Sunday, February 27, 2011

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock Response

This is a really long poem! And I think the first one i've read that actually rhymes perfectly! I like it!
But After reading the translation at the end of the poem I understand it much better....Its a love poem to whoever leaves hell and will see the daylight again. He is not anyone famous and he just wants to be left alone yet he is longing for to see the light again. Thats what i got out of it anyways....

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Daddy/ Leda and the swan Response

Daddy:
So what i can get from this poem is that its during the holocaust. The narrator, now older, is talking to her father. He must have been killed when she was very young and she is put in a concentration camp. She wants her father but once she gets older she is bitter over losing her father and blaming him for all the bad  things happening to her.

Leda:
I have no idea what this poem talks about........This was the first hard poem.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Poems by Blake Response

Today we had to read William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper and London.

The Chimney Sweeper...(what was really said...)
When this boy was little his mother died and his father put him to work as a chimney sweeper.
Tom hated getting haircuts but the boy told him it was so that he didnt spoil his white hair in the soot.
He had a dream (or a vision) of all the boys in coffins.
An Angel saves them and takes them up into heaven where they and run free.
God may become their father eventually if they were all good.
So they went back to work like little boys should. (haha I rhymed :-D)

London...
The guy wanders through the streets, Near the Thames river in England (right?) And sees a lot of sadness.
He hears cried of men, babies and himself even.
Many soldiers died in front of the palace, leaving blood on the walls.
But mostly he hears cries at night when the hearses drive by.