"Living death"

Outline:

1. Auden and his ideology.
2. How do we people live?
3. Who is in control of the world?
4. The consequences of living as we live.
5. Why is this topic of interest?
6. Conclusion


Salomon Galvez

Criticizing the way we live

In the poem September 1, 1939, the author deals with a lot of element that are still present in our times. At the beginning of the poem said, “Auden: A poet for our times”. I totally agree with this idea because the components mentioned here seem to be timeless. For instance, the poem contains hope, love, private lives, death, evil, etc.

These elements mentioned above are found in today’s world. From my point of view the author is criticizing the society. First, Auden talks about a Collective Man. This kind of Collective man seems to be attacking the concept of individuals negatively. Society is seeing human beings as numbers. We are not anymore special individuals because we are just the mass. At the same time, we are being considered mass in front of a hidden leader that Auden mention as a “psychopathic god”. In my opinion he presents this god as the one who controls everything and dictates what thing are good and bad.

Concluding, Auden gave us some hope saying, “We must love another or die”. This statement was the one that did not permit this poem being published. I really like this poem and I would recommend it.

Pamela's Blog

I really like the way in which Pamela analyzed this work (The Rocking-Horse winner). I think that it is essential when we are children, feel that we are loved by our parents. Otherwise we can have problems in the future that will make us feel that we lack something. I am saying all this because Pamela pointed out as the main issues of this work the relationship between mother and son which in my opinion apply.
From my point of view, Pamela did a very god job comparing the unhappy woman found in the Rocking-horse winner, with Lawrence's mother and her unhappy life with her husband because of poverty.

At the same time, Pamela is making distinction of this to mothers saying that Lawrence's mother was great and loved him. In contrast, the mother shown by the author in the Rocking-horse winner was cruel with her son because she did not love him and she tried to supply this lack of love by material things.

Maybe as a recommendation, I would suggest Pamela checking the punctuation of her post. Anyway, I think she did an amazing job and her works always expresses very strong ideas suppored correctly by the works we read.

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The Waste Land by T.S Eliot

T.S Eliot is one of the most influential writers during the twentieth century. The Waste Land is also one of the most powerful, intense and influential piece of work written by T.S. Elliot. This is why, from my point of view this is a very interesting poem. However, the poem was very hard to analyze and understand, I think that is important to share what I felt reading it.

The poem was about the isolation and depression that people suffer sometimes in this world. We have to consider that this poem was written after the World War I and people were afraid of leader’s power. The earth was devastated with death and people who did not measure consequences. For this reason I think the author promotes the word “death” as one of the most important one. Death is present in this poem and in the same way because this word brings another important word to the show, which is disillusioned. Why this word “disillusioned” is important in the poem? I think because you felt you were protected in the world by your family, institutions or remarked leaders such as; the president or God maybe. Once you face a War you realize how vulnerable you are and that situation makes you feel disillusioned as the author include it intrinsically.

As a way of conclusion, I would recommend this poem for those you really like poetry because they will see the huge influence of Eliot in the following writer. Recommending this poem should include the warning that is not an easy poem and it has to be analyzed in carefully.

The price of priceless things...

From my point of view, D.H Lawrence showed two images of cruel women that were just interested only in money and materialism. First, in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” we can find a mother who is just interested in money and giving her son material things because in that way she showed him love. She was not acting as a mother that loves her son. The pressure of having money made the boy get crazy and mad and at the end he died.

Similarly, in the “Odour of Chrysanthemums”, there is an image of a cold and materialistic woman who did not care about her husband in order to know him. In addition when he died she was more concerned about her husband’s money and not of his death. This was because she was worried about the things she owned, and not in her inferior husband who was just a miner.

As a way of conclusion, I would say that these works show us that money does not make people happy. There are other essential elements in life that are forever in our hearts, as values. We do not have to wait to lose what we love to realize that we really love and need it in our lives.

Equity...

Even though I think Virginia Wolf was a very feminist writer, I totally agree with some critical thoughts about how women were treated without respect and unfairness. In the work, “A room of one’s own” the author tries to show that every woman needs what men had.

First of all, there are Gender issues very well known that can be identified in this work, such as the necessity of having our own space where we can think, produce and express ourselves. This space deals with the idea of having a physical space to be what you are naturally. In addition there is also a metaphorical space that can be understood as “women in the society”. As we know women in the past were not allowed to write freely because their ideas were not respected and considered as men’s

As a way of conclusion, I strongly believe that this is not a problem of genders but is a problem of minorities and abuses. At first, men and women must be considered human beings. Starting with this idea we can respect others’ opinion and be balanced in our society avoiding discrimination in all its terms.