"Cold Coming"~ The author definately merges death and birth together, by giving the idea that one always follows the other. Not just with a person being born after someone somewhere has died, but also with other things in life such as the seasons changing.
~ The saving the sperm in their flasks brings out a disturbing thought, but it shows how desperate the soldiers were to make a new life. More specifically to have a new life walking around that was their own. When they died they liked the fact that somebody that would have similar features to them might be able to roam the earth.
~ The difference between a poet and a journalist is very extreme. Poets are so much more in depth with their feelings making the situation seem more serious rather than just an incident in hollywood with a journalist. Poets usually write on serious matters, things that effect people's emotions.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
in class...
I sort of took the same approach in how the generalization of the quote" Guys like cars" can be turned into those three variations. So even is a person says the original way, some people are going to get mad.
Thursday the 17th
Ursula LeGuin’s “She Unnames Them” (CR 166-168)~ I found this very interesting, because my friend Josh often proposes the idea about questioning what your talking about when you just say the name of something. Such as, what is happiness? Isn't happiness just an identity to an extreme feeling your experiencing...then, what are feelings? So when she starts to talk about how the animals accept their names, I have to say how do we know that. They don't speak our language, so in their minds they refer to themselves completely differently. Humans only accepted their names, and each name is different depending on the language.
T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” (CR 364-366)~ There was a lot of interesting symmetry in this story. Such as, "The camels galled..." All of it helps to place the story in a period in time far in the past. The story makes the reader feel very sorry for the speaker, whose journey is not an easy one, and who is very into biblical things. It bothers him dremendously that he sees sinners without Jesus in their world, and he can not wait for Jesus to save them in the last paragraph when he starts to talk about birth and death.
Tony Harrison’s “A Cold Coming” (CR 395-399)~ This story puts an interesting twist to the newest advances in technology. In a way it appears nice that the soldiers want a part of them to roam on after they die, but is it healthy for a wife to freeze her dead husbands sperm? She would be having a baby by a man that was dead for possibly many years, by that time your suppose to have moved on. I just don't know if I agree that all the soldiers should be saving their sperm in a flask for hopes of reproducing.
T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” (CR 364-366)~ There was a lot of interesting symmetry in this story. Such as, "The camels galled..." All of it helps to place the story in a period in time far in the past. The story makes the reader feel very sorry for the speaker, whose journey is not an easy one, and who is very into biblical things. It bothers him dremendously that he sees sinners without Jesus in their world, and he can not wait for Jesus to save them in the last paragraph when he starts to talk about birth and death.
Tony Harrison’s “A Cold Coming” (CR 395-399)~ This story puts an interesting twist to the newest advances in technology. In a way it appears nice that the soldiers want a part of them to roam on after they die, but is it healthy for a wife to freeze her dead husbands sperm? She would be having a baby by a man that was dead for possibly many years, by that time your suppose to have moved on. I just don't know if I agree that all the soldiers should be saving their sperm in a flask for hopes of reproducing.
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh my!
A Lion is an animal that is found in the jungle. It has four legs, and each foot contains claws. Their mouths are extremely big giving them the ability to eat their prey easily. Their ears are on top of their heads, but they are sort of hidden behind their golden mane. Their eyes are kind of large.
A lionness is the female of a lion, her hair is very short but still golden. Her facial features such as her eyes and mouth are more tiny than the males.
A lionness is the female of a lion, her hair is very short but still golden. Her facial features such as her eyes and mouth are more tiny than the males.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Thursday's Reading!!!
Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” (CR 304-305) ~ This poem shows how impacting the song is to men, and that the noise is what occurs before people die because it means there is an emergency about to occur. The bird suit most likely just represents how a person can be so guarded with someone until you finally open up. So when the person told the story the bird suit could come off, and then the person would have been helped.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses” (CR 454-456)~ This story is full of imagery. The entire point of the story is to glorify the Ulysses for his performance in the Trojan War, since it was due to him they won. It discusses his son Telemachus, how he does work when he is gone but never fails to remember how he loves him and do the right things. The quote, " Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved." is very significant because it talks about how slow the time in the war is going, and how they are all to same to be able to take on the war by themselves.
William Butler Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” (CR 475-476)~ This poem is very intriguing it starts off giving the feeling that the girl is trapped inside the swan. She is to weak to get out, and is very scared of the whole situation. It mentions how Agamemnon is dead who was fighting the trojan war for his wife back. Zeus was the swan so of course he overpowered Leda, and finally at the end he lets her go.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses” (CR 454-456)~ This story is full of imagery. The entire point of the story is to glorify the Ulysses for his performance in the Trojan War, since it was due to him they won. It discusses his son Telemachus, how he does work when he is gone but never fails to remember how he loves him and do the right things. The quote, " Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved." is very significant because it talks about how slow the time in the war is going, and how they are all to same to be able to take on the war by themselves.
William Butler Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” (CR 475-476)~ This poem is very intriguing it starts off giving the feeling that the girl is trapped inside the swan. She is to weak to get out, and is very scared of the whole situation. It mentions how Agamemnon is dead who was fighting the trojan war for his wife back. Zeus was the swan so of course he overpowered Leda, and finally at the end he lets her go.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
SWA #10
SWA #10
Casey Lynn Nason
The story that I choose to use is “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. It is about soldiers carrying only the necessities, but not survival necessities all the time. One man even carries a rabbit’s foot for luck. So, my topic proposal is to discuss why a soldier carries the certain item he does, based on the details of the items mentioned in the story. Some of it is sentimental, and then others of it is strictly job related.
Extra Credit:
In many eyes of the people in the world, soldiers are some of the bravest men to exist. They kill bad people, fight for their cause, can go for days without sleep, and put their lives in danger all the time. This façade makes people view soldiers as really tough, but their sentimental sides are shown in little ways by “The Things They Carried.” Why does a soldier throw away rations instead of his stationary paper? Carry a rabbit’s foot or M&M’s candy? A soldier carries all the things he needs to fight for survival and protect his fellow men, but the little things he carries along with that give detail into their lives by a great amount.
Casey Lynn Nason
The story that I choose to use is “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. It is about soldiers carrying only the necessities, but not survival necessities all the time. One man even carries a rabbit’s foot for luck. So, my topic proposal is to discuss why a soldier carries the certain item he does, based on the details of the items mentioned in the story. Some of it is sentimental, and then others of it is strictly job related.
Extra Credit:
In many eyes of the people in the world, soldiers are some of the bravest men to exist. They kill bad people, fight for their cause, can go for days without sleep, and put their lives in danger all the time. This façade makes people view soldiers as really tough, but their sentimental sides are shown in little ways by “The Things They Carried.” Why does a soldier throw away rations instead of his stationary paper? Carry a rabbit’s foot or M&M’s candy? A soldier carries all the things he needs to fight for survival and protect his fellow men, but the little things he carries along with that give detail into their lives by a great amount.
SWA 8-9
SWA 8-9
Casey Lynn Nason
~ Koller, Larry. “The Complete book of guns.” Novel. 1954
Koller’s novel offers a variety of information on all types of guns created. The limitation of this book is that it is only on the weapons made before 1954. All the information in the book discusses which type of gun performs what task best. The information tells exactly what gun should be used in a certain situation of war, which is important to my project because the story is about what soldiers are carrying. This will help me understand why they have a certain gun in possession.
~ Treherne, J. E. “The strange history of Bonnie and Clyde.” Bibliography. 1984
Treherne goes into depth the lives of Bonnie and Clyde. The lived bad lives of crime, and caused many problems for the general public. The reason it is important to understand this that it is referenced in the story. Thus, a connection could be made between the story and why it is such an important memory. It will help in understanding why soldiers think of the past the way they do.
~ Chan, Sucheng. “The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings.” Bibliography. 2006
This novel written by Chan explores the details between American and Vietnamese war. This is significant to my paper because a little Vietnamese boy is killed in the story, and his thumb being carried is given a lot of detail. By reading this it could be possible to piece together where the soldier is at from all the gory information on what was occurring in Vietnam. In addition, specific tactics that were used in war are given in this novel, which will explain certain moves done in the story by the soldier.
Casey Lynn Nason
~ Koller, Larry. “The Complete book of guns.” Novel. 1954
Koller’s novel offers a variety of information on all types of guns created. The limitation of this book is that it is only on the weapons made before 1954. All the information in the book discusses which type of gun performs what task best. The information tells exactly what gun should be used in a certain situation of war, which is important to my project because the story is about what soldiers are carrying. This will help me understand why they have a certain gun in possession.
~ Treherne, J. E. “The strange history of Bonnie and Clyde.” Bibliography. 1984
Treherne goes into depth the lives of Bonnie and Clyde. The lived bad lives of crime, and caused many problems for the general public. The reason it is important to understand this that it is referenced in the story. Thus, a connection could be made between the story and why it is such an important memory. It will help in understanding why soldiers think of the past the way they do.
~ Chan, Sucheng. “The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings.” Bibliography. 2006
This novel written by Chan explores the details between American and Vietnamese war. This is significant to my paper because a little Vietnamese boy is killed in the story, and his thumb being carried is given a lot of detail. By reading this it could be possible to piece together where the soldier is at from all the gory information on what was occurring in Vietnam. In addition, specific tactics that were used in war are given in this novel, which will explain certain moves done in the story by the soldier.
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