Frankenstein

              

 “Being thus provided, I resolved to reside in this hovel, until something should occur which might alter my determination. It was indeed a paradise, compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches, and dank earth. I ate my breakfast with pleasure. And was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water, when I heard a step, and, looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel. The girl was young and of gentle demeanor, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farm-house servants to be. Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb, her fair hair was plaited, but not adorned, she looked patient, yet sad. I lost sight of her, and in about a quarter of an hour she returned, bearing the pail, which was now partly filled with milk.”

                When you read a book you always want a statement or paragraph that you feel you are actually there and doing it, when reading this paragraph that’s the way I felt. I felt like I actually saw this women and that’s what I love about books. You can go into a whole different world and think about something different. The out of this whole paragraph one part of it really made me think I was there, “Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb, her fair hair was plaited, but not adorned, she looked patient, yet sad.” Just this statement made me want to read this book even more; at first sadly I didn’t want to read it. I hate reading a book that you can’t feel your actually there and escaping to a whole different world. So far this book is really good, I thought it was just going to be about Frankenstein but it's totally not.


(Frankenstein by Shelley, Page 71-72)

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Brenda Tyson
Cline
English 102
09/18/11
                      

Fairy Tale Logic


            When reading the poem Fairy Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings, your attention goes right to the first words Fairy tale. As a child everyone goes to this magically place, for girls it’s that a princess charming is going to rescue you and for boys it’s about dragons or being invisible. All of these are impossible but as a child nothing is impossible. Children just want a magically place they can call there own and where nothing bad happens.

            The poem is spoken in a way we have known since we were little from the stories are parents have told us at bedtime. It shows us that logic of fairy tales is full of impossible tasks just by the first verse “Fairy Tales are full of impossible tasks.” What I feel she is trying to get across that even though things in life may seem impossible we have to fight for things we want in life. Something I was told going up is that you can accomplish anything that you put your mind to.

            When A.E. Stallings says “gather the hairs of a man-eating goat, or cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat” it seems very silly and totally impossible. But that’s what this poem is about all the silly things we read growing up and some of the things we actually believed. Like “The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak,” everyone believed as a little kid that we could be invisible and no one could see us if we didn’t want them to. We all know now as we get older that it’s totally impossible.

            Then the last verses “marry a monster. Hand over your firstborn son” to us now this totally sounds crazy but as a child we believed that. I feel by all these verse that the author wants us to see how silly the stories we were told growing up and that it makes the child really believe its true. In a way it’s a great way for kids to escape to a different world but then it makes a child believe something that’s totally not true and it gets a child’s hope up. Poems can be interpreted in so many different ways.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/238826 

Fairy-tales!

             

             After reading all these poems about five times, I finally decided to read Fairytale Logic by A.E. Stallings one more time and that’s when I thought about my childhood and all the stories everyone wished would come true like Cinderella where the prince came to rescue her. As a child we feel like we are escaping in a whole different world and want our prince to come save us.

            “You have to believe that you have something impossible up your sleeve” (line 10) is my favorite line of this poem. With all the fairytale stories I read as a child I never believed in this, I always felt I wasn’t worth anything and no one was going to love me. After awhile and a lot of people telling me otherwise I started to finally believe I could do anything I put my mine to. The day I graduated high school I knew it was true, so I am a big believer that you have something impossible up your sleeve.

            “The will to do whatever must be done” (line 13) this line makes me think about my friend. She is one amazing person and she has the will to do anything even if she is sick. People have amazing will to do anything, and at times you feel like that person is a super women or man.

            Growing up with all these fairy-tales children start believing that there parents or grandparents are these magic super hero’s that have all these cool powers. At times it’s a great feeling because it makes children feel like nothing will happen in the world. Fairy-tales make children believe so many things like you can marry a monster like beauty and the beast. Stories like that make children think that what is inside is what really matters. You would think that when we were little we were already getting life lessons. 

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