Catharine Garbo
Mr. Salsich
8 English
28 April 2009
Happiness behind its cover:
An essay about the theme of a poem and how it relates to my life.
What is happiness to you? Happiness to me is something that comes and goes, but happiness means a whole different thing to Jane Kenyon, in her poem “Happiness”. She talks about what happiness is behind its cover, and what it really is. We have all experienced happiness sometime, sometimes when we lest expect it.
(TS)“There’s just no accounting for happiness,” is what Jane Kenyon (n) says in her poem “Happiness”. (Loose sentence) (SD) The theme (n) is simply stated in her first line of (prep) this poem. (CM) You can’t predict happiness, you don’t know when it will suddenly come to you or why. (CM) Anybody (n) can find it, “it comes to (prep) the woman sweeping the street” or it can sneak up on you like a crazy friend (n), or just be there when you least expect it. (SD) When Kenyon was writing this she noticed that happiness can come to anybody. (CM) For instance in the fourth stanza of her poem, (dep. Clause) she states all the people happiness has helped during their hard times. (CM) She could also be trying to get across to all of the readers that happiness comes at different times. (Dep. Clause) (SD) Happiness can go to anyone, including “the dog chewing a sock”. (CM) This quote relates to my life when I watch my dog (n), Pearl, sneak up and steal a dirty sock that has been thrown on the ground after a long day. (CM) When I see Pearl (n) chewing joyfully (adv) on (prep) this sock you can see the happiness in her eyes, as she shreds the pieces of cotton rapidly (adv) apart, and scatters them along the floor. (Periodic sentence) (CS) This poem simply relates happiness to my life.
Happiness is in my life, and it wouldn’t be the same if happiness never existed. After reading this poem, you look at happiness a different way. Even though it comes and goes, it’s still the thing that can get me up on a nasty morning, or just lift me up after a hard day. Like Jane Kenyon said, “There’s just no accounting for happiness.”
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Catharine Garbo
8 English
28 April 2009
“Happiness”:
An essay about the theme of a poem and how it relates to my life.
(TS)“There’s just no accounting for happiness,” is what Jane Kenyon says in her poem “Happiness”. (SD) The theme is simply stated in her first line of this poem. (CM) You can’t predict happiness, you don’t know when it will come to you or why. (CM) Anybody con find it, “it comes to the woman sweeping the street” or it can sneak up on you like a crazy friend, or just be there when you need it, but you never know. (SD) When Kenyon was writing this she noticed that happiness can come to anybody. (CM) Four instance in the fourth stanza of her poem, she states all the people happiness can go to. (CM) She could also be trying to get across to all of the readers that happiness comes to you. (SD) Happiness can go to anyone, including “the dog chewing a sock”. (CM) This quote relates to my life when I watch my dog, Pearl sneak up and steel a dirty sock that has been thrown on the ground from a long day. (CM) When I see Pearl chewing on this sock you can see the happiness in her eyes, as she shreds the pieces on cotton apart, and scatters them along the floor. (CS) This poem simply relates happiness to my life.
8 English
28 April 2009
“Happiness”:
An essay about the theme of a poem and how it relates to my life.
(TS)“There’s just no accounting for happiness,” is what Jane Kenyon says in her poem “Happiness”. (SD) The theme is simply stated in her first line of this poem. (CM) You can’t predict happiness, you don’t know when it will come to you or why. (CM) Anybody con find it, “it comes to the woman sweeping the street” or it can sneak up on you like a crazy friend, or just be there when you need it, but you never know. (SD) When Kenyon was writing this she noticed that happiness can come to anybody. (CM) Four instance in the fourth stanza of her poem, she states all the people happiness can go to. (CM) She could also be trying to get across to all of the readers that happiness comes to you. (SD) Happiness can go to anyone, including “the dog chewing a sock”. (CM) This quote relates to my life when I watch my dog, Pearl sneak up and steel a dirty sock that has been thrown on the ground from a long day. (CM) When I see Pearl chewing on this sock you can see the happiness in her eyes, as she shreds the pieces on cotton apart, and scatters them along the floor. (CS) This poem simply relates happiness to my life.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Washington Day 2
The big tall statue, staring down at everyone who surrounds. The tall bricks stack up until its point. With its flashing red lights you wonder why they are there. The large buildings that surround it, are small compared to this large white monument. What does it mean? What does it symbolize? Or is it just a statue that represents Washington. Maybe its a mystery, maybe its not. But it is the Washington Monument, that looks over everybody and everything.
Washington Day 2
Look around, what do you see?
People walking in the streets, looking thinking
people running, playing baseball, and Frisbee
People flying kites, having fun, looking at all of the beautiful Flowers
Seeing everything there is around you
Wondering, thinking
Hoping for summer, and its just around the corner
The big tall statue, staring down at everyone who surrounds. The tall bricks stack up until its point. With its flashing red lights you wonder why they are there. The large buildings that surround it, are small compared to this large white monument. What does it mean? What does it symbolize? Or is it just a statue that represents Washington. Maybe its a mystery, maybe its not. But it is the Washington Monument, that looks over everybody and everything.
Washington Day 2
Look around, what do you see?
People walking in the streets, looking thinking
people running, playing baseball, and Frisbee
People flying kites, having fun, looking at all of the beautiful Flowers
Seeing everything there is around you
Wondering, thinking
Hoping for summer, and its just around the corner
Washington DAY 1
Trip to Washington we are all very exited.
Hoping to get there soon.
Eventualy getting there.
Boring, but can be fun.
Uusually very long.
Start of lots of memories.
Ryming lots of poems.
Is entertaining
Doing lots of different things.
Ending up with friendship brackets, poems,
and drawings and even more exited to
get to Washington.
Trip to Washington we are all very exited.
Hoping to get there soon.
Eventualy getting there.
Boring, but can be fun.
Uusually very long.
Start of lots of memories.
Ryming lots of poems.
Is entertaining
Doing lots of different things.
Ending up with friendship brackets, poems,
and drawings and even more exited to
get to Washington.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Catharine Garbo
Mr. Salsich
Grade 8
8 April 2009
“Expostulation and Reply”:
A Paragraph about a poems theme.
A theme of a poem, is like a path. As you read the poem you are on the path, sometimes zigzagging back and fourth, or getting lost, or just a straight ride. The theme of the poem, “Expostulation and Reply” by William Wordsworth, was a zigzag ride for me. But after reading this poem {over and over and over}(parallelism) I realized what the theme was. One of the themes could be that Mathew is asking a question. Mathew is asking William why he’s just sitting there on a rock and not studying his books or doing something more significant. As William answers back, the words that he said made a point to me as I read it. William sitting on a rock said, “Nor less I deem that there are powers which of themselves our minds impress;” Additionally, he could be saying that the earth has a lot to offer than just the things we observe. A simple way of saying this could be when you don’t notice something it could be right in front of you. For example Mathew says to William, “ You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you;” In this quote you realize that Mother Earth put us all on this planet for a reason. Also, the theme could have to do with uncovering something. William said, in the poem that we could have powers that we have not discovered. When William is replying to Mathew he understands that there is more to life than work, or learning, lots of things, he could understand as he sat on that rock that there are {things lots of things} (parallelism) to uncover. The path to this theme could be a maze, but it could also be a straight smooth path, it just matters what you uncover.
Mr. Salsich
Grade 8
8 April 2009
“Expostulation and Reply”:
A Paragraph about a poems theme.
A theme of a poem, is like a path. As you read the poem you are on the path, sometimes zigzagging back and fourth, or getting lost, or just a straight ride. The theme of the poem, “Expostulation and Reply” by William Wordsworth, was a zigzag ride for me. But after reading this poem {over and over and over}(parallelism) I realized what the theme was. One of the themes could be that Mathew is asking a question. Mathew is asking William why he’s just sitting there on a rock and not studying his books or doing something more significant. As William answers back, the words that he said made a point to me as I read it. William sitting on a rock said, “Nor less I deem that there are powers which of themselves our minds impress;” Additionally, he could be saying that the earth has a lot to offer than just the things we observe. A simple way of saying this could be when you don’t notice something it could be right in front of you. For example Mathew says to William, “ You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you;” In this quote you realize that Mother Earth put us all on this planet for a reason. Also, the theme could have to do with uncovering something. William said, in the poem that we could have powers that we have not discovered. When William is replying to Mathew he understands that there is more to life than work, or learning, lots of things, he could understand as he sat on that rock that there are {things lots of things} (parallelism) to uncover. The path to this theme could be a maze, but it could also be a straight smooth path, it just matters what you uncover.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Catharine
Mr. Salsich
11, March 2009
Unlighted Lamps:What this title means to me
When you read a book, some titles send you on a search of what it means to you. The story Unlighted Lamps by Sherwood Anderson made me search to find what the title meant to me. When I thought about the title, and how it had to do with Mary and her father, a lot of things came to me. One of those things was that Mary and her dad could of felt that they didn’t have a very good life. Just like a lamp when it doesn’t have a very good life it isn’t lit. I have experienced, something very similar to Mary and her father. Mary and her father weren’t very close, when he was alive, and that happened to me with one of my relatives. My great uncle, Uncle Frank, died this past summer. Just like Mary’s father, my great uncle died from a health problem. Also similar to Mary, I wished that I had gotten to know him more. If he were like my grandfather, who is his brother, he would have been very funny and fun to be around. I know that thinking about this that I missed out on something that I could have easily fixed myself, just like Mary. Thinking back to the title of this book, I thought of another reason why this story has this title. Mary and her father maybe couldn’t express themselves, and the author could have used unlighted lamps as an expression, referring to Mary and her father. Or the author could have written the two characters as not loving their lives, and not living there lives to fullest. After reading this story, I learned a lot about book titles, and how they really are important in a story. I noticed how they could unlock lots of hidden things in the story, but also in you’re life
Mr. Salsich
11, March 2009
Unlighted Lamps:What this title means to me
When you read a book, some titles send you on a search of what it means to you. The story Unlighted Lamps by Sherwood Anderson made me search to find what the title meant to me. When I thought about the title, and how it had to do with Mary and her father, a lot of things came to me. One of those things was that Mary and her dad could of felt that they didn’t have a very good life. Just like a lamp when it doesn’t have a very good life it isn’t lit. I have experienced, something very similar to Mary and her father. Mary and her father weren’t very close, when he was alive, and that happened to me with one of my relatives. My great uncle, Uncle Frank, died this past summer. Just like Mary’s father, my great uncle died from a health problem. Also similar to Mary, I wished that I had gotten to know him more. If he were like my grandfather, who is his brother, he would have been very funny and fun to be around. I know that thinking about this that I missed out on something that I could have easily fixed myself, just like Mary. Thinking back to the title of this book, I thought of another reason why this story has this title. Mary and her father maybe couldn’t express themselves, and the author could have used unlighted lamps as an expression, referring to Mary and her father. Or the author could have written the two characters as not loving their lives, and not living there lives to fullest. After reading this story, I learned a lot about book titles, and how they really are important in a story. I noticed how they could unlock lots of hidden things in the story, but also in you’re life
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