Week 27 Dialectic Journal

Excerpt from page 268 of The Aeneid

Wildly, back and forth,
Turnus gallops along the walls-a way in?-no way in.
As a wolf prowling in wait around some crowded sheepfold,
bearing the wind and rain in dead of night, howls
at chinks in the fence, and the lambs keep bleating on,
snug beneath their dams.  The wolf rages, desperate,
how can he maul a quarry out of reach?  Exhausted,
frenzied with building hunger, starved so long,
his jaws parched for blood.

I really like this part of the book.  Sometimes this book can be a little hard to read, but when there's war, it's awesome.  The description and everything are just awesome.  In the war parts it just sucks me in and I can't stop reading it! This part when I read it just stuck with me. I love all of the metaphors in it, comparing Turnus to a starved wolf, it just works so well. And the description is so intense, I just love it.

Week 26 Dialectic Journal

This week I'm using lyrics from Imogen Heap's song "Speeding Cars".

Here's the day you hoped would never come
Don’t feed me violence, just run with me
Through rows of speeding cars
The paper cuts, the cheating lovers
The coffee’s never strong enough
I know you think it’s more than just bad luck

There, there, baby
It’s just text book stuff
It’s in the ABC of growing up
Now, now, darlin’
Oh don’t lose your head
'Cause none of us were angels
And you know I love you, yeah




I like this song a lot because it was meant to be a song to help people who are going through tough times.  This is the first two stanzas (is that what they are called in songs?) of the song, and it just starts out talking about all the bad things that might happen.  The next one is the chorus of the song, and it just talks about all those things that you go through, you might want to just escape from it all, but you have to push through, because this is normal, the "ABC of growing up" as she says.  Over all a good song, I really like it. :D

Week 25 Dialectic Journal

This week I'm using Lyrics from the song "Matryoshka" by Hatsune Miku and Gumi.

Ah, I'm about to crack and burst, so I throw away all of my memories. Ah, I want to know, all the way to the bottom.

Uh, would you please dance even more?  Kalinka? Malinka? Just pluck the strings.  What should I do with this kind of emotions?  Won't you please tell me?  The signal reception is good, 5-2-4!  Freud? Keloid? Just hit the keys.  Let's just laugh everything off.  Hurry up and dance, you group of fools! I really like this song. :) It's about how the girl in the song can't handle her life anymore, so she's starting to  go crazy.  She spirals out of control and tries to bring her friend down with her ( the "Uh, would you please  dance even more?" is referring to her asking her friend to "dance" with her and forget life).  By the end, her friend pulls her out of it and she gets sane again, but the beginning parts of the song are really spastic. It's crazy and has a lot of metaphors throughout the song (like her asking her friend to "dance" with her). Over all, a great song. :D