Them

I stand by the window,

The round moon high up the sky.

Whether they and I look at the same round moon,

Whether they and I watch the same sky.

I stand by the window,

Many stars twinkling in the sky.

Whether they are wishing on a star,

Whether they are missing their lover.

I stand by the window,

I looked at the night.

I really miss them.

Them,

The people I love.

the type of poem you have written and why

Lyric poem, because it’s short and there is an emotion inside.

your inspiration/motivation

miss my parents, my friends

your theme

miss the people I love in china

why you used rhyme or not

because it makes the poem neat and have a strong emotion

identify the 3 examples of poetic devices used

Simile, Imagery, Repetition

Altruistic is showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Although the character of Ben, in “seven pounds”, is altruistic in nature because he shares many similarities with the giving tree, he is also different in many ways. First, Ben and the tree give all the things that they can to others. For example, Ben gives his house, heart, lungs and the giving tree gives the apples, woods. Ben gives things to other people is for atonement. Because of his faults, seven people died. He can’t get their life back, so he wants to use the way that save other seven people’s life to reduce guilt. Second, Ben doesn’t give things for all kinds of people. After he decided to give up his life and help others, he went to find out if the people are kind. But the giving tree doesn’t do that, she just gave apples and woods to that boy, the boy she loves. Third, Ben doesn’t want the people he helps knows why he do that, he doesn’t need their gratitude. However, the tree wants the boy stay with her, not just leave. For all these reasons, Ben is altruistic.

We’ve been bewitched by countless lies,
by azure images of ice,
by false promises of open sky and sea,
and rescued by a God we don’t believe.
Like coppers rattling from a beggar’s plate
guiding lights have fallen on our days
and burned and died.
We’ve pressed our ship
a pilgrimage of nights toward such lights
as, always elusive, lured and tricked
the keel upon the rocks and ripped
the helmhold from the hand and lashed
the beggared palm to scraps.
Ice tightens at the bow and breath.
To dock, to dropp the anchor to its rest,
to drift (a dream!) on waters quieted
and calmed. We can’t. We’re after a mirage.
(The whiskered walrus brays; the sea salt thaws.
Again, we’re off!)
Raised on powdered milk, we’ll have no faith
in beacons any longer, nor mistake
real for fake, or waking for a dream.
Beacons can’t be trusted. Trust instead
the will of your own hand and head.
Again the captain waves his glass,
sights a beacon, turns and cries
‘Helmsman! There’s a beacon. Are you blind? ‘
But Helmsman, with the truer eye
thinks mutiny and grumbles,
‘A mirage.’

I choose this poem because it is a balled poem, it tells us a story that the ship was in danger because they meet too many lies(the mirage), they don’t believe that they ca find the real beacon. It is easy to read and it use Rhyme. Like glass, turns and criesn. It also uses Personification. In the sentence of “by false promises of open sky and sea”, it gives the sky and sea can say the false promises. I feel from this poem, we can learn that we should never give up, try to get the true answer. Believe yourself.

The Lady or the Tiger – Explain whether the tiger came out of the door or the lady.

At the end of the story, the tiger will come out. Because the princess is the only child that the king has. she is very lofty. She can’t think about her lover marry with another lady that she hate, only imagine that happen makes her feel crazy. Compare with her lover marry with another lady, she more like he dying by the tiger, she more wants he die. And she knew the man love her very much, he will choose the door which she points. He believes her very much. It is people’s real thoughts, they will choose the things that good to themselves.

                                                                                                                                                                 Fiona Han

                                                                                           Keesh

           In the story named “Keesh” by Jack London, Keesh is a strong boy that very brave and helpful. Firstly, Keesh is a brave boy. He “killed a young bear, and on the following trip, he killed two large bears” without “takes a dog with him”, although dogs are such a great help. He is an only thirteen years old boy, he went hunting by himself and killed the bears. We all know that the bears have more meat, but it is the more difficult to hunt. Keesh is so brave that he hunted so much meat by himself. Secondly, he is very strong. If the meat is not cut into pieces as soon as the kill is made, it will be very difficult to put on a sled and haul over bumpy ice. But when the men arrived at the spot, “they found not only the kill, which they had doubted but that Keesh had cut up the carcasses exactly the way a hunter should do it.” Keesh is really strong, he cut up the bears as soon as he killed them. The men in the village can not believe that because it needs a lot of strength that a boy is not easy to do that. Finally, Keesh is a boy that very helpful like his father. He hunted the meat not only for himself. He said “when I return with the meat, I will divide it fairly. No old person will cry out in hunger at night”. He helps a lot of old people to have enough food so that they won’t be hungry. And he unlike the other hunters in this village, he sent the meat fairly. He won’t take more meat because that was he hunted. He was helpful to the people in the village. He tries his best to help the people in the village. Keesh is a strong boy that have a lot of strength to cut up the bear, and very brave to hunt although he is a child, also be helpful like his father that divide the meat fairly to make sure all the people in the village won’t be hungry.

Fiona Han

I‘m a robot

I am a robot, I was born in 2050. After I was born, my “father” took me to many places to show my skill —– cooking. First, I wash all the Ingredients, there is a special material on my body so that the water can’t come into my body and hurt myself. Second, I cut the ingredients into the size that they want. My father put a set of program in my brain so that I can cook different kinds of food that he wants. Third, I start cooking. One of my hand can feel how much salt that I put to make sure it’s not too much or less. Finally, I put the food on the plate.

I see a lot of people everyday, they smile while they are talking and tasting the food I cooked. Sometimes, I can hear what they said like “how can I buy it”, “I want that”, but I can’t understand, there is nothing about it in the program that I have.

I’m a robot. I don’t need sleep every night, I just need be charged once a week. I don’t have real brain, I only can follow the program in my brain. I don’t know how’s the future, but I think my life just be like this.