Incident

This poem is about a boy who visits Baltimore. He says that when he first got there he say a little boy staring at him. He smiles at the little boy, but the boy calls him a "nigger". This poem is showing how people were back in those times.

A Dream Deffered

This poem is about what happens when you put your dreams off. Deffered means to postpone. Alot of people do that. They say,"oh, i'll handle that next week or next month and never gets around to it. The poem is saying that a dream can die if you put it off for to long.

Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson

This poem is a good example of modernism. This story is about a man named Richard Corey. He was a very rich man. All of the poor people wanted to be in his place. Every day he walked by he had a smile on his face, and spoke politely. But the obviously didn't know him very well. They just knew what they saw. Richard Corey had to be a very depressed man, because one day he went home and killed himself. This is a very good example of modernism.

The Harlem Renaissnace

I chose the Harlem Renaissnace because I am very interested in learning more about this. Alot of cultures, movements, music poetry, and art came about with the Harlem Renaissnace. Comparing this to other moverments in modern times falls under the standard: ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.

Realism Poem

Every time I turn around
I see
Either an ambulance or a police
Is it just me

Trouble's all around
You better watch your back
Because you never ever know
When you could be under attack

The world's getting worse and worse
Am I the only one that can see?
Because I'm always seeing trouble
Maybe its just me

I consider myself a realist.
What about you?
The world needs peace.
My life does too.

But I know it'll get better.
I'll just give it time.
Because I know there is many more realist
Whose mind frame is just like mine.

The Wire

The Wire is a show out that is a really good example of realism. This show shows the harsh environment young boys have to grow up in. It shows how young boys have to grow up dealing drugs just to get the money they needed. And I know people say getting a real job is way better than dealing drugs, but when you aren't old enough to get a job, and your mother isn't doing anything to help you, you have to do what you have to do. These boys have been victims of killings, and some of these boys are doing the killings. I think this is a good example of realism because this show shows how hard it really is growing up in the slums and that's how realist wanted it. They wanted people to realize how hard real life is.

"A Story of an Hour"

This story is about a lady(Mrs. Mallard) whose husband is killed in a car accident. Her friends and family are afraid to tell her because she has a heart problem. When they finally tell her she doesn't take it so well. Josephine her sister is trying to make sure that she breaks the news in a way so it doesn't hurt or stresses her sister out. Josephine tells her sister the news, and instead of being sad, Mrs. Mallard is very happy. She's happy that her husband is dead, because that is one less thing she has to focus on. Now all she has to focus on is herself. At the end of the story, she finds out that her husband isn't dead. When she saw him she died instantly. The doctor said it was the joy that killed her. But "we" know she died from disappointed shock.

The Black Cat

This story was really long. It’s about this man that has a cat. He loves animals, it says "Pluto--this was the cat’s name--my favorite cat and playmate." but he says “The furry of a demon possessed me. I knew myself no more." then he grabbed the cat by the throat and cut his eyeball from the socket. After a while the cat healed, but then he is possessed again and he hangs the cat by a tree limb. I’ve never read anything quite like this. To me this man was a little psychotic. I could tell that this story was a Dark Romanticism because he is listening to the voice inside his head but the outcome isn't good, so I guess what this what I mean is dark romantics believed to do everything that popped into their head, but a lot of it wasn't good it was very dark and evil.

Georgia Performance Standard:ELAALRL4

The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents.

This basically means to understand the different types of writing, and to be able to point out the differences between them. This standard also wants me to write different types of literature. I also think we will be talking about important ideas and parts of the text to other texts that are relevant to each other.