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Danny Gilham
May 15, 2007
Lit 11 1st period

Modernism Project

1. I really don’t know what Modernism is, I mean I have some kind of clue because I can’t find a good definition or good examples, all I get is a lot of confusing definitions and words. I guess it’s more like old theological tendencies and characteristics. But I picked Psychoanalysis, I can’t find a good definition for this word either. But I got some info from Wikipedia saying it’s a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud, more like a technique. I look forward into seeing crazy analysis because that’s what psycho means. But it may means something different.
2. This story was very interesting. It was about this man who drives his wife to the hairdresser to get her hair done. Then he realizes he has a couple of errands. So he tries to run his errands before her hair gets done. During all of this time, he has been daydreaming about being the most heroic person ever.
The first day he was a US Nave Pilot flying in a storm. Then he is a surgeon who’s performing a one of a kind surgery. Then in the courtroom he’s a testifier, testifying a case. And then he was in the RAF (Royal Air Force) volunteering for a dare stunt. At the end he is daydreaming about-facing a fire squad.
The story wasn’t really what I expected. I though that the story was going to be about someone analyzing crazy things that’s going on in the real world or wherever they are. In this story you can tell that the writer gave the main character Walter Mitty trends to come up with his own type of environment.
3. Richard Corey- is about a man who is very attractive. He just was all that. People stared at him when he walked down the street. Clean favored, and imperially slimed. He ends up killing himself for no reason. Money cant buy you happiness, that the same example for disillusionment.
Mending Wall- this poem is very good. I like the way they wrote this poem. They used the main word wall but in a million kinds of ways. They used it like rappers use their lyrics, in many ways as they can.
The Negro Speaks of River- is basically the struggle of slavery. How we colored people go through hard time. He is letting the reader know that he is the going through hard time now as he reads this poem. Like the Harlem Renaissance.
Incident- this story is about slavery. About how this man called him a Negro because he smiled and wanted to speak to the man. It shows how whites used to do blacks during the time of slavery. To me I think that this poem fit modernism because it comes from the past. It may mean that he has some kind of problem because Psychoanalysis means a method for mental process.
A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes is good. Its really explaining on how things can go just about any kind of way you put it. Depending on how you take it. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore, and then run? See, when you read this it makes you think about how things can happen in all the ways its possible. I really don’t see how this has anything to do with Modernism. The only way I can say it got to do with modernism is

Danny Gilham
May 14, 2007, 2007
Lit 11 1st period Siegmund
Realism Project

1. A Story of an Hour
a> This paragraph explains good details too, it gives a setting also. But to me, I think that when she was explaining the details she lacked. Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
b> The social issue was that Kate’s husband die, and she doesn’t know how to handle it. She was like a wife overlooked by her husband. This story was basically a joy that kills.
2. Fredrick Douglass story Negro Breaker
a> This paragraph is a good example, it gives all details and explain all ways. No thinking in this paragraph the details is already there. It details the actions that are going on and a little about the setting. Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast- like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint gleam of hope that flickered for a moment, and then vanished. I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition. I was sometimes prompted to take my life and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear. Mr. Edward Covey, the slave owner. Bill Smith, William Hughes, Eli and the narrator are the slaves. Bill runs away for about a week because Mr. Covey kicks and abuses him. On the journey meeting new people asking them should he go back? When he returns he basically gives Mr. Covey a fight for his manhood.
b> To me Fredrick Douglass wanted to let his knowledge out about how he thinks it should really happen. Slavery is realism because it was the real world back then, and it explain how it happened in details that gives you good enough of information to understand it.
3. My example is of course a verse from my favorite rapper Jay-Z. He is realism period, his hole Blueprint Album. Because it details his life and how it really is in the hood. Not acting but reality. In one of his verse on The Black album, on this song call Lucifer. He talks about the devil. It goes,
"Lord forgive him, he got them dark forces in him
But he also got a righteous cause for sinnin
Them-a-murder me, so I gotta murder-dem
First emergency, doctors performing procedures
Jesus, I ain't tryin to be facetious, but
"Vengeance is mine" said the Lord
You said it better than all
Leave n***** on death's door, breathing on
res-por-rators for killin my best, poor haters
On permanent, hi-atus as I skate
in the Maybach Benz, flyer than Sanaa Lathan
Pumpin "Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo
In Los Angeles, like an evangelist
I can introduce you to your maker
Bring you closer to nature
Ashes after they cremate you bastards
Hope you been readin your Psalms and chapters
Payin your tithe, bein good Catholics, I'm comin". I like the way he used Lucifer in a good way even though it’s crazy. Realism is a perfect word for this song and Album because it shows the real world using realistic facts, but at the same time it shoes details, and what ifs about the real world.

Dark Romanticism

Danny Gilham
March 26, 2007
Lit 11 1st period

Dark Romanticism

What is an original sin? Original sin is the Adam and Eve story. When you are sin basically breaking god’s rule. Even though people do it ever day. Sin is something god can forgive only if you really want him to.
How did the Transcendentalism feel about it? Really Transcendentalism felt like what someone do doesn’t change everything. Just because Adam and Eve committed a sin doesn’t mean all of us are sinners. They believed that ones mind is always different in some kind of way.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wanted to be a good man, he isn’t like his great grandfather who had hung nineteen people and two dogs. He felt that everyone sin they could be forgave. But Nathaniel’s grandfather wanted to be an evil man.
Herman Melville
He felt that if all men were like him, if all men were to see the cannibals, then they wouldn’t have ate the men flesh.
Edgar Allen Poe
No matter what his family did bad or good. He wanted to do better then his family. Even though they disowned him, he still believed in himself. Even though today he would be considered crazy, he still wanted to be successful
I am more a transcendentalist. Dark Romantic means that you are evil but at the same time you are trying to be nice towards the world. Transcendentalist is more of a Christian type. I fall into a Transcendentalist because I believe the same, just because Adam and Eve sinned, doesn’t mean everyone is sinners.
3. And 4. Hop Frog- I think that the story Hop Frog was good, but I didn’t like his ways, him or his wife Trippetta. The king and his servants were ok, they love to joke around all day and make fun of each other and especially scaring the guess. Hop Frog is a dwarf, he was given the name because he could walk. This story can relate to Dark Romanticism because of the characters. The King and his servants are mean and love to make fun of people. I don’t think a transcendentalist would do that.
With the beliefs of Dark Romanticism Hop Frog was really like a fairy tale. Transcendentalist believed that all humans were pure and good, and that the voice of god comes from people thoughts and intuition.
In this story the dark romantic beliefs were clearly noticeable. Dark Romanticism is basically the opposite of Transcendentalist. They believe that god is really just like one of us, which he is but somehow different.
5. This poem is catchy. It has punch lines that will make you turn your head. The Raven is really a poem about a man (narrator) who’s describing in a different way in which his love passed away. These lines caught me the second time I read them. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before, But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"--Merely this and nothing more.
This poem represents a anti-transcendentalist because in the poem the narrator is speaking his mind himself. God is not telling him to do what he’s doing or say what he is saying. His intuition mind makes him speak what he feels.
Interesting Facts and Information on Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe in 1995 invented a PC (computer) game, jus like making a novel but he put it in a computer game format. It’s a point and click adventure game. It’s basically about this man who murders his wife. It’s like a mystery/adventure.
Dr. E. Snodgrass was the man who found Edgar Allen Poe dead on the streets in Baltimore. He was taken to the Washing College Hospital Saturday night and stayed 1 night where the next morning on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00am I the morning he couldn’t hold on any more, he passed.