Wednesday, 28 May 2003 - 10:12 PM CDT

[brIght]
Hmm...weird weird weird and complicated. Let me take a stab at it. So, I definitely noticed the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 structure of the stanzas. I also noticed that there's 3 question marks in the second stanza, 2 in the 3rd, 1 in the 4th, and 4 and then 5 in the 5th stanza. Also, the question marks in the last stanza when filled in reveal the word bright to us twice. There is "holy" repeated. Why the religious stuff? The word "bright" is repeated also, well, duh it is the title. Well, when I think of "bright", I think of a light, a light bulb, the sun, people's intelligence, or a famous star or singer. Which leads me to the "star" mentioned in this. So, maybe the star is referred to as a really talented person. So, maybe this person is this e.e. cummings man. The word "alone" is also repeated. Also, the "I" in the title is capitalized, making it stand out. So, it is something of self-importance and all that mambo jambo hype. So, it also has that whole alone and loneliness or oneliness vibe as the leaf falling in the Loneliness poem we looked at yesterday. I also did the whole putting all the capitalized letters in a row, Ms. Spachman. And yep, not a damn thing is spelled but some jibberish. Maybe this man is doing some sort of meditation or something to calm himself down or something. I'm not sure. So, I guess that's all I really have at this point. Catch ya later.

Thursday, 29 May 2003 - 2:36 AM CDT

Good morning! I actually liked today's excercise..even though i got stuck with the question and answer thingy! What I liked about it is that it kinda forced me to answer what I questioned..as opposed to the free write where you just write what you think...not actually leaning toward coming to a conclusion. At least thats how I feel. So anyway, on to my comments. Oddly enough I liked this poem. I feel like I actually understood it. What I imeediatly thought when i read it was the "unknown". The stars, the brightness of the sky...God? They are elements that we know are there (stars, sky,etc.) But what are they? What I liked about the poem was the structure...each line increased in stanza. It was as if the more he realized the more he question. Like, he came to a conclusion, but that only lead to more questions to be answered. So..in this he is naming all these elements that the "star" seems to be...but in this star, what I have come to conclude is that "higher force", he doesn't know what it really is..or if it even is. He repeats the idea that we are alone..yet there are these elements out there. It's "big", "bright"...it is..."yes". So that's what I think..there is so much more that I thought of, but can't remember at the moment..okay, till later kiddies..

Thursday, 29 May 2003 - 12:16 PM CDT

This is one of the best poems that I like the most because I actually understand it. This poem seems to be about a star, a brIght star. Each stanza gives us one more letter to s???, which then spells out star. ????Ht?????T seems to me that it spells out bright. A star is bright, right? It is also alone and soft. There are a lot of descriptive words for a star. Also there is a repitition of 5. The question marks go in order from 3, 2, 1, 4, & 5. And there are five stanzas. Also the capitalized letters spell out words. This poem unlike the others has clear meanings in it that are visible.

Thursday, 29 May 2003 - 1:36 PM CDT

[Hello class I would like to say that our discussion in class went really]
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Hello class I would like to say that our discussion in class went really well and there is some things that I want to clear up? The first is that I know what Cummings is doing with the question marks? I just found it interesting on where he didn!|t put question marks? He puts question marks all over the poem and doesn!|t put one after a word like who in which no coherent sentence followed? If everyone read the poem [briGht] you would noticed that? I am not saying that there is no pattern, but the pattern he uses is interesting? I think with this poem that what is not there is very important? Also with this particular blog I chose to end each sentence with a question mark? I did this to prove one point? Which is that as unconventional of the use of question marks in the poem we read I can do the same thing in my blog? HA?