New Heart of Darkness ending

"You were with him to the last? I think of his loneliness. Nobody near to understand him as I would have understood. Perhaps no one to hear..."
"To the very end," I said shakily. "I heard his very last words..." I stopped in a fright.
"Repeat them," she murmured in a heart-broken tone. "I want-want somethiNg-something to-to live with."
What should I say to her? Who am I to tell her those luminous last words. The horror, the horror... Who am I to know his intention and to share it with someone who he regarded so slightly. The darkness of the truth she won't Understand. I don't even understand... Would she even believe the truth? In her eyes he was a hero who could do no wrong. She never saw the dark side the dark side of Kurtz of he was not great enough of a man to have people thinking kindly of him in his end.
Her eyes bore into me, but I found no answer in the darkness of my soul. I left admittedly rudely without so much as a goodbye.
As I blended in with others who weren't affected by any of the tragedies in that house or down the river I found I couldn't forget the horror.

Wallflowers by Donna Verreyer

I think that the thing that really makes this poem come alive are all of the allusions to familiar things, and how we would never really think of them in comparison to words. Typically, when I think of wallflowers, I think of the school dance version where they are too shy to talk to anyone. But, with all of them, I had these little pictures in my mind of words sitting with dirty, tear-streaked faces, or cowering in the corner of a gym or getting off of a boat. They look so lost and sad that it makes ME want to help them too! She was able to appeal to events that people can either identify with or easily find themselves feeling sorry for. And before they know it, they want to help the words. The fact that she uses example words (gegenshein and zoanthropy) also help to make the picture realistic. There really do exist words that people never use.

She mentions the antecedent scenario of hearing a word that she had never heard before and then using it in her writing. This gets her thinking about other unused words and their feelings which is essentially what the poem is about.

Her structure is pretty basic and coincides with the ideas what the stanza is talking about. In the first stanza there is a little bit of alliteration with words beginning with w....Otherwise, I think everything about it is pretty straight-forward as far as theme and her ideas.

When I read the title of this poem, I thought it was going to be about some depressed kid who wanted to do more in life but was stuck on the sidelines at a dance. There was the dance, and a little bit of the depression, but in a much different way that I really enjoyed. It reminded me of the book The Professor and the Madman and the idea of the importance of words.

White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling

At first we were confused as to whether Kipling was for or against imperialism. But once we really got into the reading we could see that he was an imperialist. Throughout, there is a pattern of the poet describing what good imperialism does and then following with the fact that the people don't want any part of what the larger force is trying to do for them. He makes them seem like ungrateful bums who don't appreciate what good has been brought to them. In a way his whole point seems to be to persuade the people of Britain to continue imperializing nations. But, it doesn't seem very convincing: it's a difficult, thankless job that you aren't going to enjoy. He doesn't make it sound very enticing. However, I was pretty excited to actually be able to figure out what each stanza was saying!

Still going to do it anyway

Well, I have to say that when I work up this morning and was going through the homework that I needed to get done. I almost screamed when I remembered that HEY IT'S MONDAY AND YOUR BLOG WAS DUE YESTERDAY!!!! So yeah, I take full responsibility. Put me in handcuffs and take me to the procrastination police. But they won't win! I will do one anyway, for my own personal benefit. So, ha, take that you stupid self-conscious that waits till the last minute! You haven't (completely) beaten me.

Mr. Fear by Lawrence Raab

I think the most interesting part of this poem is that the speaker seems to have come to terms with the fact that Fear is coming. He just accepts that it's going to happen and says, "what are you going to give me?" It is also interesting that the fear comes in the speaker's dreams. To me this shows that dreams are the place where people are the most vulnerable to themselves. According to the poem, dreams are where all of those fears that the speaker has been holding up are made known to him. I think that's why the speaker is excited to see those dreams. Because he wants to be able to know what things Mr. Fear has been storing up so that the speaker can purge himself, or at least fight those fears. To me, that would make the theme be something about facing one's fears head on so that they can be overcome. As for any antecedent scenario, I think it would only be the dreams and the life that the speaker has lived before he came to this field where he is sleeping and then dreaming.

I found this poem to be very uplifting and encouraging even though it is about something that is obviously scary. I mean what isn't positive about knowing that if you don't deny your fears and face them head-on, you will be able to defeat them.