Keats' Poem

Dawn.egg on Aviary.

"Dawn"

I cannot find that which I seek.

It's somewhere around.

Lost but hasn't been found.

The air has a feeling of mystique.

It's extremely important this item is sought!

For if it is gone,

And night reaches dawn,

No warmth will be felt! No light will be brought!

I check ever place that I know.

Is it possible I will fail?

Tomorrow will have no sparkle or glow!

Yet there it is! My face so pale,

Sees the beam through the thick snow.

Rejoice! For the sun has set sail!

In John Keats' poem, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", he describes how he discovered Chapman's story, and how excited he felt! He used examples such as an astronomer finding a planet and Cortez seeing the Isthms of Panama. In my poem I decided to follow Keats' rhyme order and I also tried to incorporate that excitement of discovery. 

Works Cited

Keats, John. " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press 2003. 575. Print.

Hamauzu, Masashi. "FINAL FANTASY XIII - The Promise." FINAL FANTASY XIII Original Soundtrack.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Resume

Percy Bysshe Shelley Resume
Date of Birth: August 4, 1792


Education:
Attended Sion House Academy from 1802-1804.
Transfered to Eton and attended there from 1804-1810.
Short college education from Oxford University from 1810-1811.


Experience:
Extremely experienced in poetry. 
Well Known for These Poems

• Queen Mab, 1813
• "Alastor," 1816
• The Revolt of Islam, 1818
• The Cenci,1819
• Prometheus Unbound, 1820
• "Epipsychidion" and "Adonais," 1821
• "Mont Blank: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" 

Skills lie mostly in romantic poems. 


Family Life:
First wife was Harriet Westbrook.
After his first wife passed away, he married William Godwin's daughter, Mary. 
He had two children from Harriet and had three other children from Mary. 
Unfortunately, his three children from marry passed away. 


Activities:
A strong advocator of vegetarianism. 
Also known for being antiauthoritarian and for promoting the rebellion against England.
Well known for his passion for civil rights and freedom, which were conveyed through the various romantic poems he rote. 
Also discipled Victorian poet Robert Browning. 

Works Cited

Horton, Ronald A. "Percy Blysshe Shelly 1792-1822." British Literature. Ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 565-567. Print

"P.B. Shelly: An Overview "The Dancing Girl" by John Barlas." The Victorian Web: An Overview. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. <http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelly/shelleyov.html>

Byron Poem

The Arranged Bride

The day has come.

It is the end.

My mind is numb.

My heart can't mend.

As she walks,

With all so white, 

And as she talks,

Here tonight...

For it's today,

The knot is tied.

But I must say,

She's not my bride.

For It's not real.

It must be fake.

For I don't feel, 

What love can make. 

My poem follows the same rhyme scheme of Byron's "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year". This poem is meant to represent natural over the artificial. It's about an arranged marriage and how this person doesn't feel natural love. It's as if this "artificial" love was forced on them and its nothing like the real thing. 

Works Cited

Gordon, George. "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 562-563. Print

Old China Voicemail

Here is a Voicemail recording of what I think the theme and structure was in Charles Lamb's "Old China". 

Works Cited

Lamb, Charles. "Old China." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 556-559. Print

The Robot and the Boy

A tall metal robot sat silently alone. The robot was confused and had a troubled look on his face. The huge metal contraption scratched its head, its mind focused on thinking. He thought of math equations, scientific laws, and history. He thought of nature, the planets, the animals, the sky, and the sea. Looking back upon the many things he had learned. For he was the smartest one in the world; the one who knew it all. But he was faced with a new problem that was never heard of before. A problem that even his great and all-knowing mechanical brain could not solve. The world had become far advanced and many of its inhabitants were machines. Humans became the minority in this metal futuristic world, but played only a small role in the world today. The robots were in charge of it all; innovative, unchanging, and infallible, creations the robots were, but something was definitely wrong. For years and years, the world stayed the same. Although this developed utopia did things efficiently, nothing had changed for centuries. So one day a human came up to this robot and told him this, "Our world is wonderful and orderly, but somethings just not right! We've stayed in the same spot for a thousands of years, and we haven't gotten better!" The robot was appointed to solve this problem, but he just couldn't figure it out, until one day a mother and her son passed by the sad meditating robot. The kid let go of his mothers hand and ran up to the hunk of iron. He asked the piece of metal what was wrong and the machine replied, "I need to make this world better, but with all the knowledge I know, I don't understand why I haven't found an answer! Run along little boy. You can't help me! Your only a child and by the looks of it, in first grade! How would you know anything about my predicament." The kid stood there angry at what the robot had said, but the anger faded away and was replaced with a happy expression on his face. The boy looked up at the tall robot and told him what he thought, "I can help you Mr. Robot, because I know many things that you don't know! Knowledge that can't be found in books or computers or on the internet sites or from your mechanical friends!" The robot was shocked and was filled with excitement; he desperately asked the boy, "What is it? Tell me now?!" And the little six-year-old said, "Lets create toys that can fly to the stars and back, or something that can travel far beneath the sea! A car that can dig through the ground or maybe some medicine to help my sick grandma! Maybe lets make skate boards that float or a gum that never looses taste! All these things are awesome and cool, so how bout it? What do you think?" The robot answered, "Your crazy! Those things will NEVER happen! Although their "awesome" and "cool", they will never be a reality. What was I thinking asking a kid like you who doesn't know a thing!" The machine walked away, continuing his thought, but the kid smiled and laughed while skipping back to his mom. Many years later, that boy grew up and became a world-renown inventor. This tiny first grade kid, turned into a scientist, much more famous then even the robot. He made space ships that could fly to the stars and back and submarines that could travel to the deepest part of the sea. He created drills that could dig to the center of the earth and cures for many diseases. In the end, the young boy was right, he did have something the robot didn't. And that was imagination, creativity, and ingenuity, things only humans could have. Things that would make a small little boy, better then even the most tallest and intelligent machine. 


Draft 1 of my story. 
Imagination vs. Reason

Common Things in an Uncommon Light

 Can you guess what this is? This is actually a knot on a piece of wood outside but it resembles the shape of an owl swooping down to grab its prey. I used iPhoto to mess around with the picture. I flipped it,changed its color, enhanced and sharpened it, faded it,  and framed the picture in white. 

William Wordsworth seemed to have a dramatic early life. I think it might have affected his actions and decisions he made when he was older, but I believe what saved him from continuing his foolish activities was his love for nature when he was young. It was his love for nature that brought him peace and tranquility in his later years before he passed away. 

Works Cited

"William Wordsworth - Biography and works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss." The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries. Web. 10 Jan. 2011. <http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/>.

Blake Video Response

Works Cited

Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." British Literature. Ed. Ronald H. Horton. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 520. Print