After Long Silence

This poem by Yeats was kind of hard to understand. It talks about love and death and love after death. Silence is the only symbol that this poem has, so you know that you only have 1 theme. This line puzzled me: Speech after long silence; it is right,. But then it goes on and it gets confusing talking about lovers. It seems like when you are quiet or say things quiet but with intensity it has more of an affect on the person.

the second coming

William Gate's "second coming" is about how society goes through a cycle. Society will eventually fall and the anarchy will corrupt it, but eventually a re-birth will happen and society will thrive again. It is like a falcon lost, circling the sky searching for his falconer.

Second Coming

The Second Coming was just like a circle. Yeats wants Jesus to come back that way he can start a new beginning of a civilization. This is like the book of Revelations, before the Lord comes back the world goes into utter chaos. The wicked rejoice and have fun while the end is coming and the righteous will wait. The beast of the sphinx is also bought into the poem. This kind of reminds me of Moses and the slaves being lead out of Egypt and going to find the promise land. In the end the descendents of those people end of to have the Christ be part of them. That's how I view it.

Luck

As being the only one that said that luck is money i think you all are wrong. Luck is money if you arent lucky you could mis the bus and be late for work one day and that could lead to you losing you job and unlimited potential earnings. or when picking your lucky numbers in the lottery without them you have no chance at winning potential millions. Luck is not just money but is very important for anyone to be succesfull.

The hollow man

If one was to just read the hollow man they would have no idea what it is about. To understand the hollow man it takes alot of thought and knowledge to know that eliot is talking about death the entire time. But it is really interesting how eliot talks of death and the metaphors he uses for death. Like what grace said about having the knowledge to the author would have helped us know more on the reasoning eliot had for writting the story and more to the meaning but i don't know that.

The Hollow Men

So The Hollow Men was really interesting to me. There were so many different ideas but they all had the same meaning to them. Death was the main focus and it was kind of scary. Eliot had a hard life and it really shows in his writings. Eliot is a mastermind in order to have all of those allusions in just the Hollow Men alone. The Lords prayer, Juileus Ceasar and many more. Its kind of cool how he can do that and how it all makes sense.

Shooting an elephant?

This story really gave a good perspective of George Orwell's political views and also the destructive acts of imperialism. It gives a first person view of the effects Britain had on India and most likely the other colonies they set up in. The people were dirt poor but not helped in a single way by the seemingly almighty British. In the event that an elephant was rampaging in the village however, the British seem to somewhat save the day. George wrote about his experience with this elephant, and his conflict between hating the British but being a citizen.

When the elephant came into town he listened to the stories but almost disregarded them because of the ill natured people not making sense of anything. Then he came upon a dead man killed by the elephant in which he decided to take charge and stop it. When he sent for his gun all the people followed him and then he felt pressured to shoot it. At first he just observed but when he looked upon the crowd of people watching him, he knew that he then needed to shoot it. It was interesting how he described that the white men in India had to set an example and not look scared or unsure of anything. The killing of the elephant was gruesomely described because he wasn't quite sure where to shoot the elephant. It died a slow horrible death which painted more of a picture of the struggle he went through in India. Orwell described British Imperialism and the effects of it very well in his story and also reflected upon the politics and destruction that comes with it.