All the Hemispheres

“Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out.” From the beginning of hafiz poetry “All the Hemispheres,” we can define that he is talking about the unknown and the will do discover it. The Hemisphere is wide and does not have limitation as we as human should have, he means by this that we should not stick to what is known to us and not be afraid to learn and experience new things. He continues to explain the diversity and beauty of life by comparing it with the nature. He mentions also love in the poetry which is as well unlimited as the Hemisphere, and the reason of our existence. People should be open-minded to changes and if they do not like the new they could always go back home. The poetries main idea is the beauty of life which we should not fear.

The Stranger part 3

One day Mersault decides to go with his neighbor Ramon and Marie to the beach, to stay at one of Ramon’s friends. On the way to the beach Ramon sees some Arabs which are brothers of his girlfriend; he knows that they do not like him at all after what he has done to her sister and that they might get him into trouble. At the beginning they do look like they would not pay attention to Ramon so Ramon and the other continue their journey to the beach. At the moment when they arrive at the beach they notice that the Arabs had fallowed them and Ramon gets into a fight. After that they go to Ramon’s friend and stay there for dinner, Ramon is so mad that he goes again out to the beach to find the Arabs with a gun, Mersault is worried about him so that he fallows Ramon and takes his gun. When they see the Arabs they get into a conflict and the Arab takes out a knife, in this situation while the sun is hitting Mersault he makes a wrong decision and shoots him. He does not only shoot once at him but four times. Even though this whole story gets him into jail, he does not regret what he has done, for the first time he felt like being part of something. In the court, he gets again judged for being a emotionless person, and all his cold relationship with his mother will be used against him. Everyone tells about how he reacted at his mother funeral, which put him into a bad picture for the jury. They would think that he killed the Arab because he is such a cruel person not for protection. He does not even try to protect himself when he is asked to say the final word. He knows that everyone was against him and would not understand him. At the time when he stays in jail, it surprised me how he described being there, he makes it seem not as bad as everyone thinks. He would stay their lonely, as he was always, living from his memories. All he ever wanted was to be accepted and understood for his indifferent personality but in the end he gets judged just because of that.

The Stranger part 2

When the stranger goes back to his old life, he continues his life just like always. He wakes up in the morning not feeling any sort of difference, like his mother was always dead to him, not because he did not love her but because they relationship was that cold. He decides to go to the beach to relax for a while, there he sees a beautiful girl, a work colleague, he likes her a lot and the way he describes her is adorable, they spend some time together at the beach and arrange a date for later at night. When they go out, she asked him about his mother’s death she had heard about, and Mersault only replies that she had died yesterday, which to Marie was at first shocking how he responded to her question. Morever she did not really care and continued having fun, they went to his apartment where they spent the night together. Even though Mersault did like her, he liked her more in a physical level than in a emotional level, he did not really felt connected to her. He goes to his window, watches out, and observers the people around him, what he likes to do the most, observe others with many detailed description. He does not really has much friends and In a way feels lonely. At Monday when he goes back to work, his boss asks him about his mother, which makes him feel uncomfortable and when he asks about his mothers age he replies that he does not know. His boss was surprise about his reaction but again did not pay much attention to him. Giving as again an example about his sad lonely life that he does not have anyone to rely on, and maybe is so used to this sort of life that he does not want to change it anymore. He goes out with one of his colleagues to dinner and again continues his normal daily routine. When he goes back to his apartment he meets one of his neighbor which starts telling him about his girlfriend and how he cheated on him, that why his neighbor beat her up. Mersault does not have any opinion about his neighbor beating up his girlfriend which makes him again seem like a indifferent, emotionless person. They get to be friends and Mersault accepts to write a letter for his neighbor which would be used to convince his girlfriend to trick her out.

somewhere i have never travelled

This poetry does not talk about a travel someone is willing to take, it talks about a person, moreover describing a woman, an enormous experience. The author has used abstract thoughts which are hard to understand in some sayings from the beginning “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence,” eyes are in reality silent, but the meaning of this could be interpreted in any form, it is said the eyes are the window to our soul, and as they claim to be silent, the soul of this person must be peaceful and innocent. When the author mentions “frail gesture” we get to undersant thar he is talking about a woman and he continues by explaining how close he felt to her. The feeling this woman gives to the man are so powerful that they surround him and transform him. Those feeling became part of him which can be implied by the line “in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near” she and her aura are so closed to him so that he cannot touch them. In this poem the person experiencing those feeling does not take a physical journey, he takes a journey through the eyes of a adored person.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines-Pablo Neruda

In this poetry the author talks about the distance and a lost love, he mentions the memories he had about a girl, and the suffering he is feeling after she is gone. He tries with honesty to describe his emotions toward her in his loneliness. The time when he writes the poem is at night, describing his own sad and dark state “The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.” He describes the intense of their relationship by saying “I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too,” admitting the deep feelings he had for her. Comparing this night with the nights their used to spend together he suggests that he wishes they would still be together just like the endless sky. The memories of her green eyes fallow him, saying that everyone would fell in love with eyes like hers. He is not with him, which again reinforces his suffer and the truth that she left him alone in a night like this, the reason why he is in a way disappointed from her. In the fallowing lines he conveys that even though he loved her in the past, now she is gone and he does not love her anymore. Still regretting to have lost her, and what makes it even worse is that someone she is now with someone ells in such a night when they used to be together. “Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before. Her void. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes. In these lines the author explains how much he adored her what he is missing in those moments the most, where the saddest part is that someone ells gets to enjoy her beauty. Through the poetry he compares the nature with their relationship “The same night whitening the same trees. We, of that time, are no longer the same.” He ends the poetry with doubts about his feelings, maybe he still loves her?” Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” The two last lines he expresses the wish to forget her and all the pain.

My Lover the Sea-Reinaldo Arenas

I am that child with the round, dirty face
who on every corner bothers you with his
"can you spare a quarter?"

This is an image I see every day in Prishtina, of a poor child seeking out for money trying to ensure his living and probably his families too, it is sad but true that they do bother us and somehow are unpleased of them. Sometimes we show mercy and spare a quarter but mostely not,The child in the poetry wants to be accepted by others and have a happy life as other children of his age do. That the child is unwanted is mentioned many times in the poetry, he feels ashamed of it, and he does admit that if he could he would steal your wallet because he has to. Even thought he describes himself to be a criminal he is just like everyone of us and wishes just the same as everyone of us, hope, support, freedom, accompany, and a shelter. The title "My Lover the Sea" expresses exactly this, as the sea is something endless and liberty. The child is not free in sense of being captured but he is not free in the sense that he is forced by his hunger to do something he dosent want to.

Trans Siberian

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As Jeanne falls asleep, he mentions all the different times in different places, such as: Berlin, San Petersburg, Ufa, Grodno, and how we set our clocks in the morning to the hour. During this trip, “There are trains that never meet”, and “Others loose themselves on the ways” We can say that he is not only talking about a trip that someone does but there is much more he talks about in this poem. He talks about how great life can be with all its beautiful places, people we might meet there and our feelings which we have during different moments, and people we might never meet. In other words Cendrars tries to emphasis the diversity of life and how it can’t be stopped. The many details makes the reader able to imagine the whole situation, to do so he mentions many factors like colors, which might stand for different emotions, such as red, yellow. He uses also different kinds of sounds to give us an idea of what he was experiencing. He mentions how drunk he was during the trip and that he could not see much, just his piano in front of him, and he wishes to sleep because he remembers everything about the trip while he closes his eyes. When he finally arrives to his final destination, he wants to go back to Paris because he now understands how long he was away from his birthplace. And he remembers what a beautiful city Paris is like stated in his words” Paris… City of the inimitable Tower the great Gallows and the Wheel”, even though he enjoyed the trip at the end he misses his hometown and describes it to be the most beautiful places, which probably has to do with how people are emotionally linked to a certain city or place and how this place will always seem the best to us.

Cast All Your Votes For Dancing

In this poem Hafiz shows as how beautiful live is. And that we have weak moments in live but we should refuse their invitation and move on. And if we have a friend on our side the stronger we are. We should always be happy and enjoy live, with its ups and downs. We should pray and have faith in god. We should also work hard and listen to music from our beautiful companions Hafiz wants as to love our bodies and see them as something holy. Everything should take actions to make other happy as well and give some love to our friends. Dance and be free abut also respect your prayers that is a great message that Hafiz gives us. We know that Hafiz was a very religious person and well known for his poems in Iran. He writes different than other writers, which makes his poems so special.

The Movie

Reading the story and seeing the story is without any doubt not the same, to admit I found the story to be much more interesting in the book. The director of the movie Arthur Hiller did not effectively interpret the emotions of the story. The happenings in the movie are not described, like in the book, everything is more unexpected and we do not really get out from the movie why some things are taking action. Oliver and Jenny are switching roles in the movie I guess, Jenny used to represent the funny type in the book and Oliver the more serious one, and in the movie vice-versa. The entire movie takes place in winter which I found to be an interesting use of such a metaphor because we know that coldness represents death and sadness. I read that the movie was very successful in 1970 and won the Oscar from seven Academy Award nominations therefore it must have been very impressive for that time.

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They have also different relationships to their fathers, Oliver has a cold one and he calls his dad sir, in comparison Jennifer has a warm relationship with her father and calls him by his name Phil. They are ambitions young people, who want to reach their dreams. But their relationship changes their future plans, instead of following their dreams they decide to get married. They both work very hard, at the beginning they do not have much income but after a while they earn enough for their living. Everything seems to be perfect, and a moment changes their lives, Jennifer gets diagnosed with cancer. Oliver wanted the best treatment for her no matter how much it would cost but he did not had that much money. He decides to call his farther for help and he gives him the money without asking for what he needs it. After a while with all those treatments and therapies, Jennifer dies in Oliver’s arms. Oliver’s father finds out about Jennifer’s illnesses but it is too late, she is already dead. Oliver cries in front of his father, which he never did before. His father says that he is sorry for her death and Oliver says to him that there is no need for sorry, this taught him Jennifer. The once we love will always remain in our memories and we won’t forget what they told us.

Love Story

It is almost the perfect love story about a rich boy who falls in love with a beautiful poor girl, just that the ending is a tragedy. Even the first lines of the story do imply this, which awoke my curiosity to read further. It begins with the opening sentence “what can I tell about a 25 year old woman that died”. I think this is unusual for a love story, because it gives us the end since the beginning of the idea that it won’t end in a good way as we usual expect from such stories. The boy, called Oliver, is a student who wants to go at Harvard and studying law. He comes from a wealthy family meets a Librarian worker, Jennifer. Oliver goes there to find a book, and Jennifer is already argumentative when she sees him. She knows that he is rich and calls him preppy. Jennifer is a funny person who likes to joke around and all the times she makes fun of Oliver. Whereas, Oliver is a serious guy and is a bit unsecure in Jennifer’s near. As much as they argue with each other, we can see that there is also a affection between them going on. I think that their differences make them so attracted to each other. In the story we have many conflicts going on like: their social classes, characters, and ethnicity.

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