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