Blog 2: [What lips have kissed, and where, and why] P.E.E. body paragraphs

St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” suggests that we must cherish what we have now because we never know when we will lose it forever.---Viann

This week we are learning how to write P.E.E (point> evidence> explanation) body paragraphs. I am going to write about [what lips have kissed, and where, and why] by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The speaker states that "I only know that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more"(13-14). The speaker is referring summer to her past, that time when she was still young and have many lovers. This word "Summer" also has multi-meanings, it can be also interpreted as happiness, flirtatious, young, alive and also the time when she was sexually active. Summer only sang in her a little while because we know that time pass fast, we grow old without noticing it. Time never stop for us. 
"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, nor knows that birds have vanished one by one."(9-10) The speaker portrays herself as a lonely winter tree and her lovers as birds. We know that trees are "naked" during winter time so the speaker is saying that she is now old and all her lovers had left her already. Being alone for rest of your life is a terrible thing. The speaker is alone and without physical affection. The speaker noticed it too late and she is now alone, birds are gone now. The speaker had also forgotten her past as she mentioned in line 2-3 "i have forgotten, and what arms have lain under my head till morning." It expressed sadness, regrets and lonesomeness in search of love. she feels sad that she has only lost but never gained. love is not something that you can keep forever so cherish it when you have it don't be regret when you lose it. 

winter tree

Blog 1: "Indian Summer"

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This is my first blog entry for my ENG102 class. I decide to write an entry on Dorothy Parker "Indian Summer," which was published in1937. An Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry weather, occurring after the end of summer proper. The US National Weather Service defines this as weather conditions that are sunny and clear with temperatures above 21 °C (70 °F), following a sharp frost (the "Squaw Winter"). It is normally associated with late-September to mid-November. (Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_summer). It's late autumn or early winter. we can see fallen leaves everywhere during autumn. Indian Summer is symbolizing the fallen love like the fallen leaves. As time goes on we learn from our lover. Love isn't always the same, it is like the leaves, its color changed, its shape changed and it is weak.
This is a very simple poem, it contains two stanzas, as simple as it appears. Dorothy Parker used words "In youth"(1) to describe the time when we were young. when we are young we usually do things to please others but we forget about our own feelings. I'm not sure if the speaker is a female or not, but we can tell that women usually do things to please men they like. so i assume that the speaker is a female. she talked about "every passing lad" its like all the wrong guys that we have met, when we see and experience more we will learn from them. We become more independence and we don't rely on others, like the speaker said "To Hell"(8). We dont have to "suit his theories"(4) anymore. 


FALL
tumble, decline, downfall, autumn, drop
falling in love is like dropping into a black hole.
  --- xingmei yang