Week 21 Dialectic Journal

For this week I'm using the poem "Unfair" by Shel Silverstein.

They don't allow pets in this apartment.
That's not decent, that's not fair.
They don't allow pets in this apartment.
They don't listen, they don't care.
I told them he's quite and never does bark,
I told them he'd do all his stuff in the park,
I told them he's cuddly and friendly, and yet-
They won't allow pets.


This poem is funny because in the book with the poem there is a picture.  The poem makes you think of a dog or a cat or something, but the picture shows that it's actually a big monster.   I like how this rhymes, it gives it a nice ring.  Like most of Silverstein's poems, this is short and funny.  I like that about his poems. 

Week 19 Dialectic Journal

For this week's dialectic journal, I'll be using letter LXIV-A from "The Ides of March".

Porcia, daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato of Utica, being married to Marcus Junius Brutus the tyrannicide, was aware that her husband was concealing from her the plans that he was then revolving for the liberation of the Roman people.  On a night she plunged a dagger deep into her thigh.  For many hours she gave no groan nor any sign of the great pain that consumed her.  In the morning she showed her husband this wound, saying: If I have kept silent about this thing, can I not be trusted to keep the counsels of my lord?  Thereupon her husband embraced her weeping and communicated all the thoughts that he had kept hidden in his soul.

This letter is very interesting to me.  When I read it, it just stuck with me.
I like how Porcia showed her husband, that she would keep quiet, she stuck a knife into her thigh!  that's one strong woman.  And in her strength, she showed her husband that he could trust her, and he did.  He saw her wound, and then he told her everything.