Definition of Absurd:
1) ridiculously unreasonable, unsound
2) having no rational or orderly relationship to human life : meaningless
Something that I find completely Absurd in life is BAD MANNERS. When people don't have good manners I think it is so absurd. I feel like good manners is common sense and makes the world a better place if everyone had them.
I also think that bombing innocent people and being able to purchase or make weapons is absurd. There is no reason why an untrained person should be able to get ahold of that kind of power.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Essay Reflection
I think what I did well on my essay was knowing the differences between the groups in the new world and how the lower groups made the higher groups look like a higher society.
What I could've done better was organize my thoughts and planned a better thesis to base my essay on.
What I could've done better was organize my thoughts and planned a better thesis to base my essay on.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
MAPLAN
Today in class I figured that I would do a mind map. I plan on including the authors background in greater detail. I also hope to find video that will make my presentation more interesting and I am hoping it helps everyone understand the author better in a way they can relate.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Vocab March 4
Chronic- constantly reoccurring
- Class is a chronic part of my schedule.
Sentiment- an opinion
- My sentiment of school is strong.
Morality- distinction between right and wrong
- Making the right choices is decided by my morality.
Remorse- regret or guilt
- I had a remorse for the bad way I handled the situation.
Defect- imperfection or lack
- The broken toy had a defect.
Acquaintance- a persons knowledge or experience of something
- Meeting the new person was a new acquaintance.
Sanity- ability to think and behave in a normal and rational matter
- People in insane asylums have no sanity.
Implication- conclusion that can be drawn by something
- After hearing her side of the story she had the implication she was right.
Alternative- another possibility
- She had an alternative choice.
Savage- fierce, violent, and uncontrolled
- Wild animals can be savage.
Phenomenon- fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
- Winning the race is a personal phenomenon.
- Class is a chronic part of my schedule.
Sentiment- an opinion
- My sentiment of school is strong.
Morality- distinction between right and wrong
- Making the right choices is decided by my morality.
Remorse- regret or guilt
- I had a remorse for the bad way I handled the situation.
Defect- imperfection or lack
- The broken toy had a defect.
Acquaintance- a persons knowledge or experience of something
- Meeting the new person was a new acquaintance.
Sanity- ability to think and behave in a normal and rational matter
- People in insane asylums have no sanity.
Implication- conclusion that can be drawn by something
- After hearing her side of the story she had the implication she was right.
Alternative- another possibility
- She had an alternative choice.
Savage- fierce, violent, and uncontrolled
- Wild animals can be savage.
Phenomenon- fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
- Winning the race is a personal phenomenon.
Map 1: Introducing Elizabeth Bishop
1) Her lesbian relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares gave her life stability and love
2) Bishop often spent many years writing a single poem, working toward an effect of offfhandedness and spontaneity
3) Bishop came to see poetry as an available, viable vocation for a woman
4) Bishop won the Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
5) In the last decade of her life, Bishop traveled in South America and Europe and taught at several universities, establishing a permanent relationship with Harvard
2) Bishop often spent many years writing a single poem, working toward an effect of offfhandedness and spontaneity
3) Bishop came to see poetry as an available, viable vocation for a woman
4) Bishop won the Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
5) In the last decade of her life, Bishop traveled in South America and Europe and taught at several universities, establishing a permanent relationship with Harvard
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Applied Modernism
Essay Pre-write (Richard Cory)
• people thought of Richard Cory as a thing not a person
• disruptive rhythm
• difference between inner and outer world
• deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths
"Richard Cory" Essay
In the poem "Richard Cory" uses many Modernist thoughts and ideas of ways of writing. Modernists used the idea of modernism which was what they thought would be the vision of the future. The author of the poem "Richard Cory" included in his writing the characters inner and outer world, disruptive appearances hiding some difficult truths, and disruptive rhythm to his poem to make people think outside of what people had always thought.
In the poem this Modernist author used the main characters inner and outer feelings to show how what we think in our own thoughts can be drastically different from the thoughts of outer people. He uses this when he talks about the outer thoughts of all the other people in town thinking that Richard Cory was a high class man. Then at the end of the poem the author reveals the truth about Richard Cory.
The author of this poem also uses deceptive appearances to explain the man who was a person the town looked up to. This use of modernism I very similar to inner and outer strategy. Although, it is slightly different because deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths is how the town thought of him before and how they thought about him after. The author uses this to explain the ideas of modernism as other people finding out people's true selves.
Lastly, the author also includes the thoughts of the imagists which used un-rhymed strategy. Although the authors poem wasn't all un-rhymed he uses disruptive rhythm to make it catch the reader to see if they could notice it. The author uses this to include imagist movement to make modernism more interesting by including more movements from that time period to make readers think more closely to the writing.
Modernism occurred during the early 1900s to the 1960s and brought many new ideas to the "low art" which was the majority of people in that time bring out ideas from their inner thoughts and spread their vision of the future to everyone.
• people thought of Richard Cory as a thing not a person
• disruptive rhythm
• difference between inner and outer world
• deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths
"Richard Cory" Essay
In the poem "Richard Cory" uses many Modernist thoughts and ideas of ways of writing. Modernists used the idea of modernism which was what they thought would be the vision of the future. The author of the poem "Richard Cory" included in his writing the characters inner and outer world, disruptive appearances hiding some difficult truths, and disruptive rhythm to his poem to make people think outside of what people had always thought.
In the poem this Modernist author used the main characters inner and outer feelings to show how what we think in our own thoughts can be drastically different from the thoughts of outer people. He uses this when he talks about the outer thoughts of all the other people in town thinking that Richard Cory was a high class man. Then at the end of the poem the author reveals the truth about Richard Cory.
The author of this poem also uses deceptive appearances to explain the man who was a person the town looked up to. This use of modernism I very similar to inner and outer strategy. Although, it is slightly different because deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths is how the town thought of him before and how they thought about him after. The author uses this to explain the ideas of modernism as other people finding out people's true selves.
Lastly, the author also includes the thoughts of the imagists which used un-rhymed strategy. Although the authors poem wasn't all un-rhymed he uses disruptive rhythm to make it catch the reader to see if they could notice it. The author uses this to include imagist movement to make modernism more interesting by including more movements from that time period to make readers think more closely to the writing.
Modernism occurred during the early 1900s to the 1960s and brought many new ideas to the "low art" which was the majority of people in that time bring out ideas from their inner thoughts and spread their vision of the future to everyone.
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