Due: 1/26

Having the Halo scenery and the song “Mad World” adds something to the poem’s meaning. It gives visuals to words; the Poem is very short so there isn’t much to work with to know what the author was thinking when he wrote this poem, but adding the visuals it gives you one of the many possible meanings. Personally I enjoyed it, maybe because yesterday I saw the movie “Donnie Darko” and at the end when Donnie goes back in time to kill himself they play the “Mad World” song. So it reminded me of the movie “Donnie Darko”.

Having the Halo scenery and the “Mad World” song caused me to think the meaning of the poem is about war. The pointless repetition of war caused the halo guy to commit suicide. The song “Mad World” says “worn out places, worn out faces…going nowhere…drown my sorrow, no tomorrow…the dreams where I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” to me this shows repetitive and boring routine and dying is his escape from it. While the Halo scenery portrays war and the ability to just restart the game again showing the repetitive. But when I read just the poem itself with out the halo or song, it caused me to think that he was committing suicide not for his selfish needs but because the river wanted a kiss from him, showing that he had others in mind when he committed suicide.

Poetry in pop culture: click to see the video
THE SIMPSONS - The Raven (Treehouse of Horror I) - 4 Translation(s) | dotSUB
In one of the Simpson’s Halloween specials they read “The Raven” but reenacted with Simpson’s characters. This makes the poem a little easier to interpret, there are some things that you are supposed to get out of reading it, but are given to you if you see it. This includes tone; tone is a very important thing in a poem so having it given to you makes it easier to interpret.

Hw for Thrusday Jan. 14

The poem “All Watched Over in Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan can be easily interpreted in two different ways. The poem basically says that he is wishing of a time in the near future, where we build computers smart enough to take over our jobs. These computers will take care of us so that we can return to nature and they will also be part of nature. The discrepancy is whether this is an argument towards technology or against it.
I can imagine a world where we are all lazing around doing nothing because technology is doing everything. Maybe as Brautigan says we might go back to nature, we might get so bored of doing nothing that education becomes nothing and we all live happily back in nature.
Or maybe Brautigan is making an argument towards anti-technology. Maybe he thinks that technology is going to get out of hand and spin out of control that we are going to make ourselves obsolete that computers will kick us out of society and have to go back to nature. Or maybe computers are just going to control us subliminally.
I think it is more of an anti-technology type of poem. To me the tone sounds sort of sarcastic; he sees this world that does not look appealing to him, and there is nothing he can do to stop us from going there. There are these phrases that are in parenthesis that sound like if he is being brainwashed or it could be the voice of someone eager to see the next advancement in technology.
Upon some more thinking maybe he imagines a world like the matrix; where we are hooked up to a computer our brains live in a cybernetic world. Then the computer just takes care of us there. This might make more sense seeing the word choice; “cybernetic meadow, cybernetic forest, cybernetic ecology, programming harmony, where we are all free of our labors, watched over by machines of loving grace”.

assignment #1 for eng.3

Upon reading the poem “Design” by Robert Frost, I noticed that there were three things that can be used to explain what the poem is about. First I want to explain a few things about the poem. The Poem is an Italian sonnet, meaning it has fourteen lines, that is separated into two groups. The first eight lines are usually used to set up the scene or question; the six lines that come after give the Volta, a turn in events, or some philosophy.

In the poem “Design” the first part talks about a white spider, on a white Heal-all flower, and the spider is carrying a white moth. (I drew pictures of these things because I was bored. It was not necessary for the assignment.) So the poem is basically talking about God and his design of the world. How if god had designed this world he made it full of irony. This is clearly showing Frost’s doubt of God creating everything.

Although it is something that might be overlooked, and shrugged off as insignificant there is a reason that these three things are white. White is known to be the color of innocence, pure, and the force of god. The flower type is also important, the flower is a heal-all, so it’s some sort of medical plant. Why would these things be important? It’s because of what happened on the flower. The spider caught a moth on that flower and killed it. Something in the spider told it to go up on the flower and build a web, and something told the moth to fly towards that flower. Although it is what happens in nature it is ironic that both of those insects happen to be white, and that it happened on a white heal-all flower.

In the last lines of the poem, number 13 and 14, he says “what but design of darkness to appall?- If design govern in a thing so small.” First the poem’s title is design yet we see the word design two times in the poem and it these two lines. What he means is that it might have been a design of darkness that did this.

my english assignment

shall be posted up soon =)
and (hopefully if i can do it right)
i will post with it my own drawings for

"design" by Robert Frost

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,

Like the ingredients of a witches' broth—

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

What brought the kindred spider to that height,

Then steered the white moth thither in the night?

What but design of darkness to appall?—

If design govern in a thing so small.

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