Week 15 Dialectic Journal

My entry this week is from the book "True Grit" by Charles Portis.

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen everyday.
I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, and one hundred and fifty dollars in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

These are the first two sentences of the book, and a very good opening to it I think. It get's right to the point, and you know immediately what the book's about. The main character (Matty) narrates the story, so it is written in the language she would use, I like that because it makes it more realistic. :) I've not finished reading the book yet, but so far it's really good! :)

Dialectic Journal Week 14

I'm using and excerpt from the poem "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick

Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong,
And, having prayed together, we
Will go with you along.

First of all, I choose this poem because I love daffodils~  they're so pretty. : )
This poem has a bunch of metaphors in it, all throughout.  like "Until the hasting day has run" and others.
I think this poem is really pretty, it triggers the images in your head really well. : )

Dialectic journal week 13

my poem for my dialectic journal is "Warmhearted" by Shel Silverstein.

Beatrice Bright is for animal rights-
She's wait for Animal Day to arrive.
And though you see her in her new fox fur,
the fox she wears is alive.

This is a funny little poem.  I like this because, like most of Shel Silvertstein's poems, it's short, funny, and doesn't make sense. XD  it has imagery, using sight and feeling (she's wearing her fox fur on her neck).