Thursday, March 25, 2010

SEX WITHOUT LOVE

In this story Sharon Old's is expressing her opinion about having sex without emotion. How a beautiful act, a spiritual act, can become something disturbing. She creates a very clear picture for us which is sex withour love is unpure and just doing it merely for the sake of pleasure is wrong. "Wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away," this line was quite disturbing in the story because in reality, men and women in nature were made to pro-create, and it's almost telling us that those who do have sex without love are going to be the ones who give away their unplanned children. Liked the fact that the story was very blunt and easy to understand on the surface, although there were a few things to understand under the ice, they were explained in nice words.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Red Wheelbarrow

This story is interesting because it makes us think about the "ordinary" things that we tend to overlook. It is in reality itself that people learn and live through. The way the poem is structured is also interesting because it emphasizes certain parts of the poem such as wheel.. barrow, one word but breaking it down into two, making us really think about the simplicity but importance of an object. We can't look too deeply into a poem like this because the image we are supposed to get about how important everyday things are for our lives. For a farmer, without a red wheelbarrow and chickens, there would probably be no farm.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

the red wheelbarrow

This story is interesting because it makes us think about the "ordinary" things that we tend to overlook. It is in reality itself that people learn and live through. The way the poem is structured is also interesting because it emphasizes certain parts of the poem such as wheel.. barrow, one word but breaking it down into two, making us really think about the simplicity but importance of an object. We can't look too deeply into a poem like this because the image we are supposed to get about how important everyday things are for our lives. For a farmer, without a red wheelbarrow and chickens, there would probably be no farm.