What Does Love Do To You

QuickWrite

Think of someone you know or have read about who was in love. Did love make the person see the world more clearly, or did it cloud his or her vision?

Robert Frost is my favorite poet and I read some of his poems before. “Flower Gathering” is a poem to explain the conflict of love. Love does cloud the speaker’s vision and he loses his lover. In the poem, the speaker gives so much to his lover, but she can’t understand what it is. He is kind of depressed because the person he cares the most doesn’t know the real him. The speaker is the ironic in this poem. He seems like a gift to his lover, but this gift means nothing if she can’t “see” or even “recognize” it. “Do you know me in the gloaming, gaunt and dusty gray with roaming?” We can see that the speaker doesn’t receive the love as much as which he gives to his lover, and he loves a person who doesn’t understand him well. 

Poetry Recital-Reflection

     During today’s presentation, I could feel that everyone was nervous. Some people were able to hide their fears, but some were unable to overcome them. I soon regretted for today’s presentation right after I finished it because I was mad at myself that I forgot a sentence during the presentation. Although I could memorize the whole poem before presenting, I felt nervous when I heard that I was the first one to go. I noticed that many people’s hands and voices, including mines, were shaking when they stood in front of the classroom. I also saw that only few people did eye-contact. I didn’t do that too. Actually, I still remembered that I should stand straight and slow down the reading speed, but I totally forgot these reminders when I stood in the front. I found that people, who look directly to the front and stand straight, did well on their presentations.

Demonic Dialogue

Beelzebub→Satan

“Oh! Satan your conduct and deeds will lead to a war with God and show how powerful his is though you are protected by strength, chance, or fate. I regret for the terrible outcome which caused us to leave Heaven and laid us low. Although gods and heavenly essences can perish the horrible destruction, our glory and happy state will remain only misery. If our Conqueror doesn’t support us, we may serve as his slaves, work in Hell, and do his errands. Can they help us to bear the punishment?”

Satan→Beelzebub

“You are wrong Beelzebub. Being weak would only happen if we are unable to make it. However, we will become happier if we persist to against God’s power. If he seeks to bring us evil, our labor must be torture to the end; if I succeed, he must deserve to be disturbed. Recalling our falling to Heaven, the fiery surge and winged red lightning were unable to defeat us because the fury to our foe was solid built. Let us reassemble our powers, overcome the dire calamity, and gain resolution from despair.”

Song: To Celia paraphrase

     Line 1-4: The speakers wants his lady to make a pledge to him with her eyes and he will return with his eyes too. She also can choose to leave her kiss on the cup and he won't look for the wine.
     Line 5-8: The speakers claims that his soul thirsts for love and only a drink from God can quench it and he won't exchange the nectar of his lady's kiss.
     Line 9-12: The speaker gives his lady a rosy wreath not only because she is beauty but also because her intense charms.
     Line 13-16: The lady's breath smells like the fragrance of the wreath. Although his lady rejects his offer of love, he still can smell her essence.

How does Death die?

    The paradox made in the poem shows that death has no right to be proud and people should fear about it. Death seems to bring more peace and pleasures as people sleep after their lives. According to the end of the poem “Death, thou shalt die,” death dies because it is unable to kill people and they can wake up forever.

Hearts and Minds

      We always make decision before we actually do any action. Sometimes we might come up some ideas, but we probably think more deeply in order to make a perfect decision. Our hearts and minds definitely influence our actions because people behave differently or make different decision depending on their moods. For example, we might think in positive ways when we in good moods, but think in negative ways when we in bad moods. Each person has a close bond and it can’t really be separated because each system from the body would affect other ones, such as our hearts and minds do influence our actions. Even by death the whole bond won’t change. It just exists in the place where we can’t see, but the bond still remains the same.

Allusion

     Donne’s Song is totally different from the idealizing women during Renaissance. He satirizes women by using hyperbole, or gross exaggeration. According to the mythological mermaid singing that lures sailors to crash their ships, the speaker asks to complete several impossible and absurd tasks. In “Song”, Donne uses hyperbole to illustrate how difficult it is to find a beautiful, faith woman. This allusion signifies in “Song” because it emphasizes the main point throughout the poem. Although a woman seems to be honest and fair, Donne believes that she will still be false. The exaggeration in the poem shows that Donne is completely lost to find an honest woman.

Literary Focus: Heroic Archetype

     When think of an example of the epic hero from a book, television, video game, or movie, I would definitely say “Spider Man.” He is the most suitable epic hero in my mind. One of the impressive scenes is that the bad guy in the movie controlled the train and he adjusts the train speed to the highest. The biggest problem is that there is an off track at the end of the trail, but the train is unable to stop. Spider man uses his wire and tries to stop the train. Finally, he successfully stops the train right in front of the off track. After his heroic behavior, spider man was exhausted. All people in the train raise his body in the air and pass him down to let everyone can see this big hero. The heroic archetypes we can find from spider man are courage, power, and fearless. As every time he appears to safe people, he seems fearless and risks his life to protect people. Spider man always defeats the evil guy at the end of the movie.

Think About The Epic

     What kinds of stories can be shared today by means other than books?

Bible is a kind of book which can be shared today by means other than just a book. Since thousands years ago, Bible has been used by people. It contains lots fields of studies, such as astronomy, archeology, and linguistics. According to the belief of Bible, people believe that God, the most powerful person in world forever, created everything on the Earth and had ability to protect people. There is a strong invisible spirit from the Bible. It is not only a book but also a force to support people. People do learn knowledge from the Bible and pass down the spirit from generation to generation.

     How does telling a story out loud keep it alive?

Telling a story out loud keeps it alive because only a few people in the past could read. In the recent years, books were published by people who worked for the church. For instance during the Middle Ages, majority people couldn’t read except church people. If people share stories by telling them instead of writing on books, more people know the stories and keep these stories alive.