...About "The Rocking-Horse winner" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums"...

For me, was amazing how the writer's life was mixed with each story. Every event of his life was mentioned in some way. I knew that every writer give something of his or her personal life to his/her masterpiece in order to create a real story with real events but here I realise about the importance of doing it.

DH. Lawrence was focused on monetary issues and we could see it in both stories. Also inside his work he presents values. For example, the important things that we could lose if we pay so much attention to money as love relationships. From my point of view we was worried about transmiting this topics because in one time of his life he experienced. On the other hand, the possesive mother present in "The Rocking- Horse winner" was very similar to his own mother. The image of a strong woman controling the child's life and making decitions for him.

On the whole, DH, Lawrence brings very contemporary issues and he also used his own life to develop the plot of his stories in order to make it more real and meaningful to people.

...The need to have a space, both real and metaphorical to write....

From my point of view, it is very necessary to have a special space to write and clarify your ideas. But, I think that in order to have ideas is very necessary interact with others all the time.

Virginia Wolf shows this personal space to write with the idea of a room created only for her and her thoughts. In this way she express the need of being alone. For this reason, to contrast her feelings with the real world it was necessary to find a quiet place with little interaction with the outside. On the other hand, if you want to write about something you must interact with the real world. If you are a good observer and if you are interested on interact with people you will have more to write about because you will have more anecdotes.

To conclude, the writer need a space to write what is happening around, but this does't mean that you must be always alone.

The signal man

The loneliness of a man could be fixed with imagination. From my point of view, this man suffered alone because of his job. He didn't have interaction with other human beings or dreams about a better future. So, he worked hard that's why he imagined a ghost who was his only company on the railway.

Maybe, his way of escaping from his reality was trough imagination. If I make the link between this text and today's reality we can find many similar points. For example, this idea of work alone because in this way you are going to work better, the loneliness of a person, the individual work. Today we could have many people around us but we decided if give them life or not.

about Frankenstein

Everybody has something of Frankenstein inside. When I did the circles of life I realize that we have many things in common. I think that there is an stage in life that make us feel as monsters. For example, when we are adolescents. This funny feeling that we do not belong to anywhere and that nobody undestand our thoughts are clear signs that we are monsters!.

I’m not sure that now I don’t have these feelings inside of me, I guess that I’m still a monster...
Let me think...
Yes!,
I’m a monster because many times I feel that I don’t belong to anywhere,
I’m still a monster because I can not do certain things because of the society,
I’m a nice monster because I learnt to listen to those who don’t have voice,
I’m a monster that learnt how to behave in certain circumstances, like it or not,
I’m a lady Franky, who wants love from someone like her,
And stay with him for ever, and share with him the beauty of nature,
The only thing that makes me real is that my face and body are accepted
but not my soul, not yet...

I wanderered lonely as a cloud

The writer mentioned the importance of the nature inside human beings' feelings.When I read the poem I thought when I feel loneliness and I try to cheer me up thinking of good things. One of these good things are the impact of nature on me.

From my point of view,it is a very romantic piece of literature because are the writer's feelings captured on it. He imagines freedom through the image of a cloud, lonely, without human problems. He wanted to scape in some way of this limitated world,
and the only way of doing it is writing or just thinking that you are part of the nature. However,we as limitated living beings must express ourselves and literature is an important tool.

On the other hand, nature is the synonym of purity. So, I can say that nature always is going to have a big impact in our lifes. For example, if we looking for inspiration, ways of expressing thoughts, nature always have an special analogy.

To conclude, people always want to scape or being relax, for that reason nature helps in order to reach sould's aims.

about the second poem...

The different pictures that we saw in class are very related with the poem, because the pictures shows the main ideas or the main feelings of this piece of literature.

The first picture was related with the wildness that is present in the poem. In some way, this wildness is conected with nature. The picture show us an island with two trees reflected in the water. From my point of view this reflection points out two different perspectives of the writer. One perspective , a bad one, shows the bad side of this wildness, the darkness realted with the unknown. The second perspective related with the good side of this wildness, nature itself and its purity; the aim of the artist, being involve in this pure nature with the darkness around his mind.

The second image was a city. I related this city with the word history. Everything have history behind and the personal life of the writer is not the exception. In the moment of express what we feel we mix our own history with our way of communication.

The third picture had a woman and near her a person flying, transfering something. In some way this image makes me think about the addiction of the writer. If we remember, he was addicted to drugs. He needed drugs in order to have inspiration. In the picture there is a special conection between this two persons. For me one of them is the ispiration or the drug effects and the other is the writer.

To conclude I made the conection between the images and the writer not with the poem. I strongly believe that we need to analize the writer and what happened with his life in order to understand better his writing.

The little black boy...

From my point of view the poem, the little black boy, shows two important perspectives. the first is relate to the divine and the second to the human.
We can see in the poem the divine conexion with the human life when the mother and the son pray together because of all the questions that the kid has about his nature. On the other hand th human side is reflected in the realtionship of a mother with her son and the strong feeling of love that conected them. Therefore I conected the poem with the painting of Pablo Picasso, called "first steps." With this painting and focused only in the second viwe that I mentioned above -the human side- in which the image of a mother teaching to her son how to walk, reinforces the maternal and human realtionship present in the poem.