Stephen Spender´s poetry.

Through this analysis on Spender´s poetry, I appreciated how important and influenced he was by wars and conflicts. His thoughts were deep and strong in terms of emotions, feelings, fears and uncertainty. Spender was an explicit poet who connected people who were abandoned and forgotten. Those, who nobody considered as human beings, but as a mass, "armies", "battalions", or "the boy lying dead under the olive trees". Spender wanted to recuperate them, giving them value and a social position in our rigid structure. For instance, Spender on "Fall of a city" explains the declain of society and the idea of how those "young" who learnt, are now unlearnt or unable to face the ruins of the world.

"In no man´s land", Spender was influenced by Eliot and his poem " The waste land". Both, established the idea of changes, ruins, destruction in a blind society which can not deter this situation. According to Spender´s poetry, we are in nowhere, trying to assume something that we can not assume. We are trying to advance in a negative way, affecting the ones who do not have any options, those ones who are in the battle. Maybe, the battle is inside and not outside of our minds, and all of us are in the same silent battle.

"A room of one´s own" by Virginia Woolf.

Virginia assumed that women are different and from that difference they can advance. This situation has a positive connotation in terms of how she realized that through writing she can encourage women to create without fears and pressure. From the moment that britain women obtained the suffrage, they advanced, but not only in writing, they could appreciate their abilities and possibilities to be respected in society. The idea of writing has changed in women perspectives. Society has changed the idea of writing as a unique male privilege. Female values were accepted to build an integral writing in which human beings are a whole in terms of objectives, wishes and hopes.

"Materpieces are the experience of the mass behind the single voice". A room of one´s own is a masterpiece which congregates the experience of the female mass. That hidden mass that has suffered through many years. Woolf has mentioned that " female novelists are limitated by their sex" .But Woolf was a visionary women trying to establish the idea of working with men as a supporting method of creation. She proposed that interaction to produce women´s progress, but not because of men. This proposal was the first intelligent step to achieve their goals in a hidden and intelligent way.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

"The Rocking Horse Winner" By D.H. Lawrence.

Life has pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, which can be represented by personal, social or family problems. According to this story, problems are in the nuclear family which is the central element in children´s lives. This family has been affected by a disruptive mother who can not live according to her social reality. She spends more than she has, which is the wrong operation. However, her son Paul, is growing up in this environment that affects his life. He has discovered how to ride the horse, in order to guess the "winner". Despite of that, the idea of being a lucky person is a constant goal in their lives. Her mother has been unlucky, and Paul wants to be a lucky person to obtain money. But those ideas are in the opposite way, because life is not measurable through money, life is not measurable through luck, life is measurable according to how many kilometres have you advanced in your perfective identity. Finally, Paul, can not enjoy what he has won, her mother was the unlucky winner , in terms of experiences and in terms of improving her relations. In this case, good luck means lack of luck.

The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen By Graham Greene

This is a short story which contains many ideas and topics related to people in the same place but, in a different mental space. I mean, the idea of observing, as the narrator did, an the idea of being observed, are both components of our society, in which we are observers and observed.
As the narrator explains, the japanese gentlemen are a particular group with particular attitudes in a physical space. At the same time , they are a common group, as components of the same restaurant. On the other hand, the couple were in the opposite side of the story, in terms of ideas and goals, but they are components of the whole, too. In other words, we are different in isolation, but when we are inmmerse, we represent the same, despite of our ideas and interests. We are part of the mass. Therefore, if you do not observe each particular case, you should not appreciate the significant differences between people. Observing, you can analyse any particular case at school, any particular difference, to solve it, to correct it, as an omniscient narrator in your own book.

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. "The waste poem"

This poem appeared as a manuscript that was passing through many people during the years. It was a " waste poem", too."The Waste Land" was accepted and recognized, as an essential and contemporary piece of work.

As in a common place, where human beings are living, Eliot develops this poem that reveals the significant and decadent world in which we are surviving. Those ideas of death, chess, sermon, water and thunder express how people are trying to comprehend and analyze those artificial phenomenons created by humans, I mean, wars and conflicts. In terms of explanations, Eliot proposals are complex and solid. His representations of uncertainty are a common episode throughout years. Today we have been removed by an economical disorder which generates uncertainty and chaos too.

In the picture, there is a desolated placed without any base. But in the ruins and solitude, there is more than destruction, there are opportunities to create and invent, to solve and establish new positions and thoughts, new ideas and projects. As in a war, destruction is the first step to create and rebuild, in writing destruction means possibilities, changes, rewriting and new life. This model is at least pesimistic, but is the only way to advance in a dynamic and destructive society, problems are opportunities to create, to imagine.