Expressions in Art.

Sadie and Bessie talked about how black people were talked down upon and treated poorly. This picture shows a black child in the most helpless position. To me this picture portrays suffering, fear, neglect and overall misery. The child seems helpless and doesn't know what to do.

Having Your Say.

Something I feel strongly about is not doing things just because society says you should do it. I feel like nowadays most people judge everything they do based of what society would think of it and not what they personally think about it. Their perception of right and wrong is what society says is right and wrong and not what they feel is right or wrong. Well society isn't always right and we need to stop basing our decisions of what is accepted by society and instead make decisions based off what we personally believe. We need to stop blindly following society and instead make our own unique paths.

There Was A Child Went Forth

In this poem I think Whitman is talking about how the child had all these experiences and memories that became a part of him to stay with him forever. As the child experienced something it became forever engraved in the child's brain and therefor a part of him. I connect to this because I try to experience as many things as possible and store them in my memory to learn from them. The more we experience the more we learn and maybe that is what Whitman is trying to say.

Emily Dickinson's Garden Of Poetry

The Bee

 

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

I hear the level bee:

A jar across the flowers goes,

Their velvet masonry

Withstands until the sweet assault

Their chivalry consumes,

While he, victorious, tilts away

To vanquish other blooms.

His feet are shod with gauze,

His helmet is of gold;

His breast, a single onyx

With chrysoprase, inlaid.

His labor is a chant,

His idleness a tune;

Oh, for a bee's experience

Of clovers and of noon!

 

- Emily Dickinson

Dickinson shows her love and appreciation for nature and wildlife in this poem. The way she describes the bee you can tell that she holds it in high regard. You can tell that she has carefully observed bees before and she truly enjoys it.

Transcendental Vs Antitranscendental

I personally enjoy the antitranscendental writers over the transcendental writers. I think they are more bold and willing to veer off the path and go their own way. They do not do what society wants them to do. In a lot of their stories I feel like we can find great morals. Like in "The Scarlett Letter" she turned that punishment into a bold statement of individuality. I think the antitranscendental writers that we have learned about our amazing individuals with incredible imaginations.