POETRY - SOCIETY - RELATIONSHIPS

It is common knowledge that society is full of relationships among itself. For instance, we can focus and try to observe carefully the behaviour of people in schools; teachers and students. If we go inside of a teachers’ room, in whichever kind of school, we could notice that there exist a small society which lets us realize the way they relate each other, the way they behave, talk, think and feel, etc. Teachers usually feel safe in their place of work; in this case the teachers’ room. Here they can express what they want without being worried that a student could hear their private conversations, which most of times have a lot to do with their own students. On the other hand, we can find how the students’ relationships in a classroom are. Students typically do not respect each other; they fight without reasonable motivations, etc. But at the same time they build memorable friendships and they support each other.

Besides, we can relate each other with people we do not know. For example, when we are walking on the street we are in contact with others even if we do not want to. But, this relationship is the one which makes us think about how able are we to relate with others and to perceive the other. In this case it is important to say that we are not used to talk easily with someone who we don not know or while we are in a bus in the way to work or study we never tend, and even think, to talk to the person placed next to us. There could be many possibilities which could cause these kinds of reactions like; being shy, having nothing to say, etc. Although, those are not the real reasons to behave like that, there is something beyond which is called fear.

It is important to point out that we can also find the issue of society and relationships from the point of view of literature and poems. Some famous writers talk about society in their pieces of writing, where they point out to ideas such as discrimination, differences between women and men and relationships, among others. For example, Virginia Woolf in her essay “A room of one’s own” she refers to the difference that exists between women and men in terms of studies and work possibilities, women underestimation by men, etc. However, Virginia Woolf states that there are no differences and women and men have the same abilities to write and to develop as a professional. Therefore, we can say that she is a great reference of stating how good women can be without the supervision of men and that women can be even better than men. Besides, she tries to affirm that if women and men complement both talent and aptitudes to write it could create a perfect piece of work.

Also, we can identify the topic of society and relationships in W. H Austen’s poems, especially in September 1^st 1939 where despite of talking about war we can identify some other interesting topics. For instance, this poem refers to life in times of war and how people feel it from their own experience. This pints out to the idea of corruption and abuse in which people are immersed and how they have to live and relate each other in that context. Besides, there exists a wish of freedom at the same time of a wish of rebellion in order to figure out the best ways to solve the problem of war. After that, it is necessary to re state the relationships between people, which had been devastated as well as the freedom and peace.

In conclusion, we can say that society is full of relationships; since the example of teachers and students to the differences between men and women. Poetry scientifically refers to that kind of important issues, where writers try to achieve everything in order to give sense to what is happening in the world. Everything is based on what they perceive from their point of view or reality. Virginia Woolf and W.H Austen are very important authors and referents of poetry and how it could be a mirror of society and relationships.

POETRY - SOCIETY - RELATIONSHIPS

It is common knowledge that society is full of relationships among itself. For instance, we can focus and try to observe carefully the behavior of people in schools; teachers and students. If we go inside of a teachers’ room, in whichever kind of school, we could notice that there exist a small society which lets us realize the way they relate each other, the way they behave, talk, think and feel, etc. Teachers usually feel safe in their place of work; in this case the teachers’ room. Here they can express what they want without being worried that a student could hear their private conversations, which most of times have a lot to do with their own students. On the other hand, we can find how the students’ relationships in a classroom are. Students typically do not respect each other; they fight without reasonable motivations, etc. But at the same time they build memorable friendships and they support each other.

Besides, we can relate each other with people we do not know. For example, when we are walking on the street we are in contact with others even if we do not want to. But, this relationship is the one which makes us think about how able are we to relate with others and to perceive the other. In this case it is important to say that we are not used to talk easily with someone who we don not know or while we are in a bus in the way to work or study we never tend, and even think, to talk to the person placed next to us. There could be many possibilities which could cause these kinds of reactions like; being shy, having nothing to say, etc. Although, those are not the real reasons to behave like that, there is something beyond which is called fear.

It is important to point out that we can also find the issue of society and relationships from the point of view of literature and poems. Some famous writers talk about society in their pieces of writing, where they point out to ideas such as discrimination, differences between women and men and relationships, among others. For example, Virginia Woolf in her essay “A room of one’s own” she refers to the difference that exists between women and men in terms of studies and work possibilities, women underestimation by men, etc. However, Virginia Woolf states that there are no differences and women and men have the same abilities to write and to develop as a professional. Therefore, we can say that she is a great reference of stating how good women can be without the supervision of men and that women can be even better than men. Besides, she tries to affirm that if women and men complement both talent and aptitudes to write it could create a perfect piece of work.

Also, we can identify the topic of society and relationships in W. H Austen’s poems, especially in September 1^st 1939 where despite of talking about war we can identify some other interesting topics. For instance, this poem refers to life in times of war and how people feel it from their own experience. This pints out to the idea of corruption and abuse in which people are immersed and how they have to live and relate each other in that context. Besides, there exists a wish of freedom at the same time of a wish of rebellion in order to figure out the best ways to solve the problem of war. After that, it is necessary to re state the relationships between people, which had been devastated as well as the freedom and peace.

In conclusion, we can say that society is full of relationships; since the example of teachers and students to the differences between men and women. Poetry scientifically refers to that kind of important issues, where writers try to achieve everything in order to give sense to what is happening in the world. Everything is based on what they perceive from their point of view or reality. Virginia Woolf and W.H Austen are very important authors and referents of poetry and how it could be a mirror of society and relationships.

Final Essay (not finished!!!)

Outline

“Poetry as a mirror of human relationships”

I. Introduction

II. Society

a. Different Relationships

b. Men and Women

III. Poetry’s point of view

a. Authors and poems talking about society and human beings relationships.

b. Poetry influences on society

IV. Conclusion

It is common knowledge that society is full of relationships among itself. For instance, we can focus and try to observe carefully the behaviour of people in a school; teachers and students. If we go inside of a teachers’ room, in whichever kind of school, we could notice that there exist a small society which lets us realize the way they relate each other, the way they behave, talk, think and feel, etc. Teachers usually feel safe in their place of work; in this case the teachers’ room. Here they can express what they want without being worried that a student could hear their private conversations, which most of times have a lot to do with their own students. On the other hand, we can find students relationships in a classroom. Students typically do not respect each other; they fight without reasonable motivations, etc. But at the same time they build memorable friendships and they support each other.

Besides, we can relate each other with people we do not know. For example, when we are walking on the street we are in contact with others even if we do not want to. But, this relationship is the one which makes us think about how able are we to relate with others and to perceive the other. In this case it is important to say that we are not used to talk easily with someone who we don not know or while we are in a bus in the way to work or study we never tend, and even think, to talk to the person placed next to us. There could be many possibilities which could cause these kinds of reactions like; being shy, having nothing to say, etc. Although, those are not the real reasons to behave like that, there is something beyond which is called fear.

"A room of one's own"

Virginia Woolf's essay "A room of one's own" let us think about many interesting topics, such as the difference between men and women and society relationships, among others.
It is really interesting to see how Virginia Woolf goes beyond the letters of books and tries to focus on the real intentions of the authors. She tries to give us another point of view of what we read. For instance, she refers to the difference between men and women stating that both have the same ability to express themselves in daily life as in writing. Besides, she argues that if women and men put in their writings both parts of the brain, either women using their male part of the brain or men the other way around.
On the other hand, she talks about the society behavior in terms of relationships. For example, Virginia refers to that saying that people do not care about others problems or feelings. Everybody is concerned about their own things even though they live in groups and communities. Society would be better if all of us live connected with the other. I really think that this "problem" is still happening nowadays, and we should do something with starting by ourselves.

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During the Victorian age, life was so difficult for people, specially for children and woman. Actually we can realize about that throughout the movie "Oliver Twist" and the short story of "The signal-man".
Poverty is the strongest theme that represent the Victorian age, because it shows that people used to live in poor conditions without rights and possibilities to make progress with their lives and to assure the life of their descendants.
It is very sad to see that reality of children in the movie Oliver Twist, because children are innocent creatures and they need to grow up in a fair society, in a clean world and obviously where nobody cold ignore them and make them suffer.
In the story of the signal-man we can notice a huge imagination of the author where the reader can be involved in the story leaving apart that those ideas of ghosts are not part of the reality and think that it may could be true.

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Frankenstein = Mary Shelley

I really think that the story of Frankenstein and the life of Mary Shelley have a lot in common. First of all, she did not have a "normal" life because of her family and her problems as a child and as a woman. In the case of the monster it was not created to live a "normal" life.
Secondly,the author of the article tries to emphasize the idea that Mary Shelley in some way wanted to express what she was living at that moment and what she used to be during her life. She did it through out the personification of that horrible monster in Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley was an educated woman, who during her whole life was looking for new information and increasing her knowledge. On the other hand the monster was created to be intelligent and to know a lot of things. Those are similarities that really let us interpret that the monster is a reflection of the author Mary Shelley.

It is very interesting that some authors write their own life stories hided behind the characters' story. I think that it is a great idea of hiding your story and let the reader interpret it and find out that it actually is the author's own story.

T.S Eliot and "The Waste Land"

In classes we could observe a picture where everybody said what we can rescue from it and what it makes us feel. Well, there were different perceptions; loneliness, darkness, desolation, love, rubbish, sadness. Those descriptions have in common the idea of "bad" things, because the picture does not show the opposite and let think think that there is nothing else.
If we put the idea of the image with the poem "The Waste Land" from T.S Eliot I can find that image reflected in the V part of the poem, which is called "What the Thunder said". In the first part of that sonnet appear the idea of what happened after a great storm, and if we looks carefully at the picture we could see that there are hindrance and rubbish everywhere. But, among those all rubbish we can find life expressed throughout the two people in the back of the image. In the case of the poem we can see that in an specific part there is named water, but saying that there is not water:

"Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road"

Here happens the same thing as in the image. The fact that there is no water it means that there is no life, because water is the essential element of life. So, we can conclude that the poem and the image reflect the ideas of destruction and death.