Dialectic Journal Week 11

I'm using lyrics from "Rolling Girl" by Hatsune Miku.  Adverbial clauses are underlined.

Lonely Girl always looked at unreachable dreams
Making a fuss if you got inside her head and disturbed, disturbed.

"No problem."was murmured, but weren't those words lost?

Fail again, fail again.
After ending your search for mistakes, it spins again!

Once more, once more.
"I'll also roll today,"
That girl says, that girl says,
Playing her words with meaning

"Are you better now?"
"It's still a ways off, I still don't see the point. I'm gonna hold my breath, now."

Okay, so this my favorite song (at moment) because the lyrics are just so good!
I feel that the lyrics apply to me also... in the end it ends up happy though~ ^^
It's about a girl who doesn't fit in to society's "perfect" girl.  She puts on a fake smile and tries to be like them, but she keeps messing up, and they catch her at it.  The people that care about her ask if she's okay, and she says she is, but she actually isn't.  She's "Gonna hold her breath" and wait to be accepted.  And she goes through a lot, and ends up wanting to kill herself, but than someone finds her and accepts her for who she is, and she gets better finally, and she can stop holding her breath.
This song shows that people aren't always happy like seem to say they are.  You should accept them for who they are and don't make them follow societies "perfect" person.  It can have dire consequences.

 

Week 10 Dialectic Journal

lyrics from "My Heartstrings Come Undone" by Demon Hunter

When my heartstrings come undone
I will wait for you, pray for you
Before I make my final run
I will stay with you, decay with you

I know I'm not the perfect one, This pain has just begun
It's something I already chase, I already chase
You bring me to a better path, It's everything I asked
It's something I don't wanna face, I don't wanna face

There's nothing left! The fear is gone!

This is a really good song.  It has good lyrics and good tune and everything.
I like it because he sings about how he's not perfect, but he'll always be there for you (I'm not sure who "you" is, might be a lover, might be a friend, I don't know).  I like how he will go through things he fears most, what he "doesn't wanna face".  It's a very inspirational song.

Week 8 Dialectic Journal

I am using an excerpt from " Sondok, Princess of the Moon and Stars" by Sheri Holman.

"Lord Lin Fang is even more imposing up close than at a distance.  He has a thin gray beard and eyebrows so overgrown they curl like tiger's whiskers.  His gaze is knowing and serious and he seems to hold a million secrets.  Father presented me and I bowed deeply.  Lord Lin Fang seemed surprised to see me, a girl, at such an important gathering, and even more startled to learn I was my father's heir."

So Lord Lin Fang is a very mysterious man.  Sondok (the narrator of the story) seems at awe when she sees him.  He is obviously dissapointed in the princess (Sondok) and doesnt widh to speak with her or get to know her.  The writing in this passage (and throughout the rest of the book) is very simple.  probably geared towards younger audiences.

Dialectic Journal Week 4

This weeks journal is short.. sorry.   I'm using the last lyrics from a song called "Koi Wa Sensou (Love is War)" by Hatsune Miku. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jf3rEzIFpA

Prepare for a counterattack
I'm fighting a losing battle
Love is blindness
Your kiss opens my eyes.

This is one of my favorite songs because it's well written and it sounds great!  It's originally in Japanese, but I translated it for you. All through it it compares love to warfare.  I like this part because all through she is angry and doesnt like love, but in the end she realizes that love is good.

Dialectic Journal Week 3

Excerpt is the second verse of  "Each in His own Tongue" by William Carruth. 
A haze on the far horizon,
The infinite tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of cornfields,
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the goldenrod--
Some of us call it Autumn
And others call it God.


I like this poem, I think it's beautiful.   I love how well it describes Autumn, my favorite season.  I can visualize it very well, the beautiful attributes of Autumn.  I think the author did a very good job on the poem. 
I like how Carruth makes it for all for all people, so everyone can enjoy it, this beautiful well written poem.

Appositive phrases underlined. 

Week 2 Dialectic Journal

This week I'm using the second stanza from Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est. 

Gas! GAS! Quick boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim though the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

First of all, I just love this poem.  I like how it's in first and second person, so it's like you're actually there, in the war getting gassed.  I like how the author is so honest, he doesn't make war seem fun and heroic, he tells you the cold hard truth.  And how he makes it seem as the gas is a sea, green and deep, makes it more realistic, like you are there watching a man drown in gas.  I just think this poem well is written, and beautiful.

I underlined the appositive phrases.  

^w^

How to Read Literature Like a Professor.

So this is my first time doing this sort of thing and I'm not exactly sure how to do it..... But here goes.

When I read this bit from the book, I immediately knew it would be the part I would use for this blog.  I really like it. ^^

But we haven't read everything.

 Neither have I.  Nor has anyone, not even Harold Bloom.  Beginning readers, of course, are at a slight disadvantage, which is why professors are useful in providing a broader context.  But you definitely can get there on your own.  When I was a kid, I used to go mushroom hunting with my father.  I would never see then, but he'd say, "There's a yellow sponge," or "There are a couple of black spikes."  And because I knew they were there, my looking would become more focused and less vague.  In a few moments I would begin seeing them myself, not all of them, but some.  And once you begin seeing moral, you can't stop.  What a literature professor does is very similar: he tells you when you get near mushrooms.  Once you know that, though (and you generally are near them), you can hunt for mushrooms on your own. 

( from page 36 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster)

  

When I read this passage it encouraged me to keep on reading this book! I thought it was going to be so dry and boring... And at some parts it is a little boring, but it's not what I thought it was going to be!  I like how the author is so.... Truthful.  He says beginning reader is at a slight disadvantage, I'm glad I'm not a beginning reader! ^^  I love how he uses something that we can relate to well , picking mushrooms with his dad, as the example.  It makes it seem... I don't know, so much more real to me.  He makes it seem easy to start reading like a professor, and maybe it is.  all you have to do is start to see the mushrooms, and then you cant stop seeing them! ^^  

I can't wait to read the other half of this book. ^^

well, it's not very good, but it's my first time doing this, hopefully I'll get better at it. ^^