My Brag

alright so i really didnt understand what we were supposed to post. I mean are we supposed to post like about us or make a resume?

Best of American Lit

oh man, i have learned so much this year. the main thing i have learned is that i love Dr. P. He is my alltime favorite teacher i have ever had. back to the curriculum portion, ive learned about colonial literature, modern literature, post modern literature... the list goes on and on. my favorite portion of what weve learned is the post modern, most recent part. not only do i undestand the topic, but i enjoy reading the post modern works of literature.

JOHNNY CYBERPUNK

Alright. so i read this story, understood it. but didnt really get the point of it. I mean its post modern because of all kinds of things. Back then girls didnt dress like that, all leather, very dominant, boy like. People didnt have implanted sunglasses on their face, the didnt have devises in their brain that were controlled by someone else. This story is kind of weird, kind of like the tralfalmadorian part of Slaughterhouse 5.

My Slaughterhouse

          The Book Slaughterhouse Five is an awesome example of post modernism. Vonnegut has random, reocurring, moments in this novel where he travels through time, so to speak. There are hundreds of examples of the five components of what post modernism stands for. Before I read this book, I hadn't quite fully grasped the concept of post modernism, and what it actually ment. After reading most of this novel, i feel like i hadve a completely new understand and grasp of post modernism, and what it tries to portray.
          Throught this novel, Vonnegut travels through time, in a way, and re-lives his life. He goes from his time in the war, to his daughter all grown up and getting married, to his time he got abducted by Tralfalmadorians and sent to their planet out in space. What is cool about his writing techniques is that he doesnt ever let the reader know, or give them any heads up, of when he goes in and out of this time periods. He just randomly switches and makes the reader think, and come away from the book, with a different persective than the person next to them. That right there is an awesome example of breaking the chronological order rule, or theory. Who says books, and life, has to go in the correct order. Your brain doesnt have to have everything dumbed down for it to recognize and understand what is going on around it.
          Another aspect of post modernism Vonnegut uses in this book is breaking the fourth wall. Which means the writer talks directly to the reader in a time where it is not meant to happen in. Theres a time in the book, when he is talking about something, i dont quite remember, and he randomly says, "It is me, it is I, the writer of this book." Which when you are in the moment, and reading the page, and you randomly get a curveball thrown at you, you dont know what just happened. That moment right there is the reasoning behind Vonnegut writing this book. Not all post modernism made sense, especially in the era which it was created in. That was the point! Authors didnt write these books so they could be thrown on another bookshelf at some random bookstore to be picked up once or twice in its lifespan. NO. They wrote these books to make readers think, fall in love, bring something to the table that has never been done before. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT IN POST MODERNISM.

Post Modernism Rough Draft with Kyle Stickler

Since Kyle, Roman and i were under the impression that the project Ashlie had assigned was not due til Friday, we hadnt had enough time to make our project amazing. Here is a clip from Fresh Prince of Bel-air. To us, this is a perfect example of post modernism-breaking the fourth wall. We plan on hacking this project and give examples of tv shows that give all 5 components of post modernism.


If we so rich...?

Last Hurrah!

i honestly loved the way class went today. i actually felt like Dr. preston gave a damn about us, which he always makes me feel that way. i absolutely am in love with the fact that he is letting us create our own project, and give ourself the timeline and due dates and everything! i loved the idea Amanda gave about the video. that honesly was my favorite topic of the day. I really do think it will be so awesome if we all made a little video or snippet of ourselves, and what people dont see from us on a daily basis. It will prove to all the staff, and our classmates, that we arent just another student in a desk and we are human. We do atually care about something and we put interest and effort into the things we care about most. Just because we dont care about reading, or the quadratic formula doesnt mean we are lousy people and only care about our cell phones and social media sites. I am so excited to get started on this project and see what everyone comes up with in the next couple of days.

Ch 3 Reading Notes

Roland and Billy get taken captive
Roland gets his stuff taken away from him by the Germans
He gets these horrible boots to wear
They make his feet into bloody puddles
They get put into a boxcar for several days
His old friend Wild Bob and him see eachother again
Wild Bob dies from pneumonia

Ch. 1 and 2 Reading Notes

This is book is trippy. Kind of confusing
Billy Pilgram is the main character
He can become unstuck in time
He sort of time travels, in a way.
Born in Ilium, New York
Served in the war
Roland Weary is the mean fat dude
Billy has bad fighting gear
He bobs up and down when walking
Billy has bad PTSD from the war
Refers everything back to Dresden
Roland beats the shit out of Billy

the end of gatsby

i am so proud of myself! i actually finished this book also!!!!
well first, daisy was driving gatsby's car and hits myrtle.
badd badd baaad
then gatsby dies!!!!!
and no one goes to his funeral
what the heck!

Ch 7 Reading Notes

Gatsby fired his servants and hired new ones
Daisy comes over in the afternoons so he didnt want them to talk
Who kissed who???
Why was tom there?
Gatsby met the daughter and doesnt like her
Daisy told Gatsby she loved him
Tom was astounded and his mouth dropped
A dollar twentyfor GAS?!?!?
Jordan Baker, whos wife?
Did they go to a hotel?
Why??
Gatsby went to Oxford for 5 months
OHHH! Tom Called Gatsby out!!
Gatsby told Tom Daisy doesnt love him
But Daisy loved Gatsby instead.
Daisy admitted she doesnt love Tom. Yet she backtracked and said she did.
Gatsby said he wants Daisy

ch. 6 reading notes

Gatsby changed his name from Gatz to Gatsby
He was a bootlegger when he was younger so he changed it to go on the run
Nick invites Tom to dinner to keep him enemies closer
Gatsby and Daisy dance while Tom is on the prowl somewhere else
Tom doesnt really care about Daisy, he uses her to look perfect
Daisy is more like a trophy wife than an actual loved wife
GATSBY KISSED DAISY!!!

Ch. 5 Reading notes

Gatsby and daisy go on a date
Gastby embarresses himself in front of her
nick tries to help them out
Gatsby reveals that he watched daisy from his house
he tells her about the green light

ch. 4 reading notes

Gatsby keeps some sort of thing in his pocket, a rock? piece of metal
Gatsby wants nick to make a date with him and daisy
a suprise date

Ezra's Life

Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. He was the child of Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Pound. His father worked as a Federal Land Officer, and eventually had moved his family to Philly due to him recieving a job at the U.S Mint. He had a pretty normal childhood, playing outside while his two parents happily watched. Witht the support of his parents, the age of 15 is when Ezra decided he was going to be a poet.  He went to a military school for half of his high school career, then finished it at a local public school nearby. Pound went to the University of Pennsylvania, later transfered to the Hamilton College in Clinton, recieving a bachelor's degree in philosophy. After moving abroad, he had a daughter with violinist Olga Rudge, and the following year had a son with wife Dorothy. Pound's most famous work, The Cantos was seperated int many different works. Most of which noticed after his death in 1972. He published over 70 books, and helped with 70 others and wrote over 1500 articles in his lifetime.

Documentary of Ezra Pound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdelS1J0as&feature=player_detailpage

My Question, Not Really Pressing Because I Could Care Less To Be Honest

Alright, so this "Pressing Question," i am supposed to have is kind of a question that i am sure everyone is gunna ask once they have read a tiny bit about this loon. Why in the world is he such a good writer, if the way he thinks and acts is crazy. He heils Hitler, and is one of his little minions, yet his poems are pretty awesome. Like this dude is almost bipolar in a way. I guess the answer to this question is that most writers are bipolar in some way or another. I guess not him so much, but a lot of writers write about their life, or their feelings. Pound kind of writes in that way, but he writes more about images and what he sees than what he really feels. Im guessing that is more of my answer. He could sit in a park and write a million short poems, each more moving than the next, but yet that is not his intention. Like Cory had said in class the other day, many artists write just to write. Many people think there is more meaning then is really on the page. People always have to find meanings for everything, they cant just read something and go on. I think that is why Pound IS such a good poet. He just writes, and doesnt really think anything of it. Im sure there are some poems that he is really passionate about, but reading a lot of his material, he just writes becasue he was either bored on some sort of drug. haha im so funny.

Old Ezra

Young  Old  Older



decrepit

Unleash the Demons

Heather: i actually really like the way Ezra writes. He does make me visualize what he is talking about, and/or looking at as he is writing this. When he talks about the black panther and the white girl, it robs everything else around him of color. To me, it makes me think of how dominant the black and white are. The fact that he used "panther" and "leopard" as animals is like a rough soft touch. Both of these animals are cute and cuddly but very visious. They are beautiful animalss but you cant trust them. Saying that the white girl is coming down from the tree, makes me foreshadow and wonder what the animals will or wont do.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/heather-5/

A Ballad of a Mulberry Road: i really like this poem. The first verse talks solomly of the young pretty girl. He really describes the way she does things. Her hair, how its on the left side of her head with a headpiece. The way he makes the reader imagine what the basket looks like, and how she holds it on her shoulders. The second verse talks more about what she looks like. The color of her skirts, her earrings, and the way she makes the boys look at her. By this poem, you can tell she is very attractive and makes heads turn. Not one time did he say anything about that in this poem. Yet the way he describes everything, you get that understanding.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-the-mulberry-road/

Ezra on the Strike: this poem is one of those autobiography poems. He is writing about his strike and the United States portion of his life. He really does describe about Thanksgiving coming soon, and the days and nights getting colder, coal getting cheaper and turkeys more expensive.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ezra-on-the-strike/

La Descriptiones De Imaginista

Imagist Description: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5658

Nicotine: ..."So thou my mist-enwreathéd queen,
Nicotine, white Nicotine,
Riding engloried in they hair
Mak'st by-road of our dreams
Thy thorough-fare."
Este poema es un gran ejemplo de imaginism. Se da gran descripción de lo que Ezra estaba tratando de retratar.

Salutation:... "I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
I have seen their smiles full of teeth
and heard ungainly laughter."
Este poema saludo realmente le da una buena descripción de lo que Ezra había visto. Él quiere que el lector vea lo que ve.

A Virginal: ..."Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers.
Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches..."
Ezra siente vientos suaves, y trata de explicar a lo largo de ver verde a su alrededor. El uso de las metáforas como lo hace, por lo que usted visualiza los árboles en la primavera.

A Girl: ..."The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast -
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms."
Esto es realmente peom givng una gran descripción de la ezra árbol está en. Hablando de la savia y las ramas como brazos realmente te da la descripción visual que necesita.

Heather: ..."The milk-white girls
Unbend from the holly-trees,
And their snow-white leopard
Watches to follow our trace."
 La lectura de este poema realmente me hizo imaginar a una niña blanca que baja de un árbol. Esto realmente me hizo imaginar una nieve blanca leopardo al acecho esperando a la chica

Author's Credo

"The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Read more at http://www.ranker.com/list/a-list-of-famous-ezra-pound-quotes/reference#FxdJMUMU0tZCaF1A.99

The words "vortex," and "cluster," already are painting a picture in my head. "Fused ideas," are making me think of ideas put together, almost bonded together. This quote is totally perfect for him. I mean he was an imagist who painted pictures using words for his readers. Imagists take ideas and pictures and describe them, using words. They write poems in which using every detail of what they are descibing. The paint you pictures in your head t "imagine" what they are talking about. Every little detail counts, and you need to see what they see right down to the itty bitty minor details. 

Before Sleep: ..."You were gone up as a rocket,
Bending your passages from right to left and from left to right
In the flat projection of a spiral."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501905-Before_Sleep-by-Ezra_Pound


The Bathtub: ..."As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501923-The_Bath-Tub-by-Ezra_Pound


Nicotine: ..."As were Godiva's coming fated
And all the April's blush belated
Were lain before her, carpeting
The stones of Coventry with spring"
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501919-Nicotine-by-Ezra_Pound