Emily Dickinson

In the Garden

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad, --
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.


This poem is about a bird. I think that is very interesting because she makes it seem like the birds or animals in general are smart. It said that the bird moved over so the beetle could pass, that is like us moving over for a small child in a way because we don't want to plow over them.  This poem is showing the circle of life and how everyone plays a part.

Having MY Say

"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful." --J.H.Poincare

J.H.Poincare was a mathematician. I came across this quote one day when I was bored in Mr. Fisk's fifth hour physics class. I really really liked it. I even put "and he delights in it because it is beautiful" as my facebook status and as a saved note in my cellphone. I am not really sure why I like it so much but I feel like it gives truth to a lot of things in life. I think that the quote is saying that you do something because you like it, it is beautiful, it is something that you really enjoy. I just really like this quote and I thought it was interesting because it made me think about the actual meaning behind it.

Picture Reflection

I found this picture by Tom Feelings and I thought that it was very interesting. In a way it look like all of the slaves are forming a ship. I shows the pain and struggles that the people had to go through. In the background you can see all of the other slaves lined up on the boat. This picture is very sad and it made me think.

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Whitman connecting to me.

I really liked this poem because it talks about ids and how they want to be like all of the other kids. When I was younger at time I would want to be like everyone else and do what everyone else was doing but then as i grew up I realized that is not the way that I should e loking at life. When you are a child you want to blend in and not stick out like a sore thumb and you tend to compare yourself to the other children around you. I think that this poem  just explains how Whitman views children.

Transcendentalism

I think that I like writing style of the transcendentalist because they are much more positive and happy go lucky. When I am doing anything I like to look at it all in a positive way. My parents have always told me to look at the positive side. When I read the transcendentalist writings they put me in a much better mood than when I read the other type. Walden was very interesting, the quotes that Henry put in his writings were so good and somtimes they would make me think about stuff.

number ten!

Ouch! Suddenly, I am grabbed. I am trying to figure out what or who is touching me. I decide that it is not a human, it is an amimal, something with fur. Will it eat me? Save me? I get dropped off at peak of moutain. There is a bright light but it is not the son. I am not outside but inside. The pendulum is still right above me. How is this thing following me? Are they all over the building? I have the choice to jump from this mountain and possibly survive or get cut up by the pendulum, I jump. My fate is in the hand's of the controller.

number nine!

I think that I would be for team Poe because after watching the video I kind of feel bad for him. I also like him because he wrote poems about his feelings and death about he feels about it. I feel like when I learn a little bit more about the other is when I can relate to their stories and understand where they some from with their writing. I am also interested in him because I still want to know the reasoning behind all of his stories, he is just a very interesting person.