Miss Emily facebook

Miss Emily’s facebook would most likely not have many friends. But if it did, if we were lucky enough to be able to see her world, this is what would be in it.

Her default picture would probably be of her and Homer. Her display name would be Emily G. Because she likes to keep information to herself, I wouldn't be surprised if she has her last name shortened to just the single letter G. In her favorite quotes we would see "For rats."

BASIC INFORMATION:

Networks: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

Sex: Female

Birthday: The day I was born

Hometown: Yoknapatawpha

Relationship Status: Married-To the corpse of Homer B.

MISS EMILY'S WALL:

Her wall would be private. She did not want people knowing who she speaks with. Most people would probably just write "Hey miss Emily, how've you been its been a while," the standard comment people get when they rarely see/speak with anyone.

Emily G's Wall-to-Wall with Colonel Sartoris.

Emily G wrote on colonel Sartoris wall at 9:43am:
"Excuse me Colonel Sartoris but your men keep coming over and asking me to pay taxes, when you yourself have waved them, I’m not paying them!!"

Colonel Sartoris Wrote on Emily G's Wall at 10:23am:
" Good morning Miss Emily, I don’t think I can be of help, you see, I’ve been dead for a number of years and it’s under new management now. Tell them that I said it has been waved due to your father's (May he rest in peace) service to the town."

Emily G wrote on colonel Sartoris wall at 11:03am:
"YOU’RE NOT DEAD!! MY FATHERS NOT DEAD!!! I’m not paying the taxes, that it!!!!!"



FAVORITE TV SHOWS/ MUSIC/ BOOKS:

Her favorite show would be anything of Disney, Nick Jr. She sees herself as a small child, and these are the channels that most kids watch (and even some adults). Her favorite movie would be Avenger, a movie about a psycho killer who chops off people's heads and mails them to Scotland Yard. Her favorite book is Dr. Seuss the Cat in the Hat, because after a long day of poisoning your ex-lover, it’s kind of nice to read a nice book with short words that tell a funny story of a cat who wears the most interesting hat.

this is just to say

This is Just to Say
I didn’t mean
to crash
the new Toyota camry
But it was
so fast
and I was ghost riding
with the guys
If only you’d switched to Geico
you could have
saved a lot of money on your car insurance.

My parody is about the time my older brother took my dad’s car and ghost rode through Oakland. Ghost riding is when a person puts the car in drive or allows it to idle and then the driver and passengers of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it or on the hood or roof. After E-40 came out with that song “tell me when to go” everyone in the bay area would be seen doing this. I used the same form as the original poem. The below is a sketch of how the original poem was formatted. My new poem differs in how may lines per stanza. My poem is three lines then four then three, the original was 5-4-4. The last stanza can be referenced to the fact that my mother and I wait for the new Geico commercials to come on all the time and would try to make some up of our own, I think I did a good job on this one. =)

This is just to say
I have [verb, past tense]
the [noun]
that were
[prepositional phrase]
and which
you were probably
[verb]
for [noun]
Forgive me
they were [adjective]
so [adjective]
and so [adjective] (Carolyn)

Digging

Being responsible refers to our ability to make decisions that serve our own interests and the interests of others. We first need to be responsible for ourselves before we can be responsible for others. In learning to be more responsible it is important that we know our limitations. It is also important to remember that we are not responsible for things that are out of our control, for example, how well a person can farm or how not so well. In this poem Heaney is exploring his ancestry and the roots from where he was brought up. He expresses the ideas of his constant regret that he is no longer able to follow his ancestor’s occupation as potato farmers and reflects back on the glorious days when his father and grandfather were in their prime.
In the first stanza of Digging Heaney introduces his pen. He’s saying that he is happy to be holding a pen, “It rests; snug as a gun” The quote “snug as a gun” gives the impression that the pen fits naturally in his hand. This is also a simile. (Remember similes compare things using like or as) Through that last phrase Heaney expresses his happiness in holding a pen and his comfort and contentment. Heaney compares his father’s and his grandfather’s digging into the ground to his writing and development of his poetry. Heaney’s father and grandfather use their shovels to work with the land, while Heaney uses his poem to work on his ideas to write poetry.
The second and third stanza’s are written in present day tense and switches to past tense in the last two lines. He is writing about what he sees just outside his window. Heaney’s is witnessing his “father, digging” through flowerbeds. “His straining rump among the flowerbeds,” obviously Heaney father is experiencing some hardship.
Heaney plays with the language throughout his poem by using images that appeal to our senses like sounds, sight, touch and smell. Such as ’rasping’ and ’gravelly’, this is images of the act of digging. ’Snug as a gun’ is also a paradox, it refers to how he picks up the pen and gently rests it in his hand, waiting to write. It is creating the beginning of the memories being told by the poet. Focuses our attention to the fact that this is set in present time.
In the last stanza, last line; ’ I’ll dig with it.’ The message to the reader to be skilled in what we do, and not try to be someone were not. Heaney is becoming emotional, and thinks about that the times when he was little and sometimes helped his grandfather out in the fields, this were good times. He shows great respect for them, but knows he can never be like them.

Post Form
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.


Shakespeare’s 73 sonnet is broken up in 3 quatrains and a couplet. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. (Wikipedia) In sonnet 73 it is in an abab/cdcd/efef/gg scheme. He also uses 5 foot lines, that is to say, 10 syllables per line. This is a good method when writing poetry. It makes it easier to read understand. When the words rhyme, it has a nice flow. After you break down the poem in this way, a person can start the analyzing process. It is much easier to understand what the narrator is trying to say when you look at it quatrain by quatrain.
In the first quatrain the speaker is telling someone that aging is like the seasons.
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
The yellow leaves or none or few in the line can mean its autumn the end of the year, the end of a life, where not much is left. The shaking of the boughs can be the rattling of the old person frail bones. In the second quatrain age is like late twilight, death.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Night and darkness is always linked with death. We end the day with darkness. When we die, or when the end of something comes it ends in darkness. Deaths second self that seals up all IN REST. At night we sleep, we are in slumber until the morning. In the third quatrain, the speaker compares himself to fire, or at least what’s left of it.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by
The speaker is saying the he was a glowing fire, and a way a fire does out is when the debris become ashes’s and stop all oxygen from coming in. Consumed with what it’s nourished by. Junk food is not good for us, yet everyone eats it. We become diabetics, obese, and malnourished. It is our end, consumed by what we nourished ourselves with. In the couplet, the speaker tells the reader/listener that he will no longer be here on this earth and that one day neither will the reader. It’s as if he is warning him not to take life for granted. To love and to live.

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