Just to add to my last post about my new niece Elleanor.
On Sunday my brother asked me to be the Godmother...I'm so excited!!!!

I have to share this exciting news to the world...

On the 28th of October, 2008
at 11.22am
I became aunty for the first time
to a beautiful baby girl,
Elleanor.

This is all thanks to my brother and his fiancee, the proud parents of Elleanor (who is actaully named after the car from "Gone in 60 Seconds"... my typical brother).
Sorry no pictures to ( Read more... )

I have chosen "Literature Entry Week 12" as My best entry for the second half of this semester:

http://carmel-dobson.livejournal.com/2008/10/23/

For this week’s entry I would like to do a summary for Blake and what I have learnt this semester, and share a number of quotes from the semester which I feel are very important or have left some kind of mark on me. I also have two more Blake-inspired poems to share.

"it was a sudden awakening into a totally deeper real universe than I'd been ( Read more... )

For the next two weeks my entries are going to be poetry which has been inspired by Blake… just as something a bit different. This week there are three, and I have two in the making for next week.

The first poem is based on the quote: “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God” from There Is No Natural Religion (pg 7).

I saw God today

I saw God ( Read more... )

This is a poem I wrote... it's not really related to Blake, but I was actually trying to ryhme for a change because I don't tend to use ryhme in my poems. I have been working on a few poems which have been inspired by Blake but I haven't finished yet.... They will be for next week's entry on Blake.

Without You…

The TV is blaring,

Yet I can’t hear a ( Read more... )

For this week's entry I am commenting on an entry by a fellow livejournaler.

I found this poem at the followong URL: http://mattyd2.livejournal.com/

Here is the poem:

Dancing Dolphins

Three miles out to sea
Been wettin the lines
Trying to catch what is free
On the shore the distant pines
Sing a story like clemintine's

Sparkling bright  the great blue ( Read more... )

Mary

In the tutorial this week we looked at the poem Mary.

This poem is showing a woman who is being victimised by society, which emphasises Blake’s belief that women are victims in society, which is also evident in The Vision of the Daughters of Albion. The poem follows the story of a woman, who starts off being admired by society, as someone who is ( Read more... )

Auguries of Innocence

I quite like this poem, despite not being able to understand most of it; maybe it’s the wonderful insights I do understand or maybe it’s just the riddle nature of the poem, but either way it’s a very clever poem filled with meaning, and sums up nearly everything Blake stood for. I’m just going to pick out a few of the quotes ( Read more... )

The Ecchoing Green

Similar to the Nurses Song, I really liked this poem; I found it to be an enjoyable read, and even had similar insights to that of the Nurses Song in Songs of Innocence.
To me, the “Ecchoing Green” represents a place of joy and, particularly, freedom.
The first stanza is a welcoming of the new day, full of joy and happiness, as ( Read more... )