LOVE- Letters to a Young Poet Mashup

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2) “I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife’s sweet lips: “And then my dear husband came into my life”—something like that.  But I heard nothing of the sort” (218 Carver).

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4) “The boys are ugly, they are failures, they will never be loved, they enter the house.  Boys enter the house and kiss their mother, who feels differently now they have outgrown her” (148 Moody).

5) “You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to have the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language” (34 Rilke).

6) “Don’t write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes a great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance” (7 Rilke). 

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8) “It is also good to love; because love is difficult for one human being to love another human being; that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.  That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn” (68-69 Rilke).

9) Robert Indiana

10) “I believe that love remains so strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life” (79 Rilke).

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12) “The monk and the lover inside him, each a powerful and conflicting presence, were never able to merge” (xiii Rilke).

13)  “Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds” (1 King).

14) “Perhaps everything that frightens us is in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love” (92 Rilke).

        Work Cited

Carver, Raymond. Cathedral.

King Jr., Martin Luther. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Letter to Fellow Clergymen. 16 Apr. 1963.

Moody, Rick. Boys.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Franz Xaver Kappus, and Stephen Mitchell. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Random House, 1984.

Best of Week: TED Presentations

       Hearing the TED presentations of the week it almost seemed like they all had food in common.  There is so much talk of going green and organic foods that for me there is no emotional connection to the problem at hand.  Buying from local farmers or having my own garden all seem do-able but why doesn’t anyone really go along with these smart ideas? Americans are lazy, if it’s not convenient then passive people are not about to get out of their homes and search for these local farmers.  We need to invent an easier way for people to be able to get in contact with these farmers.  If local farmers would create an online website for people to buy their meats and produce online I am sure people will start ordering.   

        The internet is accessible for most families so why not have a sort of yellow pages just for local farmers.  These local farmers could also put ads for their meats and produce at grocery stores so that their names become  known so that those that are interested can become clients.  Local farmers need to become more tech savvy to make their mark in advertising and become active in their approach.  Active online farmers would  not only create jobs but be a new way to connect with a locals and also reduce that avg. 1300mile trip that most produce make.  Fewer miles would also contribute to less gas consumption and would ultimately reduce the cost of organic goods.   

Blogging Around

1)Blog owner: Ben 

Bens Point: Placebo effect of a dream-catcher

My Comment:

          Funny how you mention dream-catchers guys cause I have one too, but I never got around to hanging it up.  My mom loves the Native American culture so for her its so natural to buy me them. 

        In Psych we were just learning about the sleep stages and what happens to the brain/body in each stage.  I learned that you only dream in the REM stage of sleeping which is the deepest stage(5) of a cycle.  I also found it extremely interesting that when the brain is awake the brain waves are similar looking to the brain waves of someone who is in REM sleep or Rapid Eye Movement sleep.  How can being awake and being in the deepest sleep be the same for a brain? 

             I just don't understand how dream-catchers became so famous for protecting you from having nightmares when it really is as Ben stated, "A placebo effect".   

2)Blog owner: Jon

Jons Point: how interesting poetry can be if one takes the time to analyze it

My Comment:

        I agree that poetry can be quite misunderstood but it can also be the most amazing way to express oneself such as this poem.  I had the same initial reaction as you but when taking the time to really analyze and look through the clues and meanings of why the author chose to make certain fragments and certain letters paired together the beauty of the falling leaf can be found if one chooses to look for it.

           Power of poetry, can be much more than just squiggles and that make up words, sentences, paragraphs.  Language it epic and allows us to communicate in so many different ways.  I love poetry have you ever written a poem?