Sonnet 27 Response

          We read Sonnet #27 by Shakespeare in class recently. It is about a man that goes to bed exhausted and dreams. He is tired all thee time, at night because his mind can't rest because of his dreams, in the day because he has to do hard work. He dreams of things far away from where he lives. He says that there is a darkness that blind people can see, where his soul can see when someones "shadow" is in his sightless view. This seems to me that this is he is describing how he feels dreams are like, something everyone can see through darkness even if they're unable to see. He says that his dreams take him far away from where he lives and works.

          Shakespeare says that his dreams make the night look and feel new. This makes me think that the night is a timeless beauty that never people never get bored of seeing. He says that for himself and someone else, there is no peace of mind. I think this is because they can't stop thinking about each other and they both have a lot of work to do during the day. He loves this person so much that even while asleep he tires himself, thinking of this person.

          I think this sonnet relates to life now because some people might feel like this too. Some people might be so madly in love that they cannot rest because they are thinking of one person constantly while they work or sleep. Also I think that it could also be the other way around, someone could hate someone so much that they cannot sleep because of how much they focus on the one person they hate. It is a matter of how the person affects your life and how you react to it.

Sonnet

School

As much as I don’t want to go, I must

To get the grades I need to graduate

To get that diploma for which I lust

To get out of school on the exact date

I really want to leave this horrid place

And go out and have fun with my great friends

The extremely long school year ends without haste

Before school year ends, we must tie loose ends

Summer cannot come fast enough for me

When it does it passes by too quickly

People in summer have no time to meet

For half the time we get, we spend sickly

Please get me out of this wretched kid trap

And let us stay in a place to play taps

Michelangelo poem

You made the world beautiful
With your works of art
The statues
The paintings

No one was as great as you
Not even Leonardo
He might have tried
But he tried in vain

The David,
The Creation of Eve,
Just two of your famous works
And there are many more where those came from

Goodbye to you Michelangelo
You were and are venerated by many people

Michelangelo

"The Creation of Eve" by Michelangelo

          Michelangelo was born on March 6th, 1475 in Florence, Italy. He made many works such as "The Creation of Eve" and "The David". Many of his works are in the Sistine Chapel. His works are mainly from parts of the Bible. He was rivals with another famous artist, maybe you've heard of him, Leonardo Da Vinchi. Michelangelo was also an inspiration to Raphael. Michelangelo died on February 18th, 1564.

          The painting "The Creation of Eve" is cracked in some places, I think this helps show how old this painting and how long ago this was painted. The colors are dull which shows the mood of the painting. Eve is begging God for something and he's explaining something to her (I don't know Bible stories because I'm not Christian). God is the only one in clothes, i guess he doesn't want Adam and Eve to start with anything. 

          I think this shows that even when we are in desperate need of something, people won't let us have them, even when they have enough to spare. This is different because this takes place before money was really important  and all they needed was food, clothing, and shelter, all of which they do not appear to have. I think that shows modern day homeless people, they don't have food and shelter, so they beg for it from people who are better dressed and fed.

          After researching Michelangelo, I really want to go to Italy and see his work in the Sistine Chapel. I want to see this painting in person, I want to see if it looks the same online or if it's more cracked in person.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Again)

          I have continued reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One thing I noticed while reading was that Doyle get really descriptive in the story The Blue Carbuncle while describing a hat that is part of Holmes' latest case. He describes every feature of the hat, even the stains and smells. While reading the description, it was like I had the hat with me and I could see exactly what it looked like. He even went as far as to describe the little marks from a pen that was used to keep the hat looking a little bit better.


          Doyle also describes people's reactions well, like when Holmes is asking a salesman who sells geese, he gets really mad for absolutely no reason, he really goes into detail about how the person spoke when he was asked questions. Doyle did a great job with how in depth he went with the descriptions, he didn't go overboard and bore the readers and he didn't leave the readers clueless of where the story is or what is happening.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Again)

        I have been reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and haven't gotten much farther in it, I've not been able to read much this week. From what I have read though, I can see that Doyle has used the theme of revenge in one of the stories. The story he used the theme of revenge in is The Five Orange Pips, where his new client's family has been receiving threats from the old terror group, the K.K.K. His father and uncle had both received threat letter containing pips from an orange. a while after they get them, they end up dead, when the bodies are found, they always look like an accident, but it was just members from the K.K.K assassinating them. When Holmes' client gets the letter, he is assassinated and Holmes' goes into a fit of rage and swears revenge on them, the story ends there.

         Something I think Doyle did well in the book is that he describes everything that is happening to the people Holmes' is talking to or that Holmes is trying to help. He shows how they react to everything Holmes says that shocks them and that makes them realize something. He emphasizes the clients reactions and their realizations. He makes the reader see how the person reacts rather than just read it.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

          I have been reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" over the break. I think one of themes in this book is betrayal. This theme only appears in one of the stories I've read so far. It's the second or third story in the book.

          The betrayal in that story is that a stepfather goes incognito as a man that works in a post office and pretends to fall in love with his stepdaughter and makes her swear to wait for him to return once he goes missing. He only betrayed her because he didn't want her to interact with any other men because he's antisocial and overprotective.

          I think it's interesting that the author decided to make the book in the perspective of Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Watson. It makes it so that you get an up close look at Holmes' entire process of problem solving. It gives you a look at what it's like to be friends with Holmes and hear his amazing deductions explained. This makes the stories a little more realistic because you know what it's like to be on the sidelines.