Daddy

Once again I was confused by this poem. It was obvious to me that the narrator was a girl and she was talking about her daddy. But I was still confused because at first I thought she hated her dad and was glad he was dead because she seems to have a lot of anger towards him, but then later on in the poem it says, "At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you". After reading the poem a couple more times I think the narrator is just mourning through the pain of her lost father. It's not that she hated him, she hated his job as a Nazi, which is why he was killed. So now that he is gone, she misses him.

Leda and the Swan

I was very confused by this poem. I think what is going is the author is talking about shooting a swan but i'm not really sure. I have read it multiple times and i'm still confused. I think it will be very interesting to talk about in class today.

London

I walked through each street
Near the river
And remember every face I saw
Everybody is weak and sad

Each man is crying
Each baby is cryin
Everybody is cursing
In his head he hears handcuffs

The chimney sweepers are crying
All the churches are upset
The unlucky soldiers sigh
People are dying because of the people in the palace

At night I mostly hear
The young prostitutes cursing
The babies are crying
People are dying because of a disease

The Chimney Sweeper

The boy's mother dies
His father sends him to work
He wasn't allowed to complain about the work
He is a chimney sweeper.

Tom cries when his head gets shaved
His hair was curly but now he is bald
Narrator tells Tom not to worry about his hair being shaved
Without hair the soot can't get in it

That night he was quiet
While he was sleeping he had a weird dream
He sees a lot of chimney sweepers, some of them he knows
They were all killed by the soot

An angel set them free
He opened the cuffins to let them out.
Then they ran through the field, laughing, and playing
They played in the river

They were naked and had none of their belongings
They go above the clouds to play in the wind
The angel told Tom if he is good
The angel would have God talk to his dad

Tom woke up in the middle of the night
And got his cleaning supplies and went to work
Even thought the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm
So if they all do their job they dont need to be afraid of getting hurt.

Harrison Bergeron

I liked reading Harrison Bergeron. I thought it was an interesting method to minimize the gap of inequality that we have in our societ today. I do not think it would ever work, but it was interesting to read. My favorite part was when the wife wanted to cheat her husband's handcap to help him feel better after a long day, but he explains to her that would be cheating. If he cheated then everybody would cheat, making the handicaps useless.

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

After reading this story I was very confused. I dont understand why the society is portayed as simple and happy, but yet the community abuses the boy and keep him locked up. It seems to be simple because the members of society don't ever smile or show any emotion at all and I think if they had they would have realized abusing the boy and keeping him locked up is wrong.