Mr. Murphy's comment

Dasha:
your blog posts are supposed to be MULTIPLE paragraphs.
Besides being practice to improve your analytical writing, your blog symbolizes your effort in class. Let's try and give your blog more effort? I moved this on-line so that you had a keyboard to make writing easier.
Mr. Murphy

Pera Pound

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

This poem has a dark mood. The poet is speaking with a sad tone. The poem talks about people’s darkness inside them. Also, it talks about their loneliness by using the image of leafs on a branch of a tree, where the branch is also dark. The image shows how people are separated from one another even though they are on the same tree.

Fish and Eye

Margaret Atwood

You fit into me

You fit into me

Like hook into an eye

A fish hook

An open eye

The poem talks about feelings. To give this feeling the poetess uses images like hook-eye etc. In the first lines the poetess describes the feeling of completeness and idealness, which each girl experiences in a relationship. The poetess talks to us or to a specific person as a girl in an unhappy love. She tells that the person is just perfect and that they are made for each other; however, as always nothing is perfect. In the lines 3 and 4 “fish hook and eye” tells how much this relationship is hurting her. How at the end this relationship, if there’s any, is not good for a girl and that he is not that perfect for her after all.

Randall Jarrell

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State

And I hunched in it’s belly my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,

I woke to black flack and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out if the turret with a hose.

The poem is about war and specifically air war. The overall meaning includes a story of a pilot and his heath. If to translate little meanings by every sentence, it has its own special part. The first sentence tells about the beginning of the fight which starts in a moment: “…mother’s sleep” represents safety and “State” represents reality that the character meets in the war battle. The second sentence tells that the character’s plane got shot. Third sentence talks about his plane falling to the ground and that the life of a person who not that long ago only started living had been taken. The forth sentence tells that the battle was began so fast in the night that it seemed to be a nightmare for the people taking part in it. The last sentence talks how there are not that much respect for the died fighter when they wash him “with a hose.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

We real coll. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike strait. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

This poem is about the teenage hood. The times when the poetess lived so many teenagers had problem with drugs. This poem might be about the teenagers that spent all their time doing what they are not supposed to do. She talks how wastefully they spend their time. And at the end there is no time and they die of the sin they committed while hiding from their parents.

I think you like this!

I think you enjoy this blogging thing!
Don't forget to give me exact textual references to support your reading observations.
Keep up the good work.

Mr. Murphy's comments

Good job. Well arranged look at the three arguments.
I also think your blog looks much better now that your have added graphics.
Now what about music?

Three different theories on the Civil Disobedience have been introduced by Gandhi, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King. The three authors have many different views on the injustice of the government and the resistance. All of them are agreed on the idea that the people have to disobey and resist if the government does not rule fairly.

Thoreau does not believe in government at all. His idea of the government is no government. He thinks that the government should not support just the majority of the people. He considers individuals as nothing. He says that an individual can’t change anything especially against the majority. He believes that the government is too corrupt to consider people’s needs. In the second part of his work, Thoreau calls the government “it” to show its inhumanness. He writes about the resistance to Mexican War. However, he considers this war a bad one just because it is proslavery war. If the war could be against slaver, a Civil War for example, Thoreau would probably support it. In contrast to Thoreau’s views, Gandhi believes in peace against war.

Mohandas Gandhi has a different perspective on the topic of violent resistance. For him violence is not an issue. He does support the civil disobedience but in a peaceful and radical way. He believes that each person can even die on the matter of the cause if it is going to help others. His idea of the government is that each person can choose a government they trust or not. If people do not trust the government they protest. However, peacefully and only peacefully. Maybe quietly too.

Martin Luther King’s work is different in the point of the equality. He believes and fights for the equality among people. He believes that going to a prison for a good cause is a good thing to do. He can strike and disobey, but also it is supposed to be a peaceful strike. No harm! That is the main the point of the civil disobedience for Martin Luther King.