Running After Antelope Response: 1963 Question 8 by http://theduckksplayground.blogspot.com/

What is the significance of having “The wilderness is unfolding in front of us” at the end of the story?
-The significance of "The wilderness" does not just necessarily mean the wild; it can symbolize life in general. The wilderness is a place entirely different from where we as people would normally live and interact with others.It's a place not anyone would normally go and Scott Carrier is classifying the goals in life as the wilderness. Carrier states "The wilderness is unfolding in front of us" (4) as a metaphor to illustrate that there are many new discoveries and obstacles in the future to overcome. Carrier states this quote at the end of his journey with his brother not only to show readers that he and his brother had many more adventures to experience, but to also demonstrate that there are many opportunities to discover; one just has to go out there and take it.

Running After Antelope "Come to Stay"

1. What is the significance of "The only thing missing is the ending." (21)
2. Why does Carrier use specific imagery to describe the girl?
3. Why does Carrier use personification in "her body was only there to tell a story"? What does it signify? (21)
4. Explain the meaning of "They had the structure of the Golden Gate Bridge-a high, sinewy arch with built-in springs and pulleys, and long toes stretching out for purchase." What literary device is shown here? (21)
5. What is the significance of Carrier having only one for and the girl having many utensils?
6. How does Carrier's persona change after meeting and having this girl in his life?
7. Why does he ask her where she would like to have the wooden bed placed? How did Carrier know where to place it after she respond?
8. How does Carrier show interest in the girl? How is it different form how others would normally show interest?
9. What might have made Carrier fall in love with her and what made her fall in love with him?
10. Why does Carrier choose to include this experience in this story?

How I learned to stop worrying and love myself by K. Miller

This short story's title is what got my attention. It was straight forward and to the point. I sensed no ambiguity. As I read this literary nonfiction work I noticed numerous similarities K. Miller was describing about one of the sisters she mentioned named Ariel. Miller was descriptive on her looks, personality, and likes Ariel had which were similar to mine. As I kept reading I was getting more engaged and shocked on how Ariel and I were alike. In the end I saw and felt what Miller was feeling and found myself relating to her and the other two sisters, Ariel and Marie, were going through. I like simple works, but give out a bigger meaning and this narrative writing did that very well and kept me interested.

The Full Moon

I was on my front yard, criss cross apple sauce, as I would say back in elementary school. A few cars passed by causing the wind to blow in my direction and made that night even colder. I looked up and i saw the bright beaming moon looking down upon me. I lifted up my right thumb up at the moon's direction and compared its size to the moon. I heard the moon is never bigger than your thumb, so I thought I would test this theory out. Turns out it was true. I never really tend to look up and appreciate the moon. I'll only notice it if I'm out playing soccer late at night. So that night, I gave the moon my company as it has always done for me. I sat there for a while and shared my thoughts, mostly about space because I find it extraordinary. As I got up, I felt my pants a little damped because of the wet grass, but didn't let that bother me because I was going inside anyway. I gave the moon a "peace sign" with my middle and index fingers, said "Thank you Mr. Moon.", and gave it a smile.

A Winter Walk

It was a sunny day when Miss Rose went for a quick visit to her loved one. They've been doing this routine for about a year. Each time they saw each other, it was as if they fell in love for the first time. Each walk she had was delightful. It was summer all year round; the sun was always out, people greeted her with joy, and  the tress were full and green. As time passed, the season started to change for the first time and so did their love. The routine was getting old. Her walks didn't seem so amusing to her anymore. Suddenly, winter arrived and everything seemed dead to her. No one would greet her, and would seem like ghost, haunting her every move, but at the same time avoided her. The would tree would stare at her as she passed by. Before she got to her loved one, he had met her half way. She knew it was time, but didn't expect him to catch up to her. He then said, " Our journey is over my dear. We have completed our mission, learned our lessons, and have grown from this experience." She felt her surroundings getting colder and darker as he spoke, but the time he was finished it was summer again. She nodded, and walked away without a word. She was at peace and so was he.

Kings of Leon

 I chose this song not only because its a great one by a very good band, but it also holds a lot of meaning in their lyrics. Although this songs states "You call that a pick up truck?" it really means the girl of his dreams can do better. This song main sound is rhyming in every other line and tells a simple story that holds other meanings of his feelings for her.
(1st Verse)
Walk you home to see, where your livin' around, and I know this place
Pour yourself on me, And you know I'm the one, that you won't forget

(2nd Verse)
And in your denim eyes, I see something's awry, and I see you're weak
When he comes around, see your fixin' to shine, and my face won't speak

(Chorus)
Hate to be so emotional
I didn't aim to get physical
But when he pulled in and revved it up
I said, 'you call that a pick up truck?'
And in the moonlight I throwed him down
Kickin' screamin' & rolling around
A little piece of a bloody tooth
Just so you know I was thinking of you
Just so you know ohhhhh

(3rd Verse)
Tremblin' misery, and as cold as a hole
I hug your bones and skin, cracklin' woods gone white, and my eyes swoll up now
I can see the light

(Chorus)
Hate to be so emotional
I didn't aim to get physical
But when he pulled in and revved it up
I said, 'you call that a pick up truck?'
And in the moonlight I throwed him down
Kickin' screamin' & rolling around
A little piece of a bloody tooth
Just so you know I was thinking of you
Just so you know ohhhhh

Poem

Hidden Potential by Amber Rhoden
I chose this poem because it shows someone's inner thoughts on how she is not sure in what she wants, but at the same time showing the world that she does.

Metaphor & I have been Berenger...

Drowning is a spaceman with no helmet.
Drowning is no escape on a sinking ship.

I have been Berenger when I've been shown a heartbreak can change everyone and everything at anytime.

Six Word Story

Self determination, predictions in a blur.

Question #26 brief idea

"The Twelve Dancing Princesses” makes a number of seemingly obscure allusions: “The Night of the Long Knives,” “Long John Nebel,” “Mickey Finn,” “Andy Gump,” “Roseland.”  How do these allusions contribute to the poem.

Mickey Finn refers to a drug being slipped into a drink which is what the princesses were doing to all the soldiers who were trying to figure out what the princesses were up too.

The night of the Long Knives was when nazis did a numerous about of murders, but in Sexton's poem she talkes about how a man is enjoying his night and calls it "The Night of the Long Knives" because during that time, naztis enjoyed and took pride in what they did.

 Long John Nebel was a very popular radio talk show host. In the poem Sexton describes a person who has trouble sleeping, listening to Nebel and enjoying himself.

i can see how all these three allusions relate to the poem and the story in how some people do what they do, no matter how bizarre it is, because they enjoy it.


i don't understand the other allusions at all. Is there something i just don't understand?

THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been. Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
A king's son soon came. He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds. There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open. But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes. The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off. After him came several others; but they had all the same luck, and all lost their lives in the same manner.
Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going. 'I hardly know where I am going, or what I had better do,' said the soldier; 'but I think I should like very well to find out where it is that the princesses dance, and then in time I might be a king.' 'Well,' said the old dame, 'that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.'
Then she gave him a cloak, and said, 'As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.' When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.
He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber. Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop. Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep. When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!' Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing. But the youngest said, 'I don't know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.' 'You simpleton,' said the eldest, 'you are always afraid; have you forgotten how many kings' sons have already watched in vain? And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.'
When they were all ready, they went and looked at the soldier; but he snored on, and did not stir hand or foot: so they thought they were quite safe; and the eldest went up to her own bed and clapped her hands, and the bed sank into the floor and a trap-door flew open. The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, 'All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.' 'You silly creature!' said the eldest, 'it is nothing but a nail in the wall.' Then down they all went, and at the bottom they found themselves in a most delightful grove of trees; and the leaves were all of silver, and glittered and sparkled beautifully. The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree. Then the youngest daughter said again, 'I am sure all is not right—did not you hear that noise? That never happened before.' But the eldest said, 'It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.'
Then they came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds. And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear; but the eldest still said, it was only the princes, who were crying for joy. So they went on till they came to a great lake; and at the side of the lake there lay twelve little boats with twelve handsome princes in them, who seemed to be waiting there for the princesses.
One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest. As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, 'I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.' 'It is only the heat of the weather,' said the princess: 'I feel it very warm too.'
On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets. There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty. At this, too, the youngest sister was terribly frightened, but the eldest always silenced her. They danced on till three o'clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off. The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, 'Now all is quite safe'; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed. In the morning the soldier said nothing about what had happened, but determined to see more of this strange adventure, and went again the second and third night; and every thing happened just as before; the princesses danced each time till their shoes were worn to pieces, and then returned home. However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.
As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say. And when the king asked him. 'Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?' he answered, 'With twelve princes in a castle under ground.' And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him. Then the king called for the princesses, and asked them whether what the soldier said was true: and when they saw that they were discovered, and that it was of no use to deny what had happened, they confessed it all. And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.'—And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir.

I think Sexton chose this tale because it's one that does not have a happy ending. She uses stories that she can relate too and this short story shows that life doesn't always give you what you want. In some point, one must move on and experience obstacles in life or situations in which valuables are being taken away.  

The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.

1. What does this stanza mean?

-In this stanza Blake is trying to explain to readers that if people keep up with 

old habits then we shouldn't be surprised of the consequences that come from them.

We as human beings will make mistakes, but it is also important to come to a certain

point where we can draw the line in making bad decisions make up who and where we live

live as a society. In the end, we are who make up this world, so we shouldn't trying 

to destroy it with bad habits. 

2.  How does Blake use a literary device to convey that meaning?

-Blake uses imagery in the first and third lines to make readers see common bad habits of

society and how crucial it is for readers to see how its changing the good in life.

Blake wanted readers so actually imagine living in a world like this and how it's becoming.