I WONDER by my troth, what thou and IDid, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ?But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ?Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den ?'Twas so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be ;If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.And now good-morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear ;For love all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room an everywhere.Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone ;Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown ;Let us possess one world ; each hath one, and is one.My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;Where can we find two better hemispheresWithout sharp north, without declining west ?Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and ILove so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
In "The Good Morrow" John Donne uses diction to demonstrate the power of love and structure to show its progression. The poem is about the love he shares with his lover and its growth over time. It begins as something childish and lustful between two people and in the end unites them as if "two loves be one" and somethin that can not die.
In the beginning the use of words such as "pleasures", "desired", and "childish" suggest his ignorance and musconception of what love is. He also says "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did til we loved?" suggesting that while thid was going on they had yet to learn what love really was.
In the next paragraph he uses diction as well, to suggest a more advanced stage towards love that could almost be recognized as an awakening. The words "Thou and I" are now represented with "our". They "possess one world". In the last paragraph their love becomes eternal love. He says they are one and their love can not die, the diction he uses to show this words/phrases that describe the two people as one being. For example, "my face in thine eye, thine in mine appears".
Therefore overall both diction and structure are used to express the main idea of this poem, which is that his love has grown and matured and it has occured overtime. As the reader it is evident that each stanza represents a different, more mature stage of his love, and his diction is also used to describe the maturing love.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Monday, December 1, 2008
My Act of Resistance: Drunk Driving
For my act of resistance I chose to inform people on something that I feel very strongly about which is drunk driving. I informed my friends and family on thanksgiving by handing out sheets of paper that said the following:
Every single injury and death caused by drunk driving is totally preventable. Yet 65% of all traffic accidents are a result of drunk driving. After having only a few drinks even simple tasks such as writing become more difficult. Don’t take the risk, stay the night, call a cab, or have a designated driver. Be safe don’t make a life altering mistake that could have easily been prevented. You never know how much you’ll regret it or how many people will be hurt. Make sure you have a safe and happy thanksgiving and encourage those around you to do the same.
I chose drunk driving as my act of awareness not only because I knew a lot of the friends and family there would be drinking but also because I have had family members who have gotten in car accidents after drinking or been hit by someone who was drinking. I think that driving is dangerous enough without drunk drivers because you never know what is going on in the minds of people around you and you should always be 100% aware of your surroundings, which is impossible even after only one drink. I never think it is a good idea to get in the car with someone who has been drinking it is too dangerous and I think it is done too often and not thought about enough. I know many people that have multiple DUI’s and still drink and drive and I think they don’t think about the possible consequences as much as they should. So by doing this I hoped that not only would it effect my friends and families decisions on Thanksgiving but also in the future.
The reactions to my handout were great. Everyone really paid attention and asked me what made me decide to do it so I told them about our project and why I chose drunk driving. We all talked about it later and I felt that I really got the point across and a lot of my family told me that they were proud of me for standing up for what I believed in. There were a few designated drivers on Thanksgiving. And my parents and some of my aunts and uncles really took what I was doing seriously and didn’t drink. Drinking isn’t as big of a deal by my mother’s family as it is by my dads anyway but I still feel that I made a difference.
In the future I would like to inform an even larger group of people who I may not be as closely related to. There were about 50 people all together at my Thanksgiving dinner. I think 50 is a good start but it would be great in the future if I could figure out a way to inform more people, maybe even three times that and see the difference in their prospective as well. Because I think when people really see that something is important enough to you to take the time out and inform them that is when they really listen.
I think that my act still helped the problem even though it wasn’t a very large group of people because my friends and family really did pay attention and rearrange their plans to support me. In the future I hope they will think of me when they go places and make plans to have a safe way home if they are drinking. I feel really good about informing my friends and family and helping them make the best decisions possible so they don’t hurt themselves or others. And in the future maybe I will inform them on something else or arrange some way to inform a larger group of people on drunk driving. It definitely feels good to know that I made even a small change in my families plans because you never know what could of happened if I didn’t. I would love to do that again in the future. It makes me feel like I can really make a difference.
Every single injury and death caused by drunk driving is totally preventable. Yet 65% of all traffic accidents are a result of drunk driving. After having only a few drinks even simple tasks such as writing become more difficult. Don’t take the risk, stay the night, call a cab, or have a designated driver. Be safe don’t make a life altering mistake that could have easily been prevented. You never know how much you’ll regret it or how many people will be hurt. Make sure you have a safe and happy thanksgiving and encourage those around you to do the same.
I chose drunk driving as my act of awareness not only because I knew a lot of the friends and family there would be drinking but also because I have had family members who have gotten in car accidents after drinking or been hit by someone who was drinking. I think that driving is dangerous enough without drunk drivers because you never know what is going on in the minds of people around you and you should always be 100% aware of your surroundings, which is impossible even after only one drink. I never think it is a good idea to get in the car with someone who has been drinking it is too dangerous and I think it is done too often and not thought about enough. I know many people that have multiple DUI’s and still drink and drive and I think they don’t think about the possible consequences as much as they should. So by doing this I hoped that not only would it effect my friends and families decisions on Thanksgiving but also in the future.
The reactions to my handout were great. Everyone really paid attention and asked me what made me decide to do it so I told them about our project and why I chose drunk driving. We all talked about it later and I felt that I really got the point across and a lot of my family told me that they were proud of me for standing up for what I believed in. There were a few designated drivers on Thanksgiving. And my parents and some of my aunts and uncles really took what I was doing seriously and didn’t drink. Drinking isn’t as big of a deal by my mother’s family as it is by my dads anyway but I still feel that I made a difference.
In the future I would like to inform an even larger group of people who I may not be as closely related to. There were about 50 people all together at my Thanksgiving dinner. I think 50 is a good start but it would be great in the future if I could figure out a way to inform more people, maybe even three times that and see the difference in their prospective as well. Because I think when people really see that something is important enough to you to take the time out and inform them that is when they really listen.
I think that my act still helped the problem even though it wasn’t a very large group of people because my friends and family really did pay attention and rearrange their plans to support me. In the future I hope they will think of me when they go places and make plans to have a safe way home if they are drinking. I feel really good about informing my friends and family and helping them make the best decisions possible so they don’t hurt themselves or others. And in the future maybe I will inform them on something else or arrange some way to inform a larger group of people on drunk driving. It definitely feels good to know that I made even a small change in my families plans because you never know what could of happened if I didn’t. I would love to do that again in the future. It makes me feel like I can really make a difference.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Overall!
I really enjoyed this play! In contrast to the other plays it really showed the power of women, and how they are not completely dependent on men. I liked the new twist where the men were the desperate ones instead of the women :). The play really shows how unity and coming together to reach a common goal really works. It is shown through the women achieving what they wanted as well as in the end where the men realize they are all the same and going through the same thing and can look past their differences to get what they want. Im not sure if the men truly did it because they love their wives or because they really love sex but its clear that they do have love for their wives either way so I guess it doesn't matter what the motive for piece really was as long as it was accomplished.
This was a really good book to me it was funny and entertaining. And I think it has a really good moral that you can relate to any current event. I shows that people can come together and solve a problem. And it shows that you should never underestimate the power of a woman! Good story.
This was a really good book to me it was funny and entertaining. And I think it has a really good moral that you can relate to any current event. I shows that people can come together and solve a problem. And it shows that you should never underestimate the power of a woman! Good story.
Would This Work Today?
I wonder if this would work today to solve a modern issue. It doesn't really seem like it would. In the book there a strong unity between men and women. And like I said earlier the men just seem really loyal to their wives. Whereas today this would probably not be the case. It would be very hard to get all the women to take the idea seriously and really participate. And if even one or two women did not stick to the plan they could ruin it for everyone because the men would have a way to get what they wanted without giving into the women. It just doesn't seem likely that all the women would actually participate and that the men would actually not cheat. However I still think that women do have the power to do something like this individually, and that women have the power to get what they want through other means. Just maybe not this way. I dont know. Maybe someone else would argue differently but thats what I think.
Stage Directions
Stage directions are a very important part of this play. They are important in a lot of plays but in this play because it is so simple and doesn't have sub plots to help characterize certain characters the stage directions really help the reader in characterizing certain characters and showing how they react to certain things, etc. If we didn't have stage directions in this play it would be very hard to understand some of the characters and how they say certain things because there are no other sub plots or settings to help express ideas.
PEACE
One of the puns in the end of the play is peace. Peace is what the women want the men to want and peace is a YOUNG beautiful woman as well. This pun was very clever to me. I don't know what I really think about it to be honest. I know that the fact that they are refering to different places they want as body parts could be considered somewhat degrating but Im not sure if thats what the author was going for. Maybe it was just supposed to show how closely the women are related to peace? or to remind you how the play reached this end...through the women. I don't know what I originally thought was that it was just about showing what the men were really after which was just the woman and to show that maybe in the end they still really hadn't even reached the point of comprehension of WHY their should be peace besides the fact that without it they would not be able to have what they desired most.
"War" of the Sexes
This seems to be one of the main themes of the play right? Well I was just thinking to myself how ironic this really is. I mean the play is to end a war and the way that this goal is reached is by creating two seperates "forces" or "armys" of men and women. So in order to end the "war" with their wives the men have to end the other actual war that they are fighting. I don't know it just seemed funny to me that the theme had the word war in it because if you look at it that way it just becomes kind of ironic. There is a war created to end another war. Even though obviously the war the women create is not about using actual weapons or killing or anything. They use their own weapon to hurt the men emotionally until they give in. Just an interesting thought I had on how ironic that can be if you look at it that way LOL.
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