Post 13 October 2010

So I'm sitting in my room reading over the material that we either read in class or on our own. All of them have there own uniqueness. Some are comical, some are sad, some are reflective, and some are more serious. The two poems by Elizabeth Bishop are interesting because both are completely different. In the poem Five Flights Up she says, “He and the bird know everything is answered, all is taken care of, no need to ask again.” When I read this and think about how carefree animals act. They know the sun will come up. We as humans and more importantly as Christians know that God has it all worked out. We can trust in him because He has created the universe and if we just trust Him everything will go as planned.

The other poem is hard for me to understand. It’s dark and gloomy. The one line that stuck out to me is, “The city burns guilt. –For guilt-disposal the central heat must be this intense.” When visualize this I see an intense fire destroying everything in its path. The line that says For guilt disposal the central heat must be intense , I think this could mean the purging of sin like in the Old Testament Days.

Moving on. The play Sure Thing , is a really funny story to me especially because when we read it out loud I got to be the bell. Anyways, I like this story because of its meaning. We all at some point wish we had a bell that would reset things when we screw up or need a second chance.

I was reading Professor Corrigan’s Notes on Character and found that I agree with him that plot and character are not fully separable. Character’s usually drive the plot.