Roethke's Exercise

Senseless Moon
By Alberto Carreon

The frog gave a soft bite to the moon,

A dog is blue and hot as a swing,

The frog cut and eye sharp

A cloud burns hot on leather.

A rock kissed the wavering slag

A cut on the throat of the blue mud;

The moon is as important as surprise,

The eye is as important as swing.

A bruise in a cool eye blue,

To say the dog got surprised and hot

The belief to burn the wavering cloud

Soft is the curve of the blue rock

Not too bad.

Overall this class was good, it is hard to come up with things that could have been done different since the way in which this one was set up worked fine with me. I did love the idea of doing the biggest project at the begging of the class, just to think that I could have been doing that towards the end of the semester along with all the other things that we did would have been a bummer! On the other side there was a lot of reading but that was expected, so nothing unusual there, the reading was not boring which helped a lot and I liked the way in which the professor explained everything to us; the quizzes were not too hard and by no means am I complaining about this, actually i found it really helpful since I had to catch up on a lot of missed grades. I guess my only two complains would be that quizzes could not be made up, emergencies happen and quite honestly I found it a little annoying that no opportunities were offered to make up the work for people that was absent and late, the other complain would be that there was no drinks and cakes to go with the class, but then again I don't think the school offers that right? This class was really good, and it really helped me better myself, I would definitely recommend it to people I know.

PS. The people in the class helped a lot, they were easy to get along with and cooperative.

Creator Of My Seams

I suck at this, but after thinking about this for way too long... this is what I came up with.

You, creator of my seams

Give me comprehension to live,

You, the owner of my dreams

Remain inside of them and make me feel

So in your mystery I can reveal

That eternal feeling inside of me

You, with the moon behind your heart

Will not be able to keep us apart

You are the motive and the mirage of my existence

Exclusively you, I want you to be the one

My craziness, my calmness, my hallucination, my direction and my way to follow

Exclusively you, I want you to be the one

And I put my world to come on your hands

Because I live to be always with you, my wife.

Hypocrisy in the Marines.

I think there has been many time when I have either witnessed or confronted hypocrisy, however, the time period in which it actually stands out is back when I was in the Marines; that is mainly because when we were deployed I saw many of my friends come back to the US to find out that while they were away, their loved one would cheat on them and make another life behind their back. There is nothing wrong with that, but their actions reflected hypocrisy because they were making people believe that everything was fine when it wasn’t… at least not for the Marine at the front line. Also seeing people in the news talking about the US military and how they are pro war and all that just made us sick, because we knew that all they did was talk and had no experience whatsoever about the military life or the things we had to do and sacrifice to survive. When you see someone like that you just want to punch them in the face. It is amazing on the amount of people you can find around you while you are in the military that would guarantee to help you out whenever and then when you need them the most they just walk away such as friend, loved ones, family, etc. You can even find Hypocrisy inside the military as well, and that is because you can find out quick that you can’t trust all the people that you are supposed to trust, I can count with one hand the people that I could really trust while I was in the military and even now, but the rest to me were just hypocrites. That is why I think that the whole time period when I was in the military is the time of my life in which I experienced Hypocrisy.

Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body

The last couple of weeks have been extremely crazy for me, I believe the reason behind so much craziness is linked to my family, work, school, military and many other things trying to come at me all at one time. I say this because on the same week I got promoted at my work and well, my work tripled and here I am trying to learn one million other things that have nothing to do with the things that used to do on a daily basis. Another thing that happened this weekend was that my year old caught a severe cold, then it went to my five month old and finally got to my wife. So that left me trying to help my wife doing all the chores at the house, I am amazed on how hard it really is to do house work all day. AS of the military well, I still got 5 months remaining on my contract and someone called me wanting me to go to some base here is Georgia and do a physical test to make sure that I've been staying physically active, if I don't pass the test then I would have to go and exercise there for about three months minimum. Well, reality is that I've been out of active service from a little under five years and the only exercise I've done throughout all that time is to walk up to the kitchen to get me beer. So now I gotta take care of three sick people, organize my work because I gotta look out for five guys now and finally try my best to get in to shape. But other than that I am doing great and enjoying life, every time I am being overwhelmed I remember my grandfather and the Marines telling me "Pain is weakness leaving the body", which leads me to believe that the more it hurts on me the better, right?

Troy was not racist.

I think it would be hard to classify Troy as a racist man, especially after taking on consideration the time in which the whole story takes place. Troy grew up in a time when segregation was big and the difference between races was shown everywhere, even though he used multiple racial names when referring to white people, we must take in consideration the fact that back then those names were common among black people when referring to white people. The time when Troy grew up was the time in which African American fought the hardest to obtain equality in America, his personality was driven by all those movements and racial tensions happening at the time. He expressed the same amount of dislike towards both black and white races, referring to black people as niggers and to white people as crackers. More than anything I think that he was trying to gain equality in society, he was trying to be a good example for his friends and family by confronting people over him, which at the time was mainly white people. He also used to tell all kinds of stories to his friends and family to try to impress them, and out of all the stories he had to tell about white people and past experiences he had, probably only a small percentage was true. He was mainly trying to obtain a better paying job, no to discriminate against white people. To be racist you have to hate against other races, and discriminate in a bad way in which harm is intended. By no means was troy trying express that type of behavior towards white people in the story.

Money over friendship

When Charley said “The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell”, he tried to tell Willy that he needed to stop worrying about meaningless stuff such as, the fact that he named someone Howard. It looks like Willy believes that just because many years ago he came up with his boss’s name he deserved some kind of special treatment or special privileges. Willy focused too much on that and didn’t and was not careful at trying to keep his job, so basically Charley tried to tell Willy that he needed to worry more about things that matter such as a good job, family and so on. Another example is that fact that Willy lives wondering what went wrong between him and Biff instead of trying to make things better between him and his family. Willy didn’t realize that he was harming his whole family by acting the way he was acting.

I think it reflects very much in the America from 1940’s because after the black depression it was hard to find a job or even to keep the job someone had. Back then all it matter to make a living or be able to get a job were someone’s skills and qualities, because people was trying to get the most production and hiring the least amount of people possible because businesses could not afford to waste money.

It reflects on today’s society because the competition to get a job is so big, with internet and computers, that friendship or past accomplishments don’t really matter. Americans live with a mentality of not caring what someone did for another person in the past, but instead people look more at what that person can do for someone at this moment, leaving once again all friendship and past accomplishments behind.