Mr Omid Akhbari

Finally.. All of our questions on how Mr. Omid looks like have been answered. I’ve never seen him before, and my thoughts that he might be exciting like Miss Sima, was totally flawed! I had to give my full attention to listen on him, because he is so slow motion. I’m still in puzzle about my position paper, and I don’t know how to write a thesis statement. Besides, according to Mr. Omid, we have to choose the story based on the list that he’ll be giving to us next week. Damn!

plums anyone??

An interesting poem I would say this poem by William Carlos Williams “This is Just to Say”. In Now Read On, the poem was written in a paragraph and Dr Edwin had us reorganizing it according to our liking and we need to justify why we chose to have it that way. I think this is an interesting way in teaching poem and I will definitely use it in my future teaching. It lets the students be creative and not just wait for answers.

As for the poem itself, it can be literally and metaphorically connotated. I did get the other meaning behind this poem since the first time I read it. However, when Dr Edwin reveals the ‘other’ meaning, there were many ohhs and ahhs which signals the shock many of my classmates had as most were still stuck at the literal meaning of the poem- a plum thief…plum as a plum…not more not less. Maybe because the poem was put into a paragraph thus we didn’t thought of interpreting it as we automatically do when we see a poem. As a paragraph, the lines were just merely words probably found on the fridge door.

I like the way Williams describe virginity as plums. Why plums? Is it because of the squishy texture or the ripeness of the fruit that made him create such comparison? Hehe…the issue of taking away one’s possession as written in this poem is so witty… It’s like a petty crime if you want to compare it with the real issue of running away with one’s boyfriend or even daughter without permission.

It seems by using different kind of imagery, it will create different kind of mood and interpretation of the poem. If we replace the word plum or refrigerator with something else, it might have a different impact all together. In this case, even a serious issue of eloping or even rape (if you want to assume it’s written from a rapist point of view) can look so plain and funny with the image of stealing plums.

Blur..worried..blank..headache..

Urghh.. I have all these mix feelings after back from Dr. Edwin’s class. He gave us the outline, and I just looked at it, and I can already smell the aroma of caffeine, because I’m surely gonna need it badly this semester. Sayonara to my bed time…hahahah. Here comes the reality of being a Teslian. But, thanx to Dr. Edwin for explaining it clearly, thus I can start to organize my timetable, though I never have one.
At our first meeting, Dr. Edwin has assigned us to read 3 stories. The first one is “The Son of the Turtle-Spirit”, “The Mahabharata” and lastly “Ovid-Daedalus and Icarus”. Moreover, he did assign us to the painting called "The Fall of Icarus" and so we did. But the problem was there were too many versions of the drawing which leads to everyone saying their's are the correct one. So, i just have to wait to bring it to the next class.