Week 9 Survey On Progress : how I'm doing

Week 9

Survey 

How are you doing?

• I feel that I have made a lot of progress in this class and it has made me use my laptop to the fullest extent. I have progress with my writing since we have so much work. The assignment we have to do that I enjoy the most are the literary analysis since I am able to speak my mind about the text and there is not a lot of structure and rules. Yes I used the extra credit options when I miss an assignment and that has only been once but I am sure I will use more in the future. 
• For the second have of the semester I want to make a change of being on my assignments a large amount of time before they are do so I am not feeling overwhelmed. Also I will just make sure I do all of my work and not miss anything. No matter how small. I want to avoid getting lazy in the end and worrying if I am doing everything perfect and try my best and stick with that. Something new I want to try is doing all my work from the week in one day. 

Project Action Plan Week 9

Project Action Plan 

Week 9
Ghalib And Walt Whitman

• In my project I will focus mostly on the genius of Ghalib and Whitman and using the whole essay to compare both of their styles of poetry. 
• I want to look at both authors life briefly in my introduction and then in body paragraphs I was going to direct both authors poetry mostly from my two favorite poems from their section of readings. 
• Compare and contrast elements of two different texts. For example, explore the similarities and differences between two characters in the text  or examine how one theme is handled in similar and dissimilar ways in two different texts.
• The option above is the one I will be using to anwyslis both texts. And I will use the authors style, themes, structure, and just every aspect of how they published their poems. 
• I also want to save some space at the end of my submission to say which author is my personal favorite but from my writing it may be apparent. 
• Other than the poems I won't be using any other outside sources so my works cited will just be the poems from both authors. 
• My thesis will be something like: Both of these poems from Whitman and Ghalib use imagery to draw readers to read further and then use a message of wisdom to make their poems legendary. 
• Or Walt Whitman and Ghalib are two authors who use their poetry to give readers wisdom and beautiful imagery packed into one legendary poem.  
• I will use the poems "Couplets" and " O Captin! My Captain!" mostly with drawing my textual evidence. 
• This week I will focus more on making sure my project is at 1000 word since I will be using poems and they have less you can quote from but I will make sure to use other poems so I can still can have enough evidence. 

Week 9 Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis 

Week 9 

Ghalib "Couplets

This poem by Ghalib is a pleasure of mine to do a literary analysis about because of how great the poem is and how the reach of the poem is endless. The section I want to focus on is on pg. 594 and the poem named "Couplets". The beginning of the poems starts like the author Ghalib is speaking to himself and in the poetry I have ever read the style is always first person but this one started with the author first speaking to himself internally to talking to God. My favorite thing about the beginning is the line where it say's "Ghalib, it's no use forcing your way with love". Reading this made me feel the wisdom implanted in the sentence to wear Ghalib that love is not something you can just control you have go about obtaining it another way. It was like the author was the character in the poem speaking to himself internally then it turned from a talk with self, to a talk with God. "Dear God" is the way the third stanza begins to make the poem even more interesting defining the norm of a poem only being able to interpreted only through deep thought but this poem was straight forward. Although it does have hidden messages in the stanza they still are straight forward enough for anyone to understand them. For example it says "but what can I do if the heart itself proves to be an enemy of freedom?". Clearly the author is trying to express his confusion of love because a heart that is enemy of freedom means it rather be locked down or I'm guessing in a relationship so that would make it not a free heart. To me this gives a transparent understanding that Ghalib was looking for love in the poem and trusted in God to give him the key to his love dilemma so his heart could continue being the enemy of freedom and locked down with another persons heart. This poem does a great job of imagery and introducing readers to a new style of poetry. 

Week 9 Reading Notes Part B

Reading Notes 

Part B

Week 9

• Ghalib was the most famous routinely quoted poet of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And most people who were fans knew poems by heart. The style of writing Ghalib practiced was one of making his words become an image for his readers. 
• While reading the poems flowed so well they made me feel Ghalib was ahead of his time because I understand his focus of the poem and actually get lesson from reading. 
• This type of writing on pg. 594 "Ghalib, it's no use forcing your way with love: that doesn't catch when lit and doesn't die when doused" Ghalib leaves readers with images running through the brain of a boy trying to catch his love which is the flame. Well at least thats what I am getting from the poem. 
• Also while reading I catch the theme in the poems of the author Ghalib talking in third person and although that is a new way of poetry I have never witnessed. In a way it made me feel like he was having a conversation with me. 
• "Tonight somewhere, you're sleeping by the side of another lover, a stranger: otherwise, what reason would you have for visiting my dreams and smiling your half smile". Reading this part of the text made the poem feel more like a conversation or a text message exchange this day in age. 
• The short couple of poems in the beginning of the reading also caught my attention on page 591 and it goes a little on to pg. 592. "Now go Live in that place" was an interesting one because it was such a harsh punishment given to whoever in the poem. One part says " and if you die, no one to mourn you there". 
• Such a harsh punishment but given in such detail with only six lines of poetry which is beautiful I wish my communication skills were that good to where I explain something like hate into six lines of poetry just as Ghalid on pg. 591 did. 

Week 9 Reading Notes: Part A

Reading Notes

Week 9

Part A

• pg.537-541 is information about Vietnam,India, China and enjoy the addition of the map on pg. 540. The map gives me a picture of the settings and how at the time these empires were so close to each other. Allowing them to not see eye to eye causing tension to run high between the two. 
• On pg. 541 it shows a French Colonial family posing next to a machine gun. The picture even had the kids in the picture making me understand how at the time war was normal to the citizens, that huge guns were backgrounds for a picture. 
• Also on the same page it explains how Vietnam was ruled by China for over a thousand years and it took until the tenth century were in a famous Battle of the Bach Dang River ending the golden years of Chinese rule. 
• Explains how Indians in the 19th century "passed from one vast imperial power to another". 
• In China they proved to me strong and independent and Europeans wanted most of the products they manufactured especially the beauty care but their money flooded China's system I believe and caused China to isolate themselves. This ended in the 19th century though. 
• "The Tale of Kieu" is the master of Vietnamese literature and many people that are Vietnamese can recite the full 3,000 lined piece of poetry. 
• People even used this text to define their future and how they continue life. 
• A story of a young women forced into prostitution and slavery but has to come to the stand for her nation that is being attacked by foreign enemies and tyrants flooded the land to control the people. 
• The story is also a love story that has many themes and is just a great piece of Vietnamese literature.  
• Nguyen Du's "The Tale of Kieu" is considered the best of Vietnamese literature.