Night Light
Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, I feel my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny frame
as if your blue irises mirrored me
as if your smile breathed and warmed
and curled in your face which is only asleep.
There is space between me, I know,
and you. I hang above you like a planet--
you're a planet, too. One planet loves the other.
ANNE WINTERS
One of the multiple choice questions threw me off. It asked what the authors use of the pronoun "I" indicated the point of view of the poem be in...something like that. I put the mother, but decided on observer later, then back to mother again. That completely threw off a bit of my essay. Poems seem too vague to be tested on, but I guess so are other scriptures meaning poetical literacy is fair game. Still, I could interpret it in so many ways.
The quote for the critical lens essay following was "Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength..." -- Henry Ward Beecher. This was the full quotation:
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- Henry Ward BeecherI used A Separate Peace by John Knowles and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I was just ecstatic getting through it because it felt like the end of critical lens essays. Guess the AP English course is finally about set in?
I feel like SUCH a dork for devoting an entire post to the English regents, which was in no way bigger in my life than any of the other. (Nothing life changing at all in all honesty.) So, I'm forced to talk about something else.
How about plans for the remainder of this school-free week?
Thursday (tomorrow)-Tennis at 7 with M. Lettuce, then his place for homework and movies.
Friday-Christian's house party for no apparent reason. Fun...SI ferry in chilling weather.
Weekend-No clue...book me? Prefer to stay at home though, so you're welcome over maybe.
Monday-Sneak out at 4, take the LIRR with M. Lettuce to go to Stony Brook for company.
Tuesday-Free, but I should go to Housing Works if I'm too free.
What can be checked off of my to do list today? Buying Mom's 47th birthday present. Everyone went to the Apple Store and I purchased a blue 8GB Ipod nano on Lettuce's credit card. Owe him about $50+ because I paid $100 already and he's chipping in for her. Well, it's not really done because there's nothing in it. She's said she should start learning to use an ipod and I told Daddy about the idea. He liked it and decided on what to get her himself (a ring).
I'm excited about tomorrow morning, naturally. Tennis is missed. I'm kind of afraid of freezing my butt off though. :(
One of the multiple choice questions threw me off. It asked what the authors use of the pronoun "I" indicated the point of view of the poem be in...something like that. I put the mother, but decided on observer later, then back to mother again. That completely threw off a bit of my essay. Poems seem too vague to be tested on, but I guess so are other scriptures meaning poetical literacy is fair game. Still, I could interpret it in so many ways.
The quote for the critical lens essay following was "Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength..." -- Henry Ward Beecher. This was the full quotation:
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- Henry Ward BeecherI used A Separate Peace by John Knowles and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I was just ecstatic getting through it because it felt like the end of critical lens essays. Guess the AP English course is finally about set in?
I feel like SUCH a dork for devoting an entire post to the English regents, which was in no way bigger in my life than any of the other. (Nothing life changing at all in all honesty.) So, I'm forced to talk about something else.
How about plans for the remainder of this school-free week?
Thursday (tomorrow)-Tennis at 7 with M. Lettuce, then his place for homework and movies.
Friday-Christian's house party for no apparent reason. Fun...SI ferry in chilling weather.
Weekend-No clue...book me? Prefer to stay at home though, so you're welcome over maybe.
Monday-Sneak out at 4, take the LIRR with M. Lettuce to go to Stony Brook for company.
Tuesday-Free, but I should go to Housing Works if I'm too free.
What can be checked off of my to do list today? Buying Mom's 47th birthday present. Everyone went to the Apple Store and I purchased a blue 8GB Ipod nano on Lettuce's credit card. Owe him about $50+ because I paid $100 already and he's chipping in for her. Well, it's not really done because there's nothing in it. She's said she should start learning to use an ipod and I told Daddy about the idea. He liked it and decided on what to get her himself (a ring).
I'm excited about tomorrow morning, naturally. Tennis is missed. I'm kind of afraid of freezing my butt off though. :(
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