Journal 48: Haiku

this oughta be the hardest god dam journal of the year

Right on my desk now
is a full week of homework
but too tired to write

staring at the gleaming cloud
at the obsidian sky
is a big bird flying

shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu the big tree waved
secluded in a big mountain
feels lonely by itself

Journal 47: Real or Romantic? Journal 47: Real or Romantic? Journal 47: Real or Romantic?

The industrial revolution was a time of great changes and workers suffered greatly during that time. I believe that Whitmun's poem romanticize their lives. They were suffering in this period, they needed a change in the working conditions. However, Whitmun did supported the fact that whatever they're doing, its of honest works. Through these honest works where they earn honest pay. They can live happily while in harsh conditions. The harsh environment that the workers face were not described in Whitmun's poem. Whitmun talks about the joy as people work on their daily routine and daily lives. I believe that the people must have loved their work, but in realistic terms, a change was needed. 

After the period of Whitmun's poem, things gets serious as the realist movement progresses. With artists such ass Courbet and Daumier rising in fame and demanding a change, the industrial revolution evolved. People looked at the hard honest labor of the ordinary and appreciated their works. To some extent, Whitmun's poem also celebrated this aspect for the appreciaiton of the laborers. 

Journal 46: Work Songs

honest works means honest money. Whitemun puts his emphasis on the common people so that his poems can be read by the commons and be appreciated by the majority of people. America was in the times of Industrial Revolution. Labor were a major part of life and the working class are having to work harder and harder to keep their jobs. The working conditions were poor as hell as people died in terrible working conditions or being injured through the process of labor.
jobs that are celebrated today in the U.S are probably like stock markets, wall street people (before) workers still take a huge role, actors, designers, artists, scientists, housewives, and alot of other jobs that i don't know. Too many to list out in a place that is so diverse and spread out nowadays. The job oppurtunities offered in the past are so little if it was to be compared to nowadays. Biochemic engineering of pyshicis and nuclear researher. The different art master and jobs in a company just out date the olod system easily.

Journal 45: Acrostic

Jason is too
Awesome for the world
Sometimes, he would eat
Oreos and milk, but
Not with hot milk.
Chocolate is his favorite food
He also thinks meat are
Extremely delicious and
Nutritous for your body.

Sue Liou

Scary in all ways
Useless at all times
Eating most of times
Laugh is very distrubing
I suffocate with her breath
OMG! you student so irresponsible
Usually you are the one irresponsible Sue.

Journal 44: Barbaric Yawp

huh? i wasn't there yet, so i basically have no idea how am i gonna continue with this journal. From what i observed in the writings of Whitmun is that he believes his poems are like something no one has ever seen. It's as if his a barbaric giving a wild swing in the orderly world. Such as how dickenson didn't like his poem because it was not traditional. The free verse that whitmun created was new and interesting to the world. With his new poem, it swept over the nation and the poetic soceity for something brand new. THe people was shocked and then admired the poems of Whitmun.
I really don't have anything to say to fill up the page of a full journal. Seirously, this one just isn't really gonna fit. I don't really like the poems they are giving out. So traditional. I like either chinese ancient poems or the newly popular free verse poems.
Honorable mention that i recently just heard was the poem shake the dust. I forgot it was by who, but it was really good as it promoted the "stop emo and teenage girl bully." the whole poem was just, i don;t know, sounds so artistic and beautiful that you just listen to it and feel the words lifting you.

Journal 43: What I Hear Singing

I lived in different times from the society that the poem was talking about. I didn't had workers working beside me joyfully throught their works, instead i have asain kids scramble through their tests and work when i was in the U.S. Luckily, i didn't had to do all that crap. Now that i compare the soceity of Taiwan and America, i realize there are some stuff that America don't have and won't hear singing about.
The beetlenut girls waving at the cars and asking to come closer.
The horns and chaos when driving in Taiwan
the shouting and cussing of the bus drivers against the taxi drivers
Parents scolding their kids to work harder and harder and eventually the sound of THOMP where they suicide. No kidding, the recent news just have another one of the kids jumped down the building. Most likely i won't have a life like that, since im living already like this.
In the U.S, im sure you would hear some news like these in Taiwan but im pretty sure not that often. From what i know of my friends doing now is joinignc clubs, enjoying high school with people and socializing. Over here, people are crumbled with the replacement test from 11th grade all the way to 12th with their parents watching over and running academy from here to there.

Journal 42: Elements of Poetry

sorry, i got no idea what to talk about in this journal. It seems that all of the things that we have been takling about for these past few days basically fill this journal up. What are the elements of a poem? the usual things, rhythm, rhyme, aliitertion, assonance, meter, vowel sounds and all that. Everything that make the whole poem rhyme or sounds good in the end is being characterize as a poem. At least that s what i think.
No matter what happnes, they always have some sorta conneciton with each other that makes up something. That's what separates poems and basic stories.
Modern songs with lyrics that are like poems have the songs and instrumental music at the back as the beat of the poem. With the songs at the back, it reinforces the beat and lyrics that its intended to display and make it into a even better poem.