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“From Song of Myself”

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When I read the poem “From Song of myself,” I thought it was interesting. Actually, the author caught the readers’ attention in the beginning of the poem. For example, the author wrote “And what I assume you shall assume,” the author tried to make the readers could find some connections between him and the readers. It was a special beginning for the readers because it would make the readers want to read more. According to the author said that “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” I felt like the author tried to express that people are equal. We lived in the same world, so people have the same rights. In other words, I thought the author advocated a democracy society; but it could only exist in his idealistic world.

Furthermore, I thought the author was a person who had a social responsibility because he thought everything happened he had responsibility. For one thing, he wrote that “Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done themselves from their jambs!” As we can see that the author put himself with everyone together, it could prove he was a “universe son” that he mentioned before. As for me, I like the way the author wrote. Unlike other authors, Walt Whitman not just expressed his own thoughts; he also tried to think himself as a reader. He tried to stand on readers’ side, he always make some connections with readers. In last part of his poem, he wrote that “Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.” Although the author used these simple words, he made the readers get more involved in his poem.

Midterm Questions

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  1. If you were Baoyu, you would marry Baochai who you did not love. Would you accept it or not? What would you do?
  2. Why does Voltaire mention “Eldorado” in the story? What does this place stand for? Will this place exist in a real world?

The Story of the Stone

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“The Story of the Stone” is one of the four famous Chinese classical novels.  The story was written in Qing dynasty, Cao Xueqing was tried to expose societal dark by using this book. Basically, the first chapter is kind of introducing the different characters in the story. Some part of this chapter is describing the unreal world; the story is beginning with a stone. The author is trying to by using the stone bring out the story. The main characters are Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu. The story is talking about the love story of the two characters’ and it also talking about the Jia’s family story. Daiyu is the old lady Jia‘s granddaughter, and the following two chapters are talking about Daiyu’s mother died, and then Daiyu came to Jias of Rongguo House.

Actually, I read this novel when I was at middle school in China. “The Story of the Stone” as a requirement novel in Chinese middle school, every student needs to read this novel.   When I read this story at first time, I did not really understand what the story was talking about.  The reason is that there were many ancient Chinese words; the author also used many poems to explain his feelings.  After I got to understand this tory, I was interested in this story. It was not just a story; the author was trying to explore the realistic of the society in that dynasty. From the beginning the story, the author pointed out that “Pages full of idle words, Penned with hot and bitter tears:  All men call the author fool; None his secret message hears.”  From this short message, we could know that the author tried to expose the corrupt society. In that dynasty, people could not express anything they wanted, so they needed to use story to tell people what they tried to tell to the society. In a word, all truth would be covered. “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true.”

“WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT.”

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As we all know, Alexander pope was a famous poet. He gave us lots of thoughts about the faith of life by publishing his poems. The life is not always going to be easy, when pope was young, he got Pott’s disease. This disease made him stop his growth, and he never married until he died. “An Essay on Man” was a famous poem that he wrote about the faith of life.  After the discussion of the class, I felt directly that the god had the power to regulate human’s life. In pope’s world, he thought there was a god made the world goes round. For example, he wrote that “Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by god, or thee?” we had discussed those lines in class, I thought we were just the human beings.  Although there were something which we could control, there were something would be out of control. If something is going to happen, it will happen.

When I read this poem, I was kind of learned some life lessons from it. People might have different thoughts from me, but I did believe it. Pope wrote “All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee […]; All partial Evil, universal Good […]: One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.” When I read those lines, I was started to think about our real life. Human could not prevent themselves from the natural disaster. Since we could not predict when will it be happened. In addition, most of people may think the natural disaster was a bed thing. If you think it in the opposite way, the result is gonna be differently.  For one thing, earthquake will not only destroy people’s house, but it will also make a great of economic loss. Think it on the other way; the earthquake is also the form of the earth release of energy.  To sum up, whatever it will happen, it is going to happen.  The god is always above us, it make the order of the world. All we need to it is follow the order. “Whatever is, is right.”