So LeWitt

Life-

So many expectations

Life-

So many boundaries

Life-

Like living in a box

People think that you can only go so far

People think you can't go beyond that box

What if we lived a life with no boundaries?

What if our box breaks letting all possibilities of meeting our expectations, possible?

Endless Amount of Love

Pip is a boy who lives with his abusive sister and her husband named Joe. In the mean time, Pip’s life is on the line because he has been threatened by a convict. Recently, Pip stole a pie to feed the convict. Pip was longing to tell Joe, but he was afraid to lose his trust. “But I loved Joe- perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him- and as to him my inner self was not so easily composed.” (pg. 40)

Joe is Pip’s trust, Pip’s hope, and Pip’s best peer. Pip is in a challenging situation, and Joe is Pip’s healthy escapism. Joe completes Pip’s heart and without Joe, Pip’s heart will crack, and his life will be unfulfilled. This quote relates to the theme in showing that Pip has an endless amount of love for Joe. Pip’s love for Joe, is so powerful, since Pip is an empty-handed boy, Joe is really all he has in his life. Joe is his guardian, and he will always protect Pip from all harm.

The Other Side of Me

Standing in a meadow, the sun, just about to peak over the earth, and the clouds floating down low, low to the ground. Trees, slouching over the wet grass. I look behind me. There's a black, tall, wet lamp post, made me had a feeling, a feeling of a boundary from imagination and reality. I turn my head, and I see a silhoutte of a person, scrunched over looking at me in a strange way. He starts limping over to me. All I could do is run. I'm running faster, and faster, and faster trying to get away from this revolting creature. Leaning over and trying to catch my breath, I finally lost him. When energy was flowing through my body, I turn around and there, standing right in my face, looking into my eyes, was a slimy, green, full of acne, with his teeth rotton and yellow. Looking at him, was like looking at a witch. Trying to escape was a failure because everywhere I look --even if my eyes are closed --he is always there. This creature is almost a part of me, an evil part.

The Other Side of Life

In the novel, Great Expectations, Pip's has finally reached his destination, London. While he is in London, he meets new acquaintances and friends. Mr. Jaggers -- a man who is very strict and has a load of power -- introduces Pip to Wemmick. Wemmick is a man who works for Mr. Jaggers. Wemmick takes his work very strictly, seriously and never wants to be interrupted. His personality here symbolizes the love of work. Pip was invited to eat dinner at Wemmick's house. As soon as Wemmeck steps into his house, his true personality comes out and Pip was surprised that Wemmick's personality changed and never expected that change. The change went from strict to joyfull and loose. He is so happy at his house, that Wemmick calls it his castle and Wemmick's house is a way for him to be himself. It is healthy escapism. Wemmick seems to have two different personalities. At work he is a strict serious man, and at his house his personality is happy and joyful. I think his personality changes at his house, because he is afraid to expose his true personality at work. It is the other side of life for Wemmick.

A Relationship with Hope

In the novel, Great Expectations, Pip lives a life with his sister and his sister's husband Joe. Pip hates living with Mrs. Joe because Mrs. JOe treats him like a slave. Pip is always being brought up by hand or in other words, always slapped and bossed around. Pip also strongly dislikes living with his sister and the dog, Tickler. But Mr. Joe is Pip's best friend. They hang out together and Joe is the only person in the household that is actually nice to him, and Joe thinks that Tickler is not a necessity in their house. Joe is Pip's hope. Pip can rely on Joe and come to Joe when he is in a time of need.

Patriotic Rock

The car is full of music

Everybody is having a good time

Looking out the window, something caught the corner of my eye

We stop the car, and walk out to the side of the road

A rock standing right before my eyes

A large rock, a colorful rock, a patriotic rock

Laying on the top was the American flag

Soldiers standing all around this rock

Reminding me of the soldiers that created America

I was standing in astonishment

My hand creeps over to touch the rock

As soon as I touch the flag

My hand feels this hard cold rock

This American flag is a painting

All day I could not stop thinking about his rock

(This rock is real)

Emily Dickinson's Poems

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
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Emily Dickinson was a lonely woman who spent her life inside her whole life writing poems. This poem, "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass", she is writing about how she hasn't had any relationships with a guy. The snake represents how her relationships come and go in a flash. At the end of the poem it says, "Zero at the Bone". That means that every time she goes deeper in her relationship, it seems to disappear.

The Mountain

Looking up at the clear blue sky
At the clouds going by
Eagles, hawks, and birds flying around
Looking for food that slithers on the ground
The sun beating down on the sparkling lake
Flowing right in front of the mountain
I heard it laughing at me
Reminding me the times that I have failed
It keeps on shouting at me again and again
Saying I will never win
But my voice says I can
I challenge the mountain
It was just me and the mountain
Nobody else around me
One step on the mountain
And my journey begins
All day and all night
One slip and I fail
At long last, my journey is complete
I have conquered the mountain

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson's Background:

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She went to school at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. While she was there, she received severe homesickness and had to drop out of school to live at her house. She had only attended that school for one year and after she dropped out of school, she really didn't have any friends to come in contanct with. Although she did have some friends, and her friends realized that she had a huge impact on her thoughts and poetry.

When Emily was going to Pennysylvania for college, she met a man that changed her life, Reverend Charles Wadsworth. He was very supportive of her. Emily called him her "closest earthly friend." In 1860, she lived her life inside, but she didn't just do nothing, she did major reading. While she was at home she also spent most of her time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, loved state and national politics. Her brother, Austin Dickinson, attended a law school and became an attorney. Her younger sister, Lavinia , also stayed inside like Emily.

Since she lived most of her life in her house, she wrote a lot of poems. She was influenced to write poems by the Metaphysical poets. The Metaphysical poets a group of British lyric poets of the 17th century that shared an intrest in metaphysical -- metaphysics is a branch of philosophy -- concerns and share a common way of investigating them. Most of her poems were about her loniliness, good memories, and happiness of her life time. Eventually she died in 1886 in her house in Ahmerst. Her first published poem was in 1890 and her last published poem was in 1955. After her death, her family discovered 40 volumes, with about 1800 poems. The books have been found sewn and folded stationary of about five sheets of paper that seem to have been her final copy of her books. Her hand written peoms had dashes of all sorts of angles. Some horizontal and some vertical. Nobody really knows why she the dashes are in all different angles.