Reflection__

So far this English class hasn't really felt like one at all. Usually I dread reading and interpreting poems, however in this class,  its definitely more bearable. This is my first time using the internet for a great portion of our work and I really like it. Since I already spend a lot of time online now I can space off into cyberspace while doing my English work and get away with it. I would recommend this classroom style of teaching to other English professors. Plus it gives people that don't have computer skills to learn how to do some basic operations.

Random Stuff.............----------

Something to look at and enjoy... you'll find Tim Burton has a unique sense of humor

http://www.timburton.com/

http://homepage.eircom.net/~sebulbac/burton/choose.html

Click choose a story and read some of his work..... Enjoy!



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Symbolism and Tone (Essay 2)

Today in literature, our interpretations can vary due to different prier experiences. How ever the literary context that makes you feel this way remains the same. In literature, writers develop ways to capture the audience by using elements like symbolism and tone to simulate the readers. In good literary pieces the tone will set the mood and make the targeted audiences feel a connection of some sort to the story. Along with the tone, symbols or things used to refer to something are utilized to deepen our imaginations.


Author Edgar Allen Poe is well known for his work which consist of poems, short stories and satires. Most of his writing deals with death and tragedy. Poe often brings his stories to life with dark romantic tones. In Poe's narrative poem titled Annabel Lee, the tone is gloomy and painful. Poe writes about a couple whom was struck with an untimely death which left a lover lost and empty. Poe sets the tone with his description of the characters heart break. In the first line of the last stanza, Poe wrote "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee"; this quote expresses the suffering that is brought to him when he thinks about his beloved Annabel Lee. The character's anguish takes over his life after her death, proven when he states"And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee"; for he believes he has nothing else to live for now that she's gone.


Incorporated into his work Poe also presents symbols of a non uniform style. In the poem Annabel Lee, Poe uses symbols like angels and demons to signify the people who were jealous of the couples love and blames their envy for her death. The importance of portraying the people as angels and demons show that people of all kinds, whether they were good hearted or evil spirited people; they both shared the same "covet (stanza 2, line 12)". Also in the forth stanza, Poe uses the symbol of wind to be the cause of Annabel Lee's death : "That the wind came out of the cloud by night chilling and killing my Annabel Lee". With the knowledge of wind having the capability to be sudden and something you can see to the naked eye, the inference of Annabel Lees death can be made that it was unexpected to the couple.

With the contribution of symbols and tones, writing can be transformed into powerful mental imagines that help crystallize your understanding. Symbols and tones can be used to explain what the author is trying to articulate while leaving an everlasting impression on the readers mind.

Blog 2: poem

I had no clue where to begin, and as you can see it took a while to finally make up my mind. After staring at a blank paper I tried to remember any literary works I've read in the past that could possibly relate to this topic. Then I decided to analyze a poem from Edgar Allen Poe. I've read some of his works before and all shared dark and gothic like tones. Since I was already acquainted with the poet I decided to read a poem I wasn't familiar with. Typing Edgar Allen Poe poems into google, I stumbled upon http://poestories.com/read/annabellee

Annabel Lee

by Edgar Allan Poe
(published 1849)

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea

After having to read the poem a couple of times and researching some terms, this poem made me think about life and how short it can be. Edgar Allen Poe writes about two people that are deeply in love. He describes their relationship was envied by the angels in the heavens (the end of the first stanza). The narrator in the poem blames the angels for the misfortune of his love getting ill and dying. He states further that even though his love has past, the angels and demons couldn't take away the love they had for each other. To end the poem, the narrator shares his grief of his lost and expresses that even with his lost he will never stop loving nor forget about his Annabel Lee.

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About me.......................

To sum up 18 years to fit on this screen is impossible but it doesnt hurt to start off with the basic information. My name is Suda Suthiwong, I'm the youngest of two brothers and a sister. My parents are extremely different and it's amazing they got along at one point to have children. My father is from Thailand and my mother on the other hand is from Puerto Rico.

I've lived in Brooklyn all my life and the best thing I've ever done for myself was leave my friends behind and go to school in Manhattan. I always knew I wanted to do something in the health field and after graduating from Health Professions High School , I became more determined than ever before.