Kyle Boylan
3/26/10
EN 224
Poem 1: The man wanders out into the night of his home, going rouge, all alone, while the devil cries, god sings a lullaby
Poem 2: “Repulsive Ignorance”
The repulsive racists, homophobes, and people who contain overall ignorance, prejudices are ignominious, and cause me anger, annoyance, and sorrow, can’t we follow the right direction.
Poem 3: The bright light is shinning at night, will I be able to fight, possible engulfed in swoon. Or maybe the tears from my exuberance shall overcome my strive and shed for Dionysus. Shall I die?
Poem 4: “Defense”
She lived away her simple days, the dog in the cage whining today, he then collapsed as she smiled and played. Down the hill she sledded unfazed, I stayed stuck in her mental maze, trying to elope but continually delayed…….. it’s arrived, the following mourning, this time she’s tied to a rope, she can’t escape so instead lets it go, releasing the feces into her pantyhose. Her elders take a bat to her face, bleeding she cries, her parents speak, you dirty fucken cunt! You soiled yourself! ...... So many days and nights subside, getting by abused for spontaneity is seeping out of her fame. She’s not tame, can her mother and or father be the ones to blame, it’s a shame she’s assaulted everyday…. She awakes, on a Sunday, the evening sky has not yet died, her decision is to stand up and support life, so she acquires a sledge hammer and a saw, and goes to the room of her padre and madre, and quickly shatters their ankles arms, next the saw is made use of with decapitation and amputating limbs… no more torture shall ride this girl.
Poem 5: Bring forth the child, put him in his proper place the King announced….. don’t forget the camels eye is dripping wet, the blood from the second floor, pummeling to the ground. This waste land is vast and radiant, death has bloomed in this house of birth, Live through the curse, you’ll be the first, you must survive for existence to strive
Friday, March 26, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Kay Ryan
Kyle Boylan
3/7/09
En224
Kay Ryan
This paper is about Kay Ryan. In this writing I shall discuss a little bit about Kay Ryan’s history. I will also be including my opinion about some of her poems and why I feel this way. Also I will break down each part of the poem to prove that I am accurate. These are all the different forms of information that will be provided for the audience to examine in this paper.
The individual named Kay Ryan is a famous American poet and also an educator. Although “born in San Jose, California, she was raised in San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.” “She first attended Antelope Valley College”, then went on to acquire a “bachelor's and master's degrees in English from University of California, Los Angeles”. “Since 1971, she has lived in Fairfax, California”. She also is a “part time professor at the College of Marin in Kentfield”. Kay Ryan has published six different poetry books. Her variety of books includes “Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends” (published in 1983), “Strangely Marked Metal” (published in 1985), “Flamingo Watching.” (Published in 1994), “Elephant Rocks” (Published in 1996), “Say Uncle” (Published in 2000), “The Niagara River” (published in 2005). Also Kay Ryan’s poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickenson and Marianne Moore. This is a little of the history about Kay Ryan.
The first poem by Kay Ryan that I would like to comment on is titled “Carrying A Ladder”. I like this poem because it is about how human beings are very motivated to the extent that we will even attempt to accomplish things that either are or seem impossible. I believe this is a good message because if it weren’t for this fact then the human race probably wouldn’t accomplish as much. The lines 1-4 read and I quote “We are always really carrying a ladder, but it’s invisible. This is an analogy revealing that we are always equipped with mental implements which allow us to attempt moving forward or gaining higher positions, in other words human beings are constantly trying to succeed. Lines 4-14, “We only know something’s the matter: something precious crashes: easy doors prove impassible. Or, in the body, there’s too much swing or off-center gravity.” The last quote I wrote down expresses that no matter how hard you try and reach the top of your mental ladder or pass through a mental door to accomplish something you will continually fail at finishing something that the human body is not able to accomplish. Lines: 15-18, “And, in the mind, a drunken capacity, access to out-of-range apples.” This represents how certain activities, even if they might seem easy are so difficult to complete that it’s like trying to climb a ladder drunk to pick apples. Lines: 18-21, “As though one had a way to climb out of the damage and apology.” The damage stands for the current state one is in, and people try to relieve themselves from the damage by reaching the top of the ladder and when they can’t they feel sorrow for themselves. These are my thoughts and concepts about the poem titled “Carrying A Ladder”.
The second poem that I became a fan of by Kay Ryan is titled “Felix Crow”. I enjoyed this poem because it’s about how certain people are taught to hate and cause problems and many of these people are deceitful. The reason I believe this to be a good theme has to do with the fact that the poem teaches people that this is a negative attribute, and to watch out for these kinds of people. The first part of this poem which includes the lines: 1-6, “Crow school is basic and short as a rule— just the rudiments of quid pro crow for most students.” When Kay Ryan refers to “Crow school” she’s taking the idea that a crow represents evil or death, therefore she means that there are evil teachings. Plus she’s trying to get to the point that these evil teachings replace good important teachings. Lines: 7-13, “Then each lives out his unenlightened span, adding his bit of blight to the collected history of pushing out the sweeter species;” With the last quote Kay Ryan is portraying that the students are unenlightened and throughout their life they partake in destroying or preventing non evils living creatures from being prosperous the same way other evil individuals have done throughout history. Lines: 14-17, “briefly swaggering the swagger of his aggravating ancestors down my street.” This means that the students who are learning evil ways are taught this behavior by their ancestors, plus the students are following in the footsteps of their ancestors. Lines: 18-20, “And every time I like him when we meet.” The previous statement in quotations is suppose to allow ones to gain the perspective that the evil individuals try to appear un-harmful which is really deceitful, possibly so they can get away with their evil activities before there to be victims depart from their presence. Now you understand why I choose the poem “Felix Crow” and what it is about.
The third poem I shall write about is titled “Weak Forces”. In this poem Kay Ryan is discussing how there are opinions certain people have which are not very strong in terms of how much support there is in them, plus these are also thoughts and concepts that can be easily gained or destroyed and how these ideas which don’t contain much support are totally bullshit. This is an important topic because it attempts to persuade people to try and educate themselves before coming to conclusions which may be wrong. In the lines:1-2, “I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces—“ the first quote is suppose to represent how she likes learning about different beliefs which don’t have a strong support. Lines: 3-5, “a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained—“, with this Kay Ryan is describing how concepts that aren’t provided with much support can easily be proven wrong, while people are also capable of easily gaining these ideas. Lines: 5-9 “in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long,” What was provided in the last quotation refers to the fact that when proper or good concepts start to fade away and are replaced with ideas that are inaccurate, it’s as though the people who acquire these inaccurate beliefs aren’t being taught anything and as a result they come up with ridiculous perspectives that are embedded in the mind for too long even if they are there for only a short while. Lines: 9-13, “the strange internal shift by which there’s no knowing if this is the road taken or untaken.” By this Kay Ryan means that when a person’s mind shifts from a good concept to that of a negative one either there is no factional proof that the negative concepts is one that shouldn’t be followed, or that the individuals who comes up with the negative concepts have no proof that there belief is morally right or wrong to follow. Lines: 13-15, “There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries;” This means that there are similarities in the negative beliefs and that these beliefs are capable of being spread or passing from one person to another. Lines: 15-19, “moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are not the defeat of something, I don’t think.” This last part of the poem is suppose to show that the negative points of view some have are covered in moonlight in the sense that the moon barely lights things up in the true way things are comparison to the sun, the sun representing everyone else’s point of view which is fully lighted or good morally. Also Kay Ryan uses analogies to portray how these negative points of view are sort of like hallucinations because they are not true, but even though this is the case the people who believe these ideas can’t realize this, and finally she talks about how she doesn’t believe these false opinions. This is my perception about Kay Ryan’s Poem titled “Weak Forces”.
The Last poem I will write about is titled “The Best of It”. This poem is about how people seem to always make the best of bad situations, also the message is that people tend to not be realistic. I believe this to be an important message because it expresses how people aren’t always realistic, which as a result may teach people that they should be more realistic. But also I think this poem is supposed to show how people don’t always need a lot to be happy. Lines: 1-7, “However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though it doesn’t matter that our acre’s down to a square foot.” This is supposed to show that people aren’t realistic enough to understand when things are in a horrible state. Also this shows that people can take bad situations and make them not so negative. Lines: 7-13, “As though our garden could be one bean and we’d rejoice if it flourishes, as though one bean could nourish us.” This is representing how once again people aren’t being realistic for one bean can’t even feed a person, and also people make the best out of bad situations. This is my belief as to what this poem is about and why I like it.
Work Cited
1. http//:www.Wikipedia.com
Or, in the body, there’s too much swing or off-center gravity.”
3/7/09
En224
Kay Ryan
This paper is about Kay Ryan. In this writing I shall discuss a little bit about Kay Ryan’s history. I will also be including my opinion about some of her poems and why I feel this way. Also I will break down each part of the poem to prove that I am accurate. These are all the different forms of information that will be provided for the audience to examine in this paper.
The individual named Kay Ryan is a famous American poet and also an educator. Although “born in San Jose, California, she was raised in San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.” “She first attended Antelope Valley College”, then went on to acquire a “bachelor's and master's degrees in English from University of California, Los Angeles”. “Since 1971, she has lived in Fairfax, California”. She also is a “part time professor at the College of Marin in Kentfield”. Kay Ryan has published six different poetry books. Her variety of books includes “Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends” (published in 1983), “Strangely Marked Metal” (published in 1985), “Flamingo Watching.” (Published in 1994), “Elephant Rocks” (Published in 1996), “Say Uncle” (Published in 2000), “The Niagara River” (published in 2005). Also Kay Ryan’s poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickenson and Marianne Moore. This is a little of the history about Kay Ryan.
The first poem by Kay Ryan that I would like to comment on is titled “Carrying A Ladder”. I like this poem because it is about how human beings are very motivated to the extent that we will even attempt to accomplish things that either are or seem impossible. I believe this is a good message because if it weren’t for this fact then the human race probably wouldn’t accomplish as much. The lines 1-4 read and I quote “We are always really carrying a ladder, but it’s invisible. This is an analogy revealing that we are always equipped with mental implements which allow us to attempt moving forward or gaining higher positions, in other words human beings are constantly trying to succeed. Lines 4-14, “We only know something’s the matter: something precious crashes: easy doors prove impassible. Or, in the body, there’s too much swing or off-center gravity.” The last quote I wrote down expresses that no matter how hard you try and reach the top of your mental ladder or pass through a mental door to accomplish something you will continually fail at finishing something that the human body is not able to accomplish. Lines: 15-18, “And, in the mind, a drunken capacity, access to out-of-range apples.” This represents how certain activities, even if they might seem easy are so difficult to complete that it’s like trying to climb a ladder drunk to pick apples. Lines: 18-21, “As though one had a way to climb out of the damage and apology.” The damage stands for the current state one is in, and people try to relieve themselves from the damage by reaching the top of the ladder and when they can’t they feel sorrow for themselves. These are my thoughts and concepts about the poem titled “Carrying A Ladder”.
The second poem that I became a fan of by Kay Ryan is titled “Felix Crow”. I enjoyed this poem because it’s about how certain people are taught to hate and cause problems and many of these people are deceitful. The reason I believe this to be a good theme has to do with the fact that the poem teaches people that this is a negative attribute, and to watch out for these kinds of people. The first part of this poem which includes the lines: 1-6, “Crow school is basic and short as a rule— just the rudiments of quid pro crow for most students.” When Kay Ryan refers to “Crow school” she’s taking the idea that a crow represents evil or death, therefore she means that there are evil teachings. Plus she’s trying to get to the point that these evil teachings replace good important teachings. Lines: 7-13, “Then each lives out his unenlightened span, adding his bit of blight to the collected history of pushing out the sweeter species;” With the last quote Kay Ryan is portraying that the students are unenlightened and throughout their life they partake in destroying or preventing non evils living creatures from being prosperous the same way other evil individuals have done throughout history. Lines: 14-17, “briefly swaggering the swagger of his aggravating ancestors down my street.” This means that the students who are learning evil ways are taught this behavior by their ancestors, plus the students are following in the footsteps of their ancestors. Lines: 18-20, “And every time I like him when we meet.” The previous statement in quotations is suppose to allow ones to gain the perspective that the evil individuals try to appear un-harmful which is really deceitful, possibly so they can get away with their evil activities before there to be victims depart from their presence. Now you understand why I choose the poem “Felix Crow” and what it is about.
The third poem I shall write about is titled “Weak Forces”. In this poem Kay Ryan is discussing how there are opinions certain people have which are not very strong in terms of how much support there is in them, plus these are also thoughts and concepts that can be easily gained or destroyed and how these ideas which don’t contain much support are totally bullshit. This is an important topic because it attempts to persuade people to try and educate themselves before coming to conclusions which may be wrong. In the lines:1-2, “I enjoy an accumulating faith in weak forces—“ the first quote is suppose to represent how she likes learning about different beliefs which don’t have a strong support. Lines: 3-5, “a weak faith, of course, easily shaken, but also easily regained—“, with this Kay Ryan is describing how concepts that aren’t provided with much support can easily be proven wrong, while people are also capable of easily gaining these ideas. Lines: 5-9 “in what starts to drift: all the slow untrainings of the mind, the sift left of resolve sustained too long,” What was provided in the last quotation refers to the fact that when proper or good concepts start to fade away and are replaced with ideas that are inaccurate, it’s as though the people who acquire these inaccurate beliefs aren’t being taught anything and as a result they come up with ridiculous perspectives that are embedded in the mind for too long even if they are there for only a short while. Lines: 9-13, “the strange internal shift by which there’s no knowing if this is the road taken or untaken.” By this Kay Ryan means that when a person’s mind shifts from a good concept to that of a negative one either there is no factional proof that the negative concepts is one that shouldn’t be followed, or that the individuals who comes up with the negative concepts have no proof that there belief is morally right or wrong to follow. Lines: 13-15, “There are soft affinities, possibly electrical; lint-like congeries;” This means that there are similarities in the negative beliefs and that these beliefs are capable of being spread or passing from one person to another. Lines: 15-19, “moonlit hints; asymmetrical pink glowy spots that are not the defeat of something, I don’t think.” This last part of the poem is suppose to show that the negative points of view some have are covered in moonlight in the sense that the moon barely lights things up in the true way things are comparison to the sun, the sun representing everyone else’s point of view which is fully lighted or good morally. Also Kay Ryan uses analogies to portray how these negative points of view are sort of like hallucinations because they are not true, but even though this is the case the people who believe these ideas can’t realize this, and finally she talks about how she doesn’t believe these false opinions. This is my perception about Kay Ryan’s Poem titled “Weak Forces”.
The Last poem I will write about is titled “The Best of It”. This poem is about how people seem to always make the best of bad situations, also the message is that people tend to not be realistic. I believe this to be an important message because it expresses how people aren’t always realistic, which as a result may teach people that they should be more realistic. But also I think this poem is supposed to show how people don’t always need a lot to be happy. Lines: 1-7, “However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though it doesn’t matter that our acre’s down to a square foot.” This is supposed to show that people aren’t realistic enough to understand when things are in a horrible state. Also this shows that people can take bad situations and make them not so negative. Lines: 7-13, “As though our garden could be one bean and we’d rejoice if it flourishes, as though one bean could nourish us.” This is representing how once again people aren’t being realistic for one bean can’t even feed a person, and also people make the best out of bad situations. This is my belief as to what this poem is about and why I like it.
Work Cited
1. http//:www.Wikipedia.com
Or, in the body, there’s too much swing or off-center gravity.”
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Response to "Trouble with the Editor"
A reading "Trouble with the Editor" I have to say that there are some important points used in it. First off I agree that if you let people convince you to stop writing then it will help to stop the flow of your ideas. I also believe that you shouldn't let others decide whether or not you should continue writting. This how I have responded to reasding "Trouble with the Editor"
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