Courageous Lines

1. Choose several lines from Anne Sexton's poem "Courage" explain them in detail. Examine the lines for meaning, figurative language and appeal



"When they called you crybaby

or poor or fatty or crazy

and made you into an alien,

you drank their acid

and concealed it."



These few lines show everything someone has to put up with in life. These lines mean that when you get teased, picked on, and hurt beyond belief; you don't do anything about it and hide the pain and hurt they throw at you.



"Next, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow,

you gave it a back rub

and then you covered it with a blanket

and after it had slept a while

it woke to the wings of the roses

and was transformed."



People believe that if you cover the hurt and sorrow you feel and treat it to become well, it will recover and hopefully rid of all the pain within the sorrow.





All these lines show that you are going to need courage to stand up to the people or things that throw the unexpected tasks of giving you the responsibility to take care of them and heal them to become a better person.

Kipling's Code

1) Yes i agree with Kipling's poem because all the things he explained are true when it comes to becoming a better person.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,"
is my favorite line because in so many ways, it reminds me that i need to do the same being the oldest child in my family, I am blamed for so many things even if they aren't my fault.
I think his advice is useful today but I also think that people now a days run too busy of lives to think about what's happening to themselves. There is too much hate, too much lying, too much imagination, that it is getting out of control.

English 10A

English Blog Assignement #1

I think the main hero of this story is Mrs.Brown.
I think she is the hero because she put up with people;family and friends, telling her that Christy would be completely useless and would never be able to be a normal child. Mrs. Brown never lost faith in Christy and her faith was rewarded when Christy picked up that piece of chalk and wrote his first letter. Mrs. Brown was the ultimate hero and supporter to Christy and her other 13 children