Connections from Whitman

Well what I think I connect in this poem is what I think is its meaning. I feel that this poem talks about how children absorb absolutely everything. Once they absorbed actions, ideas, and other things, they use it. I, for own, do this or have done this. I absorb the sayings and actions of my friends and other people I am around and start using them with out realizing it. It is like people are built by the things and people around them and that is what Whitman is trying to convey. I figure that is the meaning and that is what essentially connected with me.

Emily Dickinson's Garden of Poetry

WITHIN A FLOWER.

I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too --
And angels know the rest.

I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.

I believe what she is saying in this poem is that she is being shy towards one person or more people. She is always right in front of this person, but she kind of holds back and never really makes herself known. This person sees her and acknowledge her, but that person only feels that she is alone. She doesn't really reflect sadness, but more of an observation on someone else. It is like she is trying to get notice by being discrete and almost hidden.

Affirmations of Life

I have this funny saying that I read on some sight not to long ago. I that it was a very great saying and a very interesting way at thinking about bad things. The saying was, "Be more positive. If you fall down a flight of stairs, instead of being negative, think, 'Wow! I got down those stairs fast!'". It is a simple witty saying, but I like it a lot. It really isn't as practical as most other saying are, but it just kind of drives home the point of looking at negative things in a different way to get more out of life. Sometimes things can be made into a joke, but I know personally that everything happens for a reason. In my oldest sister's senior year, she was a goalie for Jefferson High School. Jefferson has never been a good team, but they still had to play against Boylan which was considered a state bound team. My sister successfully shut Boylan out in the first half of a soccer game. She was an excellent keeper. She has three different full rides to different colleges to be a keeper at the college. In this game a player came from behind her and slide talked her for no reason. No foul was called. This tackle snapped my sister's ACL and took all full rides away from her. Normally this would be terrible, but the story continues as sh went to school with her boyfriend and they are now happily married with a wonderful son. If she would have taken one of the full rides she probably wouldn't be married. So I think of everything happens for a reason.

The Truth about Nature

I really don't know if I have had any spiritual connections with nature. I guess I had one connection with my tree in my "back yard". It was an apple tree that was the only real tree that I could climb at my house. Though I couldn't really climb it because I quickly got tired after the first few times climbing back up. I always kind of liked the tree though it was very low and I always had to mow around it and all of its crab apples that had fallen. This last year my parents had decided to cut it down without me knowing. So I was a little upset when they started cutting it down, but I realized that I could let go. I kind of realized that it was kind of pointless to hold on to it and it would be better if I just let it go. SO I guess it helped me to realize that somethings really aren't that important to me.