A famous classical poet has said that the aim of literature is ‘to teach and to delight’. In the work ONE poet you have studied, examine some poems where both of these aims (instruction and something that pleases the reader) have been included, and show how that has been achieved.

I'M Nobody! Who are you?

I'M Nobody! Who are you?

Are you--Nobody--too?

Then there's a pair of us!

Dont tell! they'd advertise--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody!

How public--like a Frog--

To tell your name--the livelong June--

To an admiring Bog!

In the set of Emily Dickinson's poetry, there are not long but very powerful. She can use one sentence to replace one stanza, she can use one word to include one sentence. That is the charming point of her poems. Especially for the poem called “I am Nobody, Who are You?”. There are only two stanzas in this poem, but it has a huge theory that being famous is not fun. People become worldly but that is not the good attitude toward life. What is important in life is being a person works on what they enjoy that would not affected by others. In this process, that might be long and bored. However we should continue because if everyone tries to make their goals come true by fair means or foul. We will all not be truly happy.

She set herself as nobody in the first line, because she does not want other to recognize her as somebody else except nobody. That fits her real life, she stayed in her house for the rest of her life. And nobody payed attention to her works until she died and the poems was published. Therefore she had been holding this idea that being unfamous for the whole life. In the first stanza,  she repeated two times she was nobody. She was firm to be nobody because that is her belief. In this world, there are a lot of people seeking for power,money or status. They forget what is really important. Dickinson does not like this attitude to life, so on the other hand she was looking for someone who has the same attitude. She asked who are you but then she had already viewed “you” as nobody. She thought there is must be a person on her side. She has a stream of hope in her heart that someone in this world has a same theory. Then, in the last two sentences she is in her own imagination that has met a person who was also a nobody. She was afraid that others would know them. If others know them, they would be titled. That is not the life style she wants. She just wants to write good works.

In the second stanza, she stresses being somebody is dreary. She used a metaphor that public person who live under people’s attention are like frogs. Frogs can be pet that live under people’s order and attention. It is not freedom. Same with people, there are many people living in this word, doing something that is not really wanted by them. They might get power, gain money or obtain status. However they are not truly happy. They are forced to become somebody. Therefore author wanted to live in a bog that let mud cover her avoiding attention from outside, then she is able to do her job calmly.

My Grandmother in the Stars

It is possible we will not meet again

on earth. To think this fills my throat

with dust. Then there is only the sky

tying the universe together.

Just now the neighbor’s horse must be standing

patiently, hoof on stone, waiting for his day

to open. What you think of him,

and the village’s one heroic cow,

is the knowledge I wish to gather.

I bow to your rugged feet,

the moth-eaten scarves that knot your hair.

Where we live in the world

is never one place. Our hearts,

those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us

moons before we are ready for them.

You and I on a roof at sunset,

our two languages adrift,

heart saying, Take this home with you,

never again,

and only memory making us rich.

6. In the work of ONE poet you have studied, consider how they have constructed their materials and their attitudes to remind us that we live in a global village where mutual respect is of utmost importance.

Each poem has its own emotion. When I read My Grandmother In The Stars, I can feel author misses her grandmother so much. She could not see her grandmother again in this world, so she visualised her grandmother as the star in universe. That is very common, people need a thing to place on. Author put all her miss into that star.  In a whole poem, although she misses her, she is not sorrowful. She’s tone shows she still expect future. She is absolutely sad, but she knows she has to continue.

The first stanza is a very beautiful introduction. She did not say her grandmother died in a straightway, which might be not polite. Nobody wants to mention sad things,therefore it is nice to only describe how she feels at that time. It is just simply like if it is sad,then something bad happened, If it is lively which means it is fine. In the stanza,author said she feels dusts in her throat.  It is an emotion that she wants to cry. Everyone had this kind of feeling before whether he or she feels sad or wronged. Author has a dream at this moment that she hopes to see her grandmother. And she knows that is impossible. The farthest distance for author is between she and her grandmother. So then she makes a metaphor that she is the sky above the earth but grandma is one of the star in the universe. They can only look at each other, sadly cannot meet each other. What a pain for them!

When I read the second stanza in the first time, I thought there is no relationship with the first stanza. It describes some trivial matters in normal life. I think author just want to talk to grandma without topics, which people like to do with their close people because they enjoy sharing everything with each other. And grandma is the “partner” for author. Author is not used to live the days without grandma near her yet, hence she writes the things she want to talk in a poem. Everything that is related to death is not allowed to say in the poem because author seems to have not accept the truth that grandma is leaving. There is no word “missing” in this stanza, but what I feel strongest is missing. So I wonder sometimes missing is not necessary to express by using polished,fancy words, however it might be a silence or an uncomfortable condition when someone suddenly realizes she or he has gone.

The last stanza is a little bit contradictory with previous stanzas. Author said their hearts are never in a same place. Maybe they had conflicts before, they might argued for something that old and young usually think differently. Both have strong hearts, they had their own thoughts. However it does not matter now, author releases now. She finally realizes the memories of argument or drifted language are the precious memories. Now what she feels is miss.

When we read a novel, we know that is not real. However, we have to wonder why author created this. Author must want to express whether an idea or a kind of emotion. After I finished MLML,I realize there is something we cannot compel. Therefore that is my theme if I stage the whole play. I want it to be a tragic play.

I am going to divide the whole play into three parts. The first part is when T is in the village and how she takes care of Daniel. The second part is when she is on the way to the palace. And the last part is when she sees Daniel,but she cannot get him. T will show up on a tree and she will sing a happy sang. That is necessary to leave a expression of sunny to the audience. She is a girl who loves life so much. she has to look like a child singing on tree seems nothing can worry her. That is her major characteristic and also it is a contrast that after she knows Daniel is married. One day, she sitting on the tree as usual saw a car accident. She runs to it and finds a bleeding man,a handsome man. She uses hands cover her chest. She feels her heart never beating so fast like this time. She then realizes she falls in love. At this moment, all props have to be moved. light only focus on them, a pleasant girl holding a injured man. This shows how T feels, she only cares about this man right now. What happened near them does not matter. She carries Daniel into home. For making a huge difference, Daniel’s cloths need to be fancy. So it contrats with the poor situation in her house. In the novel, Daniel has slept for a very long time. However, I do not want to spend too much time on this. It is a good idea to play a time-passing background music to demonstrate a long time. And while music is playing, T can wipe the sweat on the Daniel’s face. T pats Daniel when he is having a nightmare. All this detailed action can show T loves Daniel deeply.

The second part is going to start with the ending of T’s recall when she holds her hand with hands What happened in the first part is from T’s recall. After Daniel goes back, T begins recalling from she first met him and how she looked after him again and again. And after the hundred times she recall, she decides to go find Daniel. When she is on the way, she meets several people, and all of them ask where you go and why. Her answer never changes. “I will go to that palace, I love the young man in the palace.” and after she answered. some are shake their heads and walks away,some are said “you are crazy”. However one day she meets a little girl and when the little girl hears the answer, she nods. T is so happy, because that is the first time she meets someone supports. She enters the city and walks through the people who wear totally different from her, and all the people look at her with a surprise facial expression. That is the second contrast between rich and poor.

When she finally gets close to the palace, she sees so many people are there. She asks why. People tells her a rich young man called Daniel is holding a wedding. She is shocked. Then she falls down, but nobody helps her. Lights gradually turns off and music gradually stops. The last scene is going to be same with the first scene, but there is only a tree without a sunny girl singing.

She is different since she sees word differently. She is a sunny girl, she can do anything for the love. She does not care fate or how other thinks. She is being herself and love she loves. In the village, she might be the only one thinks there is no difference between rich and poor. So she likes to wear bright-colored cloths but not like those villagers who wear grey normal cloths. One's attitude decides what she wears. TM thinks this word is full of possibilities. She enjoys trying new things. She might changes cloths everyday. Although not expensive or fancy,she created by herself. She uses small fruits like grapes to be earrings, she puts the wicker on her neck as a necklace. She is a shinning point among villagers not only how she wears differently but the positive attitude she has.

take home quiz

In this book I noticed there are many contrasts between two opposites things. The most significant pair is rich and poor. The main girl character called Ti Moune lives in a poor area and people in this village have no relationship with rich people. Or they don’t even want to have any relationship with them because they believe their fate. They just want to live normally  like how their last generation live.

The scene I choose is from chapter five when there is a big black bird coming to this village. When I continue, I realize that is the name of helicopter for poor. Because they never seen this before. Author uses exaggeration to show the huge difference between rich and poor. This can also demonstrates poor and rich do not negotiate. These two types of people living in two different worlds. Something locks their relationship, which is fate or the experience from previous generation.

From long time ago, rich and poor stopped their relationship. As time moves, they both have something grow in minds. For rich it is called proud. For poor it is called self-abasement. After the helicopter landed, the rich man shows an attitude that seems each one of them in this village owe his money. He enters cabin and sees his son lying there,but he asks a very rude question. “what have they done to you?” That sounds terrible for poor. This question hurts everyone because poor are trying their best to take care of this young man. And as a result this father judges on if they hurt their son or not. That is a important symbol of rich’s proud. They deeply do not trust poor. If I were one of the poor, I would be angry and asks them to get out of the cabin as quickly as possible. However, nobody among poor has this kind of reaction. That is what self-abasement done to them.

When I stage this scene, I would like to choose black as background color because it takes place after the storm. This book has many myth stuffs because there are four Gods. So villager can believe what they see, even a giant black bird carries a person. When “the bird” landed, everyone’s attention should be focus on the bird so it is necessary to have a stream of light on the bird. We have to use any ways to build a fancy impression of rich. Like what I said prebiously, it is important to show rich’s proud. While rich gets off the helicopter,he does not to do much facial expression. Actors can act like “nothing makes me suprise”. Oppositily, poor is shocked. That is the first time seeing a helicopter. For costumes, it is a good idea to ask poor wear similar clothes because they do not have money or energy to care. Anyway the point is to let audience figure out who is rich who are poor by the first sight. For rich’s scripts it does not have to be long. 1(nothing to talk about with poor, they are living in different world),2(they do not respect them) These are two possible reasons. What poor say usually follows rich’s question. They never have conversation with rich so they don’t know how to start. Their impression should be like obedient.

There is an argument between TM and MB who represents the whole village about one's fate. For the girl she does not care about anything tries to stop her for instance fate. As long as she can feel the loud heartbeat when she heard the boy's name. She will not change her mind. Teenagers are full of energy, once they decide what to do, they are going to use whole power to meet their goals. They have no fear, same as they don't have any consideration. Or these considerations are not useful for them because it is just too complicated. What they think are quite simple, if love,be deep. However old people have different thoughts. MB doesn't understand why this girl insists loving an impossible man. Old people experienced too much things so they begin to believe fate. They did not lose their loving things but meanwhile they learn how to release. They know fate already help them decided. That is why they have an argument. They are holding two opposite belief living in this world.

5 scenes

1: poor and rich

In this world, there are poor people and rich people. They do not have any relationship.

p37 the first sentence

p10 on this island of mountains,forest````

p18 like most grands hommes`````

P50 It was not a bird, it is a carrier

2: Fear to God

P46 suddenly the shutters at the window flew open

P46 she leaped to her feet and faced to the demon

p32 But the Almighty did not want him yet.

P11 Agwe god of the sea

3: Rich people’s pride

p51 My son what have they done to you?

P52 He returned seven days later````

p34 Rich man’s son must go to big hosptal``

4 The girl’s love

P33 I promise to take care of this man

and another one I cannot find the page but I remember it describes how handsome this man is in her eyes.