1.       Reflection:

In the poem “Icarus” by Don McKay, the Icarus character seems to be bent on making his flight happen no matter the consequence. He made the choice to experiment with his flight and therefore is not sorry of the result which the poem makes reference to. “We do not find him doing penance, writing out the golden mean for all
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Reflection:

In the poem 'The Pomegranate" by Eavan Boland, the author draws parallels from the story of Demeter and Persephone to give confront with the difficult time of a daughter moving away from her mother into adulthood. “I was Ceres then and I knew winter was in store for every leaf on every tree on that road. Was inescapable for each one ( Read more... )

2.       Looking ahead:

In the story “Boys and girls” the author presents a metaphor when referring to the fox pens in her family’s property. “The foxes inhabited a world my father made for them. It was surrounded by a high guard fence, like a medieval town, with a gate that was padlocked at night. Along the streets of this town were ranged ( Read more... )

Part 1; Reflection:
I have found the tea paragraph writing technique most helpful in organizing information in the essays. This defiantly helped with the flow of my paragraphs. The study of binary in analyzing literature did change the way I look at the ideas in a story. The analysis of these opposites has helped me create bigger pools of ideas in ( Read more... )

Reflection:     MacLeod’s narrator uses direct intertextuality to reference the mother to a character from another story, to help the reader understand look and personality. The mother is visualized as: “tall and dark and powerfully energetic. In later years she reminded me of the women of Thomas Hardy, particularly Eustacia Vye, in a physical way ( Read more... )

A: Reflection: The narrator conveys a sense that she is capable and does perform tasks of a male expected at her age. She performs the duties better than her younger brother and she has a maturity of the situation to be subjective of her family’s life of fox farming and some other realities that are life. “In boys and girls” there seems to be a ( Read more... )

Part 1: I believe this poem can be considered literature; I’m hesitant to call it great literature. The poem attempts to convey a meaningful message in a playful way starting like a childhood related rhyme, then moving to a somber adult tone. The theme stays constant. Strangely, I recently watched a TV show called Weeds where a long time seen ( Read more... )