Justice?

When I think of justice, I think of courts and such because that's how justice is delivered now. I think justice is something that should be delivered to someone when they commit some sort of wrongdoing. This is because they deserve it, and justice is the punishment for it. I think the Ewells deserve justice. The standard of justice is an eye for an eye. It should be done back to them what they have done to others. I don't think Tom Robinson deserves any justice. However, I do believe that the group of people with Mr. Cunningham also deserve justice, for the way that they operate, the way they wish to incite fear into others without regard for their lives or anything. I think justice should be served swiftly unless the wrongdoing that the person committed was slow and painful. Eye for an eye, retribution should be brought upon them the way they have brought pain onto others. This means I believe in capital punishment. Eye for an eye is the standard in which justice should be served, and once justice has been served, they both should be in the same position, if the man had inflicted a wound so much that it would cripple the other man, then that man should be crippled very much in the same way. I think that's how justice should be served, anyway.

Film v. Print

On film, the story is depicted more visually and with more sounds. Descriptions appeal to our senses immediately, there is only surface though. A broad surface, I might add, but through books, you must dig layer into layer, like the pages within a book. You will uncover intelligent information with a narrow surface, sometimes expanded by the author, but still, no matter what, extremely narrow compared to the big screen. You must, if a film adaption was in the question, find a good balance point between the two. Because only then can you have a satisfied crowd of people watching the movie. The movie has a lot more potential for story and visuals and audio effects, because instead of having to visualize everything in our heads we already have it visualized, it just requires interpretation. Then, it saves space for our brains to think about other things, rather than in a book that we are already occupied with the details and then still have to ponder about the plot and other plot devices that require thinking. Movies have more potential, but people usually emerge through books. You can easily wreck the production of the movie, but books will tend to remain more in the positive light of critics more often than films because films are harder to pull off.

American Poetry Today

Poetry today is found at special, classy meetings at cafes with lesbian waitresses and a live jazz band playing with coffee served in a tall cup with creative sounding names such as "Java storm" or "Mocha Delight" surrounded by "modern and contemporary" art that is merely something abstract and random branded as art, with lofty chairs for its audiences and dim lighting. Also, adobe painted walls and black tiled floors are essential, the cashier's table shouldn't look like a table but rather a wavy reincarnation, and behind where they make coffee should be various earth toned colored objects filled in the area. The crowd is quiet, and the stage has a poet presenting his material. The material is golden, mostly free verse and has the crowd awe-struck, no matter the quality of the work, the crowd is amused.
Another form of poetry is also found in music today. Most of the time the music carries no content, just being an empty chain of sounds played to keep the listener's attention, but rather some other songs would carry a deeper meaning with its lyrical content. Music is poetry, as it can express happiness, grief, anger, etc, all in one song.

Letter to the World

I believe Emily Dickinson meant by "This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to Me" is implying some sort of self deserving attitude that she had been longing for. She has so much self pity that she had wish the world itself had written to her a letter explaining how sorry it was to her about her potential spouses dying. This is why she locked herself in a room and wrote poetry - because she was pitying herself so much and writing poetry to express that pity in the form of written catharsis about how much the world should've given to her that she even wished for the world itself to write her a letter expressing its condolences for her. I do not share her feelings, she should've just manned up and faced the world in whatever she had instead of locking herself inside a room and feeling sorry. She needs to stop feeling sorry for herself and just go out and do things. Even though her writings today might be worth some sort of entertainment value, she could've accomplished more in that walking corpse of hers than just writing poems and instead actually doing things.

Boot Soles

What Walt Whitman means by Boot Soles is his quixotic idea that we'll all naturally decay into the earth into calm, living soil that will nurture the world from under them. Under the boot soles, that is. That is simply what he had meant, and he had meant it literally. Another thing is that Walt Whitman also implies we're all going to die. This is what he had meant by the quote, "if you want me again look under your boot soles," he is saying this for all of humans that we'll be returned to the earth. Walt Whitman sounds like a very outdoorsy, impractically idealistic and chivalrous type of person. A typical American author of the 1800th century, Walt Whitman is that type of person. This is all he had meant by the quote and nothing more, it addresses all of humanity and our fragility and easiness to die. He is also trying to draw off superiority and such from the modern reader to imply that he is just like us, that he will die and fade into time and also be returned to mother nature. That is simply my interpretation on his quote, and that is the best that I can draw from it.

Sound Effects in “The Raven”

The rhymes in the Raven give it this dramatic and scary feeling as you read it, because naturally these rhymes flow so well that it just makes you read faster. Faster and faster, with the addition of alliterations and the internal rhymes, it speeds things up easily and then you can't even comprehend how fast you're reading because your eyes are just moving across and your mouth is having a hard time catching up. It's kind of hard to realize the power of these rhymes until you read these poems, ones that flow so well with these rhymes. The rhyming is just so strict and well-versed and so beautifully put together that it makes the reader's mouth bleed and sweat ammonia. Urine leaks out of pants and drains from the body, as the person perspirates and cries out in tears of sodium hydroxide as it slowly dissolves the entire face and nothing left but a shadowy visage of the person reciting the rhymes of this poem, that is the power of these rhymes. The sound effects are crazy and enticing, embracing yet unforgiving, once you fall into the trap, you will never come out. It is a bottomless pit, a helldom of hells and a tartaros of burning fiery wrath.

Symbol of the Raven

The raven stands for something high and royal. The colors of the raven are midnight blue and sometimes black, but yet a prismatic gleam when you look at it under a certain light. It is a symbol of esoteric power, crypticness and arcane powers that the boy would never understand. All he knows is that Lenore is somehow related to this bird, and his insanity for her has driven him to project such an elegant creature. Yet at certain times, it is mistaken for a crow - the lowly crow- and that could describe its sinisterness in this poem, how the Raven simply draws upon the boy's nightmares and wishes and then crushes them with just one word: nevermore. The raven is a classic symbol of elegance, and as mentioned by Mr. McCool in class before, the raven was the creature that flew around and around on top of Noah's ark in the Book of Genesis, so there was some sort of truth in that when it had some trace of malice in it. The raven is one to screw with people, to better put it in a layman's terms, because they like stealing things, make fun of people (symbolically) and that's pretty much it.