Cavalry Crossing a Ford

So in the story of "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" it shows how the true cavalry did things in the day. it makes me feel like i was with the cavalry that day. I can image the cavalry resting by the lake side and the horses are going to get a drink of water to quench their thirst.During the following part of the poem it shows how the men were relaxing. Also the men were having fun just joking around and just chilling.Also the men were "brown[ed]faced" from the long amount of time being on a mission. The last sence shows the guide on the "scarlet and blue and snowy white" which represents the honor that the cavalry have. My thoughts are that the cavalry back then were the best of the best and that have a weak side too. The guide on always "flutter gayly in the wind" which shows how proud the young cav. was once. The cavalry now a day's usually don't ride horses but some do. Now they are light armor units that travels for a long time really fast just like the old cav. did. The colors on the other hand have always remained the same through out history.

Collectng leaves to get a tree

The poem Dalliance of the Eagles is interesting because I can put myself in Walt Whitman shoes witnessing this personal as he just take a stroll and witness two eagles perform the dalliance ritual and say to himself this is amazing I should write about it. What I gained from the poem can relate to what my great aunt told me about how people you meet in life are either a tree are leaves. Walt Whitman writes about the people who are leaves. Because they are not present in your life long and seem to blow away with the wind but the impact they have on your life is important and helps in the search for the tree. I gained this from the two eagles meeting in the air which is the simple meet and greet next they become one which is the bond being made then they start on their cartwheel which can be compared to the obstacles faced in life then everything goes downhill and before it turns to a complete disaster they each depart they own way to continue they journey throughout life with more experience and with a better picture of what want in life to replace the leaves with a tree.

The Dalliance of the Eagles

The Dalliance of the Eagles, by Walt Whitman, he expresses how two eagles force his senses and imagination to a new pitch, where action, space, and time are all magnified to an intensity to the point of revelation. We are delivered to the world of nature and the world of art at once. For Whitman, it is love that the narrator metaphorically ascribes to these creatures of flight and grace “our love” because this is amorous dalliance and pursuit to us, but what to them? Surely, we will never know. They "skirt" the human road, and do not walk it as we do. Seen rightly and with human eyes, this is nothing but a revelation of what comes to us from existence and draws us to love, and love passionately.

The Dalliance Of The Eagles

After reading this poem by Walt Whitman and listening to the presentation, my interpretation of the poem alter a bit. Watching two bald eagles in their mating ritual is a magnificent sight to see. This magnificent ritual called cart-wheeling, is a rare sight. The two creatures lock claws and free-fall out of the sky. As quick as the moment you saw began it could stop. Just as they look like things will go for the worst they pull apart. Upward again separately they continue, pursuing, and again are dalliant eagles.
As easily as I read this poem, it was just as easy to relate it to a more humanistic side of life. Relating this free fall to a relationship is not a task, yet a easy comparison. The dalliance, rather flirtation, would be the first conversation or first attraction. Soon the close friendship turns into a relationship where the new couple is entering a level not known to them as one. I believe the cart-wheeling that the eagles experience can be the free fall in the relationships. Up, downs, spins, love, heartbreak, and the unknowing factor of what will happen next. Overall my view is to take life as a journey and follow whatever path you wonder upon. Free fall into life and love may stumble upon you.

Emily Dickinson Poem 67

This poem is about the value of success. Value is based strongly on the opinion of the beholder. Readers can relate to this poem. Emily Dickinson is able to connect with the average American. Success, for most people, is something that you have to fight or struggle for. It does not come naturally. It takes hard work and dedication to the task at hand. Dickinson describes how wonderful success is to those that fail on a normal basis. She must have been writing from experience. It is well known that she had relationship problems. With the exception of her relationship with a preacher, all of her significant others or crushes died. She never truly succeeded in a solid relationship. She pours out her heart into this poem exemplifying how amazing she felt when something did go well. The reader can assume that Dickinson has an opposite opinion of those who succeed all the time. People that always get what they want appear successful. It is hard to feel successful when you have no measure of its value. It comes to them to easy. The idea that money and success will solve all of you problems is extremely faulted. Many of today's rich and famous characters are not happy. Are they truly successful? They have everything they need except the feeling of success and happiness. They are left wanting more.

Vigil Strength I kept on the field one night

This poem brings a rush of deep emotion to you. It starts off with him being out in the battlefield at night, when one of his comrades fell by his side, dying. Then he brings you through some of the events that day. For instance, "Found you in death so cold dear comrade". This is wehre I feel his real amotions start coming out and he forgets about the battle around him. Like when he says, "I faithfully loved you, and cared for you living". This is wehre the poem starts turning towards a more sorrowful feeling. he then begins describing how he's burrying his fellow soldier. He "wrapt in his blanket" and "enveloped well his form". This part makes you really remember everything that's going on in todays world too. Soldiers dying, the heartache familes and friends have to endur. This poem can relate to any period in time even though it was written a long time ago. There is always some kind of war being fought and people knowing what it's like to lose loved ones. Many can see where Whittman is coming from.

The Dalliance of Eagles

Walt Whitman’s free verse poetry possesses qualities that other writing from his time does not. He uses imagery as one of his main components of work, which gives readers the sense that they are witnessing the event at that moment in time. In the poem “The Dalliance of Eagles”, Whitman writes about two eagles high in the sky coming together as one, as if they were dancing together. Just tumbling and falling as one because at that point nothing else matters, until they separate. The eagles fight for what they want until the receive it. I believe that this poem has great symbolism and has great meaning behind it. If you want something bad enough you should fight for it. No matter what gets in your way you need to find every way to be successful and accomplish your goal. People are too scared to follow their dreams or fight for something they want, but these eagles make it so easy and carefree that it makes you wonder why you just can’t make it as simple as they are making it. The point is that you need to stop over thinking and over planning how you are going to do something and just do it because it is the right and best thing to do. Live everyday as if it were your last, and accomplish every dream and goal you have ever had.

Nobody?

For the first blog I decided to discuss Emily Dickinson's poem 288. It reads:

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! They'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a frog -
To tell one's name – the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!

This poem grabbed my attention more than the others because I found it a bit odd. When most people are young they dream of being rich and famous; a superhero, an actor, or a famous athlete. And though these dreams may change slightly as we get older, most people still wish they were famous with all the glamor and glory.

The speaker of this poem does not follow this popular trend. Instead they seem very content with being a “Nobody” and seems to look down or pity the lifestyle of the “Somebody” by saying that their life would is dreary and never any privacy. The speaker would rather have the peace of privacy and enjoy life with friends as a “Nobody” to the rest of the world than to be famous. Many people these days seem to focus more on what they do not have and what they think they are missing out on and forget about everything they have right in front of them. This poem helped me remember all of the blessings that I have in my life and helped me realize that there is more to life than just material things.

The Dalliance of the Eagles

After reading The Dalliance of the Eagles for the first time I did not quite understand the meaning of the poem. After Stomski’s wonderful presentation the meaning clicked. Whitman uses free verse to express freedom of movement. While walking home one day a man noticed the sun and two bawled eagles. He realized that once the eagles are attracted to a one another, the two bawled eagles began to “cartwheel” through the sky. The eagles lock talons and begin to soar in the sky, before hitting the ground the eagles disengage. I think Whitman is trying to say that people want a perfect life, but are not willing to sacrifice things. The eagles symbolize freedom, knowledge, bravery, and unity. We tend to take life for granite and expect life to come easy. Don’t be scared to be different than everyone else. You can’t live life being scared or you wont get anything out of it. Over all I thought this poem was very inspiring and made me realize that life is what you make of it. Live life in the moment. If you never go and explore than you are never going to learn.

dog

Poem 754 from Emily Dickinson talks about hunting in the woods. To me it comes from the dogs perspective. In line one it says "The owner passed, identified, and carried me away." The word owner is the first word that made me think that it would be a dog. Identify, is giving a name to the animal. Carried would imply that the owner is buying a small puppy to train. It is said that he can speak to the mountains for the owner to me this means that the dog starts to bark. When the mountain reply the bark made hidden animals frightened. This would cause the animals to run so the owner could shoot them. Another hint that I got for it being a dog was " At night...I guard my masters head." The words guard and master are common when we talk about dogs. Also when a dog sleeps with the person he believes is the master they sleep at the foot of the bed or like in the poem by the head to protect them. I think this is a god poem that symbolizes loyalty by using the actions of dogs because dogs tend to be very loyal to their alpha figure.

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

Ellis, William

1-20-09

As we all know, Mr. Whitman did not use and lyrical poetry when he broke away from the norms of his time (i.e. Fireside Talks and the common use of rhyme scheme and meter.) Instead, he created brilliant poems by using free verse and provided vivid and thought provoking mental images for his readers throughout his career. The most intriguing to me being “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”; which is taken from his collection entitled Drum Taps. This poem describes a troop of Cavalry soldiers moving across a stream perhaps on their way to battle or simply engaging in a training exercise. Whitman uses several sensory adjectives to describe the sight of these soldiers and their horses while crossing the stream. These adjectives made me feel as if I were standing alongside the stream watching the soldiers. This poem was particularly interesting to me because of my future career in the Army. I took notice as some of you might have, to the reference of the guidons flapping in the wind. This was a thought provoking line for me because, it exemplified how they were being displayed with honor and also showed how proud the soldiers were to being serving underneath them. This poem left an impression on me that I have reflected on since and have collected a stronger sense of purpose that will help drive me through my career and life.

The Dalliance of the Eagles

In this poem Walt Whitman writes in free verse and his explanation of the two Eagles falling in a gyrating wheel somewhat depicts his style of writing. The Eagles are a symbol of freedom, and Walt Whitman writes in free verse. The way these two beautiful birds latch onto each other fiercely but yet tenderly is amazing. The Eagles show love as well as a sense of rage through their straight fall towards the ground talon in talon. It’s as if they are fighting and when they come close to the earth they break apart and it’s as if everything is suddenly okay again. They have settled their problems and I think that this poem is written to show it’s normal to have rage and love at the same time. It’s going to happen more than once in someone’s lifetime. The Eagles are used because it’s a unique thing to see, and love is a unique thing to find.

The Dalliance of Eagles

The Dalliance of Eagles tells us the story about a person who is probably a farmer considering the time period, who was walking home in the middle of the day. While walking he stops for a second and looks at the sun and sees two eagles flying by, and realized that they were foreplay right before they started the mating process. By bringing the sun in content it makes us wonder how high those eagles are really flying. The poem also tells us about the sea but it present it to us as old, and even surd of imply that the sea is weak. When there food resource comes from the water, while they are flying by and see the pray and just throw themselves down directly into the water in order to catch it. This is something really interesting to watch. Later he tells the story to other people in town that have not seeing eagles mate. This story teaches us that we should impart our knowledge and experiences to others and help them realized and see beyond theirs, for them to not have or commit the same mistakes. Even makes us realize no matter how high you can get in life there is always a possibility of a fall if you are not stable.

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