UNIT 4

The one that i have trouble in where the student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding. Because i tend to get lost in stories and poems and what the whole point of it is.

I pick Disillusionment because it has to do with getting away from an illusion, or getting away from ideas that have no logical basis. Throughout all the units we have had different ways of how people live their life and how they look at things and this is another belief to some people so i highly feel that this will be something that i read and know more about throughout this lesson...

Soldies home by Ernest Hemingway
I felt really bad in this story for Krebs because he didn't teally have much going for him and didn't want to try to make things better. His family encouraged him to get out and try to have i life like the other boys, but he just got more angry as they would bring the subject to his attention.
Overall I liked the story even though it was hard to understand, but you could really see how this Krebs was doing in life and how it affected his families, and how his life had changed after coming back from the war. Nobody felt that he was important and had no desire to listen to anything he had to say.

I feel the author was trying to say that one can do for their country and may not be appreciated and that Krebs had went to the war but did not do anything when he had got back so not everyone in the earth feels they can do something like work or having a family he just stuck by himself basically. "All of the times that had been able to make them feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done somthing else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves." Krebs was trying to be in his own world and dillusioment was what he was doing!

Richard Corey poem
This poem was very interesting. It was short, but had alot of menaing to it by just what it was saying. Ive seen alot of stories similar to this, and some are stories that you could hear today and it really makes people want to know why something like this would have an ending the way it did!
This defines modernism because this man was admired he seemed to have everthing and nobody would have expected him to be unhappy because he always talked and just seemed to have alot going for him and then one night kills himself. "So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head." This refers to the dillusioment he seemed to be trying to free himself and now picture things that everything was perfect because even though he had alot obviously it seems that he and his situation were far from perfect.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost
This poem was very confusing and long. I didnt get it that much but all i know is that overall this poem shows me that he was trying to say that he liked the wall even though he broke it every winter. so this would relate to disillusionment because he seemed to be freeing himself in a way with his actions to this wall and how he felt about it. "Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence."





A dream deferred
This poem was very short and didnt seem to have alott of meqaning but it did have a point and does refer to modernism. The way it referred to was when you can't just go based on illusions because that was not reality and just because your seeing something doesn't neccessarily mean it could be done and when your dreaming of something its not reallt reality so you can take that serious! But you know what they say some dreams can come true but you have to believe!! "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore--
And then run?"

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
This poem was being told from an african-american and what he has been through and how he has lived his life and the success that he had made throughout his life which deals with alot of modernism like the harlem renaissance when alot of african-americans had achieved many things and started feeling their success."I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers." This shows how he felt about his achievments!

Incident
This poem deals with an african-american not being looked at the same just because of he color. He had done alot in Baltimore they were good from his time their but out of everything the only thing he thinks about was wehn that one day he seen a boy not much bigger than him he was young but he smiled at the boy and the other boy suck out his tongue and called him a nigger! This refers to the Harlam renaissance and how african-americans were not getting respect just because of their color which was not fair at all!!! "And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

The standard that i had chose that was difficult to me at the beginning of the lesson i have succeeded in now throughout this lesson i have read these poems and like the ones about the african americans when i had to connect modernism with it the harlem renaissance was connected closely with what the themes of these poems were trying to say so it gave me a better understanding of the poem and the theme over all!