Walt Whitman

FACTS

1. He ate rotten eggs

2. He was believed to be homosexual

3. Due to his family’s economic issues, he went to public schools and colleges but he took advantage of his knowledge

4. He was born in the US

5. He is a famous writer and poet

6. He had 8 siblings

7. His father was from Holland and his mom from Britain

8. He came from a poor family but succeded in writing.

9. He was a newspaper editor before he was a poet

10. He traveled over many countries being a reporter

11. He suffered many diseases that kept him from writing

12. He helped during the Civil War by being a nurse
13. His work was criticized but as an example of perseverance, he never gave up

 

INFLUENCES:

Emily Dickinson

Bram Stocker

Allen Gingsber

LAngston Hughes

Harold Broom

Gary Synder

 

MY FAVORITE SONG

 White lips, pale face

 Breathing in snowflakes

 Burnt lungs, sour taste  

Light’s gone, day’s end

 Struggling to pay rent  

Long nights, strange men

 And they say

 She’s in the Class A Team  

Stuck in her daydream  

Been this way since eighteen

 But lately her face seems  

Slowly sinking, wasting  

Crumbling like pastries  

And they scream  

The worst things in life come free to us

 Cause we’re just under the upper hand  

And go mad for a couple grams  

And she don’t want to go outside tonight  

And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland  

Or sells love to another man

 It’s too cold outside

 For angels to fly  

Angels to fly

1) Indicate the rhyme used:

the autor ordered the words to make the last Word of a verse rhyme with the last Word of another verse.

 2) Which words are repeated: 

A Team, fly, angels, day, but, and, dream,  

3) Interpret what the song means to you. (mínimum 5 sentences)  

A girl is struggling a heart break and a bankruptcy. There`s a guy spying on her and he’s willing to love her even though he is facing a bad situation. He explains how he thinks she is really beautiful and he describes how she behaves. This guy gives a facial description of the girl and how she acts in the cold environment. He describes the girl as beng an angel.

3) How does the repetition and rhyme enhance the songs meaning? (2 sentences)

The repetitio of the chorus makes it easier to memorize the song and it improves the meaning because the autor keeps on reminding that the girl is beautiful.

SIMILE: Crumbling like pastries  

RODERICK AND MADELINE USHER

Roderick and Madeline Usher are really diffent. First, the most obvious difference is that Roderick is a man, he is the head of the house, and Madeline, she is a woman. Both of them have pale skin and they look like ghosts. Roderick is very talkative, while Madeline is really shy, she doesn´t speak one Word throughout the story. Both are mentally ill. At some párt of the story, Roderick says he shares a strong connection with Madeline. They have an important connection with their house, and the house is compared a lot like them, they are weird and look ill and the house is described as scary and that has an odd look. The house has dark walls and that’s a lot like Roderick and Madeline. They are both friends with the narrator.