And, in this poem ,the persona feel disturbed by the word "Nigger" and he cannot forget that.

The Reading / Writing connection:

1. In a paragraph compare your experience of prejudice with the persona in the poem.

In my experience of feeling prejudice, I will easily feel prejudice toward the Bangladesh men. This is because I was told that these Bangladesh men loved to tease and disturb woman even though she is a married woman. It makes me really in scare especially when I have to be in the lift with them.

Ideas for writing:

1. What do its form and rhyme add to this poem?

  

The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is A,B,C,B. The second stanza has a rhyme scheme of A,B,C,D,B. The last stanza has a rhyme scheme of A,B,C,B. This poem repeats the words Baltimore and filled twice.

2. What is the power of language? What are the effects of the use of the term nigger?


Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.  How powerful the language is depends on how it delivered. For example,  if the language is use with full of manner,it can attract other people to get close wit us. But, if we use it harshly,  it can hurts other people's feeling. So, in this poem, the persona get offended by the word nigger that have been speak to him because it seems as a humiliation towards him.
In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to "others than full or partial negroes" is "felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity"; but the second edition (1965) states: "N. has been described as 'the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.'".



References:

1. http://hanifrahm.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/teori-behavioral-dan-kognitif/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger
3, https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+language&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

~:: The Apple of My Eyes ::~

                       
 I see the green and green,
 My eyes catch the squirrel on the tree.

My heartbeat keep beating till the time come,
But my eyes filled with seawater,
No more longer sunlight on their faces,
Just a glance without light.

While over the green, i saw the Red coming,
My heart shout, STOP! STOP! STOP!.
He's my brother, she's my sister,
I keep shouting until its raining

I'm laying there, breath deeply,
Suddenly everything get clear and i'm just sigh.

Mini Outline for the poem All things Not Considered

 This is my mini outline and note of poem All things Not Considered ^_^

• Why The Jewish and Arab women standing silently without doing anything?
• 'Generation of black' is symbolize for death, evil,stupidity, cruel and scary.
• "He kneeled to help someone else stand up before he was shot" - really proud and impressive with this man.
• " At certain point the flawed narrator wins" is it mean United States of America and Israel?
• Using war as the solution,so the conclusion is death.
• What she means by " The curl of a baby's graceful ear'' ?
• The injustice was obviously can be seen when Israel got help and support from other country such weapon while Palestine got nothing

Women in Poetry : ~Sylvia Plath~

~..Sylvia Plath..~  (1932-1963)

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. She  is a writer whose life has generated unusually keen interest.  I value  Sylvia  Plath's work as an artist , and believe she strikes a responsive chord in her readers and many can see in her very popular novel,  The Bell Jar. Nowadays, many high school and college students are required to read The Bell Jar .

  Sylvia first work that have been published was  The Colossus . Beside  The Bell Jar, her most impressive work is Ariel poems. Even though at first she received a little criticism , the critics finally reread her work because they was impressed with the technical excellence and the emotional intensity of her late poems. Through all of her writing, poetry and fiction, her attention remains fixed on death and disintegration with occasional explorations of their alternatives. In these poems, Plath achieved her finest means of expression and states most successfully the themes which her writing have expressed from the beginning. In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

      The Bell Jar was written in 1963 which is the same year as her death,was actually based on her true story after she  was left by her husband,the poet Teg Hughes for another woman. She felt very depress.  Struggling with her mental illness, she wrote The Bell Jar her only novel, deals with one young woman's mental breakdown. Plath published the novel under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She also created the poems that would make up the collection Ariel (1965), which was released after her death. Sylvia Plath committed suicide on February 11, 1963 

From my point of view, she steers clear of feminine charm, gentility, super sensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry.  And, she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously.  Bernard Eergonzi in the Guardian said ' It shows what a remarkable talent she already possessed and is a very satisfying volume in its own right.'

Among of her famous poems:      * Frog Autumn
                                                * Ariel
                                                * The Shrike
                                                * Ode for Ted
                                                * Child

Poem: All things Not Considered

From my opinion, this poem is about how the people in Palestine suffering from war which caused a big amount of death. The poet, Naomi Shihab Nye who had lived in Jerusaleem had seen these horrible drama herself and could feel the depression,disappointment and anger of Palestinian. So, she describe these feeling onto this poem. The line "A brother and sister were playing with toys when their room exploded" totally touched my heart because she told us about how cruel the Israel's army is even towards the kids. Besides, "In what language is this holy",the poet asked if this cruelty is honourable action and can be accepted by anyone?

In the second stanza, " The Jewish boys killed in the cave were skipping school, having an adventure." tell us that while many Palestinian children were killed by the army, the Jewish boys are enjoying themselves deadly. How unfair the world is. The war that started by the Israel is just a 'drama' which the reality is they trying to eliminate the Muslim in Palestine and conquer it because as we all know, there is no such country name ISRAEL.

In this poem, the poet also tell us that war is not good at all. As we can see, war have caused a lot of loss in case of money, time, properties, and the most important thing is LIFE. Many Palestinian lost their family members in front of their own eyes which this will cause deep depression along their life and take very long time to be heal. " I spit in the face of this ugly world" says by an Arab father on crutches burying his 4 month girl can describe his feeling towards this cruel world. " Picking up things to throw and shoot: at the same time people were studying history ,going to school." is talked about how we,which is not being in Palestine and facing the war, are being fooled by the history and ignored the truth.