The Sick Rose

I feel like this poem is kind of confusing. I don't really like it because it's kind of hard to understand. I think something could have been added for more clearification. Personally, I may be wrong, to me this poem is about jealousy. I think it's about how people will try to ruin your joy, your happiness, success, wealth, and any personally growth that for the better yourself. I think it's about how jealousy can really kill a person because they are always focusing on others and not themselves and getting their own personal growth.

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

This poem was all right. I didn't like it but I didn't hate it. I thought it was about a man and a woman that are in love. The man is really expressing his love saying that he will love her forever and it will never change. Even when she's dead he will still love her and that he will cherish every moment with her. They are going to grow old together.

Point of View: It's from the man
Plot: To tell his mate that he's in love with her
Setting: I really don't know what the setting is
Characterization: There are only two characters that are

Death be Not Proud

I thought it was kind of a poem that someone could live their life by. I pretty much interpreted it as the theme being that if its your time to go then it your time to go. Death is random and there really is no reason behind it. Just like sometimes good things happen to bad people. Death is pretty much like a lotto. People can smoke like 50 cigarettes in one day and still live. But there could be an innocent young child that could be killed in a car accident or premature babies that die. Death is pretty much a game of chance and luck

My Papa's Waltz

I like how it was short and sweet. I think it kind of made me wonder why he was being beaten by his father. I thought it was because his father was just an angry drunk. I noticed it had a A-B-A-B, C-D-C-D.... pattern. I also noticed that every other sentenced ryhmed. I looked up the poem online to get a better understand of the poem and I found out that it a very misunderstood poem. I can believe that because it took about five times to read it to make sure I didn't miss anything. My interpretation of the peom is that a little boy has to deal with his drunken parent whom he must put himself and them too to sleep. The boy is trying to hold the parent up by himself by grabbing to his shirt to support him and it was kind of like waltzing because he had to support them. I noticed the length of the poem. Each line only had a few words on it.

The Streetcar of Desire

I thought it was funny that the movie was in black and white. I liked the overally plot of the story. I think Blanche really was a shady character. I couldnt believe that she would descieve her sister like that. I thought it was funny that she would think that Mitch would want to marry her after she confessed that she was a whore. I also though it was funny that she was pretending like she was 16 but she looked like she was in her thirties. They say the way you start out is usually how you finish. Well she started out telling a million lies and they all caught up with her. I thought iwas crazy of her to still ask him to marry her. But I thought he was wrong for kind of leading her on because he gave her a passionate kiss then doesn't even want to be in the same room as her. I didn't really see a point in Blanche yelling for him to get out before she screams. I thought that was crazy and if he even thought about being in a relationship with her after she did that the notion was completely thrown out the window. I Stanley has an angermanagment problem. I couldn't believe Stella even thought about going back to him immediately after. If he was willing to hit her once chances is he will probably do it again. I thought it was funny how she was yelling at him trying to seem like she was in control and telling him to do the dishes and wash up. So he gets angry and throws all the dishes on the floor and against the wall and says 'my place is clean do you want me to clean yours' and reaches for her plate and she says no. I also thought it was natural that the in laws didn't get along because that's the way marriages work.

The Movie: I tought the movie was different. It's really kind of hard to tell that she even got raped. I liked the movie becasue it gave me a visual affect. I can see the reactions on their faces and everything.

Trifle By Susan Glaspell

I like how the beginning starts out kind of making me wonder like why is everything not finished. It makes me wonder what happened and I like how it kind of prepares you for the scene. It sets the mood for a mystery and kind of makes me feel like i'm watching a Scooby Doo mystery. It kind of sounds like his Minnie killed him because she's kind of acting like a robot and she says he died because of rope around his neck. When she says it she says it kind of casual like it was nothing that he husband was killed. It just shows that she killed him but she doesn't feel bad for what she did. If a rope was around his neck wouldn't she have known who did it if they were sleeping in the same bed? It kind of seems like she doesn't care that she got caught and she wanted someone to know becsue she didn't call for help and when Hale asks to speak to him she tells him like it's no big deal. She didn't even try to hide the body. Hale even describes her as not seeming concerned and if that was my husband I would be crying and the police would have been called as soon as possible. The story also doesn't state that she didn't do it. She doesn't really deny anything accord to Hale's recollection. I also thought it was strange that she cared more about her preserves then her husband esspecially if she is on trial for murder. I think the women are more focused on the up keep on the home while the men want to try to find some evidence that she killed him. Mrs Hale kind of feels bad for her she feels that Minne is the same good person that she was when she was young. But John kind of killed her happiness and she's kind of in denial about the whole thing. In my opinion she knows Minnie did it but she doesn't want to believe it. She constantly trying to find a reason why she couldn't have done it.I think she thinks that she could have saved Minnie from John if she would have only stopped by occasionally. Mrs Hale is kind of taking the blame for everything that his happened. Since there was a gun in the house and John was hung it showed that Minnie really wanted him to suffer just like she suffered through their marriage with unhappiness. I think singing was the one thing that brought her joy and kept her sane but then he made her quit and he even killed the bird which made her even more insane. I also wondered why one hinge was pulled apart. I men I know back in the days that men didn't fear women for any reason. Personally I think she killed him when he killed the bird. Mrs Hale knew that John was a little looney. She knew that something wasn't right about him and that's why she blamed herself. Minnie was her good friend and she pretty much left her there to die. She left her alone with a man that she knew she had a feeling something about him wasn't right. Instead of helping her or coming around she stayed farther way because at first she didn't want any part of John. She knew that Minne was sweet and innocent and John was the complete opposite. In a way she kind of feels like a murderer.
Setting: Inside of Wade's house at night
Theme: If you don't speak when you know something is wrong then you're just as guilty as the person who did the bad deed and never put off tomorrow what you could do today. Mrs Hale shouldn't have waited until John got killed to say something. She should have came over and tried to help Minnie escape when she ws could have and none of these would have happened.
Irony: I thought it was ironic that she killed her husband and kind of waited for someone to find out as if she is kind of proud of what she did.
Characterization: I feel that almost everyone was a stock characters. They were all helping to build up Minnie and Mrs Hale. Minnie and Mrs Hale were flat and round character. Minne started off as a sweet and innocent person then she turned into a brutal murderer of her husband. Mrs Hale started off as being Minnie's good friend but then she slowly started to fade out of Minnie's life now she regrets it and will do anything to for her and to keep her alive because she thinks it's all her fault.

In the Lake of the Woods

I knew something bad was going to happen in this story because its in the woods. Anything that deals with the wood usually means someone is going to either get killed or lost and never found. I thought it was a good story. I had drama, mystery, rises question in my mind of wha really happed to Kathy. I personally think Kathy ran away to go back to the dentist she was havin an affair with because the boat was gone. The obviously shows that she didnt want to be there and was trying to run away.