with a cloak full of peace.

Carpe Diem. I feel like this is a concept that is looked at with gratitude, but not often fought for. We can all reflect on it, and say that its a great way to live your life, and in more ways then one beneficial, but I feel like we reflect on it like its out of our reach. With bystanders eyes; like its something that we ourselves cannot obtain. Id like to disagree. I feel like this phrase is emboding a whole aspect of peace with oneself and effort to strive for what you want. Realizing that succeding takes effort, so wishing its going to happen isnt going to do any good unless effort is put into it. But then I think its also engulfing this whole idea of peace. That if you are always striving for something better, you are going to miss what you have today. In reality, the moment you are striving could be happening right now. I feel like this is really what it means by seize the day. If you are never at peace with who you are now then how can you expect to be at peace with who you are tomorrow....

~ViRgInS~

Interesting thought: I know that this poem had lots of meanings. That it wasn't LITERALLY (or not entirely literally) talking about sex, but rather about life in itself. But what did the author really expect from the people when they were writing this. It is very evident that authors wrote according to what was happening around them in their life times. So when they were in the middle of a war, what were they trying to get people to react to? To be completely honest, the sex part makes the most sense to me. If you don't know if your going to live to face tomorrow, i understand that the author was saying go out and have fun. But what other reaction could he be trying to spark by saying go out and experience life. How would this apply to war??? Was he trying to get people to stand up against the leaders of the time? Maybe he was trying to recruit for a certain war party. I really don't know the incentive to the underlying message here.

The Merchant of Venice

Is a play by shakespeare!!! And it is playing at the theater in Muskegon on March 30th, we should all go see it! Extra Credit perhaps Ms. S?????

Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice#Synopsis

To The Virgins, Make Much of Time

I really like this poem, because it really gets across the concept of "carpe diem". It uses virgins as a illustration for those who have not yet experienced everything life offers. This doesn't necessarily mean however to go out and be crazy. There is a distinct difference between doing what makes you happy, and being happy with what you are doing. I think the correct concept for one to live by would be "carpe diem", because it's not about enjoying the moment, it's about enjoying life as a whole, with each moment included. However, it get's difficult to live by this concept because we all get caught up in wanting instant gratification, meaning if there is something we need to do in order to prepare or advance in our future that we may not enjoy at the moment, we get greedy and pessimistic and unhappy with it. I think our society needs to fully understand the idea of "carpe diem", and if everyone in the world did that, we may get along better regardless of our beliefs. Yeah this was kind of off the topic of the poem but I guess this can be considered a free write...or free type...lol :P

Colombie La Littèrature B!

so, not to like bash on anyone..but i really think that with mrs stariha being back, the class is a lot better. i feel like the students from last tri get more involved than we were, and i just like it a lot better! so hopefully, i can get a better grade this time because i actually want to be in that class now..? maybe. :D

p.s..i only made this like super colorful because i'm supposed to be in spanish class but i'm bored..and i have nothing else to do, so i decided to do this!

could i not oversleep?

okay so by being not responsible
i already feel like ive missed a ton!
hopefully you'll recap what you talked about in class
because personally, the class discussions are what help me the most with things.

but i was going through what we'll be reading,
like on the calander...
and i asked my mom if she had ever heard of the literature.
( you know just to spark up a conversation :p )
surprisingly she said yes to most of them.
so for the first time, my mom and i will be doing some major bonding. lol

thank you stariha for being back,
its already a better enviroment and i can tell im going to be workin alot harder this tri!

"enemy"

I really enjoyed Donne's' sonnet 14. To me the paradox's' in it gave our conversations a depth I feel that hasn't been visited within the first trimester. I loved the idea that was presented; making himself absent to fully gain what he desired. Its odd to think that in order to gain what we truly want we have to diminish our own identities, in a way give our reigns to a higher being. The line "but am betrothed unto Your enemy" stuck out to me for a multiplicity of reasons. In the context of religion the fact that the "your" is capitalized makes a connection to the respect of a higher being. But in comparison to that, when thinking of this higher being, "enemy" is not a word that would come to mind. Why would the supposedly loving higher being or lack of better terms, God, have an enemy. So clearly its written though that he has one. I find it even more intriguing that the majority of literary works that deal with "enemies" or opposing forces that we have been discussing correlate directly with war. Then only to ask the question why would God desire war and love at the same time. Then to think of nothing less then the holy wars. To have the word "enemy" be brought up in a sonnet about God seems ironic to me... just a thought.