tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post1504713986558123986..comments2024-02-27T11:18:09.490+08:00Comments on literary collage: 【文讀Assignment #1】Family: An Album (deadline: 4/14)djinnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940361280813419242noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-79155328394216378882017-04-16T00:59:51.118+08:002017-04-16T00:59:51.118+08:00英美一 許美玲 410502054
Question 4
According to the Gre...英美一 許美玲 410502054<br />Question 4<br /> According to the Green Chile by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poem contrasting red and green chile in the manner of personal preference and represent two generations traditional Mexican style and American style. One is where the poet living and the other one is his ancestral home. In the first stanza, The poet he preference of red chile. He describes the red chile as something that has a “historical grandeur” and “gently wing” they create an “air of festive welcome” and likens them to “harggard , yellowing , crisp, rasping tongues of old men”. The attitude to red chile from the poet is corresponding to the younger generation seeking for the mysterious of the historical festival. <br />In the second stanza, it is the personal preference of his grandmother. For grandmother, The green chile is much spicier than red. and is compared to a “ voluptuous, masculine, an air of authority and youth simmers.”,“well-dressed gentlemen”, who I envision as younger than the historical grandeur of the red chile. The attitude to green chile from “grandmother” is corresponding to the elder generation missing the old days, using the characteristic such as passion, energy, sexual attract between people, sex. They ar e both metaphor of looking back to the past days. <br />However, the younger generation are imagining the days which they have never had, they elder generation are actually recalling those days they lived. Those are two different kinds of untouchable space-time. And the two characters will be and was exchanged if you put them beyond the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-18429943309056189902017-04-14T23:49:36.159+08:002017-04-14T23:49:36.159+08:00英美一 廖祐德 410502048
In this poem “Those Winter Sun...英美一 廖祐德 410502048<br /><br /><br />In this poem “Those Winter Sundays ” could make us realize that the relationship between the speaker with his father, and how his father loved him. However, the speaker didn’t realize that until when he grew up. From the poem title and “blue-black cold” we can know that not only the weather was extremely cold but also their relationship was cold either. “Cracked hands” present his father did blue-collar job and worked hard in the weekday. But his father still got early to banked fires blaze, and let him dress slowly. His father did these behaviors just wanted to keep him from the coldness. Moreover, his father even polished his good shoes before he went to school. All of these behaviors expressed his father’s love. Nevertheless, ”No one ever thanked him”, ”Speaking indifferently to him” presented that in the family no one had a grateful attitude forward his father and no one cared about his father’s love, but his father still continued to pay for this home. When he was a child, he took his father’s love for granted, he didn’t understand as a father’s mood, and what his father had done for him. As the time went by, the speaker became an adult, he was so disappointed at himself and finally found that his father's love for him was far better than what he had imagined. In my opinion, sometimes the love of our father didn’t reach what you expected, but we should know that he had already did his best to love us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05600933372639830649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-46650109265755431562017-04-14T23:39:39.687+08:002017-04-14T23:39:39.687+08:00企管二 邱嘉敏 410432033
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Robert Hayden's '&#...企管二 邱嘉敏 410432033<br />1.<br /> Robert Hayden's ''Those Winter Sundays''and Kellly Cherry's ''Alzheimer's'' have their similary and difference. ''Those Winter Sundays'' use child's view to mention what his father sacrifice himself for his job and his family no matter no one thanks him .At first, the kid didn't understand what happened to his father.He always gets up early at Saturdays and works hard,why there is not anyone appreciates him?Morever, father didn't complain when he was painful.Finally, the child figure out his question by using twice ''What did I know''. To me,''Alzheimer's'' also have the parent-child relationship.We all know Alzheimer's will gradually forget everything ,and become like a baby ultimately. Consequently , the old man just like the child and the woman who take care of him (his wife)become his parent.’'Alzheimer's'' use spectator’s view and the spectator survey the old man’s behavior carefully and naturally.These two poems both represent that the parents are locked by their family,thus, having no choice but to do their best working hard and taking good care of their child. However , these two poems make different ending. ''Those Winter Sundays’' become a comedy because of the child’s alteration of mental condition.His father's sacrifice is all for giving him a better life. On the contrary,this old Alzheimer’s patient won’t never realize what his wife done for him no matter he is died or not,and the old woman need to look after this old man who even forgot her until he past away.How pitiful are the man and the woman ! <br /><br /> <br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17751878797786502565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-58258023878912360642017-04-14T23:36:41.937+08:002017-04-14T23:36:41.937+08:00臺灣一 陳美妤 41050A015
In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winte...臺灣一 陳美妤 41050A015<br /><br />In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”, at first, the son thinks that it his father’s duty to get up early on cold Sunday, even though father’s hands cracked. Their family never says thank to him showing the son’s indifferent attitude. Here we see the bad and cold relationship between father and son, just like the frozen winter. The word ‘‘blueblack cold’’ is used to describe the down and hopeless situation, and also implies that his father is a low-paid worker. Despite the poor finance situation, his father still tries to make them feel better by making the house warm, and polishing the son’s shoes. The father serves his family silently, without expecting anything in return. <br />At the final of the stanza 2, the son thinks that his home is poor, cold, and uncomfortable since he fears “the chronic angers of that house”, which means the old houses had fallen into disrepair. But it also implies his anger to family, social, even his father in his mind.<br />In the Stanza 3, ‘‘what did I know, what did I know’’ we guess the speaker's become more mature now. In the poem’s final lines the speaker implies that he didn’t understand that his father’s behavior was an expression of father’s love before. But now he does and feels regret. ‘’love’s austere and lonely offices’’ is somewhat his father’s image of silent and responsible. Not until the speaker became a father, he finally realized what fathers love is, and what his father had done before.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-9381731907848239412017-04-14T23:31:43.338+08:002017-04-14T23:31:43.338+08:00英美二 410402042 李志東
in the Kelly Cherry's Alzhei...英美二 410402042 李志東<br />in the Kelly Cherry's Alzheimer's. in the line 15.She writes"This is his house, he remembers it as his....remember.... Even if he is sick, he still remembered he built up the home which belongs to him. He supported whole family once. Maybe now he wants to but he can't protect this house anymore,but memory reminds him, he is one of this family. Refer to the music. It's connection between now and past. Even he had Alzheimer, he knows he was a young man, in a tweed hat. A man who loves music. He knows what attracted him before. But now, although he loves music. He has no time for music which was his beloved ever. The book he read before, he just could pretend to read, let along driving and protecting the family. Alzheimer this devil gradually devours his energy his memory. While he came home, the one always waits for him,loved him, even needs him, he doesn't know who she is. Although it is pathetic but he must to face it.The setting, the scene sets when he gets home, the whole life floats through his mind. He was the young mighty man before. but now? Everything is passing through with time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-53602803085493799442017-04-14T23:24:27.292+08:002017-04-14T23:24:27.292+08:00410502032 英美一劉子瑜
The speaker doesn’t really ever ...410502032 英美一劉子瑜<br /><br />The speaker doesn’t really ever experience that “blueblack cold ” as his father does. He only wakes to find the cold “splintering, breaking. ” It’s like the cold is something visible that he can hold in his hand—something that can break. And his father breaks the cold by lighting fires in all of the fireplaces. Then the speaker tells us that he’d get out of bed and get dressed “when the rooms were warm.” The little sleepy boy can wait to get out of bed till the whole house is toasty and there's no need for slippers. The speaker also gets to take his time. He gets out of bed and gets dressed “slowly.” This image seriously contrasts with the one we have of his dad, laboring at the crack of dawn every morning to support his family and keep them warm. When he's a grown-up, he understands that even when family members are emotionally distant, that doesn't mean there's not love there. “Actions speak louder than words.” The speaker, as a boy, doesn’t seem to recognize that lighting fires in the fireplaces and polishing the good Sunday church shoes is a kind of love. This moment of recognition that the adult speaker knows so much more about his father, and his father’s love, than he did as a child.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028428080151807259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-36433065479540109082017-04-14T23:04:06.480+08:002017-04-14T23:04:06.480+08:00410402043 英美二 陳姿妤
I would like to answer the quest...410402043 英美二 陳姿妤<br />I would like to answer the question 2.<br /><br />In “Those Winter Sundays”, although this poem only has fourteen sentences, we can see a clear change of the relationship between the son and his father. <br />In stanza 1, “No one ever thanked him” shows that not only the son but also the whole family did not care about what his father had done for them. Stanza 2 illustrates the son’s feelings toward the home. “…the cold…” and “…the chronic angers of that house.” show us that the atmosphere which given by the house was cold. In stanza 3, according to the sentences “Speaking indifferently to him, … and polished my good shoes as well.”, this shows that the son took what his father had done for him for granted and did not feel grateful for him. In the last sentence of this poem, the son changed his thought about his father when he grew up. In my opinion, I think that when the speaker was young, he didn’t feel grateful for everything that his father had done for it. But when he grew up, maybe he has become a father, he understood that what his father did was showing his love to him or the whole family without saying any word. And when he was little, he felt his home was cold. After growing up, he didn’t want the home which was consisted of his children and his wife to become the cold one again. So personally, I think that the speaker’s attitude to his father and his house has changed when he grew up and became an mature man.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14275835558122366994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-39967076419905762392017-04-14T22:45:02.742+08:002017-04-14T22:45:02.742+08:00英美一 方拓為
Both types of chile have different meanin...英美一 方拓為<br /> Both types of chile have different meanings in the poem, and such differences are deeply engaged in Mexican culture.<br /> The red chiles are personified as the tongues of old men. It represents the history and the change between generations. The author eats eggs and potatoes with chile for breakfast. His American lifestyle strongly shows in his breakfast, leaving the Mexican part of him for flavoring. However, he has an admire for Mexican history because of the words from the elders.<br /> The grandmother’s love for green chile is lusty and joyful. The green chile is personified as a well-dressed young gentleman, an oily rubbery serpent and the flanks of tiger. The green chlies are slender and muscular at the same time. It is fresher and spicier than red chile. Growing up in Mexican culture, she also likes to have green chies for food, which is different from the author. Her mysterious passion for green chile is the symbol of Mexican lifestyle. She is used to preparing green chiles for food in traditional way, feeling their glossed surface and beautiful shapes. She devotes herself to her dear grandson and the culture. The speaker accepts her love while feeling the burn in his mouth. <br /> The metaphor of the chiles explores the cultural difference, but also enhance his relationship with her grandmother. Whereas, he describes the green chile without sexualizeing his relationship with the grandmother. <br /> He gives clear views toward his thoughts on different chiles and how his grandmother cherishes her ritual in the author’s childhood. He doesn’t say how much he loves his grandmother, but the feelings shows between words.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00210642277188519616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-69071163810782199872017-04-14T22:42:04.790+08:002017-04-14T22:42:04.790+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00210642277188519616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-50106176185501046932017-04-14T21:26:58.102+08:002017-04-14T21:26:58.102+08:00英美一 曾圓安
According to the poem title, the author im...英美一 曾圓安<br />According to the poem title, the author immediately guided the readers to the point of the poem. It described her father who had a crippling disease called Alzheimer's. The man who was healthy and rational previously, but he suffered from the disease his behavior became differently. In line four, it mentions that the old man pretend to read the book. We can guess he used to love to read the books, but now he didn’t know why he hold the book. In line sixteen, he built the walkway between the front room and the garage and planted the rhododendron in back. He also like to drive the car because that can remind him who you are. He loved music and wore the tweed hat. Those thing he was really like. In addition, the author used the sentence” Roses and columbine slug it out for space, claw the mortar” to demonstrate the man had not taken care of the plants for a long time. In the next few lines,“this woman is, this old, white-haired woman standing here in the doorway, welcoming him in.” It means that he did not know that woman is his wife. I can't imagine that my family suffer from the disease. It is horrible for me to bear the disease go through every day. In addition, the author used the phrases like “a crazy old man” indicates a subtle bitterness towards her father and his illness. She expressed her father became irrational and could not control of his temper. From the poem, we can also see how Cherry’s attitude shifts from bitterness to sympathy. The poem also inspired me that we should live in every moment and cherish the time we have with our family, because you never know when you will lose them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-44895842189827233292017-04-14T19:34:00.383+08:002017-04-14T19:34:00.383+08:00According to Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s”, I think...According to Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s”, I think that father used to be caring man who loved home and enjoyed reading and listening to the music. First, in the beginning of the poem, there was a book in his suitcase. Accordingly, we could suggest that he enjoyed reading, or he could read at least in the past. However, Alzheimer’s would cause a decline in reading and understanding skills, so he couldn’t catch the information from the book, and he only used it to pretend to read. Second, he said, he remembered he built the walk way between the front room and the garage, and he planted the rhododendron in back. These are the evidences showing how much he loved his house and family. He made lots of contribution to them for better living quality. But after having disease, he would find difficulty completing those familiar tasks and forget any details of them. Third, when he was a young man, he enjoyed those loving music. But at that moment, music was an annoyed noise for him, and he couldn’t find any enjoyment anymore. After reading the poem, I think the changes are order by significance to his father in the setting in this poem. At first, it took time for him to recognize the exterior condition of his house. Then, he tried very hard to recall the memory about domestic affairs that he has done and hobby he used to have. Finally, he couldn’t even remember the memory about his family. His wife was nothing more than just an old and white-haired woman for him. The poem revealed that her father had severe struggles with Alzheimer’s and how sorrowful he was about losing those memories.英美二 林子暄 410402071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-79844446206176720372017-04-14T18:06:47.952+08:002017-04-14T18:06:47.952+08:00410502024
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When the speaker was a boy,...410502024<br />英美一<br />夏 正<br /><br />2.<br /><br />When the speaker was a boy, he didn’t understand his father’s love to him. Got up in the melancholy, desperately blue-black dark before dawn, the only thing to cheer him up was warm the rooms and polish shoes for his little boy then go to work to raise his child with no complain. The crackling voice from the fireplace splintered, broke the cold. Though the house was warm, the little speaker still felt cold, the little speaker still felt cold in his heart because his father never play baseball with him in the backyard, take him to ride on Ferris wheel or merry-go-round. He thought his father didn’t love him because Tom’s daddy always takes him home after school and he always go home on his own, alone. He could only feel the “chronic” angers from the house like it be “diagnosed” as having some kind of chronically disorder. He couldn’t realize how difficult and bitter those days were under the dumb care of his father. After so many years, the little boy grown up, he became a man, a father. When he finally went home from office, his kids were all in sweet dreams. It was 3 p.m. He watched the tarnished photo of kids’ grandpa and papa, he cried. All those days in the humble place came flooding back into his mind. He missed his papa’s warm and big rough hands; the gentle touch on his little cheek and the kiss on the forehead. He missed the moment when he peeked through the door crack and saw his father polished his shoes for him. But he never expressed his gratitude to him. He spoke indifferently to the one who lighting fires in the early morning and polished his nice shoes for him. Even though his father was not a wealthy man, he still did his best to give the speaker a decent life. He finally realized that love is an obligation, a duty. The speaker’s father did everything for him wholeheartedly and asked for no return. All he had done is worth a thousand words. If only the speaker could back to the moment and say something to his daddy. But it was too late, all he could do was regret.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695020452205304015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-84381344393309305012017-04-14T18:05:51.984+08:002017-04-14T18:05:51.984+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695020452205304015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-13030100017611812282017-04-14T18:01:52.395+08:002017-04-14T18:01:52.395+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695020452205304015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-16914877612419953552017-04-14T16:36:36.661+08:002017-04-14T16:36:36.661+08:00410502026 李宜庭
In “Those Winter Days”, the word “in...410502026 李宜庭<br />In “Those Winter Days”, the word “indifferently” indicates that the son was cold to his father, and the word “chronic anger” tells us that the son feared the house which distributed anger for a long time. And from the title “winter”, it represents the relationship between the son and his father was coldness and gloominess. However, these words “Blueblack cold”, “cracked”, and “ached” that we can know the speaker’s father was devoted to his family. The father got up early to work in blueblack cold, and his hands was cracked and painful that means he is a physical labor. And his father feared his family would get cold, even heated the fires in the early morning. From the last sentences, “what did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices”, we can see the speaker is looking back and realizing how much more grateful he should have been for everything his father did for him. Now he realizes that he spoke to his father indifferently too much in the past, though his father had driven cold for him that he could rise and dress slowly. His father would polish his shoes as well, and these movements were done in silence by his dad. The sentence “No one ever thanked him” also expresses that the speaker’s repentance, why when he was a child did not think his father had paid for him, but has a bad attitude to his father. Maybe only we bring up our kids that we can realize the difficulty of being parents. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-15146810015510617372017-04-14T15:37:54.915+08:002017-04-14T15:37:54.915+08:00英美四 410202074 賴祖兒
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In Those Winter Sundays, t...英美四 410202074 賴祖兒<br />Q2<br /><br />In Those Winter Sundays, the feelings and tones of the speaker have changed from coldness to regret, turning to respect the labor of his father of those winter Sundays. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his father got up early even on Sundays, which are supposed to be rest days, and his father’s cracked hands ached from labor, and nobody ever thanked his work for the family. That the father has to do these manual labors suggest that they are not rich, belong to the working class. The second stanza describes the speaker got up when the sunshine broke in the room, and he would slowly rise and get dressed, and feared of the anger-looking of the house. It suggests that the speaker doesn’t like the house, thinking it full of hospitality and strangeness to him, not warmness, harmonious, happiness, or sense of belonging, because they are in a poor condition of economic statues. In the final stanza, the speaker turns into a sad and regretful tone, pointing out his father’s fatigues have never been thanked, and everybody just took it for granted. The speaker regrets for not knowing it earlier, and also saw his devotion as a matter of course. He finally figures out his father’s strictness was come from love, and his duty was a lonely one. The speaker, growing up as a man from a youth boy, has regretted his indifference to his father in his teenage years, and turned to realize he should be appreciated for what his father had done for him and this family.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-26338559839601118912017-04-14T15:03:51.296+08:002017-04-14T15:03:51.296+08:00410502016 英美一 李欣璉
I would like to compare Eden wi...410502016 英美一 李欣璉<br /><br />I would like to compare Eden with Mother of the Groom. <br />In Eden, the theme of the poem is wanting to preserve the innocent and naïve nature of children. In the first three stanzas, the child keeps distorting the fact by believing everything will eventually be OK as long as mommy comes and fixes it. The child’s mother explains it to him/her that the squirrel is dead, but the naïve child refuses to accept it. The mother doesn’t try further to persuade him/her, perhaps she thinks it’s best for the child to be hopeful and optimistic. In Mother of the Groom, the theme is a mother accepting the reality that her child has grown up and will take off. ‘’It’s as if he kicked when lifted / And slipped her soapy hand’’ It suggests that a son marrying a wife is like he getting away from a mother’s control. The mom might be a little bit sad in the first, but she eventually comes to terms with it. In Eden, the mother still takes her child under her wings, but in Mother of the Groom, the mother knows that her son has become independent and will have a new companion in life. The mother in Eden wants to shelter her kid from the world of evil, but she knows she can’t. The mother in Mother of the Groom realizes her son is walking into another phase of his life and it must be done. The tone in Eden is light-hearted in the first few stanzas, but it soon shifts into the mother’s worry for her child. While the tone of the Mother of the Groom is never light-hearted, rather it’s pretty solemn. However, in both poems we can definitely get a touch of how mother’s love for her children can be so dense.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-81021428970593211542017-04-14T14:28:45.130+08:002017-04-14T14:28:45.130+08:00410502004 英美一 黃崇睿
For question 2, the speaker uses...410502004 英美一 黃崇睿<br />For question 2, the speaker uses the phrase “blueblack cold” to describe the weather and the environment were full of the bad impressions. Even though his father’s hands were cracked, the father still banked the fires. No matter the weather is, the father just hard-working for the family. But the speaker didn’t know his father’s painstaking effort at that time. So he wrote down the sentence ”No one ever thanked him.” The weather was still cold, his father was used to call him when the house has got warm for him. For the second stanza, the speaker uses the word ”splintering” and ”breaking” to describe the freaking cold. Here, we can discover that the speaker’s daily routines were in progress as usual, but the last sentence implied the house was full of terrible things otherwise it won’t be filled with chronic angers. We can conjecture maybe his father and his mother don’t have a harmony relationship, so they fight or quarrel often. In the final stanza, the speaker finally talked to his father. Although the speaker’s attitude was indifferent, but his father still had driven out the cold and polished his shoes as well for him. At that time, the speaker finally knows these years what did his father do for his whole family. The speaker used to take the entire things which his father done for granted. But now everything was different. He didn’t understand those things like shining the shoes or lighting the fires was the expression of his father’s love before, but now he totally knows. Father’s love is different from mother’s love, it is less profile and more unnoticed than mother’s. When he grows up he knows more about the austere love eventually.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088129366871663091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-13006913252963861732017-04-14T02:40:52.872+08:002017-04-14T02:40:52.872+08:00英美一 沈棣文 410502042
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According to the text, we ca...英美一 沈棣文 410502042<br />Q3:<br />According to the text, we can discover that when the speaker is still in his youth, he does not really appreciate all the hard work his father has done for him and his family. Rather, he is kind of afraid of his father or even the house itself. For example, in stanza one, the speaker first pointed out how his father worked hard for the family, but even with all the effort he contributed to the family, “No one ever thanked him.”. We could see that the speaker’s family was not even thankful to the father. This implies that the speaker’s feeling towards his father, at least during his childhood, was ungrateful and inconsiderable. The speaker further indicated that he was a little afraid of his father, “slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,” points out he still has not yet realize that he should be grateful for everything his father had done for him. In the last stanza, we could assume that the speaker is now older, and he started to recall all the events which happened before. Most importantly, he acknowledged that even though he was feeling the “chronic anger” of their family household, his father still did the best to convey love to the speaker himself by driving out the cold and polishing his shoes. For the last two sentences of the last stanza, the speaker finally spoken from the view of a man, he was totally regretted for not knowing his father’s love towards him. “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?” is the sign of him realizing that love is not only composed of actual behaviors, it is actually the duty that makes up the establishment of love.steven8283https://www.blogger.com/profile/05058403052952952258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-75725491064437482112017-04-14T02:27:11.830+08:002017-04-14T02:27:11.830+08:00英美一 丘力龍 410502008
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The words are, “fearing the ...英美一 丘力龍 410502008<br />Q2:<br />The words are, “fearing the chronic angers of that house”. The anger might refer that the people living in the house are furious or the house itself is being angry. Perhaps the speaker’s parents were in an unhappy marriage, or perhaps they struggled financially. The only thing that’s clear is that it was an unhappy household and the speaker was terrified of it. The words, “No one ever thanks him” indicate that the speaker has eventually realized the thing that his father has done for him and the family. He began to feel grateful for his effort and think that he should thank him for his sacrifice. <br />As a youngster, the speaker couldn’t feel the behaviors of his father as a gesture of love. He took it for granted and never appreciates it. What he only kept in mind was how early his father got up every single day and how his father kept the family warm in freezing cold days. However, after the speaker grown up as an adult, he has retrospect what his father had done for him. He felt regretful and sorry for his dad that he and the rest of his family members just ignored the hard work that his father has done and the sacrifices his father has undergone in order to protect the family. He has recognized that his father took all his responsibilities to took care of the family and never complain about their attitude towards him. He felt extremely thankful for his dad. In sum, the house made him feel warm-hearted after he recognized the endeavor his father has done. <br />丘力龍noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-56979194174696372352017-04-13T23:19:39.316+08:002017-04-13T23:19:39.316+08:00英美一 丘力龍 410502008
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The words are, “fearing the ...英美一 丘力龍 410502008<br />Q4:<br />The words are, “fearing the chronic angers of that house”. The anger might refer that the people living in the house are furious or the house itself is being angry. Perhaps the speaker’s parents were in an unhappy marriage, or perhaps they struggled financially. The only thing that’s clear is that it was an unhappy household and the speaker was terrified of it. The words, “No one ever thanks him” indicate that the speaker has eventually realized the thing that his father has done for him and the family. He began to feel grateful for his effort and think that he should thank him for his sacrifice. <br />As a youngster, the speaker couldn’t feel the behaviors of his father as a gesture of love. He took it for granted and never appreciates it. What he only kept in mind was how early his father got up every single day and how his father kept the family warm in freezing cold days. However, after the speaker grown up as an adult, he has retrospect what his father had done for him. He felt regretful and sorry for his dad that he and the rest of his family members just ignored the hard work that his father has done and the sacrifices his father has undergone in order to protect the family. He has recognized that his father took all his responsibilities to took care of the family and never complain about their attitude towards him. He felt extremely thankful for his dad. In sum, the house made him feel warm-hearted after he recognized the endeavor his father has done. <br />丘力龍noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-86201343694072572202017-04-13T20:22:30.575+08:002017-04-13T20:22:30.575+08:00410502014 英美一 趙思婷
In Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s”,...410502014 英美一 趙思婷<br />In Kelly Cherry’s “Alzheimer’s”,the man used to be a young man that have dreams to pursue, have sweet family to love, have music to enjoy. However, after he got sick,he was called a "crazy man". every thing in his mind become shattered and difficult to distinguish like the suitcase contains nothing useful. The most sad thing is his interest music become a thing that only makes him feel uncomfortable and non-sense.This is a terrible change for himself and his family.But in his deep heart, he remembers his house, his car, the rhododendron he planted in back, and also himself as a young man with tweed hat. From these we can know the man used to put his energy on his family and what he really enjoy, which is a more intensive compare after he got sick. Besides, the most part that broke my heart is that the first important thing he need to do when he came home, is to remember the white hair woman welcoming him. How hurt could it be for this family. Though, the act that his wife welcoming at the door, makes me feel the special love between this family. They didn't give up him because of his sickness, but being brave to face it and learn how to deal with it.Last but not learst, The author didn't use any straight statement telling us how Alzheimer destroy the family's life. But use many appropriate description to let us experience the same dilemma. No emotional words but still write into our hearts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18339807204781150291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-34562554813097225242017-04-13T19:49:49.069+08:002017-04-13T19:49:49.069+08:00In the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, the speaker us...In the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, the speaker used a depressed tone to describe the strict love and his guilty of his father’s sacrifices. We can saw his father was labor class from the description of his father’s cracked hands and job. Thus, we knew the speaker and his family were in a poor economic condition. Besides, the job his farther got was a low paying job and no one ever thanked him, which made the speaker feel sympathetic for his farther. However, despite the speaker knew his farther sacrificed so much, including making fires in cold weather, getting up early to warm their house and polish speaker’s shoes , he still interacted with his farther indifferently. It is because he looked down upon his father’s job; yet feeling a little ashamed of this reaction he gave to his father. The relationship between him and his father is complicated, because despite the speaker know how much his father loves him and how bitter the love’s sacrifice, he can never really understand his father’s circumstances. In contrast, the relationship in the second poem “My father’s song” is sweet and very close. The speaker used a details description to record each images of his father, such as his slight catch, thin chest and the tremble emotion. And in a vary warm and retrospect tone, the speaker stated a song that he and father dug out a nest of a mouse when planting corn and how peacefully and tolerantly his father treated other animals. The interaction between the speaker and his father is very harmonious, so the son has a close relationship between him and his father. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-46426132455380413142017-04-13T19:25:11.178+08:002017-04-13T19:25:11.178+08:00410502020 英美一 陳亮妤
“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem...410502020 英美一 陳亮妤<br />“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem about the relationship between father and child and it is also concerned about love, admiration, fear, misunderstanding and even hate. When the speaker was a youth, he was too ignorant to realize what is love. Besides, he kept distance from his father because of their tense relationship and his deep fear of him. Therefore, he spoke indifferently to his father and never expressed his gratitude to him even though his father tried hard to support the whole family and took good care of him. His father had to work every day without resting and his hands are cracked and achy because he was a blue-collar worker instead of being an officer who could work in the office. Despite the fact that his father was so tired, he still got up early lighting the fires to make the house warm so that his son can dress up slowly. His father even polished his shoes before he went to school which was an expression of fatherly love. However, the house was filled with chronic anger because their domestic life was not good. <br />After the speaker was growing up, he realized that love which his father gave him was more than his expectation. His father’s love was quiet without doing intimate behaviors or saying a lot of sweet words. What he did was to make his son’s life comfortable and carefree. However, it was too late for speaker to know these things and he felt considerably regretful for what he did before. I think all of us have to treasure our family and appreciate what they did to us. Don’t be remorseful after losing them.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205428565266892619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362401385200130605.post-37882137543862361642017-04-13T13:03:31.342+08:002017-04-13T13:03:31.342+08:00410502002 英美一 林怡汶
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Indifferently and chroni...410502002 英美一 林怡汶<br />Q4: <br /> Indifferently and chronic angers are the words in “Those Winter Sundays” suggest the son’s feeling toward his father and his house. Indifferent is the attitude how the speaker treats his father while he was a child, and chronic angers is the feeling that the speaker thinks about the house. Since his father has to go to work even on Sunday, he doesn’t has too much time to accompany with the speaker, it brings out the result that the relationship between father and son are not close and intimated. Other wise, the speaker’s family financial situation is not wealth, he feels the house has some hostility to him. The house is not luxurious and splendid enough, even more, it’s not warm enough. I think the austere love and lonely are the words indicate the speaker’s attitude have changed since the time depicted in the poem because if the speaker is still a innocence child, he won’t realize the sacrifices that his father do for him: if he just a child, he would takes what his father do for him for granted but not the austere love from his father. He may thinks what his father done is the duty of parents, what's worse, he won’t discover the love from his father since he just a innocence child and the love from his father is quiet and brave, it only can be discover when the speaker grow up as a adult and retrospects the unshowy love from his father. The speaker won’t deserve a kiss or a hug from his father, all he gets are his father try very hard to keep the house warm and polish the shoes for him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09536896612800961209noreply@blogger.com