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blog 8" Phenomenal Woman"

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PhenomPretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
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According to Maya Angelou every female can be a woman if they have gorgeous physical apperance, however to be an exceptional woman you must have a beautiful inner soul that can't be seen but it shown through your behaviors and actions towards other individuals. she implied that a woman with a beeautiful physical appereance doesn't not mean that she's qualified to be an ammazing woman. The poet is claiming that physical appearance doesn't determined the type of person you are as a whole, instead physical appearance creates a mystery and leaves others to questions who you are as individual.I can interpret that Maya confirmed that when a woman is secure about who she is in the inside her physical appereance becomes one lost element that don't really matter. I conclude that a woman becomes an exceptional woman when she really knowns her inner soul and past the stage of insecurity,and reaches the stage of maturity.

blog 7 "Touched By An Angels"

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One films and Television show I find fascinated and unexplainable is Touched By Angel the fourth season. Touched by An Angel is about three Angels who were sent on Earth By God to guide troubled individuals with their life obstacles. Two people that I find fascinating are : Tess and Andrew. Tess and Andrew are known as the Angels of death and caseworker.Tess had to help a troubled woman Dorris who stoles a guy named Harry ashes.Dorris strongly believe that Harry was the love of her life and she was a nobody without him. As a result of her obsession with him she carry him with her throughout her trip with Tess. Dorris was convince she was the only one who loved Harry the most. Tess told her the only person who loved Harry was God. God Symbolizes the greatest power of love. she said God love Harry unconditional no matter how wrong he was for cheating on his wife Stella.
The symbols that defined the fourth season are:

1)God represents the power of love and forgiveness.
2)ashes represent the escape of life and the release of death.
3) ashes being release into the air represent freedom.
4)ashes being scattered into different direction symbolizes the release of Harry Body and Soul into heaven.
5)Andrew the Angel of death appearing with fire in his back symbolizes how the power of God works in mysterious ways.

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Name: Fahimy Salomon
Date: 4\5\2010
Sample: “Touched By an Angel” by Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Maya Angelou was born in St.Louis Missouri as Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. At the age of 3 years old she and her younger brother was sent to live with her grandmother on a small town called Stamps in Arkansas. Maya Angelou experienced racial discrimination in stamps, however she has overcome racial discrimination by writing poetry that explained the different type of emotions she was feeling at that moment in time. Throughout her career Maya Angelou worked with many famous people such as: Martin Luther King J.R, Malcolm X and James Baldwin. Maya was the first African American to be filmed, and be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She wrote a book called “I know why the caged Birds Sings. This book describes what she had to endure in order to survive in a society that was full of racism, while raising her son as a single mother. She wrote a lot of poems such as: I still Rise, Phenomenal woman, Equality, and Touched by an angel.“Touched by an angel” was written in 1985“Maya Angelou”.Wikipedia.org. Web 18 .Apr.2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_angelou

The poem is composed of three stanzas. The first stanza contains six lines, the second stanza contains seven lines and the last stanzas contain eight lines. The poem is located on the left margin on the page.

“Touched by an Angel” describes the power of love. Stanza one state how we are absent form joy because “we lived coiled in shells of loneliness” (line 3). “When love leaves its holy temple and comes to our sight” (line 4-5). Love frees us into life. Stanza two describes how love is a train of overpowering emotions that brings back old memories of Joy, and erases past pain (line 9-10). However, if we are fearless, love strikes away the chains of fear from our body and mind. Stanza three is about how love freed us from lack of confidence, and with strong emotions come light. If we dare to be courageous and take chances, we eventually see how love can cost all we are (line 17-18). However, it is only love that can liberate us.

The predominant symbols of this poem seem to be 1) Angel, love Holy temple and life; 2) Train, pain, bold and souls; (3) dare and cost; 4) light and liberating.

This poem has lot of symbolisms that help convey its message. The word “Angel” is defined as an act of kindness by Dungeon creatures that intermediate from Heaven and Earth. According to the dictionary of symbolisms, Angels are immaterial beings made of pure spirit where man consist of a “body and soul” (Julien 15). Angels are known as the messenger of God that travel from Heaven and Earth. Angels is symbolic for protection, and nature. Therefore, Love is describes as a profound, tender, passionate affection for another person. However,“love can cost all we are” means betrayal, pain, lost of oneself, and destruction. Holy temple is defined as a church where every individual goes to worship God. The word “Holy” means pure and divine. According to the dictionary Pain is a physical symptom. It is ironic that “ancient histories of pain” refers to an individual’s emotional pain instead of physical injury. The soul is a spirit that intertwines with the body and mind as one. According to the dictionary of symbolism light stands for intelligence, goodness, and the ultimate reality. Light represents the sun through darkness. Therefore, “Loves light” stands for deep feelings a certain individual has toward that special someone that overshadows any pain. Liberating means to free the mind and accept new ideas. “Love can set us free” symbolizes an escape from sorrow, depression, and pain.

The basic tone of the poem is very passionate and heartfelt. The repetition of the word “love” in every stanzas indicates that this poems is very passionate. Therefore, “Love strikes away the chain of fears from our souls” shows how love can erases an individual sorrows, and pain physically, emotionally, and mentally. The lines “live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life” indicates relief and happiness.

I can interpret that “Touched by an Angel” is about how love can be fulfilling and rewarding for every individual, however love is a risk that can cause heartbreaks and depression to a certain individual once they fell in love. Depression and heartbreaks can lead to destructions. Maya states how “we live in shells of coiled/until love lived its high Holy temple” (line3-4). This enforces how love comes from our creator God, and he creates the images of love in all of us. The word “holy” emphasizes how love is pure and powerful just like god. I can interpret that when two people falls in love their love is pure because their love is built on a deeper foundation which shows Angelou that it can’t be seen but are felt. Angelou shows the fulfillment of love by describing how a certain individual would feel when strong emotions take over. She stated when “love arrives/and in its train come ecstasies/old memories of pleasures/ancient histories of pain” (lines 7-9) confirms when two people are in love their emotions of pain, sorrow, and depression are over powered by happiness through their minds and body. The word “bold” (line 11) implies how strong emotions can cause certain human beings to be fearless by taking away all the doubts they might have.
Angelou stated that “love costs all we are” (line 18) describing the consequences of risking your heart for love by implying that if a certain individual fell in love and gets hurt their heart will be shredded into a million pieces causing them to lose not only their identity but also leading them into a path to becoming destructive. However, those strong emotions are the only escape that can take all the grief and drama away from us through the light of happiness

Work cited
1) Julien, Nadia’’ The Mammoth Dictionary of Symbols’' Understanding the Hidden Language of Symbols. New York: Carol and Graf: 1996. Web 17.Apr.2010
http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/L/light.html
2) “Maya Angelou”.Wikipedia.org. Web 18 .Apr.2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_angelou
3) Dictionary.com .Web.17.Apr. 2010
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/+love
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/+light
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/+bold

blog 5 essay 3 preview

Well based on what I read I understand that I Have to choose a poem or a song that I can analyze based on tones, rhythms and symbols. However there's two things about this essay that feel very different to me. I'm going to have to find background information in other to write a little biography on the poet or song writer of my choice. This eventually will led me to describing the type of rhythms that's being used in each stanza. Furthermore, I'm very happy to know that I could write about any poems or song that I feel passionate about instead of being supernatural. ''Touched by an Angel'' by:Maya Angelou is a very powerful and emotional poem.I choose to write about this poem because the poet gives you a fulfilling perspective on love.

I basically just have a questions regarding the essay.

Do I have to restate the poem I choose the same exact way it was done in the sample paper?