Oedipus the King Blog

Oedipus the king is a drama which for me is so too coincidental to happen that it could for me is too farfetched to happen in real life. There were so many unrealistic happening which made the drama for me very weird but surprisingly interesting for me. Even at its most outrageous setting and plot, the reader is still very interesting because as the fact that it is very odd and weird thing to happen makes it much more interesting to read at. When have you seen such plot like the Oedipus the king drama, where the story was based upon on a prophecy which they tried to avoid but because they tried to avoid it and react to that prophecy the prophecy actually happened. Which made me think of what might have happened if the parents of Oedipus did not give him to the herdsman for him to hang on a tree with Oedipus’s feet tied up. Would the prophecy still come true ? And the story is full of irony like where Oedipus was cursing the murder or where he was trying to search for the murderer. If the herdsman have just told that Oedipus that Polybus wasn’t his real father the tragedy might not even happen. Although the point of this drama is to show a tragedy. And the fact that if Oedipus had just listened to Jacosta, he wouldn’t have to be exiled and know the truth. It was better of for theme in their situation to live in a lie that lives in the bitter truth. For the drama I liked how the drama is full of flashbacks and full of realizations. This made the story like a roller coaster ride where there are always many ups and many downs. Though I didn’t like the fact that they keep asking the oracle which made the whole life of theirs based upon on predictions and by avoiding it only makes it truer. Imagining a life like that makes me sick and everyone keeps asking what the oracle thinks and so on. They are too dependent on the oracle and have too much faith on their gods. Many of us are somehow similar to this kind of life where everyone depends on others saying and never actually think for themselves. Though asking help and advice is not bad, too much dependency on these things can alter our lives to which we expect them to be but never really actually happened. Like for example, sayings like if we work hard and do good deeds will make our lives better can actually have a bad effect as this can make our hopes up really high but if they never really make our lives good can make our hopes really down. As an effect this can change the perspective of life from good to bad.

Oedipus the King Blog

Oedipus the king is a drama which for me is so too coincidental to happen that it could for me is too farfetched to happen in real life. There were so many unrealistic happening which made the drama for me very weird but surprisingly interesting for me. Even at its most outrageous setting and plot, the reader is still very interesting because as the fact that it is very odd and weird thing to happen makes it much more interesting to read at. When have you seen such plot like the Oedipus the king drama, where the story was based upon on a prophecy which they tried to avoid but because they tried to avoid it and react to that prophecy the prophecy actually happened. Which made me think of what might have happened if the parents of Oedipus did not give him to the herdsman for him to hang on a tree with Oedipus’s feet tied up. Would the prophecy still come true ? And the story is full of irony like where Oedipus was cursing the murder or where he was trying to search for the murderer. If the herdsman have just told that Oedipus that Polybus wasn’t his real father the tragedy might not even happen. Although the point of this drama is to show a tragedy. And the fact that if Oedipus had just listened to Jacosta, he wouldn’t have to be exiled and know the truth. It was better of for theme in their situation to live in a lie that lives in the bitter truth. For the drama I liked how the drama is full of flashbacks and full of realizations. This made the story like a roller coaster ride where there are always many ups and many downs. Though I didn’t like the fact that they keep asking the oracle which made the whole life of theirs based upon on predictions and by avoiding it only makes it truer. Imagining a life like that makes me sick and everyone keeps asking what the oracle thinks and so on. They are too dependent on the oracle and have too much faith on their gods. Many of us are somehow similar to this kind of life where everyone depends on others saying and never actually think for themselves. Though asking help and advice is not bad, too much dependency on these things can alter our lives to which we expect them to be but never really actually happened. Like for example, sayings like if we work hard and do good deeds will make our lives better can actually have a bad effect as this can make our hopes up really high but if they never really make our lives good can make our hopes really down. As an effect this can change the perspective of life from good to bad.

Sailing to Byzantium Blog

I had an impression of the poem Sailing to Byzantium quite a misinterpretation. The first interpretation I had was that the poet didn’t want to be forgotten but actually he wanted to live forever and be like the artificial things because these things are never dead. Which made me think that why does this poet want to live forever and be like the artificial ones and not the natural ones. I myself don’t want to live forever unless of course everyone other than me lives forever too. The meaning of the poet was though not unique made readers learn more through the use of allusion. This is helpful in educating readers not just on the poem but to other knowledge’s out there. I think that this kind of technique is great in trying to educate young minds more efficiently because not only are they interpreting the poem but also adding more knowledge because the poem requires a brief knowledge of the poems words like in the case here the city of Byzantium. I myself didn’t even know that Istanbul is a great historic place. Though my interpretation s of the poem seemed very farfetched to the real interpretations, I was able to gain knowledge about Byzantium. The allusion technique is useful for trying to force readers to learn about specific things and history before diving into the real meaning of the poem. I didn’t quite get so well what the poem Is trying to say so I didn’t quite like the poem. Unlike previous poem you would know just a glimpse of what the poem’s meaning, but here its pure blank as if I have to decipher the poem just to get the whole meaning of the poem. Regarding the poems purpose to say that he wants to live forever, the poet never actually said why he wanted to live forever. And the living part meant that he wanted to live forever as a soul and yet he wanted to be an artificial bird. These two are contradicting each other because one is material and the other is immaterial which again made me wonder what kind he wants to live forever. Does he want to live as a soul forever or to be human forever because he was stating that he wanted to be artificial? The poem is so vague to me that it was hard for a simple reader to understand its meaning and it need a professional to just be able to understand the real interpretation.

Blog of Walking Around

The walking around poem was the one of the weirdest poem i had ever seen .The first time i read it i took it literally. I didn’t understand the poem at all. I could have never figured out what was going on until my professor discussed it in class. There were so many things that you have to really associate the things in the poem to the life. For me, i think it requires determination and perseverance to fully understand the surrealist mind of the poet. Though the poem was deep it had sense in real life which never really is realized by most people. The life we lived in is built by man and it’s no surprise that mains also the one who is sacrificing for it. The truth in the poem should actually be realized by most people because i think that people just does not know how make their eyes open to the world that they live in .I myself have felt that paying taxes is the most idiotic thing that the government has done, sure they pay for their salary and the facilities but it seems that a government rune by business minded people are such a waste. The people in the government are full of crap. And I agree in the poem that all the things we wear are all but nothing but a disguised and formalities are just a way to see your good side not your true self. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a freedom of their own. I see people who do the simplest things in life like janitor, guard and wonder how are they able to endure and why are they the most looked down part in society. I feel that they should be appreciated by all and respect their doings. When have you seen that a person's objective is to be a janitor or a guard or servant? No one, and that shouldn’t be the case because their service are quite crucial in society .Though other countries give them high salary, it is here in the Philippines that i feel like no one appreciates these people. The poem in my opinion is an eye opener for people to change how everyone lives, even back then where kingdoms and dynasties rule over the public and has to make these authority powerful when in fact the public should be the one who is on top, i hope that someday a person is able to find a system in society where there is enough equality for everyone and freedom is still at the hands of the beholder.

Humalit blog about python in malle

Python in the mall was such a very weird poem because of how it was related to the urban legend of the Robinsons Snake. There were even videos in internet that somehow proved that it existed but despite the legend that it was related to, it was not the poems intention to really relate to the urban legend but it was the fact that it was symbolizing the malls themselves on how they act like a snake described in the urban legend. It was nice how it has come to that and I didn’t see the relationship of the urban legend to the malls. I was sure that the poem was for the urban legend only and has no relation to the anything else but as discussed in the class that there is a relation which I find interestingly enough. It was amazing how an urban legend was related to how the mall has an effect on people. Not in a physical aspect but in a psychological aspect. The unusual relation of the urban legend and the mall was very surprising at best because of usually; poems never relate it to urban legends. The urban legend was the catchy thing in the poem because a lot of people really believed that the snake existed. There was even the actress that believed it happened; which makes me wonder now if the urban legend was the inspiration to making the poem or was the poets real intention was to open the eyes of the people who go to malls. For the urban legend, I was really finding it weird because of so many versions of the legend that the snake was having a button that moved the floors, which makes a bit of a weird legend and the weird videos that are in the YouTube that shows the snake. That for me was totally weird and makes me feel bad on urban legends which are usually intriguing and interesting but this urban legend was something very unusual that you don’t have a second thought that whether the legend is true or not .The El chupacabra and the loch ness monster, big foot were much more believable than the story behind the legend of the snake that had a button that make floors move or the fact that this snake lays golden eggs which are so untrue and that it could be made into a comic than an urban legend.