I don't know why, bu tmy video won't seem to play when I embedded it on here, but I put the URL address below and you can get to it from there.

http://www.youtube.com/user/margiemoonie

Stolen Line :"We don't need to say a thing." -Michael C. Davis


The Hammock

In the back yard hangs relaxation in physical form.
stressful days,long nights, hours of school
the hammock brings rest.
I lay with nature,
loud but soft at the same time;
the hum of the bees, the sway of the trees
My friends and I lay together,
but alone in our own worlds.
We know eachothers thoughts;
we don't need to say a thing.
Relaxtation brings peace, brings contempt.
If only the hammock could find more time in my days.

Along with many other issues of this time period, the Thirty Years War was caused by a multitude of different thing, but nostly by the religious conflicts of the time and the economic failure. Religion had not only become an isse between othernations, but it had become a civil issus where people were battling their own government and their claim of power over their religious opinions. The Thirty Years War was destined to come eventually considering all of the internal conflict going on in Europe, but the Reformation sparked new ideas of religion and expressing new opinions publicly. Therefore this opened new doors to freedom that the government did not want to acknowledge. The efffects of the Thiryt Years War were like many other wars, economic depression, lack in trade, failure in ecomonmy in general, and price issues. Prices were being raised and less people were becoming wealthy. Like many wars before and after it, the Thirty Years War caused the economy to become extrememy slow and the culture therefore suffered. The effects of this war were extremely evident all over Europe for many years.

THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
Copyright © 2005 - 2006 Cook Communication.

Alan Spears

DIFFICULT DAYS

She wore a long, plain dress to the office today,
and a light green sweater
that matched her perfect eyes…
Irresistible in her girlish things
she has me thinking about holding her again,
which is a mistake
because she’s wearing those pretty clothes for someone else.
For some other guy
who tonight,
right about the time I’m broke down and crying into my pillow,
will be helping her take that dress off.


Rhett Akins
"That Aint my Truck"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmkOAPiNHpw

(I am not sure how to work all of this attach and embedd stuff, so I emailed it to you.)

This song and poem connect together because they are both discussing the disappointing and upsetting feelings of being in love with a woman and seeing that she in with another man. This poem is very emotional and sad; the writer sees that the love of his life is in love with another man and there is nothing he can do about it. In this song, singer Rhett Akins sings about when he found his love with another man behind his back. He drives past her house and sees a truck in the driveway that "aint his truck". This song is very sad and expresses his disappointment when he sees his girl with another man.

Poetry 3rd Block
Oct 22

"Vermin""

What do you want to be when you grow up?"
What child cries out, "An Exterminator!"?
One dilligent student in Mrs. Taylor's class will get an ant farm for Christmas,
but he'll not see industry; he'll see dither. "
The ant sets an example for us all," wrote Max Beerbohm, a master of dawdle,
"but it is not a good one."

Those children don't hope to outlast the doldrums of school
only to heft great weights and work in squads and die for their queen.
Well, neither did we.
And we knew what we didn't want to be:
the ones we looked down on, the lambs of God,
blander than snow and slow to be cruel.


I chose these line breaks because I saw rhis poem as a conversation. This writer is conveying the innocence of the young and was society has turned economic prosper into. Success and money have begun ot take over the thoughts of prospective students, whereas innocent young children depend on their creative dreams. These breaks reveal the conversation and thoughts of these young children, their dreams, and the apparent need for economic succes on current society. The breaks also show the detachment from the thought of merely concentrating on money and success. I always put a break between the negative and positive outlooks because I thought the writer would want this clearly separated for comparison and contrast to what he percieves as life's true pleasures.


-- William Matthewsfrom

The New Yorker, 1997.

Poetry #3
Love and SleepAlgernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head,Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite,Too wan for blushing and too warm for white, But perfect-coloured without white or red. And her lips opened amorously, and said--I wist not what, saving one word--Delight.And all her face was honey to my mouth, And all her body pasture to mine eyes; The long lithe arms and hotter hands than fire,The quivering flanks, hair smelling of the south, The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire.


Author Algernon Charles Swinburne conveys this poem to be very intimate and romantic. I like this poet's style because he uses very indepth details to reveal his affection for his subject, his lover. He describes her appearances, slight actions, connotations, and eveything he feels about her. By using these continued descriptions and imagery he conveys his tone of "delight" and love in general. Swinburne uses imagery to depict what he sees with his own eyes and what he feels, as though the reader is with im in the room. He is constantly using adjectives and actions describing every detail of his lover. I like this style because he is not simply telling you that he is obsessed with this lady, but he describes the emtional attatchment felt with her, conveying the romance of the poem.
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Poetry #2
Work Without HopeSamuel Taylor Coleridge(composed 21st February 1825)All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair --The bees are stirring -- birds are on the wing --And Winter slumbering in the open air,Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.



http://www.mcgill.ca/files/researchoffice/GaultNatureReserve.jpg (hyperlink to my picture, wouldnt copy & paste)

I think that this poem is well represented in this picture because of the serene nature reference. This peom is about nature's features of calmness and beauty, and therefore sense of being in touch with one's own emotions and hope. This picture depocts nature at its best. I shows a beautiful scene in which I merely look into the distance in this picture and can feel the "hope" represented in this peom. Nature's beauty is very deep and intense; this poem conveys that nature brings out more than the eye can see, but what the heart can feel. The most important aspect of this poem and picuture is the fact that they convey hope. By looking into this picture you can feel the emotions of faith and hope through the serenity and intense beauty and simple calmness. That is what the poem is all about interpretting and revealing.
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Poetry #1
JabberwockyLewis Carroll[Rev. Charles Dodgson]'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesdid gyre and gimble in the wabe.All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe."Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunthe frumious Bandersnatch!"He took his vorpal sword in hand:Long time the maxome foe he sought-So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood a while in thought.As in uffish thought he stood,The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came.One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack.He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back."Has thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!He chortled in his joy.'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.


I like this poem because it is very upbeat and positive. It is obvious;y written in a different dialect or different language and grammar than I am used to, but that merely makes it all the more interesting to me. It begins with a warning with "Beware of the Jabberwock!". This strikes a certain anxiety in the reader to find out what this fear is for. Obviously the audience does not know what a "Jabberwock" is and why to be afraid of it, but this pushes the reader to continue to find out why this oject, being, or stae should be feared. Fear inflames curiousity in people.This made this particular poem interesting to me. I do not like being scared, but I like the anxiety of fear to a certain extent. This poem also utilizes many different aspects of imagery that make it interesting to me. The poet uses onomatopoeias to stand out to the reader and draw attention. I like the dynamics of this poem and the way that these souns roll off the tongue to the rythm of this poem.