ENTRY 10：Response to the poem "The Blind Woman"

This poem describes the desperate access of the world with light of the blind woman. In the first stanza, the light was associated with the rain, which was touchable and you could feel with it. The woman smiled towards the light, which shows her love for the light. In the stanza two to four, the word like forehead, eyes, neck, sweatshirt, breasts, shoes, every part of her body can feel the light like the rain trickling down from the top of her body. The light touching her skin made her felt alive, though blind, she could still feel the light with her sensation. Different from the former stanzas, from the stanza four to the last stanza, it depicts a totally dark moment when she eagerly chased behind the circus wagon that left her behind; however, instead of quitting the world, she still chose to survive in the darkness with her cane, though the world cowered back in a corner, she leaned towards the world and embraced it. So, in my own perspective, this poem delivers a positive attitude, which can be summarized in a word, “never abandon the world, though it abandons you.

ENTRY 9: A Poem With Begining/ending & Transition

Wolf

A lonely shadow is lingering on the stark wilderness.

The sun disappears at the horizon burning final light.

Bitter wind cut through his face,

arousing the latent rage.

Running wildly as a king under the looming stars,

His last consciousness is devoured by desire.

Red is the cruelty between black and white.

He gobbles up the poor fellows lost in the chill,

aggressively, ruthlessly.

He gallops, constantly assaulting,

Perishing in the darkness.

Until,

The orient surrenders the first light.

The burning sunshine ignites his gloomy, weak eyes.

He will never retrospect the bloody memories he just created.

ENTRY 8：Publishing Position

Section editors 

I choose this position in part because I like writing but not that so much writing. Also, I like to cooperate and communicate with other teams and also individuals in the work. I consider myself to be careful and am capable of taking up this position.

Actually, i also hold the intention to be a staff writer in our journal cause i love writing, but i am just afraid of too heavy works.

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ENTRY 7：Reponse to the short film "10 Minutes"

  In the main narrative of the short film a man walking in a very modern city with people sitting outside, drinking coffee, accompanied by a very soft and bright music, displays a very leisure life just as the city dubbed as “romantic city”. However, in the frame narrative, in a very dark and rough room accommodating a whole family, stories begins with baby crying, mother yelling; the boy then walks in a shabby street with ruins, aiming at the relief food. The two main character in separate stories show a completely different life from each other. In terms of the color, it is obvious that the main story adopted a very warm color to display a sense of leisure and pleasant, but in the frame narrative, the color is cold with a sense of danger. Another element both showed in these two stories is the technology. In the main narrative, the man is amazed by the advanced technology that his photos can be developed in just ten minutes, while in the frame narrative, the high technology, the mass destructive weapons like guns, can ruin his whole life in one second. The former one is the praise of the technology, and the latter narratives criticize the cruelty of it. I personally think the film tells us that never disdain 10 minutes; it can develop everything, also ruin everything, and the same with technology. Through the contrast of these two stories happened in simply ten minutes, we should also learn how cruel the war is.

ENTRY 6：Reponse to Beginning by James Wright

This poem is very distinctive towards its language and style. In terms of its language, James Wright uses very beautiful but also natural words, delivering a very strong image. In the poem, the words, such as moon, drop, feathers, fields, dark wheat, still, wings, tress, slender women, shadow, step, lean, describe a very vivid image invoking the imagination of the audience with intense perception. In terms of its style, the poem tends to be plain, and with few rhymes. It lacks the complex structure but with simple and flexible style, there being no words limits in every single line, and no specific and regular words choice at the very end of each line. In this poem named Beginning, the poet initially depicts a very dreamlike scene where moon drops its features, the wheat listens and the moon’s young try their wings, all of which being very lovely and graceful. However, everything fine disappear when the slender women is gone, which indicates “my” dream is gone. Then, the wheat no longer listens but leans to the darkness and I also lean to my own darkness, and everything go back to their beginning, like nothing has happened. This poem delivers a sense of loneliness and the disappointment. The narrator weaves a very beautiful dream for himself at first, but when the reality comes, everything destroyed. The narrator leans towards his own darkness indicates he has to be alone, though it’s not what he has sought for.