Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Entry1_PhungThiTuyetNhung

Item1 :

Letting Go And Holding On

Oh how I love life,
walking outside in spring and summer
and smelling the honeysuckle floating on the warm breeze.
Couples walking hand and hand,
smiles of happiness from being in love
owners walking their dogs,
kids laughing and playing,
birds chirping and singing all day long
each and everyday the world continues on.

I get tired of it's confusion
tired of the pain.
I'm tired of the emptiness from hearts I've parted from.
Tired of wishing for more but not knowing which way to turn
and sometimes too scared to look back.
To let go completely of yesterday,
and grasp a hold on the hope of tomorrow.
A hope that if tomorrow gets here, it won't be like yesterday.

Yesterday's holding on to the hope of a lost love
yesterday's disappointments of the same ol' routine
yesterday's wishing bills didn't exist
so there wouldn't be any living from check to check.
Yesterday's empty dreams of a fairy tail ending,
Wanting an end to all my struggling.
OH... holding onto the hope of tomorrow...

A tomorrow filled with pure happiness
knowing that this direction on the path is the one and only way...
Success.
A tomorrow filled with the reassurance that your headed for better days.
A tomorrow with a love that was sent to you from the heaven above that will only grow deeper and deeper as time goes by to last forever.
A tomorrow that will complete and fulfill yesterdays wants and dreams.
A tomorrow that will conquer all my hardships and troubles.

I grasp the thought of what wonderfulness tomorrow could bring.

Source:  http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/letting-go-and-holding-on#ixzz1l26uSdW4

I. Rhetorical devices:
1. antithesis :
  • letting go >< holding on.                                                                                          
  • happy life of yesterday >< unhappy life of tomorrow 

2. metaphor :
  • smelling the honeysuckle floating on the warm breeze
  • empty dream
  • yesterday- the past
  • tomorrow- the future
3. epithet :
  • warm breeze
4. onomatopoeia :
  • chirp
  • oh
5. simile :
  •  if tomorrow gets here, it won't be like yesterday.
6. alliteration :
  • love life
  • spring and summer
7. repetition :
  •  tired of ( 4 times)
  • yesterday ( 6 times )
  • tomorrow ( 6 times )
8. parallelism :
  • kids laughing and playing,
    birds chirping and singing
  •  Yesterday's holding on to the hope of a lost love
    yesterday's disappointments of the same ol' routine
 9. assonance :
  • life- outside, in- spring, summer- honeysuckle, long- on, heart- parted,  routine- exist, fill- pure,..
II. Message :
In spite of difficult or unhappy life in the past, people should enjoy living towards hopeful future because the life is always nice if we always see it from bright side.

Item2 :




source: https://my.bhsonline.org/groups/wiki/4ca39/

I. Rhetorical devices:
1. rhetorical question: " global warming?"
2. oxymoron: it's snowing in the desert.
3. metonymy: a cactus-plants and animals, desert- natural environments
4. personification: the cactus with two branches symmetrically raising up -> human body with two arms raising up to show the surrender position.

II. Message:
Global warming is destroying natural environments, which effects the well being of plants and animals.

Item 3 :
Two seeds

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.
The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust above me ... I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring ... I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!"
And so she grew...
The second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts ... what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe."
And so she waited...
A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it.

http://go.webassistant.com/wa/upload/users/u1000057/workspaces/30stories/

I. Rhetorical devices :
1. personification : two seeds.
2. antithesis : what the first seed and the second one think of their future life.
3. epithet : fertile soil.
4. metaphor : the first seed- pessimistic people, the second seed- optimistic people
                     the fertile soil- the same convenient life condition
                     hen scratching for food- difficulties in life

II. Message:
In the same condition, optimistic people desire for success and gain good results while pessimistic only see difficulties, dangers and do not dare to try then always have to deal with hardship.













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2 comments:

  1. item 1:
    antithesis :
    unhappy life of yesterday >< happy life of tomorrow
    repetition :
    love: 3 times
    hope: 4 times
    fill with: 2 times
    item 2:
    in my opinion, cactus symbolizes for plants and animals, human. Therefore, global warming effects all the well being of human, animals and plants.
    item 3:
    I think the first seed symbolizes for optimistic people, and the second one symbolizes for pessimistic people. In addition, the scratching for food of the hen does not symbolize difficulties in life. It is a common thing.

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  2. I like your picture in item 2, it is really interesting and meaningful!:). However, I agree with nhimxu's comment, cactus is a metaphorical symbol for human, animals and plants.

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