IV. DEATH BY WATER

IV. DEATH BY WATER

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

Dead by water analysis and opinion.

This poem you can analyze it with two points of view, one is the literal point of view where you find the sailor Phlebas, a Phoenician that suffer the death by water, that is to say he drowned and while he was falling and dying ,he could see his life through all its stages, since his oldest moment until his youth ,which is something very explicit and clear in the poem, But if we analyze it in a more deep way, we can see the poem as the representation of the baptism or something similar, where a way of life dies and a new one is born, the sin dies through the water, and through water born the spiritual life… The old “me” is dead and a new man is born, a man without sin and with a different strength or energy is showed at the end of this process of purification, the same is showed in the poem.

Alliteration:

-Phlebas the Phoenician…

-Fortnight dead, Forgot…

Prolepsic: (figure that shows anticipation to an event.)

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.

It is saying that he was already dead and after that, are mentioned the things that he already forgot.

Metaphor:

The whole poem can be seen as a metaphor if you see it with the second point of view mentioned previously.

Speaker : The speaker Is a man telling the story of Phlebas , the Phoenician.

Mood: Calmed, Thoughtful.

Where is the setting? : The sea.

My process...

I got in the “Universidad De Las Americas” in the year 2004. In the same year I was graduated from the “Liceo Pedro Poveda” and as everybody; at the end of the school stage I had to choose a career. I was almost completely lost, the only thing that was clear for me, was that I liked languages and English was my first choice, so after a lot of thinking, the career that I choose was teaching English… to be a teacher.

The first two years were the most difficult, I was about to change my mind, there were lots of teachers that I didn’t like, due to their way of teaching, and even worst, I didn’t think that they were very good at it. The truth is that during the whole process I have found the same problem, some teachers are good, but lots of other teachers don’t. That dichotomy was bothering me a lot.

To the preceding, I can add that I wasn’t very motivated with the idea of teaching to these new generations, where you can find a lack of interest in the classes, while the teacher is trying to do the best for them to learn.

That lack of motivation was converted in a kind of fear for me, but this fear disappear completely with the first teaching practice. When I started, I realized that the choice taken two years before was the right one. This experience showed me that there is something very special at the moment of teaching, and look my self helping kids is incredibly gratifying.

The second teaching practice, was a fundamental event for me, even more than the fist teaching practice, because with this I understood the meaning of being a teacher, know how does it feels, the difficulty of stay in front of a class and teach, create a link with the students, between lots of other things that are difficult to explain completely, things that you only understand when you are living the situation. With this I could have the image of my self, being a teacher.

Today, in my fourth year of studying, my view is completely different to the beginning; the time showed me that this was the best choice I’ve ever made, now I’m much more optimistic and I realized that I really had a vocation, which tells me that the challenge is big and that the generations are always changing, but not because of that I have to quit, on the contrary, I will be working every day harder, because I am sure that I will be good at this.

The first two years were the most difficult, I was about to change my mind, there were lots of teachers that I didn’t like, due to their way of teaching, and even worst, I didn’t think that they were very good at it. The truth is that during the whole process I have found the same problem, some teachers are good, but lots of other teachers don’t. That dichotomy was bothering me a lot.

To the preceding, I can add that I wasn’t very motivated with the idea of teaching to these new generations, where you can find a lack of interest in the classes, while the teacher is trying to do the best for them to learn.

That lack of motivation was converted in a kind of fear for me, but this fear disappear completely with the first teaching practice. When I started, I realized that the choice taken two years before was the right one.

The second teaching practice, was a fundamental event for me, even more than the fist teaching practice, because with this I understood the meaning of being a teacher, know how does it feels, the difficulty of stay in front of a class and teach, create a link with the students, between lots of other things that are difficult to explain completely, things that you only understand when you are living the situation. With this I could have the image of my self, being a teacher.

Today, in my fourth year of studying, my view is completely different to the beginning; the time showed me that this was the best choice I’ve ever made, and that I had a vocation, which tells me that the challenge is big and that the generations are always changing, but not because of that I have to quit, on the contrary, I will be working every day harder, because I am sure that I will be good at this.

Music, the art of combining sounds

The first instruments were any object or human part of the body that emit sounds.

One of the first instruments created by man was the Flute, which at the very beginning was a bone with holes.

To begin with, I’m going to explain that this work is divided in to four parts, the first one is the Greek era as the older one, then it will continue with the Middle Age and the renascence, and finally the XX Century.

In the Greek era, is the place where the music has its start and where we can find the first documents of music, math, philosophy and other fields of study. For them, music was very special, they used it in weddings, funerals, births and other religious ceremonies, but always related to dance and poetry.

Music in those times was very important and Greeks use it even in the fields of education, by giving information to the kids through music.

In the Middle age, the Catholic Church becomes the central theme in the society. During those times, the Gregorian singing ruled all the territories, due that the culture and power is in the hands of the monks and religious people. Even though, the secular music has its place, over all in the low Middle Age, with the participation of the jongleur and minstrels which used to act in castles, palaces and in the streets.

During The Renascence, the sculptures and music stop being only as a sign of praise to God and their goal is to create beauty.

In the renascence there is an increase in the musical aspect, established by the humanist over the importance of culture, and it is here when music start to increase and experiment a big development. Whit this, musicians had to start to specialize and to dedicate their live to the art of music.

In the XX century, the world of music is influenced by the cultural and society changes, now there are new kinds of styles of music, such as Jazz, Rock, which take an important part and remove the classical and cultured music, and their branches, which for some time were the most important styles, but with the pass of time, the new styles, and the influence of technology, alter the way in how people create and interpret music.

As we can see, music is always changing, but is it for good?

The new styles and fashions influenced in music, and the same music is now affecting the view of the world and the way in how people live, this can be seen in the new generations, which are much more liberal than the older ones, the lyrics, and the way of presenting this art, which in my opinion, is starting to loose the meaning of art.

The outline

I. Point. There is a lack of imagination.
A.(Reason) 20 years ago, no video games.
1.(Example) No imagination, PS2, WI, Computer,Internet.
Point. a)Not the same life.
b)Game already created.
c)No need of imagination.

Relation between Frankenstein and the monster

During a long time, Frankenstein was isolated, due to the incomprehension of the scary society , which is not able to understand such a horrifying thing and can not deal with it because of the fear of the different. The only answer that exists in their minds is the mistreatment and the insults.

Being alone so much time, growing as a resentful kid, his hate grows more and more, so as his desire of having someone who can understand him and be with him, giving him positive feelings towards him. During this time, he realizes that the only person who can help him is his “father”. That father that gave him life and after that despised him as a peace of garbage... So he looks for his creator, and ask him for a partner that can be so horrendous as he is, and that could join him in his suffering to finally find happiness. His father agrees, but finally he regrets and destroy the only chance for the monster of stay in peace and be happy, letting him vulnerable, full of hate and bitterness, considering to himself as the unfair victim which has being punished and slandered so many times , asking if there was fair that kind of cruelty, feeling even the regret for his acts (killing people), but without stopping the feeling of uncontainable anger which only death could pacify.