Haiku (spring)

Rain is getting stop,

Sunshine comes out with dew,

The spring is coming.

The Tyger (BY WILLIAM BLAKE)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp,

Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

This poem is praising the tiger. The writer said the tiger is very strong, and its eyes are very bright. He was confused this kind of eyes can on the world. Therefore, on the second stanza, he said “In what distant deeps and skies”. In this part, the writer think there’s no eyes like this even in the hell or the heaven. By the other side, the writer also said, “On what wings dare he aspire?” I think he wanted to said the tiger can get rid of any dilemma just like the god, Icarus. Also, in the third stanza, there is a word, “shoulder”. The shoulder can mean the whole body in this poem. And, also in the third stanza, “And when thy heart began to beat” It can mean when it was born on the world. In writer’s opinion, he think the tiger is brave, smart and intrepid. I think he was talking about someone, but I am not sure about that. Maybe there is a person like this tiger.

In this poem, the writer use rhythm in it. In the first stanza, the writer use “bright, night” and “eye, symmetry”; in the other stanza, the writer also use the rhythms. Then, in the last stanza, the writer rewrite the first stanza.

I like this poem, because the writer use lots of rhetorical device. And I think these rhetorical devices are very interesting. On the other hand, the writer included lots of fairy tales into the poem. These fairy tales are all the bad ending and the gods are very hard in the stories. I think these want to say even the tiger is very hard to live, but it still live very well in the world. I think this poem want to tell us we should do our best to live in the world.

Poem

Falling

Patrick Phillips

The truth is that I fall in love
so easily because

it’s easy.
It happens

a dozen times some days.
I’ve lived whole lives,

had children,
grown old, and died

in the arms of other women
in no more time

than it takes the 2-train
to get from City Hall to Brooklyn,

which brings me back
to you: the only one

I fall in love with
at least once every day--

not because
there are no other

lovely women in the world,
but because each time,

dying in their arms,
I call your name.

I chose this Poem because I could not understand it.I wanted to learn what this poem mean and why the writer write that. I like this one because I think the sentences are very graceful. I think this poem is talking about how the people fell when they fall in love.

Reflection

Painting Project For Pobby And Dingan

Last two weeks, we did a creative project for the book, Pobby and Dingan. I chose painting to do this project because I want to use painting to express this book. However, I think I am not very successful.

For this project, I paint Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan on the paper. However, I did not draw Pobby and Dingan’s body because they are Kellyanna’s imaged friends. Then, I design how to draw Pobby and Dingan, so I draw their shadows. I draw three shadows for Pobby, Dingan and Kellyanna. I did not draw Kellyanna’s legs because in the end, she has already died. She is looking at a house. In my opinion, she cannot forget the her family, especially Ashmol, because he is the only one went to the claim to look for Pobby and Dingan. I think for the book, Ashmol is the only one really want Kellyanna to be better. That’s why he tried every thing that can make Kellyanna feel better. By the other way, his father care more about his job and his future; his mother care more about her choice before and her future. I think for this part, we can see the difference between adults and children. Children are more naive than adults. They think less about the works, money and life. They just help someone that they like. They did everything they want and they like.

For their house, I use the dark color that I want to say their family is sad for Kellyanna’s death. However, I use the light blue for the sky because I think even there is a family member died, they still should work and get more money to make this family to get better. Also, because people believe Kellyanna’s father is going to look for Pobby and Dingan, he is not the ratter any more; he can work in the claim again. That is another “nice day”. On the ground, there are nothing there because Kellyanna died, she won’t say more things about Pobby and Dingan. However, it looks not very comfortable because Kellyanna leave also.

In the beginning, I was thinking to draw the life that the left Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan. However, that should draw like a cartoon, and that is the worst thing I drawed. I think their father and mother will still prepare for another three plates for Kellyanna, Pobby and Dingan. Maybe father will regret why he didn’t take more care about Kellyanna before. Therefore, for the Painting, I drew a view of Kellyanna’s back. That make she looks sad and worry. I think she is worry about her family; she is sad about she didn’t she died so young that she didn’t have a nice life. However, she is not lonely because Pobby and Dingan are staying with her.

I tried my best to do this project, but it still have so many problems. For example, I want to finish my project in the weekend that I have three days to change it. However, Ms. Kubat forgot sent email to tell AOD to open the Art Building for me, so I just can do that on Wednesday. Therefore, I have no time to change it. Then, the house, shadows, sky and etc. are all very simple. That is not the painting that I want to get. Also, in the beginning, I said I want to draw a opal in the sky, but when I finish most of the things on the paper, I find I have no time to draw the opal. Therefore, I just draw a very simple sky on the paper.

I have so many things should be improve. I think I will do better next time.

In Class Writing

Last week, I finish my outline for my painting. However, because this weekend Ms. Kubat forgot told AOD to open the door for me, I could not use the art building because I did not get the permission to do that. Therefore, I just stay in my room and change a little bit outline about my project, I thought about what should I writing on my painting, and where should I put. In this week, I will spend more time on color it and design it. I thought I should put more details in my painting. I was thinking about putting an opal on the top right side to be a sun.

Pobby and Dingan Project

I want to do the painting. Every week, I will spend  two or three hours in the art building to do the work. I think if I do the artwork, I cannot work too less once because artwork should be silent and slow; that will let people deep in painting. Therefore, maybe I will spend more time one week and less week to do my work. If there are too long time between two time of paint, the felling will be different. I have two reasons that I want to do my painting project.

First, I found a very interesting picture about Pobby and Dingan online, I want to paint them out and show that to the others. Also, I want to change a little thing in it because I want to draw Pobby and Dingan very clearly. On the other hand, I think this picture summarize a lot about the whole book.

Second, I want to have the art major later, so I want to draw as many as I can. Because in the dorm, I will draw something on my own book. Then, I will choose some to be my portfolio. I think this work also can be part of that. Also, because I always stay in my room during the weekend, I think I should go outside. I want to do some work and walk a little. Maybe, when I have done this work, I will go outside every weekend and go to someplace to paint.

I also asked other what are they work about. However, I think the board game have two people is enough; I am not very good at action; the essay should spend long time, and if there are two people in it, it should be very long work. By this reasons, I think the painting is the best choice for me.

The Quote of The Book

The Quote of The Book

"The secret of an opal's color lies not in its substance but in its absences." This is a sentence with in the beginning of the book. I did not know what it means before. However, when I finish my book, I began to understand what that means.

According to the book, we know that Kellyanna died in the end. I think at that moment, Ashmo know that the most important thing is his sister, and it is not the opal or anything else. In the beginning of the story, Ashmol seems he doesn’t like Kellyanna because she has two imaged friends. He thinks people are laughing at his family because they have a child like that. People cannot understand Keeyanna about her two friends because no one can see them. However, in the later story, Ashmol began to want to help Kellyanna to find her friends. He thinks Kellyanna will get the sick because these two friends disappeared. Ashmaol tries to make Kellyanna feels better. Even he thinks she is stupid that she believe she has two imaged friends, but she is also his sister. Then, he goes to the dark claim at the midnight and helps Kellyanna to find Pobby and Dingan. In his mind, he believes Pobby and Dingan are real. Then, he find a opal under a big rock. Although Ashmol can use this opal to make his family have a better life, he uses this opal to pay for Kellyanna’s funeral. I think that because he finds that the family member is more important than the better life.

On the other hand, when Ashmol use opal to pay for the funeral to the funeral for Pobby and Dingan. Ashmol’s father did not stop him. He also wants to make Kellyanna to be better. In the beginning of the story, how hard is him to find a opal in the claim. Even if he is called ratter, he still goes to make a new claim on the other place. However, after Kellyanna get the sick and just can lie on the bed, he seems have more humanization. In the courthouse, he talks about Kellyanna’s two imaged friends and told others how grievous his daughter is. Also, he doesn’t stop Ashmol to pay the funeral with the opal. I think that because he thinks his daughter is more important.

I think for this sentence, the opal means the money and the better life; the absences means the family member which is Kellyanna. Ashmol, father,and the members in that village all changed because of Kellyanna’s sick. People do not think father is a ratter anymore; Ashmol likes his sister more and tries to help her; father changes a lot that he doesn’t care about money so much like the beginning. They all want to save Kellyanna’s life. Because if they lose the money, they can use other way to get them back, but if they lose Kellyanna, they have no way to see her anymore. I think that is the meaning of the quote.