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Realism and Naturalism . Or Ben Galim

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Realism in the basic is a movement of artists and writers that tried to represent events and social conditions as they actually are, without idealization (“the process by which scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are strictly false but make models easier to understand or solve.”)  Realism focused on the truthful of everyday life, focuses more on literary technique unlike naturalism that implies on philosophical position and scientific studies. The Naturalist describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. The term was invented by Emile Zola, which I personally admire because of is brave letter “j’accuse” (I accuse) to French president after Dreyfus trial, a French Jewish artillery officer whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason only because he was Jewish.

One of the stories we read that involved both terms is the story “Separate Way” by Higuchi Ichiyo shows part of the reality of japan in the 19 century. Ichiyo write her own life of suffering into the story’s major characters of the small boy with abnormal growth Kichizo and the young seamstress Okyo. At the age of 11, parents removed her from school because girls commonly received limited formal education in nineteenth-century Japan.
At 17, her father died and she was left responsible for her family.

She also shows the character Kichizō is always pessimist he always expects the worst to happens, Can’t deal with change very well. It’s realistic because this is base on her real life and how she felt at this time.

“The Tyger” William Blake – Or Ben Galim

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Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

 

This is an interesting poem, William Blake is describing a tiger. In the beginning of the poe, he describes the tiger as an extremely scary and frightening creature; he then continues and asks himself why would God create such a beautiful and horrifying animal. When he says “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” I believe he is doubting if all God makes is positive in this life. In my opinion, Blake mentions the Lamb as the antonym for the tiger, the lamb is a sweet and joyful animal which is associated with God through many texts, while the tiger is a dangerous creature. I see this poem as short and entertaining, and it is similar to “The Lamb” also written by him, yet the meaning behind them are polar opposites.

“Alone” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE-Or Ben Galim

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From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn
Of a most stormy life—was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still—
From the torrent, or the fountain—
From the red cliff of the mountain—
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—
First of all I chose to read Edgar Allan Poe’s poems since I recently finished watching a TV series called “The Following” which is based on an assassin who idolizes Poe and kills based on his poems; therefore I got to familiarize with the type of person Edgar Allan Poe was.
This poem conveys the aloneness he felt and how outcast he perceived himself as . What he is trying to convey to the readers is how different he has always been since growing up. He didn’t see what the others saw or got excited with what made others ecstatic and his heart did not get as content as the other children’s did.
The poem contains end rhymes which makes it interesting and entertaining to read, yet the literal message behind is not positive at all. What got into me the most was the last bit of the poem when he describes nature’s beautiful things like the sun and autumns gold yet in a second he talks about thunders and storms because this is the issue he was having inside as a child; he saw how everyone enjoyed life and he just felt a gray cloud inside him. He re emphasizes this point in his two last stanzas, where he says how the heavens where blue but he only saw demons instead.