Response to DUCKKSPOND question #2

Why would they go out at night?

I believe the kids would go out at night to make their "hunt" more adventurous. Also the author mentions that, "Some animals sleep in the daytime and go out at night to eat. If we hurry we can catch them before they go back in the ground." So, maybe the kids want to be like the animals and sleep during the day and go out to play at night. Also, many hunters hunt at night for the same reason, because some animals go out at night. So perhaps the kids want to seem older by going out at night. They would feel older because most kids their age are asleep at night. Going out at night could also mean they are being rebelious.

Running After Antelope -1963 Questions

1. What is the symbol of the lizards, turtles and snakes? Why didn't the kids chase bunnies or cats instead?

2. What is the significance of the kids running after reptiles at night instead of in the day?

3. Why does the younger brother listen to his older brother? What does this tell us about their relationship?

4.  "Some animals sleep in the daytime and go out at night to eat. If we hurry we can catch them before they go back in the ground." What is the author trying to convey in this line?

5. What is the symbol of the fog?

6. "She looks ten feet tall and 900 years old" What literacy device is the author using?

7."Like the Indians" what does this mean?

8. Why do the kids catch the animals with bare hands? What does this say about their personality?

9. What is the significance of the last sentence in the story? "We have everything we need. The wilderness is unfolding in front of us."

10. Why did the author choose the setting to be a backyard instead of a forest or the wilderness?

The Full Moon

As I walk out of the gym I look up and there she is...the full moon. I am tired and sweaty and I just want to get home, take a shower and sleep. As I drive the full moon follows me. It looks like cheese and makes me hungry. Once I get home I look up and the moon is staring back at me, taunting me. I want cheese now. So I go in the kitchen and make myself a sandwich. My bread is toasted, I add lettuce, tomato, turkey ham, mayo and CHEESE. Thanks full moon.  

Creativ/Literary Nonfiction

The Creative/Literary Nonfiction, Dare to Love by Eliana Osborn seemed meaningful to me. It is about a woman who had an unexpected baby that is not perfect, and the mother did not know how to love her own baby. As we all would think, motherly love should come natural to all mothers, but in reality it does not. What if one does not know how to be affectionate? Throughout the story the woman is trying to figure out how to love her own baby. She tries to by cleaning and feeding the baby and also keeps her baby secure. In the end, the mother wants to love her own child and wonders if she can grow into being a mother. I thought this story was meaningful; It made me wonder if I would be a good mother. Perhaps Eliana isn't alone.

A Winter Walk

There is a myth, if one walked on snow bare foot one would be able to fly. It had snowed all day and my sister thought she would test the myth. She went outside bare foot as if it were summer. The trees were sleeping and the snowflakes were laughing. She walked and walked and was not able to fly. She had been outside for half of the day; she could not feel her legs nor feel her heart beat. She was dead and her soul was the only one able to fly.

Songs And Lyrics

Tattoo - Jordin Sparks

Oh, oh, oh

No matter what you say about love
I keep coming back for more
Keep my hand in the fire
Sooner or later, I'll get what I'm asking for
No matter what you say about life
I learn every time I bleed
That truth is a stranger
Soul is in danger, I gotta let my spirit be free

To admit that I'm wrong
And then change my mind
Sorry but I have to move on
And leave you behind

I can't waste time so give it a moment
I realize, nothing's broken
No need to worry 'bout everything I've done
Live every second like it was my last one
Don't look back at a new direction
I loved you once, needed protection
You're still a part of everything I do
You're on my heart just like a tattoo

(Just like a tattoo, I'll always have you
I'll always have you, I'll always have you)

I'm sick of playing all of these games
It's not about taking sides
When I looked in the mirror, didn't deliver
It hurt enough to think that I could

Stop, admit that I'm wrong
And then change my mind
Sorry but I gotta be strong
And leave you behind

(Just like a tattoo, I'll always have you
I'll always have you)

If I live every moment
Won't change any moment
Still a part of me and you
I will never regret you
Still the memory of you
Marks everything i do

Just like a tattoo
I'll always have you

What makes this song a poem is the simile (Just like a tattoo i'll always have you), the imagery(Keep my hand in the fire).

Anathology Poem

The Look by Sarah Teasdale

My anthology will be on love and the choices one makes. When I first read this poem, it immediately reminded me of Twilight and how Bella was in a similar position as the writer of this poem. I liked it because of what it says, three boys liked her, two of them kissed her, the third one respected her and stayed in her mind, while the others vanished.

Metaphor and Statement

Metaphor

A white owl is a witch in disguise.

Statement

I have been a rhinoceros when I was younger. I was an angry child when I didnt get my way and I was stubborn when it came to not doing something or having to eat vegtables.

Memoir of My Life

That four letter word. United us.

35.   After reading “Briar Rose,” reread “The Gold Key.”  What motifs do you see at play, and how does “The Gold Key” foreshadow what is to come throughout Transformations?

Both "Briar Rose" and " The Gold Key" start with the authors thoughts and comments, then the author illustrates a tale. For example, In "Briar Rose" the tale of sleeping beauty is told and in "The Gold Key" the story of a young boy who finds a key to a book of tales. In "The Gold Key" Anne Sexton foreshadows that the tales which she "transforms" are originally written by the Grimm Brothers.

A Grimm Fairy Tale that Anne Sexton adapted In Transformations

THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.

Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.

A king's son soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds. There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open. But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes. The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off. After him came several others; but they had all the same luck, and all lost their lives in the same manner.

Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going. 'I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,' said the soldier; 'but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.' 'Well,' said the old dame, 'that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.'

Then she gave him a cloak, and said, 'As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.' When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.

He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber. Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop. Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep. When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!' Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing. But the youngest said, 'I don't know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.' 'You simpleton,' said the eldest, 'you are always afraid; have you forgotten how many kings' sons have already watched in vain? And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.'

When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe; and the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-door flew open. The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.' 'You silly creature!' said the eldest, 'it is nothing but a nail in the wall.' Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully. The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree. Then the youngest daughter said again, 'I am sure all is not right—did not you hear that noise? That never happened before.' But the eldest said, 'It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.'

Then they came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds. And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear; but the eldest still said, it was only the princes, who were crying for joy. So they went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses.

One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest. As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, 'I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.' 'It is only the heat of the weather,' said the princess: 'I feel it very warm too.'

On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets. There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty. At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her. They danced on till three o'clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off. The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.

When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, 'Now all is quite safe'; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed. In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home. However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.

As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say. And when the king asked him. 'Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?' he answered, 'With twelve princes in a castle under ground.' And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him. Then the king called for the princesses, and asked them whether what the soldier said was true: and when they saw that they were discovered, and that it was of no use to deny what had happened, they confessed it all. And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.'—And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir.


I believe Sexton chose The Twelve Dancing Princesses because it has do to do with a transformation, the soldier was old and hurt at the beginning but, when he figured out how the princesses escaped every night, he was awarded with a the princess of his choice and the kings power after the king then died. The princesses we also transformed, they were no longer able to dance as they pleased.

William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" Stanza Response

The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.

I think this stanza means that those who don't take a chance on how to respond to something new, a certain situation, or a question, will stay in doubt. On the other hand, those who respond with doubt will learn from it whether or not their response was right because they tried.

William Blakes uses the literacy device, Imagery, because he describes how the questioner is sitting and creates a sense that the questioner is careless or worried. Blakes also creates a mental image of a thinking light bulb when he says that the light of knowledge is put out.