Daddy

Daddy

After reading the poem, I think the narrator hate her Daddy and want to kill her daddy. But after read through it, I could sense the narrator still loves her Daddy. This poem is full of black atmosphere.  The narrator mentioned black several times.  “black shoe” ,”So black no sky could squeak through”,” You stand at the blackboard”, “Any less the black man who”, “A man in black with a Meinkampf look” , “The black telephone's off at the root”, “there's a stake in your fat black heart”. Also the poem is related with death. The narrator wants to kill her father. She wants to kill herself. She thinks her father is a German Nazi, and herself is a Jew. They seem naturally against with each other. But we could still sense the narrator loves this Daddy from some sentences. “ Every woman adores a Fascist”,  “And get back, back, back to you”. “ I thought even the bones would do”. “I made a model of you”.

Leda and the Swan

                                                  Leda and the Swan

               After reading the poem, I am really confused. I am not able to tell what the poem really represents. Then I Google it. The poem was written by William Butler Yeats, and it comes from a famous Greek mythology. Leda is a beautiful woman who is the wife of Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. Zerus falls in love with leda because of her beauty. Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan, and he raped or seduced Leda. Leda laid two eggs from which the children hatched. One of the eggs bore Helen and Polydeuces whose father is Zeus, and the other one born Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband.  The famous Trojan War has its roots in Helen. Agamemnon, who is the capital of the Greek, was murdered by his wife and her lover when he returned from the battle field.

London

London

When I walk through every chartered street

I come to Thames River

I saw every passerby whose faces are weak and painful.

Every man cried and every infant feared.

The bans rule people’s spirit.  

The crying of chimney-sweeper was roaring in the black church

The blood of the soldiers was running down the palace walls.  

But the most horrible things I hear are the curse of the youthful whore

They aborted the baby, they got the sexual disease, and they could not have a normal married life.

The Chimney Sweeper

The Chimney Sweeper

When I was young, my Mom died

My father sold me to others

At that time, I could not say clearly “weep”

But I have to sweep the chimney

Tom’s hair is curled, and when it was shaved, he cried.

I said to Tom,” Do not worry. When your head is bare, the soot will not spoil your white hair.”

That night, Tom was quiet.

When he was sleep, he had a wired dream.

He saw that all of the sweepers were locked in black coffins.

Then, an angel came and freed all of the sweepers with a bright key.

They leap, laugh, run, and wash themselves in the shining river.

Then, they were naked and they left the bags behind.

They went up to the cloud and played games in the wind.

The angel told Tom that if he would be a good boy, the God will be your father and let you happy forever.

Then Tom waked up in the dark room.

They carried their bags and brushed to work.

Although it was cold morning, Tom felt happy and warm.

When people do well their own duties, they will not feel fear.

Harrison Bergeron

I like the story. The first thing I notice is that the story happened in 2081, but the author uses past tense in the whole story. I do not figure the reasons out. George and Hazel are the parents of Harrison Bergeron; however, they do not remember anything about this son. We know that Hazel does not have any handicapper on her body, then what happened to her? Does she a retarder, whose intellectual capacity remains undeveloped? If she was the standard, the controlled person, and the norm, then every people in the world would be like her, in order to be equal. That is absolutely ironic. I could sense that everyone in the world act like machine, and they have no differences, have no unique personalities and the talents have been suppressed. The most impressive part is the end of the story. Hazel cried after she watched the death of her own son, but she did not know why. The nature of people has totally lost.

the ones who walk away from Omelas

     After reading the article “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, I am really shocked by the description of the imprisoned child. Comparing to the beautiful picture of Omelas depicted in the first few paragraphs, the life of the feeble-minded child is so miserable. I even could not believe in it, and the initial description of Omelas seems a little bit ridiculous.

    The first ridiculous thing to me is that people of Omelas take the imprisoned child as sure, though some of them have misery hearts and feel sad and anger about the poor child’s life. The author said that it is the existence of the child that makes their life such beautiful and such happy. But I do not think that is the true ideas of the author, instead, I believe the author want to remind readers that this is not reasonable and the beautiful life is not true.   

    The second ridiculous thing of the child is that some people who go to see the child go away from Omelas. If they really feel sad or rage about the child, why do they just save the child instead of going away? And this induce the next important question which is where do these people go? If this story depicted about a real world, people are usually impossible just to go away without telling their parents.

    So I believe that the Omelas is not a real place and the author want to express her feeling or her ideas with the allegory images.