domingo, 30 de agosto de 2009

"When I have fears that I may Cease to be" by John Keats


I believe that everyone is afraid of death because of different reasons. A mother is afraid of leaving her children alone, a girl is afraid of leaving her boyfriend, a grandfather is afraid of making her children unhappy, a brother is afraid of not seeing her sister getting married, and so on. In my case, I am afraid that if I died my entire family will collapse. I know that my parents love me and my brother as if we were they life, so they are not expecting me to die first.
I believe that John Keats is afraid of missing some important things in his life such as writing, love, recognition, family, etc. He had goal to achieve as anyone else have, so he was afraid of not achieve his objectives in life. Keats used this poem to let us know what his fears were, and how afraid he was of dying.
I believe that regret is not good at all. We should live the way we want to, in order to do what we want to do. We all have dreams and we all have the right to have those dreams come true.

domingo, 23 de agosto de 2009

"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


After reading the poem "Kubla Khan" by Coleridge two things called my attention. The first one was that Coleridge was under the effect of opium when he wrote this poem. It is said, that this poem was a hallucination that he had due to the drug. It is really weird, at least for me that a famous poet writes under the opium effects, but many people celebrate the fact that he was capable of writing such a piece of work under this effect.


The second thing is that the writer really cares about nature. I understand that romanticism was focus on nature, but this poem is only about nature. The poem was really difficult to understand, even though we read it in Spanish too. He talks about rivers, forests, gardens, and so on. I imagine that his hallucination was about a castle which was located in a wonderful forest, full of trees and animals around it. He might want to live in a place like that.
It is said that his poem is not finish because he received a visitor while he was writing. I believe that it is ok the way it is.

domingo, 16 de agosto de 2009

Your mother’s love, will be always yours


After reading the poem “The Little black boy” by William Black, something called my attention. He makes a difference between black and white, but at the same time he makes no difference. I believe he is trying to show that no matter who we are or how we are, in the end we are all the same. In other words, no matter who we are or how we are, our mother will always love us, and we can count on her support when ever we need it.
For Black, eternity, heaven and god, are important concepts in his poetry. He is trying to show that no matter who we are while we are on Earth, once in heaven we will be all the same.