Three Literary Pieces

No matter what literary piece you select you will always be able to compare and contrast situations. The Fiction story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, the poem “the road not Taken”, and the other poem “If the World Was Crazy” are three different pieces that reflect life in different ways.

On “The Road not Taken”, you can feel a different perspective than on the fiction story. In this poem you can perceive the confrontation, challenge, and confusion of getting to a decision. You came to a world where there are several ways to follow, but you can only choose one of those in order to start your own path.

“TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both...”

Their is only one life and you can experience just one thing at a time so you need to decide where to look at and keep on going forward. This a is a the beginning of life, is a challenge and a way to build the base of your goal.

I would say that after having the base, the craziness comes in. “If the World Was Crazy”, is just having fun in the path of life you decide to have; experience all the opportunities you may have, have a desire to live, and just enjoy doing the craziest things that pops on you head. You need to enjoy life because death will come when you never expect it.

“If the world was crazy, you know what I'd wear?

A chocolate suit and a tie of eclair,

Some marshmallow earmuffs, some licorice shoes,

And I'd read a paper of peppermint news.

I'd call the boys "Suzy" and I'd call the girls "Harry,"

I'd talk through my ears, and I would always carry

A paper umbrella for when it grew hazy

To keep in the rain, if the world was crazy.”

Enjoy life and experience as you go never stopping of what you think. Follow your heart and live the present.

Finally in “A Clean Well- Lighted Place”, we can see how the perspective of life changes depending the age you have. Years pass and as you get old you believe that there is no meaning to this world, there is no God you are alone in the middle of nothingness. “I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe...With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night...” The old man of this story wants to remain in the cafe during the night because for him spending that time is like having a escape in his life. He is at the point where he describes life as nothing, he is having insomnia and all he has to do is think about the years left in that emptiness. “It is probably only insomnia. many must have it”. There is no reason to believe that each of his days would be less empty than the ones in the past.

I think that each of those three literary pieces had their own uniqueness and showed the way life is planed for all human beings. How each creature in this world acts and reacts against situations. No matter where you are, who you are and what you want you will always be one of a whole, such as a literary piece, and would always have to go through a path.

Reflexion

POEMS, ohhh.....God I loved the experience of being as a speaker and as an audience. I thought I was a very unique and different experience. Be able to express your self and also capture others attention is just wonderful. I got impressed with others work, and I also learned to realize that when you see a person you do not really know how the person is in the real world; you have no idea of how the soul of a person can be. Pro. Bonaparte I would say it was an amazing activity and I would do it again, not only to hear others but to challenge myself and think a little more deeper about me, and write down my thoughts. Inspiration helps you motivate and reach goals, and this is what I thought about this project.

Shel Silverstein -If the World Was Crazy-

1) What emotions/feelings do you have after reading the poem?

Joy, desire to live and experience all you can in life. Taste, laugh, smile, scream, eat, cry are feelings you need to experience before dying.

2) How does your chosen image reflect the emotions conjured by the poem? The poem talks about a crazy world, where you can do all what you want, and for me a roller coaster is a way to feel a lot of emotions mixed together. You can feel emotion, anxiety, you can also laugh, scream and experience seconds of death. When you ride a roller coaster you are actually tracking a path in several minutes, and this is what I feel while reading the poem. Is like is the author is giving us several minutes to enjoy life because death is coming.

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

1) What emotions/feelings do you have after reading the poem?

Confrontation, challenge, and confusion are the feelings I felt while reading the poem. It is a situation where you get worried and confused because you need to make a decision soon and that decision might mark your life.

2) How does your chosen image reflect the emotions conjured by the poem?

I interpret the poem as if someone has to take a path in life; his or her mind is picturing two roads and one is the one that is going to take him or her to a end. Which one??, that's the question with no answer.... The picture shows a human looking down because he is confused with the two paths that look the same in front but he is still confronting his feelings and thoughts.

Emily Dickinson – I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

1) What emotions/feelings do you have after reading the poem?

Desperation, stress, desire to quit, anxiety, noise was what it popped to my head once I start reading the poem and as that explosion in my head continued I finally felt silence, everything was over. Everything turned into peace and silence.

2) How does your chosen image reflect the emotions conjured by the poem?

I relate all those feelings with a clock alarm. You want to sleep, but at the same time you need yo start your day. You have so many things in mind that you want to stop TIME for a moment. Everything was calm and all of a sudden an explosion of feelings captures your mind until it explodes and shut up, and there is where you relax.

Gwendolyn Brooks – We Real Cool

1) What emotions/feelings do you have after reading the poem?

Music, noise, happiness, special memories, and smiles came to my mind.

2) How does your chosen image reflect the emotions conjured by the poem?

This image is representing live. We are born as babies, grown and become children, then into adults, but at the end of those stages you will always keep memories that will help you revive special moments. I choose the image because as I read the poem I imagine a woman sitting down remembering all the fun and unique moments she lived.

Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1) What emotions/feelings do you have after reading the poem?

Once I read it I got submerge in a dark image that produced me terror, depression, and a feeling of death. But in the middle of that death a light, showing that in the middle of that darkness there was still hope, desire, and fierce; or maybe a constant fight between life and death.

2) How does your chosen image reflect the emotions conjured by the poem? A man is passing through a situation where life and death are against, he is more or less walking in the middle of the darkness from one light (life) to another (heaven or hell). The circle in this image as he walks is making him realize and get confused to take a decision. The 4 lines can represent the paths he has to choose. A light in the middle of Darkness.