Sometimes you think you're going mad, and all you want is OUT!!! With everybody's eyes on you...you want to scream and shout!!! Something inside you itches...to scream you sons of bitches!!!
Class Notes: Yesterday we talked about how writers and poets use opposites in their works to warm up we read a poem from Robert Frost, an american poet that in this very short poem brilliantly used opposites and contrast. Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost, American Poet (1874-1963) We also talked about the conceits that 17 C poets used in their work. A conceit is an elaborate figurative device of a fanciful kind, often using a metaphor, a simile or similar device. Poetry is so difficult to understand sometimes and knowing these conceits, I guess is really helpful. Hyperbole and Oxymorons are conceits that modern poets also use these days, so I'll go a llittle depper into these two. Oxymoron is the union fo opposites in one sentence i.e. it wa...
Sentada en una sala de juntas llena de gente, escuche a un tipo desconocido decir lo siguiente: "Somos una empresa con mucho dinero y nuestros único pecado es que queremos más" y pensé: "¿En qué momento perdimos el sentido de la vida?" en serio, ¿En que momento dejamos de notar la ironía? pues inmediatamente después de tal declaración nos avisaron que este año no hay aumentos, bonos ni incentivos de ningún tipo, porque..."tenemos que ahorrar". Me parece totalmente indignante que nadie más que yo se haya dado cuenta del insulto que representaron semejantes palabras, que traducidas a un lenguaje plano podrían entenderse como: "Tenemos mucho dinero, pero queremos más y los vamos a explotar a ustedes para que lograrlo, nos vamos a aprovechar del pánico que tienen de perder sus empleos, para obligarlos a trabajar el doble con el mismo sueldo" Claro que el trabajo puede ser una fuente de satisfacciones y también es una forma de superación personal. P...
'tis the time to finish it all, time to change the skin, to be reborn...to stop all the crap and be the self within, 'tis the time to shout. Stop listening, stop watching, stop hearing. Time for the stupidity to stop. Time to die, time to go back to the ashes where we all belong. Time to finish... to restart....this is it. The End.
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