Blog numero tres "Grass"

 Sandburg is a poet who likes to include a subject when he writes about his poems.  He demonstrates this in  "Grass" which is about time and how it is a constant anomaly that will never cease to stop.  Time is something that is constantly flowing and Sandburg makes the figure of grass represent the passage of time.  The poem is also stating that time does not stop and the world keeps turning after traumatizing and dramatic events like death.  Even though one has passed on to the next life, the grass and people still grow and the past is left behind, leaving many wondering about the distant times humanity once had .  One thing that Sandburg liked to do is make many allusion to great clashes in history such as the battle of  Waterloo and Gettysburg.  These battles were fought in various places around the world and are destinations  where many men lost their lives for their country or beliefs.  The allusion of these battles helps support the theme of time and death and clarifying that only time will heal past battle scars.

Blog numero dos "When You Are Old"

                W.B. Yeats is a master craftsman when it comes to poetry and shows his talent in "When You Are Old."  Yeats uses many allusions in his poems and the title of this poem is an allusion to a sonnet by French poet Pierre de Ronsard.  This particular poem attracted me because of the theme of nostalgia and dreams of the distant past.  In this brief poem so much is said through few words about how memories of joyful moments never leave the human mind.  Stanza one is a statement that old age will inherently come to everyone alive and by that point we will learn the value of time by taking every action slowly.  We will cherish every fleeting moment with the passage of  time with pleasant memories of events or loved-ones.  This poem in particular is talking about someone, most likely a woman, who has engraved her image of beauty and frivolous  personality into the mind of the speaker.  However, near the end it seems that Yeats is saying that some memories must remain in the past because of the pain it might cause in the present.  

Blog numero uno "Hap"

            "Hap" by Thomas Hardy seems to be Hardy's  self-expression of what life and pain are.  From stanza one it seems that Hardy believes that all of his hardships are rained down from a deity that takes great pleasure from his agony.  He is stating that the human race as a whole is doomed to suffer through the emotions god has given.  Stanza two is the realization that humans must accept the suffering and accept  the numerous complications of life.  Here Hardy is saying that people must deal with the agony at hand because it has already happened and one must come to terms that there is no going back to the past.  However in Stanza three Hardy recaps on what has caused the torment inside and blames all of his choices and emotions. He refers to all the negative emotions  as "Crass Casualties" that blind him from being happy and regret  as "purblind Doomsters" that linger in his mind.