Word Hoard #2

Bangles- Rigid anklet


Webbed- A piece of woven fabric 


Brooded- To think deeply about something that makes someone unhappy 


Hilt- Handle of a weapon or tool 


donned- To put on 


Hasped- A clasp for a door that is fastened by a pin. 


Inlaid- Object embedded in a way. 

first poetry blog

The VacuumBy Howard Nemerov

The house is so quiet now

The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet,   

Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth   

Grinning into the floor, maybe at my

Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth.

I’ve lived this way long enough,

But when my old woman died her soul

Went into that vacuum cleaner, and I can’t bear   

To see the bag swell like a belly, eating the dust   

And the woolen mice, and begin to howl

Because there is old filth everywhere

She used to crawl, in the corner and under the stair.   

I know now how life is cheap as dirt,   

And still the hungry, angry heart   

Hangs on and howls, biting at air.

The reason I like the poem in general  is because the author wrote in a way that sounds like its more personal about his life. When I was reading the poem it made me feel confused at first then I started to feel awkward because it was about death and I was not expecting that from a poem called "The Vacuum".  What was in the poem that I liked was the title because I thought it was about cleaning and the first few lines make it seem about cleaning and it was a common interest on how the author and I felt about the vacuum but it was not that way the more I kept reading. 

3 of my favorite lines:

1)To see the bag swell like a belly

The reason I liked this line is because I pictured a vacuum cleaner bag  swell up, it helped me understand what the author is saying and how he is describing it. 

2) I've lived this way long enough

The reason I like this line is because it helped me understand how the author is feeling, and that he is depressed and sad wants to move on with his life. 

3) When my old woman died 

The reason i like this line is because I did not understand the poem at first but when I read this sentence and came across this line, I understood that the author was talking about his wife. 

Lady Macbeth: Then and Now

Then: Why do you make such faces? When all's done, you look but on a stool. 
Lady Macbeth is saying that because Macbeth saw Banquo's ghost and she doesn't see any ghost.
Now: I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. 
Lady Macbeth is now replaying the scene in her head, and telling Macbeth that it is impossible because Banquo is dead. That is how they are related because they are both about Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost.

Good things happen to Bad people

Its almost a fact I can say, that bad things always happen to bad people. I hear about it all the time, I've always wondered why? Why is it always like that. A good example that I have for that is what happened two years ago, my 3 friends were such good people they were always there for anyone who needed anything, if someone was in a bad mood they knew how cheer them up. They did not care about what people would think about them if someone needed something they were the first people who would offer to help. I could count on them for anything no matter what. They are the definition of a genuine friend. One night on November 15th, 2009 they got into a car accident and their car flipped over into a canal and the 3 died, I want to know why it had to happen to soon. They were becoming what they wanted to do they had their head on straight and were counting down the days till they go to college and this came in their way and stopped them.

Word Webs

Now even though Macbeth is played out to be the mean. He is guilty for murdering Duncan. He doesn’t feel okay with what he has done, he did it because I think Lady Macbeth forced him too. Lady Macbeth is still heartless. She doesn’t care about the death of the King and just tells Macbeth that he should not think about what he has done.

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The character Macbeth connects to the words kill, stab and red.  The reason I think that is because Macbeth always talks about stabbing Duncan with his dagger which is a sword. Kill relates to Macbeth because he wants to murder Duncan to be the King of Scotland. Macbeth relates to those words because she is the one who wants a plot to kill Duncan. She is very sneaky. 

Text and Subject

There are quite a few cases that making an indirect approach is a better choice than being direct.
 An example of saying an indirect approach is:
If someone wanted to see my class work that they missed and I did not feel like going to my locker to get the class work. What I would say is My notes do not have the information you want, I wrote it in a way that I could only understand. That way is better because then I don't have to get up and I am not really lying. 

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This picture is from the book Macbeth. These are the 3 witches from the book. What I noticed is that they do not have beards like it said in the book. They do look very ugly though. Their facial expressions look like they are possessed by demons and they are worshiping something above them. How this picture reminds me of Macbeth is because they said the witches were ugly and the they made Macbeth king which goes back to how I said the picture looks like they are worshiping something above them. They just do not look very mad as it said in the book.

 

This picture reminds me of Macbeth because people look like the three ladies are worshipping the Thane of Cawdor? Possibly. Which are Macbeth and the other guy who could be Duncan? The thing about Macbeth that this picture does not remind me of is the horses, the horses are throwing me off. The picture is a little blurry. Also the picture could possibly be the King of Scotland and his side people.