Some say childhood will end with age
Some with maturity
From what I've seen of teenagers
I hold those who favor maturity
But if I had to grow up twice
I think I would know enough of maturity
To say that growing in age
Is not enough
And would not sufice
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Harlem Inspired
What happens to time
Does it slip through our fingers
like water running through a fauset
Or pass us by
like trees passing as we drive in a car
And then fade into the distance
Does it sit in our minds
like memories of an old love
Or dissapear in the past
like old friends we loose touch with
Maybe it just continues to suprise us with its fast or slow passing
like a young child with its random shananagans
Or is it just limitless
Does it slip through our fingers
like water running through a fauset
Or pass us by
like trees passing as we drive in a car
And then fade into the distance
Does it sit in our minds
like memories of an old love
Or dissapear in the past
like old friends we loose touch with
Maybe it just continues to suprise us with its fast or slow passing
like a young child with its random shananagans
Or is it just limitless
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Character Analysis of Creon
Elizabeth Mace
Mrs. Harmon
Pre-AP English 10
4, May 2011
In his play “Antigone,” Shopocles had many different characters with contradicting views on society, religion, and values. In his play, set in ancient Greek society, Antigone’s two brothers are both killed. One dies protecting Thebes but one dies invading it. Creon, the ruler of the city, declares that Antigone’s brother, Polynices, will not have any of the proper burial rituals performed on his body and that no one can even go near him. Both of these characters are strong willed and very set in their ways. Antigone is determined to bury her brother. She believes to not bury him would dishonor the gods. Creon will not revoke his decree. Creon is too set in his ways to see reason until his whole life is falling apart.
Creon would “rob his son of” a happy marriage to Antigone even if it “injures” him. Creon would kill the woman his son loves if it meant he could stand by his ruling. Creon is determined to stop the wedding. There is no woman that Haemon has “such harmony as he has with her.” Antigone is the perfect woman for him. To Creon, Antigone is a bad woman and would damage Haemon.
To Creon “the gods set right” the “city’s affairs after shaking them in a storm.” Burying Polynices would mean burying a traitor with honor in his eyes. He deserved to rot and be eaten by the crows according to Creon. Creon “defies” and “dishonors” the gods by not giving Polynices a proper burial. Antigone and Tiresias try to tell him that there would be consequences if he tried to defy a greater power such a the gods. Creon is willing to challenge his religion and the religion of his city.
Indirectly, the “difficult fate” of Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice “falls” in Creon’s “hands.” When Creon refuses to accept Haemons plea to set Antigone free he kills himself at Antigone’s feet when finds that she has killed herself. When Eurydice finds out that her son is dead she kills herself. Creon has “no where to turn to, nothing to lean on,” because his family is gone. It is not until after his wife and son are dead that Creon listens to Tiresias.
In the end Creon finally sees that Antigone and Tiresias were right. But, it was to late. Creon’s stubbornness and determination to not bury Polynices leads to the death of his wife, son, and almost daughter-in-law. Creon is too set in his ways to see reason until his whole life is falling apart.
Mrs. Harmon
Pre-AP English 10
4, May 2011
In his play “Antigone,” Shopocles had many different characters with contradicting views on society, religion, and values. In his play, set in ancient Greek society, Antigone’s two brothers are both killed. One dies protecting Thebes but one dies invading it. Creon, the ruler of the city, declares that Antigone’s brother, Polynices, will not have any of the proper burial rituals performed on his body and that no one can even go near him. Both of these characters are strong willed and very set in their ways. Antigone is determined to bury her brother. She believes to not bury him would dishonor the gods. Creon will not revoke his decree. Creon is too set in his ways to see reason until his whole life is falling apart.
Creon would “rob his son of” a happy marriage to Antigone even if it “injures” him. Creon would kill the woman his son loves if it meant he could stand by his ruling. Creon is determined to stop the wedding. There is no woman that Haemon has “such harmony as he has with her.” Antigone is the perfect woman for him. To Creon, Antigone is a bad woman and would damage Haemon.
To Creon “the gods set right” the “city’s affairs after shaking them in a storm.” Burying Polynices would mean burying a traitor with honor in his eyes. He deserved to rot and be eaten by the crows according to Creon. Creon “defies” and “dishonors” the gods by not giving Polynices a proper burial. Antigone and Tiresias try to tell him that there would be consequences if he tried to defy a greater power such a the gods. Creon is willing to challenge his religion and the religion of his city.
Indirectly, the “difficult fate” of Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice “falls” in Creon’s “hands.” When Creon refuses to accept Haemons plea to set Antigone free he kills himself at Antigone’s feet when finds that she has killed herself. When Eurydice finds out that her son is dead she kills herself. Creon has “no where to turn to, nothing to lean on,” because his family is gone. It is not until after his wife and son are dead that Creon listens to Tiresias.
In the end Creon finally sees that Antigone and Tiresias were right. But, it was to late. Creon’s stubbornness and determination to not bury Polynices leads to the death of his wife, son, and almost daughter-in-law. Creon is too set in his ways to see reason until his whole life is falling apart.
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