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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> There are 6 characters in the Short Story QWERTYUIOP... this entry will be the notes and a little bit about the characteristics of each and every characters in QWERTYUIOP! (^_^).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">THEMES AND MORAL VALUES.<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; font-size: 80%;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">‘QWERTYUIOP’ by Vivien Alcock is about a young graduate, Lucy Beck who has just finished her ‘O’ levels at Belmont Secretarial College. Being a slow typist, her principal has no confidence that she will find a job.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The plot in the story comprises of the following :<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A) <u>EXPOSITION</u> :<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> The main character Lucy Beck is introduced as an underachiever that even her principal of Belmont Secretarial College Mrs. Price has low expectations of her. Even her mother is shocked when Lucy gets the job as a secretary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lucy finds trouble typing her first letter as the typewriter keeps typing the wrong word ‘ </span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> QWERTYUIOP ‘ which is the top line of letters on the keyboard of a typewriter.</span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">B) <u>RISING ACTION</u> :</span></b></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></span></div></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> She uses liquid paper to erase the mistakes but the typewriter keeps typing the words of </span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;"> warning that is meant to scare Lucy away like the other new secretaries before her.</span> </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lucy remembers bits and pieces of the warning given by the janitor Harry Darke. When she </span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> realizes that she is dealing with the supernatural, Lucy gets up and runs to the door</span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> However, she soon realizes that she needs to face up to her fears as she does not want to </span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> continue living life as a poor person. She then goes back to her table to complete the letter.</span></b></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> C) <u>CLIMAX </u>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> The ghost of Miss Broome becomes angry when Lucy is adamant in staying as the new secretary. The ghost then rocks the electric typewriter making it scream and shake, snapping the keys of the machine like castanets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> Lucy ‘ fights ’ with the machine for a whole hour as she continuously attacks it using lots of correcting fluid. She tries to erase all the mistakes that the typewriter has produced.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> D) <u>FALLING ACTION</u> :<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> Lucy’s letters that she manages to type out are accepted and signed by Mr. Ross. The next morning, Mr. Darke tells Lucy everything about the late Miss Broome. Lucy recognizes Miss Broome’s loneliness and desperate need to belong. She feels sympathetic towards Miss Broome who according to Mr. Darke, has no family that would own her.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> The revelation of the feeling of loneliness and being unwanted leads her to understand Uncle Bert better. She realizes that he too is feeling lonesome and unwanted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> E) <u>RESOLUTION</u> :<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> Lucy calls a truce with Miss Broome when she shows her some kindness and com passion. Lucy tells her that Mr. Banister her boss truly values her and still needs her now that he has also passed on.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> Lucy types a goodbye note for Miss Broome. Mr. Ross becomes very happy with Lucy’s work and Mr. Darke respects Lucy for her bravery in facing up to the ghost of Miss Broome.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><!--EndFragment--></span></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-71858095608734284632011-12-21T07:55:00.000-08:002011-12-21T07:56:08.673-08:00Short Story - QWERTYUIOP (Vivien Alcock)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NcrfwerD6Pc/TvIAcgpzGFI/AAAAAAAAAD4/1OFmuIjPHRY/s1600/pictoo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NcrfwerD6Pc/TvIAcgpzGFI/AAAAAAAAAD4/1OFmuIjPHRY/s320/pictoo.png" width="272" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Vivien Alcock (1924 – 2003) was an author of childrens’ books. Born in Worthing, West Sussex, in England, her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire when she was aged 10. She then studied at the Oxford School of Arts.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> She was married to author Leon Garfield, with whom she adopted a daughter, named Jane after Jane Austen. They met during World War II, when Vivien was an ambulance driver. Her first book was The Haunting of Cassie Palmer which was followed by The Monster Garden and others.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(From Wikipedia.org) </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">QWERTY KEYBOARD?</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1875</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Name derived from the first six letters in the second row on English language computer and typewriter keyboards.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .4in; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.31in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> He actually rearranged the typewriter keyboard so that the commonest letters were not so close together (from alphabetical order to qwerty!) .Thus they would not clash together and jam the machine.</span></div><br />
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</span></span></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-40647650440327234772011-12-21T07:40:00.000-08:002011-12-21T07:40:09.591-08:00In The Midst of Hardship - WorksheetsAfter we've gone through with the poem 'In The Midst of Hardship' ... It's time for exercises!!<br />
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Remember ...you can either right click and save or you can answer it in the comment section... I will help you to correct and check on your work. (^_^)~<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YHv4Bj2HuwU/TvH9ty2tEII/AAAAAAAAADw/hbBSrNFkZcw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2011-12-21+at+11.36.18+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YHv4Bj2HuwU/TvH9ty2tEII/AAAAAAAAADw/hbBSrNFkZcw/s640/Screen+Shot+2011-12-21+at+11.36.18+PM.png" width="592" /></a></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-56799130610227972772011-12-21T07:15:00.000-08:002011-12-21T08:32:01.490-08:00Things that you need to know about....<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Constantia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the Midst of Hardship</span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"> is a poem that reminds us that life has its ups and downs.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">People are faced with great difficulties during natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">They encounter hardship, pain and even death.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">However, the natural disaster will eventually subside. Life will go on.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Instead of lamenting over the painful experience, the villagers in this poem choose to be grateful to be alive.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">They still have their home and each other.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Life will go on, they will get over the hardship together and resume </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">their lives.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .3in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Constantia;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Literal and Figurative Meaning.</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Constantia;"><br />
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</span></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-55160878710470825292011-12-21T06:14:00.000-08:002011-12-21T06:24:28.323-08:00The Poem - In The Midst of Hardship (Latiff Mohidin)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qsB8MwjCeLM/TvHrojzzpZI/AAAAAAAAACQ/WXwF2OnG12Y/s1600/Picto1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qsB8MwjCeLM/TvHrojzzpZI/AAAAAAAAACQ/WXwF2OnG12Y/s320/Picto1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">At dawn they returned home</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">their soaky clothes torn</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and approached the stove</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">their limbs marked by scratches</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">their legs full of wounds</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">but on their brows </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There was not a sign of despair</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">the whole day and night just passed</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">they had to brave the horrendous flood</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in the water all the time</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">between bloated carcasses</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and tiny chips of tree barks</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">desperately looking for their son’s </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">albino buffalo that was never found</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They were born amidst hardship</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and grew up without a sigh or a complaint</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">now they are in the kitchen, making</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 80%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .38in; margin-top: 3.84pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">jokes while rolling their cigarette leaves</span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dalam Bencana</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Mereka pulang ke rumah<br />
waktu subuh hari<br />
dengan pakaian robek basah<br />
menghampiri api tungku<br />
lengan mereka penuh calar<br />
kaki mereka penuh luka<br />
tapi di kening mereka<br />
tidak kelihatan rasa kecewa</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Sehari semalaman<br />
mereka mengharungi banjir<br />
berendam antara bangkai ternakan<br />
dan serpihan kulit tumbuhan<br />
kerbau balar si buyung<br />
masih belum ditemui.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Mereka dilahirkan dalam bencana<br />
tidak ada keluhan dan kutukan<br />
kini mereka berjenaka di dapur<br />
sambil menggulung rokok daun.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1978</span></div></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-60887847971347000642011-12-21T06:05:00.000-08:002011-12-21T06:11:39.860-08:00In The Midst of Hardship - Latiff Mohidin (The Poet's Background)<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.3in; margin-top: 6.24pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.3in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Form 4 poem.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img alt="*" height="10" src="file://localhost/Users/AzMusa/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image001.gif" width="10" />Latiff studied art in Berlin, Germany, as well as in France and America.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img alt="*" height="10" src="file://localhost/Users/AzMusa/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image001.gif" width="10" />He captures the feelings elicited by natural environment in his art and poetry.</span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: .46in; margin-top: 7.2pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If only she’d been wise </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And had listened to the advice</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Never to compromise </span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">With pleasure-seeking guys</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">She’d be free from “the hows and whys”</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Now here’s a bit of advice</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Be sure that nice really means nice</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Then you’ll never be losing at dice</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">Though you may lose your heart once or twice</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 8.64pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br />
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</div><div> <!--StartFragment--> <div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 3.84pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; font-size: 80%;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bibsy</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Soenharjo</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> was born in Jakarta on 22 November 1928. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bibsy</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and her siblings were homeschooled and each was encouraged to pursue their own interests. She had a particular fondness for literature and, after returning home from a four-year stay in Japan, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bibsy</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> began writing her first prose in 1957, and then poetry in the 60s. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 3.84pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 80%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Literary Review, an international quarterly published by </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Fairleigh</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA, published her first four literary pieces in their Autumn and Spring Editions in 1967 and 1968 respectively. In 1967 also, her poem, “Jakarta, March 1967” was published in the Australian magazine Hemisphere, while ”</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Setelah</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Gerhana</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bulan</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">” (After the Eclipse of the Moon) was published in </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Gelanggang</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, an Indonesian cultural magazine now defunct. </span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.46in; margin-top: 3.84pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.42in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 80%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her poems have appeared in bilingual anthologies, with her Indonesian works translated into English, Dutch and Japanese and her English poems into Indonesian and Dutch. She continued to write prose pieces in Indonesian that appeared in Jakarta dailies under the pen name </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nuspati</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Bibsy</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Soenharjo</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> now lives in Jakarta with the youngest of her three sons, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Haryo</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, his wife </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sutji</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> and their children. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span></div><!--EndFragment--></div>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-68618459241850949522011-12-15T22:07:00.000-08:002011-12-15T22:40:13.028-08:00Introduction to Poem<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_8_dHbQ-L5s/TurhCX4MK1I/AAAAAAAAAjA/mJpWMqqPUKQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-16%2Bat%2B2.08.03%2BPM.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686604910394354514" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_8_dHbQ-L5s/TurhCX4MK1I/AAAAAAAAAjA/mJpWMqqPUKQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-16%2Bat%2B2.08.03%2BPM.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 290px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 293px;" /></a><br />
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Creative work through the use of words arranged in a particular format or style. The words are arranged in <strong>lines</strong> or in <strong>stanzas</strong>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">There are many aspects to study in a poem. Let’s look at three important aspects:<br />
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<b> 1. Subject<br />
2. Theme<br />
3. Tone of a poem </b></span></div></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nlzVgOMQyVg/TurgbXycNfI/AAAAAAAAAi0/UbXQvsUA4iU/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-16%2Bat%2B2.08.03%2BPM.png"></a>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-3294762649573747732011-12-15T21:59:00.000-08:002011-12-15T22:31:33.511-08:00Understanding the Art of Poem.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bUKtAIoK_4w/Ture9Fuaw-I/AAAAAAAAAio/n2A2Moaax1U/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-16%2Bat%2B2.01.00%2BPM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bUKtAIoK_4w/Ture9Fuaw-I/AAAAAAAAAio/n2A2Moaax1U/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-16%2Bat%2B2.01.00%2BPM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686602620598928354" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span></p><p style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">The poet writes a poem on a SUBJECT to express his or her ideas, feelings or to discuss an issue. The THEME is the main idea the poet highlights or conveys to the readers. The TONE of the poem indicates the feelings or moods of the persona.</span></p><p style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><u><strong style="font-size: 14px; ">Now let’s see how poets use words to express meannings</strong><br /></u><br /><strong>The Use of Words in Expressing Meanings</strong></span></p><p style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sansserif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Poets choose words carefully, meaningfully and cleverly to express their <strong>ideas</strong>,<strong>thoughts</strong>, feelings or <strong>emotions</strong>, and <strong>reflections</strong>. The words are arranged in a particular way (either in lines or in stanzas) to convey the poets’ intentions of writing the poem. Poets use personas (human or non-human characters) to be the <strong>medium</strong> to “talk to the readers’.<br /><br /><strong>IMAGERY</strong><br />Imagery is chosen words or phrases that involve our five senses. These words and phrases give us a picture-like experience in our mind.<br />Our <strong>five senses</strong> are:<br /><br /><strong>1. The sense of touch</strong> (We use our <strong>fingers</strong>, <strong>hands</strong> to touch).<br />When something touches or comes in contact with our <strong>skin</strong> we can feel it; warm air, cold water…<br /><strong><br />2. The sense of sight</strong> (We use our <strong>eyes</strong> to see).<br />When we see something we recognise it. We can identify colours, objects, people, lights…<br /><strong><br />3. The sense of hearing</strong> (We hear with our <strong>ears</strong>).<br />When we hear a particular <strong>sound</strong>, we would know what the sound is or where it is coming from. We can hear music, people’s voice, a tone from a musical instrument or sounds made by animals.<br /><strong><br />4. The sense of taste</strong> (We taste with our <strong>tongue</strong>).<br />When we eat snacks or a plate of noodle, we can taste the food we eat. From the taste we know whether the food is spicy, sweet, salty, tasty, bitter or sour.<br /><strong><br />5. The sense of smell</strong> (We use our <strong>nose</strong> to smell).<br />When we use perfumes, we smell fragrant or pungent. Using our sense of smell we know that something is burning or overcooked. We also know what smells pleasant and what makes us close our nose!<br /><br />Poets use <strong>imagery</strong> to make us experience what the persona in the poem is experiencing. This makes the experience become more <strong>realistic</strong> or alive. Thus, we remember the experience, as we feel, we too share the experience through our own senses.<br />Here are some examples of how poets use imagery to work on our senses:</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /></span><strong style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><table border="1" width="470" align="left" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 470px; height: 222px; "><tbody><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"><strong style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> Imagery</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"><strong style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> Words and phrases used in the Poems</span></strong></td></tr><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Sense of touch</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> ‘<em>creeps in this petty pace</em>’ in Life’s a Brief Candle<br />‘<em><strong>Clay and wattles</strong> made</em>’ in The Lake Isle of<br />Innisfree</span></td></tr><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"> <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Sense of sight</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> ‘<em><strong>crowded </strong>morning clinic</em>’ in The Dead Crow<br />‘<em>midnight’s all a <strong>glimmer</strong></em>’ in The Lake Isle of<br />Innisfree</span></td></tr><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Sense of hearing</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> ‘<em>bee-loud glade</em> ’ in The Lake Isle of Innisfree<br />‘<em>I hear lake water <strong>lapping</strong></em> ’ in The Lake Isle of<br />Innisfree</span></td></tr><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Sense of smell</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> ‘<em>a dead crow</em> ’ in The Dead Crow</span></td></tr><tr><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Sense of taste</span></strong></td><td style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"> ‘<em>a <strong>hive</strong> for the honey bee</em>’ in The Lake Isle of<br />Innisfree</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></strong></span>Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572151972268118663.post-91238027017315942542011-12-15T21:52:00.000-08:002011-12-15T22:31:33.531-08:00Introduction to Short Story<span style="font-weight:bold;">Definitions of Aspects of Short Stories</span><br /><br /><b>What is a short story?</b><br /><br />A short story is a continuous piece of writing. It is considered to be narrative. It is also a fictitious work of prose and represents real life, characters and actions.<br /><br /><b>The Aspects of a Short Story</b><br /><br />A short story is similar to a novel in many aspects. The elements of a short story include:<br /><b> a. Plot<br />b. Character<br />c. Setting<br />d. Theme<br />e. Moral values</b><br /><br /><b>a. What is Plot?</b><br />The plot is the sequence of events namely; the beginning, middle and end. You must also consider who the characters are, where they are, what they do, why, when the action takes place, and the significant aspects of the event.<br /><br /><b>b. What is Character?</b><br />Characters are people in the story. They may be major characters and minor characters. A major character undergoes changes in personality or he or she will act in a variety of situations. On the other hand, a minor character is not well developed and remains the same throughout the story. In a short story, the focus is on the central character on whom the story is based.<br /><br /><b>c. What is Setting?</b><br />The setting is the place and the time; “where” and “when” a story takes place in the novel.<br /><br /><b>d. What is Theme?</b><br />Theme is a general idea or what the story is about. It is also seen as the central idea running through the story.<br /><br /><b>e. What are Moral values?</b><br />Moral values are principles that convey important messages. We uphold certain principles to judge whether something is good or bad. We learn important lessons form short stories that teach us virtues and universal values.Mumtaz Musahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18203881988976980575noreply@blogger.com0