Growth= Villanelle pg. 228

An ending cycle of life is a beautiful beginning. A beginning to new adventures, expanding the inner thoughts of the mind and capturing the insights of of humans.  " We grope through languages and hesitate and tough each other, speechless and amazed; and every day our bodies separate ". The sensational feeling that arouses when you meet someone new and you cant quiet describe how they make you feel, but your body language does an awesome job. 


The human connection to me is indescribable.  " I am afraid, disphased, not understanding what we celebrate when our fused limbs and lips communicate the unlettered power we have raised." Its like wading through a blank space in your mind and waiting for a response but the communication is already there.  " Every day our bodies' separate. " Feelings change, people change every day, which is an every day occupation that we deal with and grow within.


I love this poem.  It speaks in volumes about human nature and how we relate. I think its amazing how you can connect with someone on a level without conversing with them.  Body language is almost like a cheat sheet without us knowing. We give off emotions without knowing and celebrate without knowing what were celebrating about.  " In wordless darkness we learn wordless praise". Silence speaks volumes.

Dover Beach

I literally found myself reading this poem by Matthew Arnold more than a several times and each time I read over the poem I did find different meanings. In the first stanza, I feel like he was explaining the mood of the beach.  The very first line of the poem gives me a clue; The sea is calm tonight.  Then he goes into detail how the tide is full and on line 9 he grabs the reader attention; Listen! you hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling. He gives us the sound and sense of Dover Beach. Another thing that caught my attention is line 15.  You know how you go to the beach and just reminisce about certain things in your life or how a certain smell reminds you of a specific place in life.  Arnold did a great job in his poetry giving the example of Sophocles.  Sophocles long ago Heard it on he Aegean, and it brough Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow of human misery;  This specific beach brought unclear memories to Sophocles but it wasn't the best.

Feminist Criticism

James Joyce, I think is a perfect example of a feminist. He touches on subjects, such as Lily referring to the men only being palaver and only getting what they want out you.  Joyce touch bases on how a female feels but he also made us as readers think critically about the message he was getting across in " The Dead".  I had a hard time figuring it out.  Just like us women, were hard at figuring out at times.

The New Historicism

I found this text interesting to read because as it says in the beginning, its still evolving. There's a new event add to history everyday that goes unnoticed if its not being exposed on the news. This text enlighten me on several things. In order to inform future generations, the previous generation has to criticize their wrong doings without having an ongoing conscious.  This essay was amazing like the others and very valid.


Reading Living History gave me linear view on what exactly Joyce was writing about and why.  What I gained from this text is writing historical writings includes experiences that we as humans go through in our lifetime and the historical background of a religion or culture.