The Raven

The Raven by Edger Alan Poe. I really like that this poem has some rythm to it. ABCBBB It makes the poem more interesting. This poem seems as if someone is morning over the lose of a loved one. Poe uses many metaphors and the poem seems very sad and depressing. Im not a big fan of this poem becuase its so sad and depressing.

Death be Not Proud

John Donnes Death be Not Proud is a really good poem. I had a hard time reading this at first becuase of the older type language. But I found that the poem is about being proud of dieing. He makes death seem like its going to be pleasent like "sleep".

The Sick Rose

When I first read this poem I thought that it was about someone being murdered or revenge aganst someone. But after I read more into it I figured out that the rose is a women maybe and the invisible worm is a man and that there is a secret love between the rose and the worm which ends up destroying the rose.

To His Coy Mistress

I think that this poem is very good. I think that this poem is about a man wanting a women he liked to become his mistress. That he would pay her to be his mistrees "two hundred to adore each breast". That his love would grow even more for her. I really like how the he has written the poem there is some rhyme.

My Papa's Waltz by:Theodore Roethke

This poem was very interesting because it can be interpreted in different ways. I first interepreted as the father abusing the child. I thought this because the father is drunk and their hitting the pans and the boys ear scraped against his fathers buckle. But when I look more indepth I figured that maybe they are just dancing and haveing fun. Horseplay, the father drinking but not drunk. The little boy having so much fun he does not want to fall off. Mother mad but not so mad that she cant get a frown on her face Roethke’s dad’s hands would have been bruised and battered because he worked in a green house so he did hard labor. It is time to go to bed but doesn’t want to.

A StreetCar Named Desire

Tennesse Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire was very interesting, good and captivating. We see from the moment that Blanche shows up that their is going to be a conflict between the characters. She is very outspoken and self-centered. She is a character that I dont really like. I also think that she was lieing about how she lost the plantation I dont think that because of the deaths of her family that the funneral place would take it. Each of the characters where very different from Blanche the outspoken selfish one to Stella the one who cares for everyones feelings expecially her sisters to Stanley the man the one who works hard and expects there to be food on the table and haven a good wife. This play kept me on the edge becuase you think that something may happen between Blanche and Stanley. I really liked this play and hope to see the movie for it so I can get a litle better understanding for the characters.

Recitatif/Arabi

Recitatif was a really good story. The characters are very different from eachother and change throughout the story. The main character in the story are Twyala and Roberta. They become best friends in the the shelter that they were takin to. They became such good friends becuase unlike the other childern their prents are still alive they just cant take car of them. Throughout the story after the girls leave the shelter they dont speak eachother other than the ocasional run in. They run it to eachother a few times and each time the girls are very different. First Roberta is very mean to Twalya. Then their nice to eachother it keeps changing. Roberta's and Twalya's mothers are very different also. Twalya's mother when she came to visit didnt bring lunch for twalya she dressed like she wasnt going to chruch and didnt act right in a church setting. Roberta's mother brought a huge lunch dressed like she was going to chruch she didnt like Twalya's mother.
Arabi
The main character in this story is a little boy who has a major crush on his freinds sister. He makes promises that he didnt keep to her.