Own-Made Poem

This is a poem writen on my own talking about my first love

YOU BELONG WITH ME

As the knife belongs with the fork,

As the honey withthe bee,

As the Bible with the Lord

You, belong with me.

As the waves rest with the sand,

My heart rests in your hands.

As the sun belongs with the heat

You... You my darling, belong with me.

Ironies

Alanis Morrissette´s – Ironic
1. Read and listen to Alanis Morrissette´s song Ironic. Identify as many ironies as you can and classify them. Are they verbal, situational, dramatic or understatements?
Verbal:
Situational:
- It's like rain on your wedding day.
- It's a free ride when you've already paid
- A traffic jam when you're already late.
- It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
- A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
Dramatic:
-An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day
- Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly. (…) He waited his whole damn life to take that flight. And as the plane crashed down he thought. Well, isn't this nice
- It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
Understatements:
- Isn't it ironic... don't you think?
- A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...

2. Which do you think is the most ironic of them all? Why?
- From my point of view the most ironic phrase is the one that says “An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day”, because besides that the man wins the lottery when he is 98 years old, he dies the following day and he can’t enjoy the big amount of money he have just won.

3. What do you think is the significance of all these ironies in this song? Do you think the songwriter is...
a) trying to show humor?
b) Showing anger or fierce criticism?
c) Showing how sad some situations are?
Justify your choice and explain why you think someone would write a song like this.
- In my opinion the writer is showing how sad some situations are but also how unfair life can sometimes be. In addition, I think she’s trying to show that some things are in vane, such as the fragment that says “A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break” or “It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife”. Perhaps she wrote this song because she had passed through an ironic situation similar to one of these ones.

Ho does it make you feel?

“How does it make you feel” by Air.(video)
In my case, I had to see the video more than once to understan it, because is very complex. When you see it for the first time, you don't understand antything because the video has nothing to do with the lyric of the song. If you keep on analysing it, and give a deeper look, you can realise that everything that appears in the video, is related to the feelings of the singer.
When the video starts, shows a fragmented woman. As the song keeps going, the pieces of the woman start appearing and connect each other one by one. I have to clarify, that the signer says good things about the girl. Almost at the end of the video, the woman, starts fragmenting again and instead of her head, appears a fish head. This is because the singer reveals and confess all his feelings.
The video gave me the impression that both people, are very diffrent. The woman shown there, seems very tidy. The singer, seems very untidy, with a diffrent aspect or a very diffent life style. I can see this buecause of the objects the video shows and how the women is combed and dressed.

A Brave Teacher

In the story “The Lemon Orchard” we will find a very particular character : A black man.In this story written by Alex La Guma , this coloured man will be intimidated by a bunch of white men.
The coloured man was discriminated because of being black.The “hotnot”, as he was called , was very scared of this captors because they were constantly threatening him and hitting him with a whip.He never answered at the mocking questions of the party, such as “Are you cold, hotnot?”.
The black teacher didn’t talk directly to the bunch of men, he always remained in silence and shivering with fear and cold, because he had been taken away from his house in his pijamas.
“Yes bass”.These were the only words that came out from the black man’s mouth .He never spoke to the bullies, he was very afraid of them, and when he called them “bass” he was speaking “with a mixture of dignity and contempt”.
From our point of view, the animal that best represents our character is the dove because this bird is recognised as a symbol of freedom.
The best quote that represents him and his attitudes is :”Yes bass, the bound man said, speaking with a mixture of dignity and contempt which was missed by those who surrounded him” this quote demonstrates that he was very brave because of the way he talked to them, and it also shows how intelligent he was because he talked towards them with contempt and they didn’t realised.