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Poetry / Re: Analysis and Synthesis: I Grew Up & The Urban Indian
« on: November 28, 2009, 10:32:58 pm »
  Both of the narrators in "The Urban Indian" and "I Grew Up" are native people. They used to live in their native reserves, but now they may left there. In "The Urban Indian", we directly know it, but we can know that the speaker in "I Grew Up" also left his reserve inderectly. In the refrain "I grew up thinking/ 'i'm never going/ to leave this place'", the speaker only tells that he thought he would live there forever, but the tone suggests that he probably left the reserve now.
  However, the attitudes of the narrators in "I Grew Up" and "The Urban Indian" toward their reserves are a little different. The speaker in "I Grew Up" liked his reserve not only for giving him his identity, but he loved the nature, the people, and everything there in the reserve. He was "a child who would lie under trees"(line8-9) and "a child who ran wild rhythms through the fields"(line 23-25), "eating berries/ cupping cool water to [his] wild stained mouth"(line 28-30). However, the narrator in "The Urban Indian" chooses to live as a citzen of a big city Toronto, since he already got used to the comfortable city life. He doesnt like the mosquitoes, the natures anymore. (Perhaps he still likes them, but he does avoid them at first!)
  The tone in "I Grew Up" is rather more sentimental, or nostalgic, since the speaker misses his reserves. However, the narrator in "The Urban Indian" accepts his "civic status" and keeps enjoying his life as a citizen of Toronto.

Um,,, Please tell me if i misunderstood,, so that i can fix them.. haha thanks

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Poetry / Re: Analysis and Synthesis: I Grew Up & The Urban Indian
« on: November 28, 2009, 09:39:44 pm »
Hmmmm...um..... this is hard... 5minutes later.. haha

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Poetry / Re: Echoes: Experience ~ Dorothy Livesay
« on: November 28, 2009, 09:31:01 pm »
  The poem "Experience" by Dorothy Livesay talks about how we get experience and life lessons in our lives.
  "Experience" in the first stanza would mean the experience of others that is told to the speaker. When other older people (maybe parents or teachers) tell the speaker their experience, it is "hard to swallow"(line 3), and the speaker cant easily understand it. What the others tell the speaker is too "bitter", so the speaker doesnt really want to listen to or accept the ideas.
  However, "Experience" in stanza two is the experience that the speaker learn through his life and that he truely understands. During his life, he tastes all the "bitter" and "sweet" experience. He sometimes goes through challenges, and he sometimes achieves his goals and becomes successful. Then he finally understands the lessons and his heart is "fed".
  Hence, this poem tells the readers that we can finally understands the things around us only when we experience them on our own.

Parody,,,probably will be posted later,, haha. Thanks =)

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Poetry / Re: Echoes: Reach Out and Touch ~ Maxine Tynes
« on: November 28, 2009, 09:21:58 pm »
The poem "Reach out and Touch" by Maxine Tynes talks about the prejudice towards the black people. It has the theme that while we attempt to get over our prejudice we rather develop stereotype(Right?I'm not sure...). In this poem, a young white(?) child sees a black person(i guess she is a woman) on the bus for the first time, and the child becomes very curious. The child "reach[es] out and [touches] the black woman's "curly electric of hair" and her skin, but the mom scolds at her child because she doesnt want to make the black woman angry. However, here is the irony. The mom may think she taught the child that they should not care about the color, but actually, the child is "lost in the silence and the fear that motherlove wraps [her] in"(line12-13). The child now would think that black and white people are different. However, the black woman is very kind, and she wants the child
 to "know it's o.k." to wonder about the difference between her and the child. Hence I think the poet wants to tell the readers that acting naturally is the best way to get rid of the prejudice and the stereotype with races.

The tone in this poem is quite serene but a lttle down. Perhaps the woman has already experienced similar situations before. When the mom scolds at the child, she just wants the child to know its "o.k." but she doesnt really feel very displeased with the mom's reaction. She just feels down a little.

The mood in "Reach out and Touch" is unhappy, quite distressing, and reflective. It makes me think about the stereotype we have and how we learn them. We always learn that we should not have prejudice but we actually have them always, and they do affect our thought and decision in many times. This poem helped me think about these questions; Hence, it has reflective mood.

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▓▒▒░░Class work░░▒▒▓ / Re: Poetry - Packing for the Future: Instructions
« on: November 23, 2009, 02:40:47 pm »
 "Packing for the Future: Instructions", poem by Lorna Crozier, has a theme that life is a long journey and we would meet many challenges, but our strong hope and dream will help us to overcome the hardships. In the lines "Wherever you're going/ you'll have to walk," the speaker tells us that our life would not be very easy.We would go through many hardships and we would probably become tired and discouraged. Then, the poem tells us that we have to "take the thickest socks"(line1) to prepare for the hardships because "[we] cannot go without the hope socks bring [us]"(line 7-8). He also tells us to "take the dream/ [we've] been having since [we] were a child"(line 32-33). All these lines mean when we get into troubles, our strong hope and desire to reach our goal would give us courage and energy to carry on. Then we would be able to overcome all the hardships and improve our life much better. Hence, the poem "Packing for the Future: Instructions" gives the readers a message that we should be prepared enough and maintain our hope in order to go through the hardships we meet in our life.

Can i rewrite this after going home....? :'(

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▓▒▒░░Class work░░▒▒▓ / Re: Welcome
« on: November 23, 2009, 02:06:03 pm »
1. Mariah
2. I dont have much experience with blog. I have many in Korea but not English ones. I did some last year in Ms.Yu's class. Anyway, I like blogging. 
3. I am one of the grade 12 student in Ms.Yu's English class. I like to watch movies, and I LIke to listen to music, and I dont like to go shopping, but i like to shop online, and i like to go to school, and I really like to sleep. I like chupa chups, I like cookies, but I dont really like other snacks. I regret that I cut my hair during summer. Why is livejournal not working???????????????? =(

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