Journal 8

Emerson’s Aphorism “to be great is to be misunderstood” is saying how we don’t want to be prefect because that doesn’t mean are great. Emerson is completely right in this aphorism. You don’t want to be a person that everybody understands, you want to be a person that is hard to get. This aphorism is completely about not being someone can predict, but being someone that does something without other people excepted it. To be someone that is great doesn’t mean to let every understand you.

Emerson’s Aphorism “in skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed is saying that if we are in a problem, we should take our time to overcome it. This aphorism is telling us that we take our time in tough situations and not go at them with full speed. Emerson is right with this one. If you want to get out of a situation that still doesn’t mean you can’t think it out and take your time. You should always think about the situation, instead of going at without thought.

Emerson’s Aphorism “all life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better” is telling us that we should try things out, instead of being scared to do things. This aphorism is on the right direction and is completely right. We should risk things instead of doing things we are comfortable with. If you risk things you are making your like more fun and adventurous. The more you make the more memories you will get and more mistakes you will make. The more mistakes you make, will give you more lessons to learn. The more risks you take the better your life will turn out.

Journal 7

1. Compare/contrast the different views of nature that are being presented in the poems. Refer to the list of classical and romantic characteristics and provide specific examples from the poems to support your analysis.

They views of nature for the raven are emotion, imaginative, visionary, personal, and individual. The emotion you get is hopelessness and anger. The views of nature for to a waterfowl are balance, calmness, order, harmony, and rationally. The views of nature of different because of definite and indefinite articles, the birds of the story have a different meaning, and one if optimistic, while the other is gloomy. “The Raven” is dealing with one type of bird, a raven while “To a Waterfowl” is dealing with a specific bird. The settings of the poems are different. The setting of the waterfowl is sunset and calm, while the setting of the raven is at midnight in December. The conflict of the poem in another way the poems are different. The waterfowl doesn't really have a conflict, but it is still a question. The Raven has a personal conflict with loss. The views of natures are similar because they both deal with birds and both deal with finding your way and which way to go. The writing styles of both poems are ornate. The structure of the poem are similar is both poems. The point of view is also similar in both poems. They are both 1^st person.