Blogs Week 10
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serenity57Part 1 -Reflection
In "Pomegranate" by Eavan Boland, the author tells the myth of Persephone as a life experience in which she has previously gone through. She writes "Pomegranate" using herself and her daughter as comparison with Ceres and Persephone. However, in the poem, Boland writes about a pomegranate that Persephone has pulled "She could have come home and been safe and ended the story and all our heart-broken searching but she reached out a hand and plucked a pomegranate". Boland used and titled the poem "Pomegranate" that represents the significance of the myth Persephone where Persephone was abducted by pulling a flower in the earth that opened up the gate of hell. As the poem goes on, she acts as though she is Ceres and that her daughter is Persephone. Although that is the intention, her thoughts were different compared to what a normal mother would have done. Near the end of the poem Boland writes "I could warn her. There is still a chance." meaning to say that she could still save her daughter from being taken away. However, as the poem goes on until the last line, Boland writes "If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift [...] I will say nothing." In the end, Boland believes that one must go through many hardships in order to have their own myth pass on and their story be told and if Persephone wouldn't have plucked the "Pomegranate" the myth would have never been created.
"Persephone, Falling" by Rita Dove is a short poem about the myth Persephone. Unlike Boland, Dove heads straight to the point as if the myth "Persephone" is a life lesson that is meant for young people. She tells the process of Persephone's abduction, again with the plucking of a flower, in a few short lines and at the end of "Persephone, Falling" Dove writes "Remember: go straight to school. This is important, stop fooling around! Don't answer to strangers." Dove goes straight to the point that it is important for young people to know that there are dangers around every corner and they should always keep an eye out to their surrounding. Contrary to Boland's idea of grief before gift, Dove warns her readers to go straight into the safer road or one might get their "foot sinks into the ground".
Part 2 -Looking Ahead
"In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Greek: Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare[1]) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. He ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, and the melting wax caused him to fall into the sea where he drowned."
Work Cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus
W.H. Auden uses the myth of Icarus to further explain his writing as though to say that people will always have their courses in life to take. For example he mentions "Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course" saying that even people who prefer death must do something to achieve it. Auden uses the story of Icarus meaning to say that even though it is an extraordinary thing to see that "a boy is falling out of the sky" into the water, the sail boat must continue calmly on. In comparison to Ceres and Persephone, Icarus also give readers a life lesson in being careful the path in which one must take in order to continue on with their lives. In the myth of Icarus, by refusing to listen to his father's advice not to fly too close to the sun, Icarus suffered death by drowning into the ocean because his wings has melted. Similar to Icarus, Persephone, out of curiosity, also pluck the flower out of the earth and ended up in the underworld with Hades.
In "Pomegranate" by Eavan Boland, the author tells the myth of Persephone as a life experience in which she has previously gone through. She writes "Pomegranate" using herself and her daughter as comparison with Ceres and Persephone. However, in the poem, Boland writes about a pomegranate that Persephone has pulled "She could have come home and been safe and ended the story and all our heart-broken searching but she reached out a hand and plucked a pomegranate". Boland used and titled the poem "Pomegranate" that represents the significance of the myth Persephone where Persephone was abducted by pulling a flower in the earth that opened up the gate of hell. As the poem goes on, she acts as though she is Ceres and that her daughter is Persephone. Although that is the intention, her thoughts were different compared to what a normal mother would have done. Near the end of the poem Boland writes "I could warn her. There is still a chance." meaning to say that she could still save her daughter from being taken away. However, as the poem goes on until the last line, Boland writes "If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift [...] I will say nothing." In the end, Boland believes that one must go through many hardships in order to have their own myth pass on and their story be told and if Persephone wouldn't have plucked the "Pomegranate" the myth would have never been created.
"Persephone, Falling" by Rita Dove is a short poem about the myth Persephone. Unlike Boland, Dove heads straight to the point as if the myth "Persephone" is a life lesson that is meant for young people. She tells the process of Persephone's abduction, again with the plucking of a flower, in a few short lines and at the end of "Persephone, Falling" Dove writes "Remember: go straight to school. This is important, stop fooling around! Don't answer to strangers." Dove goes straight to the point that it is important for young people to know that there are dangers around every corner and they should always keep an eye out to their surrounding. Contrary to Boland's idea of grief before gift, Dove warns her readers to go straight into the safer road or one might get their "foot sinks into the ground".
Part 2 -Looking Ahead
"In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Greek: Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare[1]) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. He ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, and the melting wax caused him to fall into the sea where he drowned."
Work Cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus
W.H. Auden uses the myth of Icarus to further explain his writing as though to say that people will always have their courses in life to take. For example he mentions "Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course" saying that even people who prefer death must do something to achieve it. Auden uses the story of Icarus meaning to say that even though it is an extraordinary thing to see that "a boy is falling out of the sky" into the water, the sail boat must continue calmly on. In comparison to Ceres and Persephone, Icarus also give readers a life lesson in being careful the path in which one must take in order to continue on with their lives. In the myth of Icarus, by refusing to listen to his father's advice not to fly too close to the sun, Icarus suffered death by drowning into the ocean because his wings has melted. Similar to Icarus, Persephone, out of curiosity, also pluck the flower out of the earth and ended up in the underworld with Hades.
