Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Fairy Tale Logic
Fairy Tale Logic
What is a poem? Does it ryhme? Does It flow? Does it even have to make sense to the reader? Perhaps it is just a conglomerate of extensive literature to express the feeling of the other or the speaker in the poem. Is a poem supposed to make a difference or is it just something that may give you a good feeling on a bad day? IS a poem real or is it just another fairy tale that leads readers to think that there is hope and not just reality?
In the poem Fairy-tale Logic by A.E. Stallings, he is elaberating on what a fairy tale is. He adds in his first line that,"Fairy Tales are full of immpossible tasks". What does that mean? Is he sayin gthat fairy tales are immpossible, or simply that the task at hand apppears to be immpossible. When some one ask you to complete an impossible task, do they really want you to complete or just simply give your best effort? In this poem he uses great examples of immpossible tasks. Most of the tasks he uses are almost some what a scene that wse have seen in a fiction movie. As in the movies he state in line fourteen tha no matter the task," the will to do whatever must be done". What is he saying? He is saying no matter how extreme the task you must be willing to go to the extreme. He uses example in his last line," Marry a monster. Hand over your first born son." . A task as extreme of handing over your first born son is crazy, but in the event your in a situation that may somewhat of a fairy tale or what just seems immpossible, Do you quit, or do whatever it take no matter how extreme to get through the situation?
I believe this poem is a great thought of what life may be. Being a father sometimes i find myself reasoning with right and wrong, good and bad. How do you explain this world that becomes more and more immpossible every day to your children. In this poem it is almost like finding answers not through fairy tales but like fairy tales. That no matter or bad it get or how immpossible it seems you just have to fight back with the same extreme attitude. Like A.E. said in his tenth line you have to fight magic with magic.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
summary vs. analysis
What is the difference between summary and analysis? My understanding of the difference betwee these two
techniques is that one is simply a book report, and the other is a technique that challenges you to breakdown the text and reveal in your opinion what the text is saying. After watching the lecture and actually understanding the true difference between these two techniques, it seems to me that they could also be one in the same. NOt in the event that summary could be analysis but in the situation that analysis is an opinionated summary. It goes back to what week talked about last week in what makes a good reader or writer. That simply everyones vague summary of a script would be the same. However when asked to break the text down and argue what the text truely means to you, then every ones defintion of the text will be different.
What is the summary? I think as humans in this modern time we dont look at summary as something we take out of an event, situation, or even literature. In my opinion we look for summary before we even consider what we do. For example, when choosing a book to buy, we dont just pick it up and say i am going to read this one. we dont even consider it until you read the quip summary it gives you on the back. It is almost that we have lost the adventure. We want to know what is going to happen before we ever go do it.
What is analysis? Now this is where I feel we are lost. As i said in the previous parargraph, we look for summary before hand. Then after the fact when asked to summarize the event we use almmost the exact same text that we read or heard before and just add detail. Instead of searching for more we are satisfied with enough. For example, when you attend a sporting event. When leaving that event, you are asked what happened? You simply add who won, by how much, and maybe who played well. Instead of analysing deeper. A win or loss is dictated in many different ways. You never find yourself asking if that team were to play again tommorrow night would it be the same out come. No, because at the summary of the first event you did not ask yourself why? Why did that team win? whay did that player play bad? Why didn't that player play? Instead you simply tell what happened and go on with life until the next week you ask wow that team didn't play that well last week.
So there is a very big difference betweeen the two. I as a coach struggle to try to relay this to my players.
That when something good happens, or when something bad happens to remain positive and take all the aspects in. There is many victories that come out of defeat. As there are just as many defeats that come out of victory.
image cite:http: //www.easportsworld.com/en_US/news/VirtualPlaybookNominations
here is a good site for analyzing techniques:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/1107.html
techniques is that one is simply a book report, and the other is a technique that challenges you to breakdown the text and reveal in your opinion what the text is saying. After watching the lecture and actually understanding the true difference between these two techniques, it seems to me that they could also be one in the same. NOt in the event that summary could be analysis but in the situation that analysis is an opinionated summary. It goes back to what week talked about last week in what makes a good reader or writer. That simply everyones vague summary of a script would be the same. However when asked to break the text down and argue what the text truely means to you, then every ones defintion of the text will be different.
What is the summary? I think as humans in this modern time we dont look at summary as something we take out of an event, situation, or even literature. In my opinion we look for summary before we even consider what we do. For example, when choosing a book to buy, we dont just pick it up and say i am going to read this one. we dont even consider it until you read the quip summary it gives you on the back. It is almost that we have lost the adventure. We want to know what is going to happen before we ever go do it.
What is analysis? Now this is where I feel we are lost. As i said in the previous parargraph, we look for summary before hand. Then after the fact when asked to summarize the event we use almmost the exact same text that we read or heard before and just add detail. Instead of searching for more we are satisfied with enough. For example, when you attend a sporting event. When leaving that event, you are asked what happened? You simply add who won, by how much, and maybe who played well. Instead of analysing deeper. A win or loss is dictated in many different ways. You never find yourself asking if that team were to play again tommorrow night would it be the same out come. No, because at the summary of the first event you did not ask yourself why? Why did that team win? whay did that player play bad? Why didn't that player play? Instead you simply tell what happened and go on with life until the next week you ask wow that team didn't play that well last week.
So there is a very big difference betweeen the two. I as a coach struggle to try to relay this to my players.
That when something good happens, or when something bad happens to remain positive and take all the aspects in. There is many victories that come out of defeat. As there are just as many defeats that come out of victory.
image cite:http: //www.easportsworld.com/en_US/news/VirtualPlaybookNominations
here is a good site for analyzing techniques:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/1107.html
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Good Readers and Good Writers
Nabokov stated a good reader posses qualities such as imagination, memory, artistic sence, and he/she posses a dictionary. So in lamens terms a book worm, that lives in a fairy tale, that ventures from the truth, and is hopin the vastly corrupt place called life. Do i agree with those traits? I often find myself on both sides of that fence. I think to really grasp what a author is writing you most definetly have to obtain those traits. I believe if the great authors would harness there energy towards the things that could create change, instead of creating a fairy tale, maybe we would help our selves make sense of this crazy world. So i guess i think a good reader could sift through the artistic details and imagination, he/she could get right to moral of the story. To get to that point i also you have to use those same traits the Nabokov stated.
I myself do not feel as i am a great reader. In saying that i find myself bored in the fiction and lingering on the truth. Leaning on the truth in hope in the discovery of change. As far as reading itself, even the material that absolutley appeals me, i also have to re-read it. I have to read it the second time to grasp the detail.
image cite:
http://tinarathore84.hubpages.com/hub/readingstrategies
Here is a good lind for reading strategies:http://www.paec.org/david/reading/general.pdf
I myself do not feel as i am a great reader. In saying that i find myself bored in the fiction and lingering on the truth. Leaning on the truth in hope in the discovery of change. As far as reading itself, even the material that absolutley appeals me, i also have to re-read it. I have to read it the second time to grasp the detail.
image cite:
http://tinarathore84.hubpages.com/hub/readingstrategies
Here is a good lind for reading strategies:http://www.paec.org/david/reading/general.pdf
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