Monday, December 8, 2008
In My Red Cap by Louis May Alcott the poem reminds me of the movie/book The Notebook. The narrator meets a guy(a soldier) and they talk for a while but the guy of course has a girl back home. Well the soldier goes off to war and the girl is now alone. Several months passed by and they were reunited in the hospital. The girl nursed him back to health. Well the pattern continued of them losing contact and meeting up. To me this is exactly like The Notebook. Like the concept is like identicle.
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In Wife by Washington Irving the man in the poem has recently begun a new chapter of his life with a marriage. The man obviously loves women because for most of the beginning he talks about loving them and touching them. At one point in his life he was jealous of a man who to him had everything. This man had a wife and children.
In Enchanted Island by Washington Irving the beginning of the poem kinda relates to the beginning of Lord if the Flies in the sense that the island is perfect. The young boys in the beginning of the movie believed that the island they had landed on was going to be a magical place and they would have a blast on the island. Too bad they didn't.
In How the Women Went From Dover by John Greenleaf Whittier the poem begins with religious people who seem to be held hostage are traveling possibly with their capturer. The people are being held captive by an indian hunter.
I totally didn't understand Cassandra Southwick by John Geenleaf whittier. like its hard for me to blog on this cause i can't really make connections. what I got was that someone was placed in jail and now they are all alone waiting to be eaten alive by whatever jail has in store him.
In The Death Of John by Louisa May Alcott the main nurse in the story is a woman who has a great heart. She helps wounded patients. There is one particular patient who is hurt very bad and only has a small chance of living. the doctor told the nurse he will most likely die. The man was a soldier wounded in the war. The nurse and soldier become quite attached. Unfortunately the soldier died.
In Wife by Washington Irving, i also percieved that the man has just begun a marriage. He speaks as though he can only be happy if he has a woman to share his love with. Although, at the end of the second paragraph, he speaks of a broken heart. Does that mean he was married before and was divorced and is now happily married to a new woman? I don't think that's the kind of broken heart he was refering too though. I gathered that he meant she was filling the emptiness he had from his past when he did not have a wife and children.
I noticed that in his style of writing, he uses few periods. It mainly contains commas and semi-colons.
Overall, I think Irving is trying to say that happiness is not in wealth, but in family.
I personally had a very hard time understanding what Washington Irving was trying to say in Enchanted Island. I somewhat interpreted it to be him telling about all the fascinating treasures the island can/does hold. I also gathered that he was trying to get the reader to use their imagination as to what kind of treasures it could hold when he said, "Such are some of the marvels related of this island, and which may serve to throw some light on the following legend, of unquestionable truth, which I recommend to the entire belief of the reader."
In How the Women Went From Dover by John Greenleaf Whittier, I agree with carly with the fact of it starting off very religious. I think this poem is trying to say that your faith in your religion can guide you furthur than you think it can. I percieved this from the quote:
"How much thy beautiful life may owe
To her faith and courage thou canst not know"
carly, i completely agree that Cassandra Southwick was terribly confusing. I understood that a man's son & daughter were sent to jail. "All night I sat unsleeping, for I knew that on the morrow
The ruler and the cruel priest would mock me in my sorrow" from that i gathered that they were sent to jail for disobeying their religion. This reveals a drastic difference between modern day religion and that from the romanticism era.
The Death of Jhon by Louisa Alcott was a tragic love(ish) story in which a nurse becomes very attached with one of her patients, an injured soldier. It is very hard to watch the soldier die in the end because he was such a good-hearted man.
In the story Wife by Washington Irving, he uses a man that just got married and his marriage with his wife is a love that cant be expressed. However in the end the man is said to be heart broken. He was sad in the end that he had nothing but instead he was happy to have had an experience of love and family. Family is what is most important.
The Enchanted Island is about how the island is a magical place and that the boys in the story wanted to find something that they would hold forever. It is not uncommon that anyone would want something magical in their life. However my personal thought is that when you have something magical it takes away the purpose of having or knowing reality.
How the Women Went From Denver by Whittier is talking about the religious aspects of life. He stresses the importance of being a religious person and to practice what you belive in everyday life. In the story they are hoping that the people that held them hostage will let them go but only through doing what they believe.
Cassandra Southwick by Whittier was rather mind throttling. I did not understand the entire story. The only thing that I understood was when the people went to jail and were anticipating for something to happen. Life is always full of surprises that are incomprehendable to even the smartest person out there. You have to be prepared for anything that comes your way.
The Death of John was a love story. A nurse was in love with a soldier and he later dies. The nurse was a kind-hearted person that did whatever she could to help someone else. When the soldier dies she is devastated at how her life became. She was madly in love with him. He was a good man and that is what led her into falling in love with her.
My Red Cap was a love story about a girl that is in love with a guy and her red cap gives her the hope and strength that she needs. They are no longer together but they do find each other later in life and renew their relationship. I think in every lifetime there will always be the story about the man and woman that find their love again. I cant realte because I haven’t experienced it but I know my grandparents have and are now happily married still.
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