The Imaginary Invalid

That was so funny, I could not stop laughing. There was so many items in the play that was quite true and thats what made it funny.Everything in the play was an exaggerated response to real life situations. The people in the play seemed to act out what I think. It is simple, or is it. I must admit I felt really bad for the doctors son after the red head told him off. He did not seem so bad just misunderstood. Anyways thats beside the point. Everyone in the play seemed like they didn't really care about anyone but there self. Then again the father and daughter seemed to care much of each other. Maybe I just can not think because I am tired? That could be it.

I also seemed to pick up this theme, but I do believe it may be wrong, Many problems that we make out to be huge is surprisingly simple to correct. I am going to bed, I don't feel so good.

Blogging

I find that the blogging helps me understand better what i have read for the class. Usually I do not know what I am about to write I just do it. i find myself thinking and writing all at the same time. I find that as I write I sort through Ideas and possibilities that could obtain to what i have read about, So in a way I am blabbing on to myself more so than my readers. This type of thinking it through really helps me obtain though provoking sayings which add quite a bit of class to my paper if I may say so myself.

I whole concept of blogging is great because in a normal class most people only think about the work at hand in the class, no where else. This allows us to learn to think out of the class, and i find it quite stimulating. I have also noticed that I have retained more from the class by blogging. This form and method of teaching and learning is quite effective in our circle of students. At first it was a little confusing but once we caught on it was one of the best experiences I have had so far from the university. I can't wait to go the Prof Corrigans class to see what he has for us today.

I must be quite frank with you, at first I thought that the class was just part of some social experiment but this form of teaching and learning is in fact Genius. I say Genius because it involves us reading, discussing, listening, thinking, blogging and the occasional mini field trip, by the time that we have finished all of these steps the material and lesson is so far deep into our skulls I am sure that we will never forget it. I never thought that I would say this but the skills that I learn in my Intro to Lit class are skills that are to be carried throughout our entire life. he teaches us to think out side the box and to think deep, deeper than deep so far deep that deep looks like the surface of something much grander. Peace out hommies.

Cemetary Trip

I am ashamed in myself. When I was approaching the Cemetery I thought about ditching the whole thing and just forget about it, but I made myself go back and turn into the cemetery. I drove around the cemetery very slow for a long while and starred at the tomb stones. I almost broke down and cried. I was lost in a sea of people and yet I was the only one there. I was thinking about a recent statistic that I heard, only 14% of Americans attend church on a regular basis and less than that are truly saved. I did the math in my head to see how many of the tomb stones held the body of a person who had a condemned soul. Then to sit there and stare at the graves knowing many of them would never see there family's again but be burned in the eternal fires of Hell forever. They would never laugh, sing, or see the wonderful savoir. I was over whelmed with sadness and fear for my neighbor. Recently we talked about truth no matter the costs. I prayed to God to reveal the truth to me about myself and other aspects of my life no matter the cost. Going to the cemetery opened up my eyes to a truth. The truth that I look at everyone and everything like we will all live here forever, I completely ignore death, but isn't that what most of us do? I had the truth suffocating me to no end at the cemetery and for that I am grateful. I now have a fresh look on life and death. I will no longer sit by why my fellow man starves from the truth. I feel like it is my job no matter what to share with my neighbor the truth no matter the cost. Eternity is a long time and I don't what anyone to spend it in agony. Thank you for your time, I apologize if you were expecting a reflection on the Lilacs poem but I felt lead to share from my heart today,

Thank again Bobby Lynn Henigsmith II

Lilacs: Part II

When I started reading this it was with a new mindset, one of that was not present before the first posting, but now with me. I read this poem now of he mindset of death and war. When I started the 10th and 11th parts really stood out to me for there beautiful coloration or words, I could literally see the winds meeting at the site where they had died and the perfume, which I found to be interesting. I am not so sure if she really dumped her perfume on the grave or if she hung around for so long her sent was left on the grave, kinda like when your girlfriend gives you a hug and you smell like her.

I was confused on the fact that she is mourning the death of her loved one and yet she talks more about the land and scenery than her loved one. Maybe death is not the most important item to take from this piece of art. Maybe, just maybe there is a much deeper importance than the loss of a loved one. Could it be something to do with the land? And what about the lilac? What does it mean? Well I will tell you. I have done some research and found that the Lilac is a flower that symbolizes (first emotions). So maybe this poem has nothing to do about a death or even land for that matter, but could it be the first emotions one scenes when faced with something so beautiful, destructive, innocent and exhausting all at the same time?

When we get to passages 15 and 16 we experience the fury of battle, then almost instantly we are brought back to visions of nature and then nature and death combine in almost a glorious fashion. During all of this she makes the comment "Lilac with heart shaped leaves," this could be another indication of the emotion she might have been feeling all this time.

I personally give this poem two thumbs way way up, read it baby...You know you liked that.

Lilacs

I have read this poem over and over again but I find it hard to understand. Maybe after I get the chance to talk about it more in class I will better understand the meaning behind it.

As I was reading the poem I first thought that it was talking about nature than over time I find it more and more convincing that maybe it isn't all that simple. Besides in Prof. Coriggan's class it never is, lol. Then i came to the part of the poem that talked about teh soul and then after that ,bodies of young men from the war piled on the floor. This poem is frustrating for i don't know how to come at it in my reading. Help me!

How to Read a Poem

I love the first statement of this article. The writer talks about how when you first come to a poem that you do not come to it with the intentions of cracking a code or understanding it the first time or that the poem means whatever you want it to mean. I have had personal situations in the past to where someone told me that my poem did not make sense because they could not figure it out. Or they would did too deep into it and find a meaning that simply was not the meaning. I apologize if I seem to rant and rage but i am, this is annoying!

I also like how the writer says that the text can speak to us through the style of the writing. Like the Bible when something is repeated in poetry it is because it is being emphasized. Some of these styles can also be as follows. arrangement, sound and rhythm. All of these are important in the writing of poetry and one must pay close attention to these too.

When i read the Red Wheelbarrow I was astonished at how simple it was, but then I read the passage below it and I thought to myself, "could it really be much deeper and intellectual than that at which I give it credit for"? I afraid so. I love poems for the simple fact that they can be simple but yet far more complicated for the plebeian mind.

when I read the story Diving into the wreck I tried to read it before looking at the title and at first I was somewhat lost but found my way towards the end so then I reread it with this new knowledge and found it to be freeing. I myself have dived down deep into the murky blue and found myself at peace, you breath slower and your mind relaxes. You feel the warmth and cold of the water beating against your body and you see the sun shining through the surface. Just like the diver I some times forget what I go there for. I could relate allot to this story. i could also see myself as the ship. Now I am on a steady course to fulfill my destiny and one day I to will rest at the bottom of the earth.

Joel

Wow, their was a lot in that small book but I believe that I got a bottom line gist of it. It almost sounded like Joel was speaking about whats to come in the last days. he mentioned that in the last days the world would be in chaos. Then the lord will come back and the Lord would avenge his people. I thought that the last part of that was cool because we don't ever think of the Lord as an avenging God but I guess he is, thats pretty awesome. I would venture to say that the avenging part would be explained by the whole righteous anger thing. I understand some times people just got to learn the hard way. Ouch y:)

This Post is a little harder for me for I like to go off on thinking sprees and try to figure out what they are talking about, but it is the Bible and we are all thought it all our life's and it is harder for me to get to much out of passages like these for I like to take the solid facts and information and calculate it in my brain, and I don't want to go on a thinking tangent and think of something off the wall and be in trouble for some radical idea so I will end with this. Don't mess with God's people and you wont get a Jesus wupp'n.

I loved how we got the opportunity to read the different Little Red Riding Hood stories. I agree with the author of the passage, you shouldn't always come right out and say the theme or moral of the stories. I love sitting down and letting my brain wonder, and trying to figure it out for myself. i enjoy figuring out the moral or theme more so than reading the passage. I personally would say that it takes away from the story.

When we read passages of scripture or Literature everyone gets the main message but then on a personal level we like to take it to the next level. In class we got the opportunity to say what the story The Baggage They Carried said to us. Everyone had different opinions and ideas the story and what the story said to them personally. I would go as far to say that every story even Little Red Riding hood has morals and lessons that are hidden from even the author, but thats O.K. because we all come at each story with a different looking glass than others and thats what makes literature so interesting. interesting in the fact that you can take one story and have fifty people read it and then have fifty different themes.

I would like to have a social experiment where we take a passage have the class read it and then ask each person what the theme was to them and then see if each person has a different theme, and then take a different group of students tell them the theme and then have them read the story and see if they can find anything different than the original theme. I bet that the second group wouldn't be able to think of anything new or very little at least. I hypothesize that once we are told a solution we only see that solution as it, but if we are given freedom to explore possibility's I am sure that many solutions can and would be found. BOOM baby.

The Things They Carried

This was one of the best articles that I have read so far in the class. I love the fact that it is so bold and personal all at the same time. I tried to figure out who the narrator was but couldn't get a name, I just presume that it was a soldier in the group. This passage of writing reminds me of the Dirty Dozen, all of them had their baggage, physically and mentally. It showed how our baggage can get in the way of our goals and missions, like when Lavender was shot in the head because Cross was more focused on the woman of his dreams rather than on the mission. So many times in this life we focus on the false reality rather than on reality itself. This is where many of us fall. For example many musicians dream of a talent scout finding them and revealing them to the world someday, but in all actuality that does not happen. You must get out there and make your self popular. Many talented musicians are never discovered and many nobody's becomes somebody's. you must realize that our dreams are not always reality. If you don't get out there and work hard as a musician than all your dreams of making it big will never happen.

I also respect cross for doing the right thing at the end of the passage. He gets rid of his false thoughts of that girl and he puts his mind back into reality, because in all reality she will not love him and they will not be together. He realizes this and puts her behind him and moves on to what will really count.

Like the men in this passage we all carry baggage lets just make sure it is worth carrying.

Frankie and Johnny

Death and Love

All throughout history one main theme in almost any literary work whether it be written, played out on stage or even spoken by the word of mouth has been love and death. We see this very clearly in Greek mythology, English playwrights, and American songs and movies. These two forces cannot seem to separated no matter the circumstances. Even in Disney movies we see the heroes live happily ever after while the Villon dies in a battle to the death. It almost seems like these two forces have haunted man kind for centuries, the mysteries of true love and the dark void of death.

About Frankie and Johnny

In 1927 there was a man by the name of Frank Crumit, now Mr.Crumit was a performer during this time who would often sing an American classic Frankie and Johnny. Now Frankie and Johnny is a story of a man named Johnny and a young lady by the name of Frankie who at this time are a couple. Now Johnny sneaks behind Frankie’s back and steals some kiss’s from a girl named Nelly Bly. Frankie gets mad and shoots her lover Johnny. Johnny dies and now Frankie is sad and regrets ever shooting Johnny. Frankie soon dies in an electric chair.

Setting

This is a classic case of red neck love. The story takes place probably back in the old west. Around the same time period you would see Sherriff Matt Dylan riding around with his deputy Festus. At this moment in time many men would end up cheating on their ladys while hanging out at the saloon. Most of the men would go their after working all day, it was a place to kick back and have some fun, but for Johnny that was too much fun. He might have found himself a waitress girl and being drunk he might have not been in his right mind when he took that first kiss. Who knows, maybe with beer goggles on Nelly Bly rally looked like Frankie, to bad Johnny never got asked.

Why

This song was originally meant just to be for entertainment but I see much more hear that one may learn from. One may take form this a better understanding for women with guns. On a more serious note one may notice how sacred a relationship was in the old day. In the world of today if a similar scenario happened the Frankie in this situation would have shot Nelly Bly and taken back Johnny, or shot both of them and went on with their life. This song show us how it is not Nelly Bly’s fault but Johnny’s. Nelly Bly probably never knew Johnny was in a relationship, if she would have known, in that day of age she would have most likely turned him down faster than a cat out of water. If there is anybody going through it out their please don’t kick both of their butts, make friends with the Nelly Bly and do twice the damage in one shot, just kidding.

Funny But Sad

The music in Frankie and Johnny is that of a merry song, but the words express quite an opposite approach. Professor Corrigan once said, “Literature is not just to be read, it is to be lived and breathed every single day”. To take it back to the song now, to inspire great though art from a literary stand point needs to be taken to the next level, this means it must bring it all back to reality. Doesn’t the song Frankie and Johnny do this? It takes and shows one how real this life can be. One moment one is having fun and the next moment the other person in the relation ship is so torn up that they go off the deep end and ends up killing the one they love. The story itself is very sad in all actuality but one cannot help but laugh at the truth of it all. There are Frankie and Johnny’s all over the world. When one hears about a story like that it sounds hilarious, but when one lives it, it becomes a very sad story. This song shows that the world portrays pain to be funny, so as Christians next time one hears about a Frankie and Johnny don’t laugh pray for them.

Bible Reference

God has seen quite a lot of Frankie and Johnny’s in his time, instead of laughing at the world he sent his son to help us. Why don’t the church stop laughing at the world?