poem rived

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What is love? Love is both a good and a bad thing that can happen to every one of us.  This great poem by R.Nathaniel shows us that It is a wonderful thing to be in love, but it’s very hurt when you have to let it go. Truly, a person can be depressed when he or she have to let love go, and for the author of the poem Sometimes it is not easy at all. In this eight lined poem, the author show his deep sadness of missing someone he loves through every words he shows. On the surface, this poem expresses the desire of the author. In the first two lines of the poem, the author thinks about his ex-girlfriend a lot as he counts the hours he thinks of her. He found himself wanting to be with her as he thinks of her. Those lines show an image of a guy who is still deeply in love as the author says, “I count the hours I think of you.” This indicates that the author loves someone, but he could only “think” of that person.

In the next line, “And found myself wanting,” indicates that the author and the one he loves are no longer together. The verb “wanting” in this line shows the desire of the author as he wants to be with the one he loved. However, from those two lines, it indicates that the author can’t be with his lover as he can only think about her and want to be with her. In the next two lines, they describe the wish of the author, as he wants to be someone else to be close to the one he loves. “I wish I was in his shoes,” this sentence shows that he wants to be someone else, and the author specifically says “his” shoes. If this poem was to be given to the author’s lover, the word “his” would indicate that the person that the author loves is now with someone else. The author wants to be that guy, the guy who now has his lover’s heart, and wants to be close with her. He writes, “And found myself coming home,” to show that he wants to go “home,” which is next to the person the author loves. The most depressing lines of the poem are expressed in the next two lines. The author calls out his lover’s name at night but without any answer. The image of the author, sitting in the dark, calling out the name of the one he loves, is extremely sad and sorrowful. Through putting in the word “vacant,” he reveals the emptiness inside his soul as he desperately calls her name in the dark. The image of emptiness and loneliness surrounding the author makes the readers feel sad for him, for the person that has lost his love.
            The depressing image of a man who constantly thinks about his lover, to be someone else just to be next to his lover and having emptiness in his soul create this heartbroken poem. Finally, in the next two lines, he repeats the first line of the poem to show his needs to love for that person. With the finishing sentence, “And found it was all the time,” combining with the previous one, “I count the hours I think of you,” the author wants to convey that he thinks about his lover “all the time,” letting the readers to sympathize with him.

           

The poem has only one stanza and 8 lines, but the author doing a very good job showing his feeling. Showing the love that he have for his girlfriends and how much he love her. I don’t have the very clear rhyme, but when the reader read it, still sound very interesting. The poem have the pefect meter of 8,7,8,7,8,7,8,7,8. The thing that I love about this poem is the author uses a lot of figurative language to make the poem more interesting and make the poem alive. The author using the consonance he repeat a lot of sentence for example like “ I count the hour think of you “ “ And found myself wanting” To show how much he has suffer when she left him to go with other boy. He also uses metaphor “ I wish I was his shoes, and found myself coming home”. He, which that he can be in her ex-girlfriend, boyfriend shoe. So he can bring give the girls friend back to him.

The reason why I choose this poem is because is have a very deep meaning behind it. By reading this poem you can make a lot of different meaning and the situation that happen to the author. In the end we don’t know what actuary happen to the author. We even cannot guess the author is a men or a girl or we know is his ex-girlfriend is dating other man. After reading this people why have a lot of emotional and what to know what really happen to the author. My solution is just one of the many situation that people can think of what really happen to the author. 

           

 https://youtu.be/NidSoZ5u414

Thesis statement.

This great poem by R.Nathaniel show us that It is a wonderful thing to be in love, but it’s very sad when you have to let it go. 

peer review.

What is he good at :

The author is doing good job of understanding the story. He know what is the poem talk about. The introduction is grabbing people attention, he so a lot of his own personal feeling for the poem and the deeply meaning of the poem, it make me want to keep reading to see more of the feeling that he had , and what is deeply meaning of the poem. He also do good job of analysis the poem he talk about the lines, the stanza. He also include the rhyme scheme of the poem. When I read his easy I feel that he understand about the author a lot.  He can feel the mentality inside the author, and it like he can feel the same feeling with the author. The reason why he can feel the same way with the author is because he had been in that situation, the same way that the author did. He had an argument with his girlfriend everyday. He feel very tired of it, and after the fight he always feel very bad he just want to stay story to his girlfriend and show how much he love his girlfriend. The thing I love the most about his paper is he organize very logic and smart it very clear and easy to understand, he also analyst every singer stanza in the poem.

What is he need to improve :

In my opinions, I think he talks too much about his own personal feeling and focus a litter bit to much about analyst the poem. He should take more about the author feeling too. Like what is the author feeling when he/she wrote this poem. What make the author into this situation to write this poem? Maybe he can even found out the author is the he or she by analyst mentality of the author. Also is seem like he didn’t have a very clear thesis statement or I think he don’t even have one. He needs to put the thesis statement. And I think he need to include more the relationship between real life and the poem. I saw you give some example but just be more clear about that. And use more hook, because right now you don't have a very clear thesis stantment so maybe you use more hook instead of a clearl thesis. So when the people read your essay they don't get broad. If you have more hook the reader will want to keep reading to see want happen, because your hook make them want to read more and more.

theater review

On Friday may 20, 2016. I had a chance to see the last performance at Cheshire academy black box this year. The performance calls the “ comedy tonight ” is an mix of skits and songs.  In my opinions the “ comedy tonight ” is the best performance I have saw all year compare to the other 2 I watch before in earlier this year. One of the reasons is because comedy is the type of theater performance that I love the most. Because I like the way that they make me laugh. In my free time I always watching comedy but in Vietnamese. This is my first time watching it in English.   After 2 hours watching the performance, I think to myself that I have not waste my Friday night for this. The show was very wonderful and funny. I like the way that in different skit is the different story, and is had been organize in a very smart way. Each and every story is very funny is not just make me laugh a lot, is also make other people laugh too. The skit the I love the most is the “ morning meeting gone wrong” that is the skit that make me laugh the most. In the skit show again the mooring meeting sense and the character of some of the faculty in the school.  They not just doing the good job of acting out character of the faculty member they also do it in the funny ways. I also saw myself on it, because I always make a mistake between Ms. Minahan and Ms. Monahan.  And when I ever I said “ bye Ms. Monahan “ She always said “ is Minhahan. The performance not just make me laugh a lot,  somehow is also make me watch to get in the Cheshire academy theater team, because I what to make people laugh too. But I affect that I cannot do good like they did. I can see that the team have to spend a lot of time in this.

poem

    What is love? Love is both a good and a bad thing that can happen to every one of us.  This great poem by R.Nathaniel show us that It is a wonderful thing to be in love, but it’s very sad when you have to let it go. Truly, a person can be depressed when he or she have to let love go, and for the author of the poem Sometimes it is not easy at all. In this eight lined poem, the author show his deep sadness of missing someone he loves through every words he shows. On the surface, this poem expresses the desire of the author. In the first two lines of the poem, the author thinks about his ex-girlfriend a lot as he counts the hours he thinks of her. He found himself wanting to be with her as he thinks of her. Those lines shows an image of a guy who is still deeply in love as the author says “I count the hours I think of you.” This indicates that the author loves someone, but he could only “think” of that person. In the next line, “And found myself wanting,” indicates that the author and the one he loves are no longer together. The verb “wanting” in this line shows the desire of the author as he wants to be with the one he loved. However, from those two lines, it indicates that the author can’t be with his lover as he can only think about her and want to be with her. In the next two lines, they describe the wish of the author, as he wants to be someone else to be close to the one he loves. “I wish I was in his shoes,” this sentence shows that he wants to be someone else, and the author specifically says “his” shoes. If this poem was to be given to the author’s lover, the word “his” would indicate that the person that the author loves is now with someone else. The author wants to be that guy, the guy who now has his lover’s heart, and wants to be close with her. He writes, “And found myself coming home,” to show that he wants to go “home,” which is next to the person the author loves. The most depressing lines of the poem are expressed in the next two lines. The author calls out his lover’s name at night but without any answer. The image of the author, sitting in the dark, calling out the name of the one he loves, is extremely sad and sorrowful. Through putting in the word “vacant,” he reveals the emptiness inside his soul as he desperately calls her name in the dark. The image of emptiness and loneliness surrounding the author makes the readers feel sad for him, for the person that has lost his love.
     The depressing image of a man who constantly thinks about his lover, to be someone else just to be next to his lover and having emptiness in his soul create this heartbroken poem. Finally, in the next two lines, he repeats the first line of the poem to show his needs to love for that person. With the finishing sentence, “And found it was all the time,” combining with the previous one, “I count the hours I think of you,” the author wants to convey that he thinks about his lover “all the time,” letting the readers to sympathize with him

Poetry poject

http://youtu.be/GFSD8NC43Rw

Maybe I will use a emotional and slow tone to read this poem. But sometime high and sometime down.
moonlight sonata by Beethoven will be my music because the tone of the music is also very slow and emotional

R.Nathaniel.

10/5/2016

I count the hours I think of you
And found myself wanting
…I wish I was in his shoes
And found myself coming home
…I call your name out at night
And found my vacant soul near
…I count the hours I think of you
And found it was all the time

Found Poem

The Cheshire Academy experience is full and active; living and learning takes place not only in the classroom, but also in the art studios, dormitories, dining commons, on the athletic fields, and even on the footpaths that wind around campus. The Academy is a tight-knit and dynamic environment that offers a community rich in diversity. Fellow students become friends, teammates, and confidants that often develop into decade-long friendships.

Poem
The Cheshire Academy experience is full and active
living and learning takes place not only in the classroom
but also in the art studios, dormitories, dining commons,
on the athletic fields environments
that offers a community rich in diversity.
Make students become friends, teammate
And decade-long friendships.

Found poem

Dorms at Cheshire Academy are more than just a place to sleep and study. These residential homes are also a place to unwind, study, talk to friends, listen to music, play games and find time to be alone. Living together on campus helps students and faculty to bond and forge lifelong connections. Friendships built here continue long after graduation.


Dorms at Cheshire Academy
 are more than just a place to sleep and study
These residential homes to
study, talk to friends, listen to music,
play games and find time to be alone
Living together on campus
Help bulid friendship here
continue long after graduate

Poem

  Spring Poem
winter pass away
spring comes with a blue sky
with little sunshine

blog due

        
                A bed of Clouds 

© Ashley L. May 

Published on February 2006

I sleep in the clouds, dream in the sky,
I'll keep dreaming as life passes me by,
I think my dreams keep me sane,
I dream of happiness, a life without pain,
some people say I'm stuck in this place,
and I'll never go anywhere,
but in my dreams I've already been there,
I know some day I'll have to wake up,
but I feel the real world is more like a nightmare,
I'm safe in my closed eye wonderland,
this poem goes to all the dreamers that understand,
no matter what they say...
keep your dreams but don't dream your life away 

The poem was really grab my attention. The author used a words that is very clear and easy to understand, that was the first thing that grab my attention. The author also use a lot rhyme in the poem. For example like ( Sky- By ), ( sane-pain ), ( wonderland- understand ). Its sound very beautiful when you read the poem out loud. The main reason that make me love this poem, and why its stand out from other is the meaning of the poem is very deep. Some poem when I finish reading I didn't get anything from it, I suddenly forget about it. For this poem after I finished reading it, is make me stop and think for a moment, thing about what is that deep meaning mean, and I think somehow the author is taking about me. It make me cannot forget it after reading the poem. The poem talk about people dream when they sleep. Those dream a very beautiful, a dream full of happiness, a life without pain. It make people don't want to wake up, because these life was to beautiful in the dream. They feel save when they in the dream. They affect that when they wake up they have to face the suffer that they having, because everybody have something that they are suffer in their life. They know that those dream will never last for long, but no matter what people say, they need those dream to make, their life better. The reason why I said I feel like the poem is talk about me because sometime when I have a bad day, when everything is just not on my side I choose to close my to because I think when I close my eyes I can forget the real world, forget those thing that I have to face. And than when I wake up I feel like a was having a great start again. That is the reason why this poem for me stand out of all other poem.

The Opal Dream Cave
In an opal dream cave I found a fairy:
Her wings were frailer than flower petals,
Frailer far than snowflakes.
She was not frightened, but poised on my finger,
Then delicately walked into my hand.
I shut the two palms of my hand together
And help her prisoner
I carried her out of the opal cave
Then opened my hands.
Firs she become thistledown,
Then a mote in a sunbeam,
Then- nothing at all.
Empty now is my opal dream cave.

I choose this poem is because this poem is about the Opal dream and we just read a novel about it. That is the first thing that grab my attention. I like this poem because the author use a lot of beautiful words that catch people attention. When I finish reading it there is a lot of meaning the poem, make me think about it for a while, not forget it right after I read it. The poem is about how hard for people to find opal, but people still dream about it, and what ti get it

Reflect on creative project

Minh Anh Duong

English II ( IS )

Ms. Guarino

25.4.2016

   

                                         Reflect on creative project.

         In This project, I’m in the same group with Jerry and Leo.  Together we have decided to create a broad game, that relate to the story in novel. We borrowed the idea of the game called Saboteur 2, and we created and remake it to make it more relate to the novel, but we still kept the idea of the game.

         The main idea of the game is; the class will be dividing into the side. The one will be on the good side, one will be on the bad side, and one will be Kellyanne. There will be a lot of character is on the good side, only two will be on the bad side, and one will be Kellyanne, That mean there will be a lot of good character in the class and they will find again the other two. In this situation the good people is Ashmol family member expect Kellyanne. The bad people will be Old Sild and his friend. The Role of the Good people is they have to find the opal that we already hide, by connecting the road together to make their way to opal. The role of the bad people is they have to stop good people from taking other Opal by destroying the road or use Punishment by using the action card if in the end if the good people cannot find the opal the bad people will win. Kellyanne will be the special character. The person who is Kellyanne is not finding opal or stops the good people finding opal. Kellyanne role is she has to let the bad and good people to finding Pobby and Dingan. So we can all learn form the story that for Kellyanne Pobby and Dingan is more important than opal. She wants everybody looking for Pobby and Dingan and believe that they were real.

         The reason why we choose this to be a final project is because we are all love board game. Its we felt more interesting while we doing the project. We were having different role every time. Sometime me and Jerry cut all the note card for Leo to draw, sometime Jerry cut the note card for Me and Leo to draw. We rotated the role every time; so one person didn’t get broad of doing the same role again and again. In the end, we are very pound of our self that we are already finish the project on the, even though we had a lot of work to do. In my opinions our project come out very well. We change the original game; to our own game to make it similar and after playing the game people can learn about the novel. I think that is our strengths that we have a lot of idea. Our Weaknesses is the drawing part. The part where took us a very long time to finish drawing, and as you can see our drawing was not very good, is even hard to understood what we draw, so we really scared that people didn’t know what we are tried to draw. We threw a lot of note card away because we fail to draw what we wanted to draw. The hardest thing to draw was the character card, especially Pobby and Dingan because they are imaginary. So we have to also use our Imaginary to draw Pobby and Dingan, and the road card was very easy to drew.   

         After all in this project I learned a lot of thing. For example the group work is very important. We have to talk to each other so that we can agree on each other idea; it was very hard to choose who idea is better. I learned that every member of the group is very important, if one person did something wrong, the group is in a lot of trouble. So I learned that we should respect and listen to your group member, because is better to doing thing with more than one people. If I have to do this project alone I will not be able to finish on time. Finally the thing that we are all learn is that we can not draw.