To a Stranger

 Walter was an American poet,essayist and journalist. Walt Whitman was born on May 31st,1819. Walt was the 2nd child of 9 siblings. Walt had different careers such as he worked as a journalist, a government clerk,teacher and in addition for publishing his poetry. Walt started his own newspaper company called "The Long Islander". But a year later the company got shutdown due to his effortless work. 

 The poem "To a Stranger" is an interesting poem. I think the poem might be about how the poet loves someone and cares for the them and then how they become strangers and never talk

again to each other. The line "I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you" means how the person knew the stranger before or in a another life time because it say I have surely lived a life of joy with you. 

Another line" when I sit alone or wake at night alone. I'm to wait,i do not doubt i am to meet you again" means how the person waits for the stranger each and everyday of their life and the person is unsure if they would ever meet them again in their life time. 

I personally think the poem is based on Walt and the stranger he loves because when I read the poem I thought it would be about how the poet loves someone and cares for them so much 

How your heart is

I think Charles Bukowski should be content because every human has it's right to have fun and enjoy its life. In Charles childhood he used to get abused everyday by his father in different kinds of ways like he gets beaten by an razor and gets beaten if the grass wasn't perfectly cut. Charles also doesn't know how it feels to have an healthy relationship with his family. So he couldn't express his feeling with any one close to him in his childhood years. 

Also Charles was poor through out his entire life and didn't have a proper place to live in. In the poem Charles says sleeping in dirty motel rooms maybe he wants to know how it feels to live in an clean and neat house or environment instead of living in an dirty place. 

Money doesn't always give you happiness. Since Charles was poor he could have started working and earning money for him self and show his parent that what kind of person you are how your are capable of doing something on your own. 

Therefor I think Charles should be content in his life because he could do so many things in his life and move on in his life. 

Interim report

So far English 10 has been a great experience. English has been different this year because we are not writing on paper but we are using our technology devices to use websites such as blogger and edmodo. Edomodo is simliar to Facebook but we use it in useful way and on educational bases where we can see what assignments are due, homework or any up coming event that the teacher posted. Since it's only been 3 weeks since we started school we don't have have a percent or a letter grade because we only did 5-6 assignments. So assignments we did were history of English and me, what it's like to be a teen,the Myers Brigg personality test,litteratery term dialect, the extanded metaphor assignment and the tattoo assignment. I think overall English 10 has been different and a great experience so far. 

Tattoo Assignment

If I ever get a tattoo on my wraist it would be the word family in a heart. I would get it on my wraist because it wouldn't hurt there as much. I chose to get this tattoo because my family means everything to me. They are always there for me when I need them and help me through my hardest times. My parents are always very supportive and help me through my ups and downs. They always know what's right and wrong for me to lead me to the right path. My sister is always there for me no matter what happens and always has my back. The heart to me means to love your family and have them close to ur heart at all times no matter what happens. My core values that represent in this tattoo is I will always love my family, help them through all the thick and thins and their hardest times. 

Extended Metaphor

The Extended Metaphor I chose is a poem called  "hope" by Emily Dickinson. An extended metaphor is comparing two unlike things without using like or as throughout the entire poem. This poem is comparing hope. The line "hope is the thing with feathers" it means how hope is freely like a bird. 

Literary term

Free verse is a poem that doesn't have any limitation lines,a poem without rhyme or a rhyme scheme. 

Example 

Myers Briggs personality test

Today I did the Myers Brigg personality test and I got ESFJ or the supporter. To be hosest some of the traits I got were right and some of them wrong. I got supporting and nurturing others and I agree with that because I understand peoples feeling and emotions very well. Therefore I also got follows rules and I agree with that because i always follow rules and never break them. The last one I got was I'm not shy and I usually host events well that's not true I'm the opposite of that I'm shy and usually don't host events. The person or celebrity that was also an ESFJ was Donald Duck. Down below is an screenshot of my results.