Poetry

Seamus Heaney is one of many well known Irish poets. He is known for his intricate pieces of poetry. One of his pieces of poetry i read was Mother of The Groom. The poem is as follows:

 What she remembers

Is his glistening back

In the bath, his small boots

In the ring of boots at her feet. 

Hands in her voided lap

She hears a daughter welcomed.

It's as if he kicked when lifted

And slipped her soapy hold. 

Once soap would ease off 

The wedding ring 

That's bedded forever now

In her clapping hand. 

As you read the poem you see how a mother is going through many different emotions about her son getting married.She feels like she is loosing her son because there mother son bond will never be the same there will always be his soon to be wife involved. But at the same time she is very happy that her son has someone to love and spend the rest of his life. The mother is happy that she will be getting a daughter. For the mother it feels like her whole life is about to change and she is not sure if its for the best of not. 

The Tempest

Every piece of writing that we read in are life time relates to something some how. When reading the book The Tempest by William Shakespeare it made me think back to my LAS 101 class. In this class we learned about the morals of life and the Franciscan values. One of the things we talked about in the class was the value of not letting power get to your head. When we were discussing this topic in class, we came to a conclusion that people tend to abuse the power they have. When reading the tempest Prospero took advantage of her powers. Yes she was using her powers for good but she had too much power that I feel she began to lose control. Does someone need to have the power to control other?

Thinking back to the class there was a lot of debate on whether or not people need to have power and what it would be like if people all had the same amount of power or no power at all. The tempest shows that power for one is not a benefit for all. What do you think?  What do you think you would do if you had all the power in the world at your dispense? How would you act?

People

Julys People is a very short yet meaningful piece of literature, focused on the Smales family and the life they have had. Julys people is a nobel prize winner due to the intricacy of the topics that are discussed throughout the book. The smales family is moved from there home to stay with there servants mother due to the up rise of the servants in the neighborhood they are from. In July’s people the topic of black vs. white comes up a lot. I feel the author is trying to show that just because we are a certain color does not mean that we have more rights over others. 

As you read the book julys people it makes you think about the actions that we take everyday and what we can do to change them. Do we still treat people in ways that we should not? Are we sticking with are old routines of treating people unfairly or are we changing for the better?