Monday, March 29, 2010

days dont get much worst than this


My worst day is one I never want to relive.

Before I start off on the retelling of my worst day, I would like to fill the reader in on a few facts about my life. My family has always been really close, but my mom and I are by far the closest! She’s my whole, I tell her everything, is my best friend.
My worst day took place 3 years ago Feb 10th, my mom and I were sitting in the living with room, finishing the planning on my birthday party, which was the next day February 11th. I looked up at my mom and all the sudden her speech wasn’t sounding right, it started to come up all slurred and uneasy. She tried to get up and she wasn’t able to. My mom fell back into the chair in our living room, unable to talk clearly or move. An uneasy feeling set over my stomach and I immentaitley ran to get my dad who was down stair on the exercise bike.
“ Dad, Something’s Wrong with Mom!” I screamed. At first he looked at me with disbelieve but than I gave him a look of urgency, and he realized I was serious. We both sprinted back up the steps, my dad told me that he need my help to get mom in the car to take her to the ER. At the point my mom could barely walk, carrying her was struggle not only physically but emotionally. Upon arrival at the hospital my dad gave me the keys and I had me park the car. I sat in the parking lot crying, I just couldn’t stop because I knew my mom was sick. She had a stroke, Within the weeks to follow my mom had 2 more strokes and spent a total of 8 weeks in Milwaukee Hospital before surprising everyone, being the complete miracle she is and pulling through. My mom now does the ads for the hospital that saved her life.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Reading cliff notes of the Brothers K verus reading the novel is like drinking a diet coke when you know theres a regular cola near by.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Final Sonnet& Door Poem

Lights Lights,
Turn off,
Garbage Garbage,
Pick up,
Desks Desk,
Put Back,
Leave Leave,
Please


Your smile has a glow of a sunny day,
With plenty a warmth and a comfort glow,
That constant grin tells me everything okay,
Temperate is high and the days pass slow,

Your love fills a missing in my lone soul,
This kind of feeling only Disney can describe,
Happy, this has became a love I now know,
One look at you make every part of me come alive.

I pinch myself to know that this loves real,
Everyday I thank the angels up above,
The happy and the joy, that you help me feel,
For sending me you, and this great love

Your presence gives me a great desire wanting desire,
So come on baby and light up this fire.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Found Poems

After our discussion in class about how poetry can be found just about anywhere I decided to investaigate this further, and I found my return slip from nordstroms order& checked it out. Who would have even nordstroms can be poetric.

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Found Poem:The presentation of a borrowed text or found object as a poem or as part of a poem

Friday, March 5, 2010

Writing Sonnets is alot tougher than thought, to bad Will Shakesphere isn't here to share some insight.
This is my favorite shakesphere sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd: 
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I started writing mine own sonnet but i'm kind of stuck...
Kendra's Sonnet take one
This is a sonnet written for my boyfriend James we've been together for about a year and half :)

Your smile is like a sunny day,
With plenty a warmth and a glow,
That constant grin makes me realize everything is safe and okay,
The temperate is high and the days pass slow,

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Female Archetype


I enjoyed the Chekhov version better than the Oates. Yes the Chekhov was wordy. All that extra detail made Chekhov version more interesting to the reader than Oates telling. I loved the way Chekhov described Anna, it helped the reader to visualize her character. Chekhov style of writing kind of reminded me of early fairytale styles (I don’t know of any fairytales about affairs but very similar with the wordiness in the text.) Being a kid who was raised on Disney movies, when we were asked in class to research the female archetypes I immediately thought back as my days growing up watching Disney movies. My favorite movie, was one that came to mind right away the Little Mermaid. Ariel the beloved mermaid is the talked into making a deal with Ursula the evil sea witch (who is the negative female archetype) so Ariel can have legs and walk on land with her Prince. The deal making with Ursula symbolizes making a deal with the devil (another concept we talked about in class.) Every story really is a retelling.
I looked up the definition of Female archetype; I found a total of four in my search. The positive type, which includes: the earth mother, great mother and any mother figure. Then there’s the negative type the temptress, example would be the late great Marilyn Monroe. Than there’s a Platonic Ideal type and last but not least the is the femme fatale type which are women like the black widow spider.