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My Slaughterhouse-five Essay

Chapter 4 and 5

On the trip to Tralfamadore, Billy asks for something to read. After reading the only Earthling novel onboard, he is given some Tralfamadorian books. Unable to read the alien language, he is surprised that the books' tiny text is laid out in brief knots of symbols separated by stars. He is told that the clumps of symbols are like telegrams — short, urgent messages. Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other; there is no beginning, no middle, no end. There are no causes, no effects.

As the saucer enters a time warp, Billy is hurled back into his childhood: He is twelve years old. With his father and mother, he is visiting theGrand Canyon. Jumping ahead ten more days, he is still with his family on the same trip, only now they are in the bowels of Carlsbad Caverns. Billy prays for God todeliver him before the ceiling collapses.

Suddenly, he finds himself back in 1945 Germany. He and his fellow POWs are marched to a shed, where a one-armed, one-eyed corporal writes their names and serial numbers in a ledger. Now the prisoners are legally alive — moments before, they were missing in action. Following a quarrel between a guard who understands English and an American who mutters some offensive remark, each prisoner is given a dog tag with a number stamped on it. The tag is perforated through the center: In case of death it can be snapped in two — one part to mark the corpse, the other to mark the grave. Billy and his fellow prisoners are housed with a group of fifty spirited Englishmen, who have been imprisoned for four years.

That night in the Englishmen's compound, the English officers perform a musical version of Cinderella. Watching it, Billy begins to laugh hysterically, and then he begins to shriek. He continues shrieking until he is carried out of the shed to the hospital, where he is tied down in bed and given a shot of morphine.

The morphine triggers another time trip, this time to spring 1948. Billy finds himself in a New York veterans' hospital, where he has voluntarily committed himself to a ward for nonviolent mental patients. In the bed next to Billy is a former infantry captain named Eliot Rosewater, who introduces Billy to the science-fiction novels of Kilgore Trout. Billy and Rosewater have one thing in common — both have found life meaningless and are trying to come to grips with the horrors of World War II. During the war, Rosewater mistook a 14-year-old fireman for a German soldier and shot him. Billy experienced the senseless destruction of life during the firebombing of Dresden. Science fiction is a tool that Billy and Rosewater both use to reconstruct themselves and their universe.

In a split second, Billy is flung back to 1945 before being hurled ahead once more to the veterans' hospital. Billy's mother is visiting him; when she leaves, Valencia Merble, Billy's fiancée, sits with him. Drawn into their conversation, Rosewater tells them that he is reading a Kilgore Trout novel, The Gospel from Outer Space, about an alien who visits Earth and writes a new Gospel. In the new Gospel, Jesus is not the Son of God, yet people still decide to lynch this nobody.

Billy time trips again, and this time he travels to the Tralfamadore zoo, where he is confined in a geodesic dome. Outside the dome, thousands of Tralfamadorians observe him. Naked, Billy goes through the regimen of eating, washing the dishes, and putting them away; he does a series of exercises; he shaves, trims his toenails, and sprays deodorant under his arms. Outside, a guide lectures telepathically to the crowd. When one of the spectators asks Billy if he is happy on Tralfamadore, he answers that he is about as happy as he was on Earth.

Billy is surprised to learn that the Tralfamadorians are not alarmed by the acts of murder and war carried out on Earth. Asked about the most valuable thing he has learned on Tralfamadore, he replies that it is how the inhabitants of an entire planet can live together in peace. In soaring elocution, he describes the murder and mayhem that take place on Earth, and he concludes by suggesting that this mass behavior will surely be a threat to the future of the universe. But the Tralfamadorians find him ignorant: They know how the universe will end, and madness and violence on Earth have nothing to do with it. A Tralfamadorian conducting experiments with flying-saucer fuel will blow up the universe. When Billy asks if there is not some way to prevent this destruction, he is told that there is not: The future is simply structured this way.

Falling asleep that night, Billy travels back to Ilium. He has been out of the mental hospital for six months; he has graduated from the Ilium School of Optometry — which is ironic given that he now prescribes corrective lenses for people with defective physical vision, yet no one understands his own philosophical vision of the world; and he has just married Valencia Merble. The night of their wedding, Billy travels through a series of experiences: to the prison hospital, to his father's funeral, back to the prison hospital, to 1968 and his being reproached by his daughter, Barbara, and to the Tralfamadore zoo.

The Tralfamadorians furnish Billy with a mate named Montana Wildhack, a pornographic motion picture star on Earth. He makes no attempts to entice her affections, but within a week she asks him to sleep with her. After Billy makes love to Montana, he travels through time and space back to his home in Ilium.

Analysis

Two instances of Vonnegut's commenting on his own writing are presented in this chapter — first, Billy talks about the Tralfamadorian books, and second, Eliot Rosewater offers his opinions about Kilgore Trout's writing.

Onboard the flying saucer, Billy puzzles over the Tralfamadorian books laid out in brief knots of symbols separated by stars. He is told that the clumps of symbols are like telegrams — short, urgent messages; Tralfamadorians read the messages all at once, not in sequence. The Tralfamadorian concept of writing is similar to that which Vonnegut proposes in Chapter One. Billy's story in Slaughterhouse-Five has no beginning, no middle, no end, just as Tralfamadorian writing has none. No suspense occurs in the novel because Vonnegut divulges all of Billy's life by the end of Chapter Two, just as all of the past, the present, and the future is known to the Tralfamadorians.

Because much of Vonnegut's writing questions the validity of authority, he is careful not to set himself up as an authority on any subject, not even his own writing. When Rosewater tells Billy that Trout's writing is frightful, we understand that Vonnegut is comparing himself to Trout: Any comments made about Trout as a writer also extend to Vonnegut since he, too, is a writer of little-known, philosophical novels.

The nature of time is again a primary theme in this chapter, as it has been throughout the preceding chapter. When a park ranger turns out the lights deep inside Carlsbad Caverns, Billy questions his state of being. Deep inside the dark caverns, the ghostly iridescence of the dial on Billy's father's watch serves as a reminder of the dichotomy between linear and psychological time. The watch displaces the events of psychological time and brings back the world of authoritarian reality in chronological time. The limitations of chronological time are similar to the limitations of humans' three-dimensional vision, described in terms of Billy's perspective. Using the metaphor of looking through a pipe, we realize that three-dimensional vision is like being able to see only a speck at the end of the pipe. Only Tralfamadorians have the benefit of four-dimensional vision: They see everything at once, while Billy sees only what is in front of him.

In the Tralfamadore zoo, Billy is the focus of observation, just as he is in the Dresden parade of prisoners. On Tralfamadore, he is estranged because he is a naked alien. In the Dresden camp, he is estranged because of the clownish overcoat he is given to wear: The ragged coat has a fur collar that makes him look like a clown and causes guards and prisoners alike to laugh. The comparisons between Billy's experiences on Tralfamadore and those in the Dresden camp heighten the novel's satire. The horror of his ordeal during World War II is related to the horror of his being kidnapped by space aliens. His captivity on Tralfamadore happens on a fantasy level and is comical, which serves to make his World War II captivity seem far worse because it occurs on a realistic level.

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SCHLACHTOF ZWei

In chapter 2 of Slaughter house 5 the author talks about how Billy Pilgrim was in a fatal plane crash in which he was the only survivor.  Billy Pilgrim started going kind of crazy, it was probably the only way he could cope with things. He started telling everyone how he was abducted by aliens and they took him to their planet Tralfamadore.  Everyone wanted to know why he didn't tell them these stories right after they happened and his only response is because, "..it was too soon."  Billy goes back and forth through different times of his life a lot.  At the end of the chapter Billy time shifts back to being captured by Germans.  I have noticed that the author puts "So it goes" after every bad event.

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In chSCHLACHTOF DREI & SCHLACHTOF VEIRapter 3 or Slaughter House 5 the author talks about Billy Pilgrims experiences in the war. Him and Weary were taken by the Germans and made Weary wear clogs that made his feet bleed. They stopped at a cottage that was for prisoners of wSCHLACHTOF DREI & SCHLACHTOF VEIRar. Then Billy traveled in time back to being a optometrist. Then went back in time again to WWll. From then on he flips back and forth in time from present day to WWll

Gatsby Essay!

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Revisions on Essay

Well I think I had a nice essay form, but I couldn't do the essay prompt that was given. I  was not able to finish to book. So I simply just explained why I didn't and how stupid I was.  Probably, going to fail this essay.

Need Help Hacking Modernist Author Project!

So I am doing a Guess Who game and I need at least 5 people to join in on the project!


You will need:

• Depth Information on your modernist author
• A regular size paper with a picture of your author
• Pick a novel that he/she wrote and find info that made them write and what it is about
• Pick 5 fun facts about them.
• And you would have to dress up like your author on the actual day.

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"The First Seven Years" is a modernist story. Modernist time, 1900-1965, is a cusp generation, and it means conflict with inner and outer self. This became a reaction against Queen Victoria, who was very strict and proper. It is considered a low art. 
  Unreliable narrator used by sable in his books when given to Fabel's daughter. Unreliable narrator is capturing the thoughts of what's happening at that very moment. Sabel and Fabel's daughter share a love for books. So at the age of fourteen Sabel  gave his personal books to her with many notes in the margins.

  Fabels daughter is rebellious. She wanted to go to the work force right after high school, but her father wanted ho to go to college first. So he sets up his daughter with a educated man that she doesn't not like at all. She told him that he selfish and self centered. She is very independent wnts to learn on her own. Not to be told what to do by others.

 The inner world of Sabel is very confused as I believe. For being love with this young girl. And only stays at  this job because he wants to be close to her. When he could have a better job, with his education. Knowing that he cant have his daughter, he leaves which is the right thing to do. Stupidly, he comes back for her.

Research on Hilda Doolittle

H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle; September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. The Imagist model was based on the idioms, rhythms and clarity of common speech, and freedom to choose subject matter as the writer saw fit.
H.D. was born in Pennsylvania in 1886, and moved to London in 1911 where her publications earned her a central role within the then emerging Imagism movement. A charismatic figure, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building and furthering her career. From 1916–17, she acted as the literary editor of the Egoist journal, while her poetry appeared in the English Review and the Transatlantic Review. During the First World War, H.D. suffered the death of her brother and the breakup of her marriage to the poet Richard Aldington,^[1] and these events weighed heavily on her later poetry. Glenn Hughes, the authority on Imagism, wrote that 'her loneliness cries out from her poems.^[2] She had a deep interest in Ancient Greek literature, and her poetry often borrowed from Greek mythology and classical poets. Her work is noted for its incorporation of natural scenes and objects, which are often used to emote a particular feeling or mood.
She befriended Sigmund Freud during the 1930s, and became his patient in order to understand and express her bisexuality.^[3] H.D. married once, and undertook a number of heterosexual and lesbian relationships. She was unapologetic about her sexuality, and thus became an icon for both the gay rights and feminist movements when her poems, plays, letters and essays were rediscovered during the 1970s and 1980s.

Contents  [hide]  1 Career 1.1 Early life 1.2 H.D. Imagiste 1.3 World War I and after 1.4 Novels, films and psychoanalysis 1.5 World War II and after 1.6 Later life and death 2 Legacy 3 Selected works 3.1 Poetry collections 3.2 Prose 4 Notes 5 Bibliography 6 Further reading 6.1 Archival Sources 7 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early life

Hilda Doolittle was born into the Moravian community in Bethlehem in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.^[4] Her father, Charles Doolittle, was professor of astronomy at Lehigh University^[5] and her mother, Helen (Wolle), was a Moravian with a strong interest in music. In 1896, Charles Doolittle was appointed Flower Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and the family moved to a house in Upper Darby. She attended Philadelphia's Friends Central High School, at Fifteenth and Race streets, graduating in 1905. In 1901, she met and befriended Ezra Pound, who was to play a major role both in her private life and her emergence as a writer. In 1905, Pound presented her with a sheaf of love poems under the collective title Hilda's Book.^[6]
That year, Doolittle attended Bryn Mawr College^[7] to study Greek literature, but left after only three terms due to poor grades and the excuse of poor health. While at the college, she met the poets Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams. Her first published writings, some stories for children, were published in The Comrade, a Philadelphia Presbyterian Church paper, between 1909 and 1913, mostly under the name Edith Gray. In 1907, she became engaged to Pound. Her father disapproved of Pound,^[8] and by the time her father left for Europe in 1908, the engagement had been called off. Around this time, H.D. started a relationship with a young female art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Frances Josepha Gregg.^[9] After spending part of 1910 living in Greenwich Village, she sailed to Europe with Gregg and Gregg's mother in 1911. In Europe, H.D. began a more serious career as a writer. Her relationship with Gregg cooled, and she met a writing enthusiast named Brigit Patmore with whom she became involved in an affair. Patmore introduced H.D. to another poet, Richard Aldington.

[edit] H.D. Imagiste

Soon after arriving in England, H.D. showed Pound some poems she had written. Pound had already begun to meet with other poets at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho. He was impressed by the closeness of H.D. poems's to the ideas and principles he had been discussing with Aldington, with whom he had shared plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse, the tanka and the tightness and conciseness of the haiku, and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage. In summer 1912, the three poets declared themselves the "three original Imagists", and set out their principles as:

1. Direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.^[10][11]

During a meeting with H.D. in a tea room near the British Museum that year, Pound appended the signature H.D. Imagiste to her poetry, creating a label that was to stick to the poet for most of her writing life.^[12] However H.D. told different versions of this story at various times, and during her career published under a variety of pseudonyms.^[13] That same year, Harriet Monroe started her Poetry magazine and asked Pound to act as foreign editor. In October, he submitted three poems each by H.D. and Aldington under the rubric Imagiste. Aldington's poems were in the November issue of Poetry and her poems "Hermes of the Ways," "Orchard," and "Epigram", in the January 1913 issue. Imagism as a movement was launched with H.D. as its prime exponent.
The early models for the Imagist group were from Japan, and H.D. often visited the exclusive Print Room at the British Museum in the company of Richard Aldington and the curator and poet Laurence Binyon in order to examine Nishiki-e prints that incorporated traditional Japanese verse.^[14][15] However, she also derived her way of making poems from her reading of Classical Greek literature and especially of Sappho,^[16] an interest she shared with Aldington and Pound, each of whom produced versions of the Greek poet's work. In 1915, H.D. and Aldington launched the Poets' Translation Series, pamphlets of translations from Greek and Latin classics. H.D. worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes (1927), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba (1931), and Euripides' Ion (1937) a loose translation of Ion.^[17]
She continued her association with the group until the final issue of the Some Imagist Poets anthology in 1917. She and Aldington did most of the editorial work on the 1915 anthology. Her work also appeared in Aldington's Imagist Anthology 1930. All of her poetry up to the end of the 1930s was written in an Imagist mode, utilising spare use of language,^[18] and a classical, austere purity.^[19] This style of writing was not without its critics. In a special Imagist issue of The Egoist magazine in May 1915, the poet and critic Harold Monro called H.D.'s early work "petty poetry", denoting "either poverty of imagination or needlessly excessive restraint".^[20]
Oread, one of her earliest and best-known poems, which was first published in the 1915 anthology, illustrates this early style:

     Whirl up, sea—
     Whirl your pointed pines.
     Splash your great pines
     On our rocks.
     Hurl your green over us—
     Cover us with your pools of fir.^[21]

[edit] World War I and after

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Before World War I, H.D. married Aldington in 1913; however, their first and only child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1915. Aldington enlisted in the army. The couple became estranged and Aldington reportedly took a mistress in 1917. H.D. became involved in a close but platonic relationship with D. H. Lawrence. In 1916, her first book, Sea Garden, was published and she was appointed assistant editor of The Egoist, replacing her husband. In 1918, her brother Gilbert was killed in action, and that March she moved into a cottage in Cornwall with the composer Cecil Gray, a friend of Lawrence's. She became pregnant with Gray's child,^[22] however, by the time she realised she was expecting, the relationship had cooled and Gray had returned to live in London.^[23] When Aldington returned from active service he was noticeably traumatised, and he and H.D. later separated.
Close to the end of the war, H.D. met the wealthy English novelist Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman). They lived together until 1946, and although both took numerous other partners, Bryher remained her lover for the rest of H.D.'s life. In 1919, H.D. came close to death when she gave birth to her daughter Frances Perdita Aldington—although the father was not Aldington, but Gray—while suffering from war influenza.^[24] During this time, her father, who had never recovered from Gilbert's death, died. In 1919, H.D. wrote one of her few known statements on poetics,^[25] Notes on Thought and Vision, which was unpublished until 1982.^[26] In this, she speaks of poets (herself included) as belonging to a kind of elite group of visionaries with the power to 'turn the whole tide of human thought'.
H.D. and Aldington attempted to salvage their relationship during this time, but he was suffering from the effects of his participation in the war, possibly post-traumatic stress disorder, and they became estranged, living completely separate lives, but not divorcing until 1938. They remained friends, however, for the rest of their lives. From 1920, her relationship with Bryher became closer and the pair travelled in Egypt, Greece and the United States before eventually settling in Switzerland. Bryher entered a marriage of convenience in 1921 with Robert McAlmon, which allowed him to fund his publishing ventures in Paris by utilising some of her personal wealth for his Contact Press.^[27] Both Bryher and H.D. slept with McAlmon during this time. Bryher and McAlmon divorced in 1927.^[28]

[edit] Novels, films and psychoanalysis

In the early 1920s, H.D. started to write three projected cycles of novels.^[29] The first of these, Magna Graeca, consists of Palimpsest (1921) and Hedylus (1928). The Magna Graeca novels use their classical settings to explore the poetic vocation, particularly as it applies to women in a patriarchal literary culture. The Madrigal cycle consists of HERmione, Bid Me to Live, Paint It Today and Asphodel, and is largely autobiographical, dealing with the development of the female artist and the conflict between heterosexual and lesbian desire. Kora and Ka and The Usual Star, two novellas from the Borderline cycle, were published in 1933. In this period, she also wrote Pilate's Wife, Mira-Mare, and Nights.
During this period her mother had died and Bryher had divorced her husband, only to marry H.D.'s new male lover, Kenneth Macpherson. H.D., Bryher, and Macpherson lived together and traveled through Europe as what the poet and critic Barbara Guest termed in her biography of H.D. as a 'menagerie of three'.^[30] Bryher and Macpherson adopted H.D.'s daughter, Perdita.^[4] In 1928, H.D. became pregnant but chose to abort the pregnancy in November. Bryher and Macpherson set up the magazine Close Up (to which H.D. regularly contributed) as a medium for intellectual discussion of cinema. In 1927, the small independent film cinema group POOL or Pool Group was established (largely funded with Bryher's inheritance) and was managed by all three.^[31] Only one POOL film survives in its entirety, Borderline (1930), which featured H.D. and Paul Robeson in the lead roles. In common with the Borderline novellas, the film explores extreme psychic states and their relationship to surface reality. As well as acting in this film, H.D. wrote an explanatory pamphlet to accompany it, a piece later published in Close Up.^[32]
In 1933, H.D. traveled to Vienna to undergo analysis with Sigmund Freud.^[33] She had an interest in Freud's theories as far back as 1909, when she read some of his works in the original German.^[34] H.D. was referred by Bryher's psychoanalyst due to her increasing paranoia about the rise of Adolf Hitler which indicated another world war, an idea that H.D. found intolerable. The Great War (World War I) had left her feeling shattered. She had lost her brother in action, while her husband suffered effects of combat experiences, and she believed that the onslaught of the war indirectly caused the death of her child with Aldington: she believed it was her shock at hearing the news about the RMS Lusitania that directly caused her miscarriage.^[35] Writing on the Wall, her memoir about this psychoanalysis, was written concurrently with Trilogy and published in 1944; in 1956 it was republished with Advent, a journal of the analysis, under the title Tribute to Freud.^[36]

[edit] World War II and after

H.D. and Bryher spent the duration of World War II in London. During this time, H.D. wrote The Gift, a memoir of her childhood and family life in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which reflects on people and events in her background that helped shape her as a writer.^[37] The Gift was eventually published in 1960 and 1982.^[38] She also wrote Trilogy, published as The Walls do not Fall (1944), Tribute to the Angels (1945) and The Flowering of the Rod (1946). The opening lines of The Walls do not Fall clearly and immediately signal H.D.'s break with her earlier work:

     An incident here and there,
     and rails gone (for guns)
     from your (and my) old town square.^[39]

After the war, H.D. and Bryher no longer lived together, but remained in contact. H.D. moved to Switzerland where, in the spring of 1946, she suffered a severe mental breakdown which resulted in her staying in a clinic until the autumn of that year. Apart from a number of trips to the States, H.D. spent the rest of her life in Switzerland. In the late 1950s, she underwent more treatment, this time with the psychoanalyst Erich Heydt.^[40] At Heydt's prompting, she wrote End to Torment, a memoir of her relationship with Pound, who allowed the poems of Hilda's Book to be included when the book was published. Doolittle was one of the leading figures in the bohemian culture of London in the early decades of the century. Her later poetry explores traditional epic themes, such as violence and war, from a feminist perspective. H.D. was the first woman to be granted the American Academy of Arts and Letters medal.^[7][7]

[edit] Later life and death

During the 1950s, H.D. wrote a considerable amount of poetry, most notably Helen in Egypt (written between 1952–54), an examination from a feminist point of view of a male-centred epic poetry. H.D. used Euripides's play Helen as a starting point for a reinterpretation of the basis of the Trojan War and, by extension, of war itself.^[41] This work has been seen by some critics, including Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas, as H.D.'s response to Pound's Cantos, a work she greatly admired. Other poems from this period include Sagesse, Winter Love and Hermetic Definition. These three were published posthumously with the collective title Hermetic Definition (1972). The poem Hermetic Definition takes as its starting points her love for a man 30 years her junior and the line 'so slow is the rose to open' from Pound's Canto 106. Sagesse, written in bed after H.D. had broken her hip in a fall, serves as a kind of coda to Trilogy, being partly written in the voice of a young female Blitz survivor who finds herself living in fear of the atom bomb. Winter Love was written together with End to Torment and uses as narrator the Homeric figure of Penelope to restate the material of the memoir in poetic form. At one time, H.D. considered appending this poem as a coda to Helen in Egypt.^[42]
H.D. visited the United States in 1960 to collect an American Academy of Arts and Letters medal.^[43] Returning to Switzerland, she suffered a stroke in July 1961 and died a couple of months later in the Klinik Hirslanden in Zürich.^[44] Her ashes were returned to Bethlehem, and were buried in the family plot in the Nisky Hill Cemetery on October 28, 1961. Her epitaph consists of the following lines from her early poem "Let Zeus Record":

     So you may say,
     Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
     reclaims forever
     one who died
     following intricate song's
     lost measure.^[45]

[edit] Legacy

The rediscovery of H.D. began in the 1970s, and coincided with the emergence of a feminist criticism that found much to admire in the questioning of gender roles typical of her writings.^[46][47] Specifically, those critics who were challenging the standard view of English-language literary modernism based on the work of such male writers as Pound, Eliot and James Joyce, were able to restore H.D. to a more significant position in the history of that movement. Her writings have served as a model for a number of more recent women poets working in the modernist tradition; including the New York School poet Barbara Guest, the Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov, the Black Mountain poet Hilda Morley and the Language poet Susan Howe.^[48] Her influence is not limited to female poets, and many male writers, including Robert Duncan^[49] and Robert Creeley,^[50] have acknowledged their debt.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Poetry collections

• Sea Garden (1916)
• The God (1917)
• Translations (1920)
• Hymen (1921)
• Heliodora and Other Poems (1924)
• Hippolytus Temporizes (1927)
• Red Roses for Bronze (1932)
• The Walls Do Not Fall (1944)
• Tribute to the Angels (1945)
• Trilogy (1946)
• Flowering of the Rod (1946)
• By Avon River (1949)
• Helen in Egypt, New Directions (1961)
• Hermetic Definition, New Directions (1972)

[edit] Prose

• Notes on Thought and Vision (1919)
• Paint it Today (written 1921, published 1992)
• Asphodel (written 1921–22, published 1992)
• Palimpsest (1926)
• Kora and Ka (1930)
• Nights (1935)
• The Hedgehog (1936)
• Tribute to Freud (1956)
• Bid Me to Live (1960)
• End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound, New Directions (1979)
• HERmione, New Directions (1981)
• The Gift, New Directions (1982)
• Majic Ring (written 1943–44, published 2009)
• The Sword Went Out to Sea (written 1946–47, published 2007)
• White Rose and the Red (written 1948, published 2009)
• The Mystery (written 1948–51, published 2009)

Literary Anlaysis Farhenheit 451 #1

1) A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and end all way of freely thinking.  A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag; Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship.  Very dry and not loving at all.  Montag is a third generation fireman.  His job is to burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them.  He enjoyed his job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse.  She points out to him there is more to life then what he is doing now.  After thinking about all this he remembers and old man he met in the park one day.  He was a retired professor named Faber.  Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer.   Montag started to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out there who would listen to all he had to say.  He wondered more and more about books and what the meaning of life actually was.  His fascination with books became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them and memorizing them.  Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to his old ways of burning things and loving fire.  Beatty realized after Montag had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking.  After Making Montag burn down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally cracked.  He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.  After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther and farther from the city and all he left behind.  After hiding in the forest he comes across a group of old men.  They welcome Montag with open arms and let him become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living.  They were all once professors and understand Montag.  The war continues until they drop the bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever.  Hoping to recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once read.
2) Theme of the novel: To gain as much knowledge as you can and use it.
3) Authors tone: Kinda of dark and depressing.
4) Simile: ".... her face as white as snow...." pg 7
    Imagery: Montag doesn't even like his wife and how they don't have that special thing anymore.
    Flashback: The fire of the old lady's house and how she threw out of herself.
    Symbolism: The fire and the life of the flames
Irony: Their firemen started fire, and our firemen are here to put them out.
CHARACTERIZATION:
1) Direct Ch: .."her face was white as snow.." Stating that Clarisse had a white face.
    Indirect Ch: Montag would always smell like kerosene and have a charred black face, describing him as a firemen.
2) I don't think the authors syntax or diction changed at all throughout the book ?
3) Montag is a dynamic character because he changed from a firemen who never really thought about the reasons why he had to burn down books, to a man who really wanted to know the meaning of life and what it had to offer.
4) After reading this book, is reading is not only pleasure but knowledge waiting to be open and interrupt.

prewrite for the following

1. Prompt: Why is the "The First Seven Years" considered a modernist story?
Thesis: "The First Seven Years" is a modernist story.
Reasons 1. rebellious girl 2. inner world sable 3.in reliable narrator used by sable in his books.


2.Why is Fahrenheit 451 considered a modernist novel?
 Fahrenheit 451 is a modernist novel.
Reasons 1. world/future= destruction and decay 2. montags thought process = syntax 3. mistrust with govt.



3. Why is "Richard Cory" considered a modernist poem?
Thesis:  "Richard Cory" is a modernist poem
Reasons 1. bleak future 2. money can't buy happiness 3. inner vs outer world

Fox in Sock Reciting

Little things by one direction reciting

my modernist

Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961)
Why?
Just picked by random

Spring Vocab #5

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

•  cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

•  demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

•  deference: Humble submission and respect.

•  enigmatic:  Difficult to interpret or understand

•  definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or 

specify precisely

•  bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

•  choleric: bad-tempered

•  bulwark:  solid wall-like structure raised for defense 

•  curtail: To cut short or reduce

•  adamant: extremely hard substance

•  profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

•  mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

•  thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

•  onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

•  requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

•  mollify: Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

•  sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

•  presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

•  impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

•  forbearance:  refraining from the enforcement of something

•  remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

"The First Seven Years"

"The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud

Wow the end was an amazing surprise. I didn't see it coming, that Sobel had been in love with the Shoemakers daughter during the whole story. He left his job, because he realized he was in love with her, and can't be together. Than Feld, agreed for Sobel to talk to his daughter Miriam. Sobel is has with hope again and returns to work for the shoemaker as his right hand man. I was really trying to predict the ending to this story, like I do in movies, but I guess surprises can happen at any time. That is what life is about.

ESSAY POSTGAME ANALYSIS

I think I would get an B on the essay I wrote. I could of use a lot more examples. I just related with whats going on today to the book.

A wanna be song:)

* So one of my friends is into writing songs and making beats for them. So I decided to show him some of my poems, and he said they were good. That I should started writing songs. I haven't wrote a poem in a couple of years, and Dr. Preston got me excited about writing them again. I haven't been able to get around to writing a song, until yesterday. Yes, I know it is kinda all over the place, but I need to start somewhere. I was really trying, and looks like I over thought it to much. There is no chorus yet. I just wrote was on my mind. Please feel free to comment one. SO, if you would like to comment your changes and corrections. I will take them in and repost a new song and maybe with a beat. Thank you. :)

The beating heart never lies.
Mentally you can trick yourself
Ignoring your heart
Thinking you want something else.

The trickery and lies will hurt
 in the long run
Not only you but others around you.
Time will fly

And in the end
There is no happy ending..
Like in the fantasy fiction books
you use to read.

Your human, yes
And you have control of your life, yes
Because we are human we can be complicated creatures.

Knowing and not knowing
What makes it a reality
Trials and miracles
will happen.
You just have to fight
 through them
 With you heart, who has
belief and hope and only dreams
 of you having your fantasy ending

The beating heart never lies.
Always follow it into
your dream you've never
dreamt of.
Knowing what you really want.

By: Teanna Silveira

More poems:)

* I decided to write a few more poems and want to publish them online. Judge freely, I can use the advice. Thank you.

 

 

Darling

Will you marry me?

This ring represent my heart,

I want you,

to hold and keep it.

Even though you stolen it,

in the first place.

I went to go find it and

I found you.

That day, I knew

You were the one

For me.

Darling,

I want to spend my

entire life

with you!

 

Hand in hand.

The glimmer of our rings

show the love we have.

 Our hearts beat

Every time we see, hear, taste, and touch

each other.

And this is why I ask

"Darling,

Will you marry me?"

For I love you!

 

By: Teanna Silveira

Spring Vocab#2 (CONT)

1. Praetorian: Resembling the Roman guards.
2. Sieve: Utensil with a meshed surface for straining.
3. Veiled: Covered or in disguise.
4. Saccharine: Artificially sweet.
5. Harlequin: Character in a comic theater.
6. Toil: Hard and continuous work.
7. Delinquence: Neglectful; failing.
8. Jibbering: To move relatively sidewise or backward instead of forward.
9. Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile.
10. Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface.
11. Patronage: Act of buying something.
12. Cadence: Pace
13. Suffused: To spread through or over
14. Centrifuge: Machine that separates substances by spinning fast.
15. Dentifrice: Toothpaste.
16. Leisure: Time free from work or duty.
17. Vessel: Large craft.
18. Phonograph: Record player.
19. Profusion: Abundance of.

Spring Vocab#2

Praetorian- of or pertaining to a preator
Cieve- untensil with a meshed surface for staining
Saccharin- artificial sweetener
Harl- character in comic theater
Toil- hard and continuous work
Delinquent- guilty of a misdeed or offence
Jibbering- to move excessively sibewise or backward instead of forward
 Insidious- intended to entrap or beguile
 Strewn- to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface

THE PEEVED PEDESTRIAN

He wrote this book from ,my perspective, because he wanted to show how a normal person that we see, can be so crazy inside. That these things hide from us. You can't trust a person right away in til you know them. Everybody keeps secrets. Are you crazy?

vocab#1spring

Ravinous:  very hungry or greedy
Jargoun:  lang. of a particur trade
Odious:  hateful
Sentrifudge: high speed machine to seperate machine seperating substance
Proclivities: nautral tensity
Pantime:  gesture with out speech
Parior: room for guest
Staghit: not flowing
Cacophony:  harsh sound
Tamped: to force in or down by reapeted
Plateau: fland land deep canyons
Flourish: to thrive
Rollick: to move carefree
Asylumn: place of refudge
Provasquez: nose of an animal

Poem#1 rewrite

Just to say I love you

never seems enough

I've said it so many times

I am afraid you wont understand

What I really mean when I say it.

How can so much feeling

So much adoration possibly fit into

Those three little words.

But unitl I find some other

way of saying what I feel, then

"I love you" will have to do,

so no matter how many times I say it

Never take it lightly, for you are my life

and my only love

I love you now more

than ever!

Here we are
in old age
This feeling that i had
is not there.
My heart isn't warmed
when I see you,
or has anything to do with you.
You have surround you self
with evil
leaving dark circles underneath your eyes.
For I have fallen out of love
with you.
And I wish you were dead
so the ties of marriage can break.
So i don't have to lie next to you in bed
or even see your face.

Poem#1

Just to say I love you

never seems enough

I've said it so many times

I am afraid you wont understand

What I really mean when I say it.

How can so much feeling

So much adoration possibly fit into

Those three little words.

But unitl I find some other

way of saying what I feel, then

"I love you" will have to do,

so no matter how many times I say it

Never take it lightly, for you are my life

and my only love

I love you now more

than ever!



Theme For English3

1.  I try to respect my teacher and be kind but i am not like quiet and do my work.
2. I don't think you can be your self and use knowledge and especially with our econ. it is going to be hard.
3. There is no drugs in my backup. Just kidding. But the elements that i have to check is that do i look good, am i mentally prepared and prepared with the right school supplies.
4. I love to write poetry. So it would be great if we learned a couple of forms of poems. That would be a great a project actually. And we make like a small book of like 25 poems and they can be about american literature.
5. I think what is valued at school is that you sit down, and do your work, and not get distracted.
6.Well if we feel compelled to keep it private, than why would see it on here to make it public.
7. Well it is totally possible to take control of learning process and use it, and push your self. It is just hard because teachers make it so boaring to do our work and not make it interesting. Not enough excitement to want to strive and do better.

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN

My Goal for this semester:
           -Acedemic: To Take the SATs, AP tests for English and History.
           -Outside: Prepare for becoming a Psychologist. Softball scholarships, counter some of the scouts. Sign to a college by the end of my junior year or beginning of my senior year/.

My Plan:
            - Start a group to prepare for essays and other parts
            - start emailing more and signing up for scouting websites

"SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE"

Theme: 

That leaving what you have now might be chance of having something bigger

Tone:

"This song for me is the most personal song on the record because it's about how I grew up and my childhood. It's about throwing caution to the wind and going after what you truly want in life."

Syntax:

Like an explantion of why she left and a little bit of personafication.

 

Can we consider music to be literature?

• I think that music can be consider to be literature. The source of great music comes from literature.that's lyrical poetry and it is from it that most songs are put across.
• Therefore,there is a great connection between literature and music;besides most of the music has its inspiration from stories which stories could be from legends,tales,fables(oral literature) or poems,short stories or even novels.
 

How do we define literature?

• writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.

What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?

•  The difference is the sound. They all have stories to tell with different moods and emotions.