good posts

hi jashan,

these are inspiring posts, but i hope you have more next time. try to be as critical as you can be. then please don't fail to acknowledge your sources for photos or images you borrowed from other sites or computer links. this is the right thing to do. remember intellectual property rights (ipr) as against plagiarism?

keep it up, and have more. be more confident. explore your creativity and inner beauty.

ma'am judith

To Celia by Ben Johnson

To Celia it is written by Ben Johnson same with Psalm 23 the text is written in Archaic or Old English. The poem has rhyme. I guess the message that the message that the persona wanted to convey is all about his deep love to Celia. Perhaps he would like to show that love through the poem.
For me, the poem is a little bit hard to understand because the way its text is written it is difficult for me to convert Archaic to Contemporary English and I'm confused in some of its tenses. maybe the writer can write it in Contemporary English to avoid confusion.
Furthermore the poem inspire lovers---for guys that they should have patients to wait for someone they love and for girls that they should be wise in choosing the right person for them. In general, the poem is entirely a good piece.

Psalm 23

Psalm 23 it is from the book of Psalm in the old testament in the Bible. The text is written in archaic or old English and it is a free verse kind of poem. I guess Psalm 23 is a praising song made by David for God, during the time that God blessed him so much. And I think the reason why it is written in that way because it is taken from the King James Version (Bible version).
The disadvantage of using Archaic English ---sometimes it is difficult for the reader to understand the poem, because it is not easy to translate Archaic to Contemporary English and using it their maybe a confusion of the tenses when it is translated. While advantage of using the poem it inspires the readers to be dependent on God.
For me, the entire poem is a good peace especially for the readers who are suffering pain and have struggles. Like what I tell it teaches us to be depend on God, because God can do great possible things that really help us to face struggles and pain that serves us challenge in life.

Literary Criticism a Reflection

I realized that in studying Literary Criticism, their must be a brief introduction of the subject in the class. To further understand the Literary Criticism Map a background of the approaches is needed, because their might be a confusion on part of the reader if he's going to interpret the map without a little knowledge about the approaches.
Now, I understand what ia meant by the map through reading the explanation. I also learned that the approaches are related to each other.
But in the examples of some approaches on literary Criticism in the study guide, I wanted to further understand the examples because most of it are unfamiliar to me and also the approaches in the same way.

Literary Criticism

My reflection:
Criticizing a literary work is not an easy thing to do. The term "to criticize" has negative connotation to everyone but I learned that it's not really negative at all. I also learned that there are steps in criticizing a literary work. In fact, there are also purposes of criticism. Here are the following purposes:(1)to help us resolve a difficulty in the reading, (2)to help us choose the better of two conflicting readings, and; (3)to enable us to form judgments about literature.
There are also different approaches of criticism like the Historical approach, Moral approach, Mimetic approach, Formalism, Psychological approach, Mythological, Feminist approach and reader response criticism.
These different approaches will really help us students to criticize literary works more easily and fairly.

To Celia

The persona is, I think, in love to a woman named Celia. But perhaps, there are some "obstacles" in their relationship (I don't know what they are) =). He sent a rosy wreath to Celia to give the wreath a hope that with Celia, it wont wither and die. (maybe Celia is dead because he sent a wreath=)). But Celia sent the wreath back to him. The wreath then grew but not of itself but because of Celia. Like the rosy wreath, hes love for Celia wont also wither.

To Celia

psalm 23

My reflection:

Psalms 23 is a psalm of King David. A psalm that shows how God love and protect his people. God is compared to a good shepherd that would lead his sheep in green pastures, still waters and in the paths of righteousness.
As humans, we have many problems in life, different problems depending upon our ages, professions, etc. but we must not worry for God is always with us. His "rod" and his "staff" will comfort us.
God has his own way of loving us. In fact, He has different plans for you, for me and for everyone. We might not think about it but He already thought about it for us.
Life is beautiful if we only let God live inside our hearts. he is only a prayer away from us. The best shepherd above all the shepherds.

by : Hannah Lois D. Pamor