Analyzing Quotes by Emily Dickinson

1. "Forever is composed of nows."
2. "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
3. "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
4. "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
5. "This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me."
6. "Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
7. "I dwell in possibility..."
8. "Nature is a haunted house--but Art-- is a house that tries to be haunted."
9. "Parting is all we know of Heaven,/and all we need of Hell."
10. "I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape."
11. "in this short life/that only last ah hour/how much-how little-is/within our power."
12. "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
13. "To shut your eyes is to travel."
14. "open me carefully."
15. "Till I loved I liked enough." 

1. I like this one, it is saying that every moment you live through is part of forever. It makes me think that in the grand scheme of things every moment counts.
2. I'm not sure of what exactly "it" refers to, however the way in which the quote is written suggests that "it" is something bad which is why the fact that "it" will never come again makes life so sweet.
3. This quote has a mood displaying regret or determination/ I can imagine that Emily has had her heat broken many times before which is why if she can prevent even one person from the same fate she will feel as if her life has not been wasted.
4. Poetry is supposed to invoke emotion and move the reader so if a piece of literature is able to do these things you can be sure that it is poetry. Emily uses a hyperbole when she says, "my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me," to reinforce her point.
5. Emily is showing resentment towards a world that she feels is unloving. The way she wrote the quote, the sapppiness is apparent. this is reinforced by diction such as "never" and "to me".
6. Silence forces the mind to think for itself. When the mind is let loose a person comes up with their own interpretation for what is trying to be, or needs to be, said. Therefore by one person saying nothing it forces the other to think, or say, the most.

The Squire's Tale

      We all have cons about ourselves some more than others. This tale is of a strapping young man on the search for a fabled lost treasure. He heard about it from an old widow on one of his quests. After a quick stop at a near by kingdom he would set off for his quest.

     He arrived in a part of town that had a feeling of melancholy to it. The young adventurer brushed the feeling off. He spotted a shop from afar and decided to stock up on supplies there. Entering the merchants shop he was surprised to see the extent of luxury in the shop compared to how the rest of the kingdom looked. Before he had enough time to question however, the owner of the shop asked, "What do you need. If you need it I got it and if I got it you need it." The adventurer did not reply, however started looking. He remembered he needed a new saddle for his horse and noticed that the merchant did not have one.      "Might you have any new saddles for my horse?" asked the adventurer.     "No! but if you may need anything else I should surely have it." said the merchant.     "Do you know of a merchant near by that may have one for sale?" asked the adventurer.     "No!" exclaimed the merchant. "I have the best shop in these parts. Now if you need anything else I should surely be able to provide it." shouted the merchant.     "Surely some other merchant must have something you do not." inquired the adventurer. The merchant was intrigued by the young adventurers bold claim gave him a challenge. He told the adventurer that if he were to find a merchant that sold saddles for his horse in his kingdom that he would award that merchant and the adventure with a piece of his great wealth. Determined to prove him wrong the adventurer set out to find a merchant who sells horse saddles in the kingdom.

     The second merchant he came across sold many things but none that the first did not sell, let alone saddles for his horse. He asked the man did he know of any merchant that sold saddles and the old merchant told him that there was a merchant on the far side of the kingdom that opened up not to long ago and might sell what other merchants may not. With that information the adventure rushed off with excitement. When he got there he saw that this merchant's shop looked sub par and lost hope, however when he entered he was overjoyed to see that this sold many things that the first merchant did not and low and behold there he saw saddles for horses. If looked for the merchant who owned the shop and noticed that the owner closely resembled the first merchant.     "Oh happy day young merchant. You don't know what fortune you have brought to the both of us. There is a merchant on the far side of this kingdom who will award both me and the merchant who I find who sells horse saddles!" the adventurer excitedly belted.     "I know exactly who you are talking about. I will sell you the saddle, but I will not except any prize from that disgrace of a man." the merchant said with a mad look on his face. When the adventurer asked why he learned that this merchant was the first merchants son and was abandoned along with his mother and two sisters. The young merchant said the reason was because they were to expensive and the first merchant did not want to lose his wealth raising them. The young merchant also told the adventurer that his father is a selfish merchant who steals other merchants business and slanders any up and coming merchant so he can be the richest man in the kingdom. This enraged the adventurer, being raised with a strong sense of justice, payed for the new saddle and forgetting all about the prize he rushed back to confront the first merchant for his shameful actions.

     When he arrived he tied op the merchant and restrained him to a post outside. He proceeded to loot the whole shop and began to spread his wealth all over the kingdom. Keeping his fill for supplies, he set out to find the fabled treasure. On his way back from his failed quest, he was curious to what happened after he purged the selfish merchant. To his surprise the kingdom looked brand new and was filled with thriving businesses all around. The people of the kingdom were so grateful to the adventurer that they gave him wealth unimaginable. Is this the fabled the old lady foretold? Mo ,atter on to my next quest!

     

About how a very cool poet has inspired me

As most people know, I want to be a film director and to be a screen writer. Geoffrey Chaucer, from what I have read, is almost exactly the kind of writer I aspire to be. From the reading, I learned that he was a very popular and wildly praised poet thought to have shaped modern English to how it is now. Mr. Chauncer was an influential poet credited to a series of firsts with G.L. Kittredge identifying Troilus and Criseyde as "The first novel, in the modern sense, that ever was written in the world." One reason I say he is almost the writer I want to be is that in the reading it said that he often left his poems unfinished, this is something I do not want to do as I think everything should and deserves an end. However, I would like to reflect many different cultures in my work as Chaucer's poetry reflects many sources such as; French, Italian, and Latin. One big thing that the reading has brought to my attention was his tendency to establish authorities only to contrast them, this is an amazing way to bring the issues of a time to the limelight and discuss them. One interesting thing I learned was that he did not provide solutions to the contrasts he presented leaving the solution up to interpretation. Lastly, Chaucer could address topics both seriously and comically making him diverse in the way he could talk about a topic, what he could talk about, and the audience he could present a topic too. Geoferry was a great poet and any aspiring poets,  authors, or just any type of story teller should look towards him if ever in need of inspiration. 

Dr. REAL TALK

Dear Mrs. REAL TALK,

Hello my name is Grant and I am in a  REAL predicament, and I don't know what to do. Here the situation, I have been dawned with this responsibility of  making a death row inmate, a man named jefferson, a man before he dies and he believes he is a hog. The problem with this is that in my most recent visit with jefferson he did some things that would make make miss emma, his family, most unpleased and it will break her little old heart. I do not know what to do in this situation Mrs. REAL TALK  please help me!

Analyzing MLK Jr.'s Rhetorical Strategies

In his speech Mr. King's use of repetition is phenomenal. His use of repetition nicely complements and builds the emotions that he stirs in his audience. For example, when he says, "We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. " The repetition in this quote enhances his argument that the Negro has an unfair disadvantage and has no way to advance in his society. He drives this point by giving examples that cannot be denied, like when he says that, the children are stripped of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". Its statements like this that really showcase how disinviting America's society was at that point in time.
                                        Using that same quote, we can observe his exceptional use of pathos as well. He appeals to the audience's emotions by exposing all the situations and hardships that the Negro had to deal with on a daily basis. He sympathizes with the Negro that wants to advance in society, but the only advance he or she can make is to a larger ghetto than he already lives in. He acknowledges the frustration that the Negro feels when he or she reads a sign that says "For Whites Only". He brings out the anger that the Negro feels when the officers that are meant to protect and serve the people, are only brutalizing them.  Dr. King acknowledges the hopelessness and how discouraged the Negro must feel when he or she cannot vote or have nothing to vote for. All of these examples are there to speak to the audience on a more personal level strengthening his speech. 

My answers to the tough questions!

 Q. Do parents ever pressure their children to achieve? Why do you think so?
 

 A. This is really a given, if a parent never pressures their child into doing anything, the child might grow lazy and not feel any responsibility or have any drive.

Q. What are some of the conflicts that parents and children have?

A. Parents and children collide on many things. I know my mother and I disagree whenever she is telling how to do something the right way and I try to be stubborn and think that my way is the right way. That among other things like curfew, who to date, and the child's career choice are some things parents and children may disagree on. 

Q. Do you feel that people can be anything they want to be?

A. Well maybe not anything, but I do wholeheartedly agree with the idea that anybody can pursue anything he or she wants to do or be. I say not anything because a person can not become something illogical, for example, a child says he or she wants to become an astronaut that is something that child can do with hard work and dedication, though say that child said, he or she wanted to become a Pokemon, that is not something that child can achieve no matter how hard he or she tried. 

Q. Do all conflicts have a winner?

A. Not every conflict has a winner. It could even be said that plenty of conflicts end in compromise. International conflicts for example almost never have a winner, but ends with a mutual agreement between both parties.

Q. Compare your relationship with your parents to Chinese children's relationship with their parents in China.

A. From what I have seen in the videos that my teacher Mr. Rease has showed me, what I have seen in my own experiences, and the sterotype that is associated with how chinese parents treat their children, I can say that my relationship with my mother is similar in the way that she has very high expectations of me. However other than that it is almost completely different.

There Is Always Room For Improvement

One thing I can and will say is that writing is one of my strong suits. Not in the sense that I'm near perfect at it; it's just the fact that I love to do it, and in my own opinion can put out some pretty decent works. I will admit one thing that I am certain of is that my conventions are shabby and could use slathers of work. I say that I have poor conventions because most of the time I have trouble knowing where to put a comma or where should I be using a semi-colon; this is a problem with me being the partial perfectionist I am I sit there and think about it for a longer period of time that I should. In turn, this leads to me taking more time than I should thinking about this one thing when really I should have been done or at least close. Other areas I feel could use some hard grinding are in organization, ideas,and word choice. My reasoning behind saying those areas is because sometimes if  I don't proofread and catch it, my writing could be all over the place and not really have a main topic, rather several of them. Organization is sometimes another problem, not because I struggle with it, I sometimes just take to long to decide how I want my works to be structured; I kinda threw in word choice because when I'm doing a timed-written assignment I tend not to think about my choices in words and just put down anything. All I can do to work on these areas is to be more impulsive and not overthink it, this will most definitely be achieved with my teacher Mr. Rease timing everything, all I got to do is my best in his class. Though I do see a lot of areas I could work on, one area I am truly confident on is my voice, I feel like this area is one of my more reinforced areas because I take so much time, it enables me to think about what i am writing and put what I truly mean down and add my personal twist to it. Yo, but that's it for me though I am just realizing how long this is, sorry Jaylin, that's all I have for this post. This has been Brandon Rhodes, signing out. Peace out peeps.