Introduction

   It is said that 65 percent of marriages end in divorce. Why is this? Sarah wrote and said "I was  20 when i got married and I was just not ready when it happened. Well I mean I though I was ready but I found out after a couple years later it was not the right thing to do ". 40 percent of failed marriages are from exactly what Sarah said, young couples getting married. Marriage is supposed to be the coming together of two hearts and many people have lost the meaning of commitment and the meaning of forever. Divorce is the solution to the problems that occur in a relationship instead of working things out with people today. All couples should have to do pre marital counseling because it can help communication skills, solve pre existing problems, and help find ways to deal with things to come in the future.

"Why Can't I Leave You?" Poem

       The women wants to leave her man and thinks about his Laziness and drought. The women is unhappy but she knows the man will need her and she goes back into the house and unpacks. The women just wants the man to please her and its says " if i can't make you happy, come close between my thighs". I took this as, if she cannot make him happy having sex is the the one way she knows she can please him and that will have to be enough. I think the women wanted to have that feeling that she was needed and she new that's one thing he needed and that would have to satisfy herself and her husband.

"The sound" Kim Addonizio (1954)

      There are so many things that are unsaid but the little sounds that we here can say many things.
Whether it be a grone or a sigh it can mean many things. You can tell if a person is happy or  sad and the emotions can show through without saying anything. Body language is easy to read when you learn the signs, everyone has there own signs and the little things they do can mean more then any words ever will.
      I have found this very true in everyday situations. I took my boyfriend shopping for cloths and not one sigh was missed. The look on his face was horable; I couldnt torcher him any longer so I left the store. I knew without any words everything he was thinking, and trust me it was not good.

" My Mother, If She Had Won Free Dance Lessons" Cornelins Eady (1954)

       The "crazy lady" and her a son were thought to "dance one way" and the son thought about what it would be like to have had lessons and learned another dance.
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      What i thought they ment by the "dance" is jsut the way they are of there situation. Maybe they were poor and if someone would have just reached out and helped this mom and son they would not have lived the way they are and they could have learned a " new dance" and bettered there lives. If she had only one free dance lessons. If only one person was to help these people could have a better life and " dance many dances".

"Long Time To Long" Lucia Perillo (1958)

       This poem is about a women getting ready to leave her husband. She has packed her bags and she is headed out the door. When she hits the door step she looks at her husband and she walks up to him and she sees he needs her "more then ever". The poem then goes into the man dropping what he was doing and he takes his wife in the bedroom and it says " a long time, too long, since we have done.... this: we're sweating enough at each other's lips".
       Thinking about this poem it made me think about spending time with the poeple I love. We get so busy doing  the chores and working like the womens husband was so busy working, im assuming on a farm, that he didnt make time for his wife and. Even though there is so much to be done we must take the time to just be with each other and give love to the ones that mean the most to us.

Robert Frost 1874-1963 "The foat dont taken" Pg. 550

            This poem begins and it talks about a person deciding on which of the two paths to take. The person can go down a path described as being a sort of well groomed trale, where many people have traveled on it before. The other path has not been traveled and is more rugged. The person chooses to go in the trale less teraveled. Through this journey the person finds that they are liking where they are at and not sure if they will ever turn back because the path less traveled has takin them to a place they like to be.
            This peom is following the saying many people refure to " travel the path less taken and make a new one". Do things that people choose not to do because in the end you will be the one benefiting whether you learn a lesson on what not to do or you find that the path has taken you to a better place. I like this one

What I have learned poetry

Through the last couple classes I have learned some valuable tips for poetry. One of which is that when poetry is read out loud it can sound different of even mean something different. A poem can have many different things hidden inside of it and when a poem is taking apart and looked at you can get a different meaning from it then before. When going through our poems in our groups in class i just looked at the basics of it and took what i got from reading it the first time. After we had taking the time to go through the whole poem and talk about each section i got sooo much more then before because i got to build off of my original thought. I have always loved reading poems because i found a long time ago that i could relate to many of them. I can always find at least one part of a poem that i can relate to or i eventually relate to in my life. I sometimes get down honestly because it tugs and my feelings and i think that is the best poetry because you can feel it and it means something.

How To Read a Poem

       This was the best advice I have gotten out of our papers so far.The advice about what questions to    ask when reading can be used not only with poetry but with any kind of writing you are reading. Whenever your reading something out loud I think it is easier to here how the writing is supposed to sound. With poetry there can be many breaks and it can be confusing when just skimming through it. Reading it out loud allows a person to take pauses and let themselves comprehend what is being said. Also alot of poems can be confusing and offten feel like they have no real meaning. When this happends it really is good to talk to other people, like we did in class, and get everyones oppinion then put together what you think the overall point of the poem was. A poem can have several different meanings and can be taking in many different ways. When you have these kinds of poems its ok to just take the poem in your own way and not feel like your missing the big point.I also got that you should not only look at what the poem is saying but how the poem is constructed or how it is wrote because it may have a part in the meaning of the peom. 

Where I Lived, and What I Lived for Thoreau

This writing was so confusing to me that I honestly don't remember half of it. What I got from this story is that to this person owning property is not important. When this person just thinks about the property they get the same feeling as if they did own it but in the end they do not have to spend the money of time on the property to have those feelings. Reading through this story I thought at points that they really did own the property because of all the in depth details they gave and the visions they were having for example the part saying, "the hollow and lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors i should have; but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which i heard the house-dog bark. Through the writing I was often lost because they went into what I thought was too much detail. Overall I didn't enjoy reading this story and I wish I could have grasped it more.

"USFS 1919"

This story had alot of what i felt were good climaxes and it had very in depth detail, especially about where the story was plotted. Through the whole story I could imagine i was in the woods with the main character going through the same experiances. When this story began there was, I think, a little too much detailing when describing the people or the environment, but there is no way you could have not gotten the point of what they were trying to say; so that was good. On the way up the mountian the main character seemed to be so worried about his own story that he seemed to not just let things happen. After making the trip up the mountian I think the reader had a really detailed description of where the story is taking place. when the main character was sent up the mountian to watch for fires I think that is when we really got to learn more about him and his experiances. With the main character only being seventeen I admired his strength not only physically but mentaly. I can look back and remember what I was at that age and I can tell you one thing I would have never climbed up a mountian by my self. One of the things i really liked about this book is that i can relate to being in the mountians and growing up learning about them. When he talks about the mountians moving and looking at the mountians when he was little i could relate and it made me appretiate the story alot more. After the storm came in and he began to move down  the mountians i felt as though he was very brave. I got from the story that the main character was not only physically strong but mentally especially when he fixed the  signal line on his way down the mountian, and also when he began his trip walking into town. It was surprising to think that a seventeen year old would have that much drive to walk all that was and with no water. I persally didnt think he was going to make it all the way to town especially with no water. If I was Bill Bell I would have been proud to have such a determend young man working with me. After the character got into town i was not supprised that he got sick after haveing the ice cream; he haddent had water all day. I was supprised when he walked into the bar though because it seemed no one payed any mind to his age and now adays that wouldnt happen. When Bill and the rest of the crew got into town I felt as if the story was going to get alot more interesting. As the plan of going in to the casino and winning the money was in play I was pretty sure it was not going to unraval as the crew had planned. To my surprise their plan worked pretty dang good they got the money they had gone in for and everyone got out. At the end of the story I didnt expect the main character to give up his money to the chef. I also expected the main character to return the next summer and to my surprise he didnt do that either. Overall I think this story was very good and it had a lot of good details.