The knitting symbolizes the beginning and the end, alpha and omega, the start and the finish. In Greek mythology there is life-thread spun which is measured and cut by fate. Eurydice is the one who started the weaving process and I believe she might of been representing fate. Because through out the whole story she literally did nothing but sit ( Read more... )

Complete Destruction, by Carlos Williams is a poem focusing on a lose-lose situation scenario. It's about someone or a group of people who on an icy day buried their dead cat, took the cats box and set it on fire killing some fleas, and any fleas that escaped died in the cold and frigid weather. Even when you think it's done, it's not. That's what ( Read more... )

A really cool apocalyptic poem called "Fire and Ice" was written by Robert Frost (no pun intended ( Read more... )

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty was a pretty good story I thought. It does have that "white people can only hate or pity me" feel to it like so many freaking books do, but I guess that's the time period where there was no in between ( Read more... )

Catullus wrote a short little poem dubbed "Poem 85 ( Read more... )

A Dolls House was a novel written by Ibsen, and I hate her because of it. I didn't think it was all the great of a story anyways, pretty boring and almost humiliating. All the characters are extremely unlikable, even though they can slightly be related too. All I could decipher from this antagonizing tale was that there was a weird woman who acted ( Read more... )

Because I've watched David Tennant play the Doctor in Dr. Who, I couldn't take David playing Hamlet seriously. Nor could I understand him. Hamlets character in the movie stood out so much more than the Hamlet in the book, this being mostly the actors fault. I am not complaining at all, I thought it was funny David (Hamlet) didn't blend in with ( Read more... )

The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Garcia Marquez, was an interesting little short story that was amusing at the time of reading it (not so much re-reading it now...). It's about a very old man with enormous wings who is found outside of a "humble" home, broken and beaten and left in the mud. No one helps him, they feed him crap, treat him ( Read more... )

Before I get started, I am not discriminating nor do I have anything against the more "sprinkles and glitter" way of life. But apparently this is the kind of thing that comes to mind when I read A Rose for Emily ever since our little in school discussion ( Read more... )

So yeah..."A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" by Jonathan Safran Foer, was kind of interesting. I'm sure the conversation the people are having is easy to decode, but I honestly don't want to have to work out a riddle to understand a story. I'd be very upset if I had to live in a world where we spoke in code too each other. Oh wait, I ( Read more... )