Suicide's Note - Langston Hughen

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

I really like the poem "Suicide's Note" by Langston Hughen. It's actually only one sentence, but really well written. It’s really impressive. The three lines could describe everything, but only the heading tells you what it really is. I get this picture in my head of a man standing on a bridge, looking down, thinking about if he should really do it, it's dark and cold. To describe a suicide with a kiss and a face doesn't really fit to the seriousness of the topic. But these words make the whole scene quite calm and describes a suicide in a way as if it's not that bad, serious or sad.

Funeral Blues

I enjoyed reading the poem ‘Funeral Blues’ because it describes the speakers feelings very well. You can really understand how he must feel right now. He/ She absolutely misses the dead person. And shows that by showing what the person meant to her/him: that he was everything: the north, the west, the noon, … . This listing has a big influence on how the reader feels, I think. It seems as if it is so much, as if it is everything that is now missing in his/her life. The author just knows how he has to use language to cause certain feelings.

Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night

I enjoyed reading the poem ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’. It puts you in a quite sad mood. You feel a kind of fear the son feels when he sees his father dying because he tells him to fight, not to give up and not to leave him. The topic really touches me. But not only the topic, also the way the poem is written. I think the author uses really good metaphors which really fit. The dark reflects the death and the bright reflects life.

Mister Doubt's questions

A) why do you feel that you should or should not share your outline?
I don't think you sould share your outline with the class because the teacher can't see any more who really did work and who didn't. When you really worked hard for your outline and wanted to show the teacher that you really did it, and then you have to use the outline from someone else that might not be that good or not what you think, you could become quite angry. And when the other person uses your outline and then might get a good/better grade, that has the same effect. The other problem could be that you don't understand what the other person wants to say in his/her outline. If you don't then you don't know what to write and that might be a problem.
B) what benefits do you think Mr Doubt sees in it? Why does he want me to do this?
Everyone probably has different points and so if you read them you get more ideas. That's a way to share knowledge.
C) Are you dying to use the outline for your essay?
I really need a outline before i write an essay. It absolutely helps me. I need it to know what I want to write and so the essay is organized.

the essay "skaz"

Summary of essay “Skaz”

Skaz is the description of a type of first-person narration that uses the colloquial speech. It has a special effect: the use of the spoken teenage language makes you feel as if you’re in the story. The narrator refers to him – or herself as “I”, and addresses the reader as “you”. The Skaz forms an illusion that is quite powerful to catch the reader. The Skaz gave American authors the possibility to write the way they wanted to and not to write by using the literary traditions of England and Europe. The first author who used the Skaz was Mark Twain’s with his novel Huckleberry Fin. You can compare Mark Twain’s protagonist in Huckleberry Fin with J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. The features of Holden’s narrative style that make it sound like the teenager speech are the many repetitions, the slang expressions, the hyperboles, the short and uncomplicated sentences, the short expression and the grammatical mistakes. Even the long sentences are written in a way you would think he just said it spontaneously. The book describes a lot of or almost only situations of everyday life. So the author uses the language to make it interesting. Everything the author writes has to be written in a seventeen-year-old New Yorker slang (and can’t use poetic metaphors) to make it authentic. This “low” language with its grammatical incorrectness in the social and cultural environment he comes from creates the derisive humor of the book. To understand the book and that was Holden/ the author says you have to read between the lines. This is really effective to catch the reader. Another thing that makes it a pleasure to read is the rhythm of colloquial speech.

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