Sunday, October 24, 2010

New poem packet!

This week I picked the Poem "Curiosity." The poem is centered on the famous line "Couriosity killed the cat." Parents are usually the ones to say this to theri children so they don't touch something and hurt themselves. However, this whole poem is about disproving that whole line. Because the cats have suriosity their lives are better spent (he is comparing cats to people who dare to do what they want live better better and more enjoyable lives.) "Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die- only lack of it will. Never wanting to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living idyll (although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have, if they live well, a tale worth telling at all." This is the entire third stanza and it's the part of the poem where the author is being very blunt about what he is saying. You can't die from being curios, although you could get hurt once in a while, and people that are content at where they are don't want to see if the grass is really greener on the other side of the hill. Those are the "dogs." They eat good lunches, marry suitable wives, and live their lives in the safe zone. And the author is saying they don't have any stories to tell. They aren't living their lives to the fullest. "Dying is what living do, that dying is what loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do." Everyone is going to die it just depends if you're going to do it loving everything about your life, or playing it safe and tolerating life.

1 comment:

  1. We just read this in 2nd hour and had an interesting discussion about it. I think you've got it! :)

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