Poem Analysis

Alfred Tennyson was a Victorian times English poet who wrote poetry for the queen that made him very popular at his time. His poems are still relevant nowadays and for my poem analysis I was assigned to Annalise one of his poems. This poem is called " Fatima", the title already give us a glympse about what the poem may be about , Fatima is a woman's name originated in Arabian countries and very popular among Muslims and Catholics also because of the myth of the Fatima Virgin, Fatima in Arabic means Unique, so now we can predict that the poem may involve a woman or an Arabian country. The poem itself tells the monologue of a grieving woman suffering and seeking for her lover.

It starts with the word LOVE repeated three times with an exclamation mark so we know now the poems main theme is love, then the withering might ,the powerful pain the woman is feeling that makes her feel like a rottening flower dying slowly, with Emotional language Tennyson expresses the heat the woman feels may be for her pain or because she is really dehydrated. Poetic devices are present in this first stanza, an alliteration when the "thro" sound is repeated in the fourth verse, and a simile in the last verse

" I whirl like leaves in roaring wind"

Such a strong line that contains so much and depicts the woman's impotence as she feels so weak that she cannot fight the wind but let's herself go like the lifeless leaves that fall from trees.In the second stanza by the use of imagery the poem takes us to the night before  as the woman wonders through a city with "eastern towers" another clue that sets us in an Middle East country. Now is when the figurative language comes and the speaker expresses her desire for love as a necessity for water " I thirsted for the brooks the showers". A hyperbole is found in the following verses  and a enjambement.

" I looked athwart the burning drouth

 Of that long desert to the south"

 the woman is laying in a bed of flowers that can surely be just her imagination when she sees the  desert vertically and feels the drouth of her heart, the sentence it's not finished instead it continues in the following verse so it's an enjambement and the hyperbole is the exaggeration when the speaker refers to the burning drouth of the desert and a desert full of sand cannot burn. In the third stanza the speaker takes us again to that night but know she s not alone as someone speaks the name of her love one and swaps her off her feet, " a thousand little shafts of flame " this metaphor portraits how she feels when she hears his name as if her blood was so hot it would burn her edges and veins as little flames, this metaphor is easy to understand as it symbolizes when a person blushes or sweats because of their emotions of love , fear, that have an effect in the body thats not easy to control.

  "O love, o fire once he drew 

with one long kiss my whole soul thro' "

Here an emjambement takes place connecting the nineteenth verse with the twentieth and in the last a hyper baton is found when the poet changes the order of the sentence in order to give more emphasis to the sentence that depicts how the speaker feels when she is kissed by her lover she feels the love and the heat and she feels he touches her soul and get to know it. On the last verse of the third stanza there's another simile when the speaker puts the kiss they shared and their wet lips in contrast with the morning dew. In the fourth stanza the poem takes a shift as a possibility of reunion is shown, the

speaker feels her lover coming towards her even if she can't see him and a beautiful simile
symbolises again the love with nature elements.

" Sweet gales as from deep gardens, blow ".

 She feels the love as an appeasement that cools her as wind from leafy forests, when she realises her lover is coming she " Faints like a daled morning moon" in this simile she falls to the ground like the moon when the earth rotates and leaves it invisible to the human eye. In the last stanza a last simile takes place as she in on the ground she looks to the sunset and feels the wind in her ears sound like a tense wire and in the sunset a fire that represents the sun that is a ball of fire.

The poem is compose of five stanzas with thirty verses in total, the first four are septets which means they have seven verses but the last one is composed of only two which makes it a couplet a heroic couplet I think the poet made this so that the last stanza has more power than the others this finale
with the speaker swooned in the ground gives us an open ending as she looks to the sun that it's in a
twilight so the night will come soon and with it shadow and hope. As I said the theme of the poem is
clearly live but not only love but the pain of being in love, the pain of not being with the one you love
the dryness and emptiness. The poem has rhymes at the end of all its verses so the whole poem rhymes it's not a sonnet because it's long but could be a ballad aldo it doesn't have an abcb pattern of rhyme the rhymes go aaaabbb. The meter foot used in "Fatima" is  pattern of iambic verses going unstressed and stressed syllables.

As a conclusion i thought this poem is a good work by mister Tennyson and gets to convey the feelings the speaker is felling to the reader, you get to feel sorry for the speaker and that its an accomplishment.

Written Task Corrected

Dear Dill,

Its funny how ironic things can be in real life, yesterday events where a little like that I think? Before I tell you what happened I’m just gonna say Im fine. If you are wondering, Atticus and Aunt Alexandra alright too.

As you know in my school every Halloween we make a performance on stage. Mrs. Merriweather composed a pageant and I was going to act on it along with other kids of my school, seems fun right? Well it wasn’t, Mrs. Merriwather thought it would be adorable to dress up the kids as Maycomb’s agricultural products. I was to be a ham, If you had seen me you would laugh so hard you would had fell from your sit, the only thing I did enjoy was watching Cecil Jacobs dress up like a cow. My costume by the way was a bit uncomfortable, Jem said I looked like a ham with legs, but the costume was too big aldo I thank god I had it on that day.

In my imagination I assumed my presentation would be perfect and that all Maycomb County was going to watch me preform including Atticus and Aunt Alexandra but it wasn’t like that. Only Jem saw my performance on stage as the other family members had several excuses for not attending to my show. Anyway, I did a special performance to Cal and Auntie at home and Jem said he would walk me to the school and back. The sky was full of grey fat clouds and it was a warm weather for October so we thought it would rain when we got home. When we were passing the Radley place Cecil jumped from the bushes and made us scream of fright so in my head I started plotting vengeance. At school Cecil and me stay together and Jem gave me thirty cents so Cecil and me collected money to go to the house of horrors, don’t you worry you didn’t lost any fun as the house was a disappointment for the both of us.

Rationale, To Kill a Mockingbird Written Task

For my written task I wrote an informal letter from the main character point of view about the issue in the books ending. The letter was from Scout to Dill because he is not in Maycomb when the events happen so its very credible that Scout would write a letter to him and its informal because they are best friends.

My task is not directed to a certain group of people but for anyone who likes the book and wants to read fan fiction and I think I would be published on my English class blog.

In my letter I tried to present how the character is according to the book and how she reacts after the things that happen through the last chapters and how this changes her point of view about things and make her become more mature evolving as a child to a pre-teenager with a impeccable moral compass and a very open minded opinions about race, feminism and discrimination.

For my next written task or essay I will try to overcome the things I didn’t achieve in this one like the grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization where I had errors. Also for this task we had a lot of time to finish it so I have to improve my writing so I write faster in the future.

Written Task: Article

Now a days in the most part of the world people are insert in a society sorrounded by Media.What is media anyway? The diccionary says media is the main means of mass communication regarded collectivelly. So basiclly media is the T.V , newspaper, radio, magazines, ads and all other things we see almost every day.

As everything in this world we live in it has good and bad things. If we think of the good things there are a lot it give us communication, entertaiment, news, etc. Thanks to the media we can know what is happening in other places and get inform of important issues so we can get informed and create a personal opinion of what is right and what is wrong. But what if the thing the media is telling us is not entirely true or key information is missing. What if their making us form an opinion based on what they think or favour their particular interests, that is Media Manipulation. So what can we do about this? How do we know what is real and what is a lie?

When televison was invented media was trusted people never thougt that what they were seeing,hearing or reading where not entirely true or lies. Nobody can say today that it is easy to difference media manipulation and bias from sincere news, we never know if what they are telling us is entirely true. Some people think that if a lot of people believe in it its real, but thats exactly what manipulators want us to think. So the best method it may be to see what they might win for promoting an idea true or fake, most of the time it is money or protection, but in blogger, twitter, facebook, and all other social media the thing is different, if they want money they must have alot of followers and then they promote thing or ideas even products. So who can we trust her? sadly no one , because we never know if its real or not. So what we can do is still listen to the media in fact listen to more media and know all the points of view of the issue, inform ourselves of how media manipulation and bias works and finally decide by ourselves what we think its true or not.

Wait but how does the media manipulation works? Well there are ALOT of techniques and types of media manipulation. If you know how it works the will surelly be way more easier to identify. Noam Chumsky the famous linguistics teacher says there are ten principal estrategies that are the most common and powerfull.

First there is "the strategy of distraction" it consist in distract the public from the particular issue by showing information that will make them ignore the issue. The second want is "create problems then offer a solution" that as the name says its basiclly create a problem and a solution to the problem that ends up on benefit or harm to a certain point of view. The third is "gradual strategy",is making society accept something that currently dont accept by showing it in the media gradually until it becomes normal and accepted. Fourth "deferring"its also about making something acceptable but by putting it as a necessary thing and convincing people about this.Fifth is to " treat the public as a child" by rewarding them if they think what they want them to and punishing if they not. Next one is " use the emotional side more than the reflection" by telling people everything is ok and smiling alot. Seventh " Ignorance" talk in terms people dont understand and dont explain it. The Eight one is very important because of its expansion it consist in "make them stay ingnorant" by the make believe ignorance is a cool thing so they stay mediocre. Nine "self blame strength", blame the very own people of their misfortunes.Finally the last one but not the least one and also the most scary is "Know the viewers better they know themselves" by surveys, phsicology and biology studies, etc.So then they know how the people will react and how to convince them.

In conclusion the media manipulation is an issue of very much importance that we need to be aware of and learn by this methods how to know it. So know wen we watch the news will be aware and picky. I hope this article has been a helpfull tool to inform ourselves of media manipulation and get ready to fight it day a day, but we cant let it control us and makes us lost our time following it or fighting it, life is to live it at full so I hope you do and have a beautiful and admirable life.

By Patricio Garcia.

Rationale

For my written task I have decided to write a media manipulation article. I will focus on how media affects people.

Media manipulation is a very serious and global issue all over the world. In Occident almost every person has a T.V or read magazines and newspaper, so almost everyone is exposed to the media. The media is everywhere on  buses, taxis, streets, walls, even in the sky. People should know and learn more about what media is and what it informs them.

On my article I will talk about this topic and I will state how to recognize true news from false ones also how to inform ourselves about this.

I chose to write an article because it seems to me that its the best way to say all the things I want and explain what I think about them.By doing this I hope to make a good article and explain all I want about media manipulation.

Image analisis

Im going to analize 7 panels from the kite runner graphic novel.

In the first one there is a kid staring at two old men they cannot see him beacouse he is behind the wall,they are on a house sitting in a couch looking concerned. One of them is fatter and bearded while the other has a mustache and is skinny. By there looks the people seem to be black hair and dark skin so they can be arab or latin. By their clothes i can see it is set in a contemporary age.

In the second panel the bearded man look at the kid and ask him what is he doing here the kids name is amir an afghan name so there problably afghan the kid looks angry and we can see the house the are at and it seems to be a house from wealthy people. The men in smoking a pipe trying to stay calmed.

In the third panel the kid amir is running away crying problably beacouse of what they said . The skinny men stands up and tells amir to wait while the bearded one stood still.

In the fourth one amir is getting out of the house and we see its happenig at day time a boy and an old men stare at him, they both are with a broom in their hands , probably are workers of the house, their clothes

The Turnit in Conflict

There wasa problem with turnit in and aldo i tried i could not create an account and upload the picture so as an alternative i uploaded the picture here on blogger