February 28, 1996
E2-10
On His Having
Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
To Help You
Understand
2. In the first eight lines the poet,
John Milton, is talking about his character and how on the inside he still
feels like a child. The character still
wants to enjoy life as a kid and go around and have fun. He feels that he did not get enough time to
enjoy his childhood and he plunged way too fast into manhood.
John Milton also describes the phisical details
of his character. He tells about how
eventhough he feels like a child and wants to remain a child his body refuses
and keeps on growing into an aduld.
Tears
To Help You
Understand
2. From tears she hopes to buy back a
little happiness and peace. The author,
Mary Coleridge, is sick and tired of all the wars fought and lives lost and
just wants it all to end.
She is putting herself in the place of a
soldier and remembers the past and how happy it was. She also wishes for the silence that comes
with tears and how crying just calmes you at times.
Do Not Go Gently
Into That Good Night
To Help You
Understand
1. By "that good night", the
author describes the time for everyone to pass away. He is explaining how some people take death
as it comes to them and do not try to fight it and run away from it, but then
there are also those who are scared of dying and cannot accept the fact that
sooner or later time will come for them to pass away.
2. The third stanza is about people who
in their life they have tried to do good deeds.
Now, death starts creeping up on them and as they notice what is not
supposed to happen they remember about their life and the good they have
done.
The fourth stanza is about people who
have gone out and enjoyed life to its fullest extent and now, as they learn
that their time has come also, they admit that they are sad they have to go but
still do not try to fight their fate.
The fifth stanza is about the very old
people who eventhough it is their time to go they cannot admit it. In their eyes you could see their terror and
freight and also rage.
3. The author is advising us to fight
death at whatever time it comes for us.
He tells us that there really is never a good time for death.
To Help You
Appreciate
1. The last two lines are mainly the
whole message of the poem. The
repetition of
these lines is supposed to make people realize that no matter who you are you
are still supposed to fight death and never let it catch you.
2. The rhyme scheme gives the whole poem
a beat and it makes you follow it. By
following this rhythm, the reader makes it sound in a special way, the way the
author intended it to sound like. By
having this rhythm, the reader also gives life of some sort to the poem.
3. We can tell that a man wrote this
poem because in every stanza, except for the first and last one, the author
only talks about men. The whole poem in
fact is written from a man's point of view.
To an Athlete
Dying Young
To Help You
Understand
1. The dead athlete got lucky according
to the poet because his name will never be forgotten by the town's people. Usually news is talked about for a while,
during the time when it is still new to some people, and then it is forgotten,
but the dead athlete is remembered forever.
2. All triumphs, no matter how glorious
and spectacular they are, are forgotten about after time passes and people stop
talking about it.
3. The line "And the name died
before the man" of the fifth stanza means that whatever someone is famous
for and people know him for will be forgotten and after a while people will not
care for him anymore because he is old news.
This is how it always happens, no matter how grand someone is their fame
will not last them their whole life.
"The Deeper Meanings"
The poem Tears is
talking about arguements and violence in our world and how it all depresses
everybody. It makes you think about how
so many problems are caused by violence and in turn, trying to solve them,
problems are causing violnce. Many
innocent people are killed in this dark and messed up world for not looking,
dressing, or thinking a certain way.
Do not Go Gently
into that Night is about death and how people should overcome their fears and
comfront it. Then again, everybody dies
sooner or later and it makes no sense to try to fight it because age will just
add more pain. In my opinion death is
just a relief to save us from our misery, or just start again if you have lived
a good life flourishing with happiness.
The poem To an Athlete Dying Young is about
people who had real big plans for their life and wanted to become something,
but never got the chance because their life had so sadly ended. Some people intend to really stay on track
and want become someone but never get the chance because of some terrible
accident or someone kills them before their time.
Every one of the poems mentioned above deals
with death and how to handle it. Each
one has different circumstances in which death occurs or is introduced. In Tears, the author talks about wars and how
she is shedding tears for the misery to end and for people to know the meaning
of "peace". Do Not Go Gently
Into That Night describes how different kinds of people deal with their own
death. The poem To An Athlete Dying
Young is about a known and loved young runner who dies at a very young age and
his whole town mourns his death.
Even though the poems have some characterstics
in common they are also different in some ways.
For example, Tears is about crying over the deaths of other people and
crying for the terror to end. To An
Athlete Dying Young talks about an innocent young man who dies way too
early. Only the poem Do Not Go Gently
Into That Good Night actually talks about facing death and having to handle it.
It describes how different people feel about dying and the author is
encouraging us not to give in and accept death.
Discussing In Depth
Facing Death
To most people
death is a terrible thing that they could never face. Most people are afraid of dying or even think
about the time when they are going to die.
Personally, it does not really bother me because it has kind of grown
onto me over the years. Everybody will
die sooner or later and the older you get the harder it becomes because of the
sicknesses and strength. I think that it
is better to pass away at an earlier age than grow very old and be like a
vegetble.
Some people in this world lead very unhappy
lives filled with misery and distress.
In my opinion for those people the best thing would be to die. Living like that is just a waste because they
could never have any happiness in their life.
Living your whole life in agony and anguish would be worse than death.
Of course there are also people who do not have
that many problems and are enjoying their life.
I can understand why those people would not want to die because the live
in such happiness and are enjoying every day to the fullest. Then again, I do not see the point in being
afraid to die because they have no power over when they are going to go.
I have noticed that as people are more afraid
of death they grow more paranoid. This
causes them to have less enjoyment in their life they will hate their
future. These people can never be happy
because something will always be on their mind.
In conclusion, death is an unavoidable part of
the life cycle that no one can deviate from.
People have to relax and not worry about passing away because it will
happen with or without their worries.
Nitro (Youth Energy)
Our generations
Sees the world
not the same as before
We might as well
just throw it all
And live like
there's no tomorrow
We are the ones
Who are living
under the gun everyday
You might be gone
before you know
So live like
there's no tomorrow
Ain't gonna waste
this life
You ain't gonna
live it for me
Believe it
The official view
of the world has changed
In a whole new
way
Live fast cause
if you don't take it
You'll never make
it
So if you
understand me
And if you feel
the same
Then you will
know what nitro means
Gotta live like
there's no tomorrow
Ain't gonna waste
this life
You ain't gonna
live it for me
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