My walk and how it relates to romanticism

As I go back over and read what I wrote I can easily picture everything all over again. I remember exactly what I saw everytime I wrote something down. Being able to paint a picture in my head step by step, is romanticism on its own because it's like a story I'm reading to myself that I was already in wich make's even easier to see myself in it all over again.

3 credible sites about romanctism

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php

A Dream Within a Dream

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream" he uses a couple different tones. It starts out with some lines for the reader to think about, almost like a hook sentence in an essay. He uses strong words to paint an image in the audiences' mind. When he asks a question in stanza one it makes the audience kind of question what he's saying or talking about. In the second stanza he starts to change his tone with different puncuations. I think there are many different allusions in this poem that I just haven't noticed yet. 



Vocabulary Fall List #6

1. Adroit - Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.

2. Amicable -   Having a spirit of friendliness

3. Averse - Having a strong dislike of or opposition to something.             
4. Belligerent - Hostile and aggressive.
5. Benevolent - Well meaning and kindly

6. Cursory - Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

7. Duplicity -  Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech

8. Extol - To praise highly

9. Feasible - Possible to do easily or conveniently

10. Grimace - A facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain.

11. Holocaust - Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale,

12. Impervious - Not allowing something to pass through; not penetrable

13. Impetus - Stimulation or encouragement

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14. Activity - Action in general; Physical exercise activity.

15. Jeopardy - Danger of loss, harm, or failure

16. Meticulous - Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.

17. Nostalgia - Sentimental longing for the past. Typically for a period or place with happy personal associations

18. Quintessence - The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

19. Retrogress - Go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one.
20. Scrutinize - Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.
21. Tepid - Only slightly warm; lukewarm

 

Vocabulary: Fall List #5

1. Allude - Suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.

2. Clairvoyant - The art of 'seeing' beyond the five senses. 

3. Conclusive -  Serving to prove a case; convincing.

4. Disreputable - Not to be considered respectable in character and appearance.

5. Endemic - Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous

6. Exemplary - Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.

7. Fathom - To penetrate to the meaning or nature of; comprehend.

8. Guile - Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception.

9. Integrity - Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

10. Itinerary - A planned route or journey.

11. Misconstrue - To mistake the meaning of; misinterpret. 

12. Obnoxious - Annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself.

13. Placate - To appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.

14. Placid - Not easily upset or excited.

15. Plagiarism - An act or instance of using exactly or closely imitating.

16. Potent - Having great power, influence, or effect.

17. Pretext - A reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.

18. Protrude - Extend beyond or above a surface.

19. Stark - Bare or blunt

20. Superficial - Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow.

Vocabulary List #4

1. Melancholy - Sad, gloomy, or depressed.
2. Exemplary - representing the best of its kind.
3. Peculiar - Strange or odd; unusual.
4. Dread - To fear greatly
5. Bough - A main branch of a tree.
6. Pious - earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; devout.
7. Communion - Common participation in a mental or emotional experience.
8. Auditor - An evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. A person who conducts an audit.

9. Multitude - A great number of people gathered together; crowd;
10. Eloquence - Fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speak
11. Despair - To lose all hope or confidence
12. Hoary - Grey or white with age / extremely old.

"AHA!"

Today in class I learned how a symbol is basicly just a man-made sign that is supposed to make you think of another image or interpret it into words in your head. Just about everything we see on a daily basis is a symbol, even words! Sadly, a lot of major buisnesses and companies use them to basicly brainwash us into thinking something that is not actually true but yet we still do or buy what they advertiuse as "cool" without even giving it a second thought. I think if we acually sat down and gave some time to think about every symbol we see (wich is near impossible) this whole world and how we live would be looked at in a completely different perspective.

Vocabulary List #3

Vocabulary List #3

 

 

 

1. Encomium - The praise of a person or thing.

2. Coherent - Sticking together; Orderly, logical and consistent.

 

3. Belabor - Argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail

 

4. Bschew - To abstain or keep away from

5. Acquisitive -Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

6. Emulate - To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.

7. Arrogate - Take or claim (something) for oneself without justification. To take over.

8. Banal - So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

9. Excoriation - To tear or wear off the skin of;

10. Congeal - To change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing

11. Carping - Complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters.

12. Substantiate - Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.

13. Temporize - To act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision:

14. Largesse - Extreme generosity. liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior

15. Tenable - Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection. Capable of being held against assault

16. Insatiable - Impossible to satisfy

17.reconnaissance - An inspection or exploration of an area, especially one made to gather military information.

 

18. Germane - Closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent

19. Ramify - To divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts; extend into subdivisions.

 

20. Intransigent - Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.

21. Taciturn - Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

22. Invidious - Tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy