Research Atwood, Plath and Dickinson and figure out which poet you are most like. Your similarities could be based on personality traits, like-minded issues you care about, or on themes that arise in one poet’s work that really speak to you. Blog about what you feel is common between you and the poet you have chosen:
Well, to briefly describe what I researched and analyzed about each figures, all three poets write poems in women's perspective. Even though authors do not directly assert that their speakers in their poems are women, as a reader's perspective, I hear from a woman's voice and can tell by use of diction and phrases they embed in their poem. Most of Margaret Atwood's poems have some kind of relation with feminist idea. Other two American poets rather write about death and destitution mostly in woman's perspective.
Hence, as of male perspective, it is hard to find similarities based on like-minded issues that the poets write about. I neither believe in any feminist ideas nor have any tragic incidents that motivate me to write about. Even though I have hardships that I am barely trudging through, compared to Emily Dickinson or Plath's hardships, they seem nothing. However, I have one similarity with Emily Dickinson's depiction of 'death'. Dickinson's poems like "Because I could not Stop for Death," "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," and "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," draw the theme of death as inevitable stage of life and a fresh start of eternal life. She portrays 'death' in a dead person's voice in all three poems and indirectly or directly talks about life after death. The similarity I have in common with her idea is that I, too, believe in life after death. Although I am not really a strict believer in Christianity, I believe in the Holy Spirit and Jesus who will guide me to the heaven when I die. Since Dickinson was a Christian, she would have believed in the same thing.
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Difference Between "Personality" and "Lifestyle"
3. What is the difference between having a nice personality and being a good person? (What is a personality anyway?) Relatedly, what is the difference between having a nice lifestyle and living well? Do you see anything in common between the notions of "personality" and "lifestyle"? If so, please describe it.
-According to its dictionary meaning, personality is the visible aspect of one’s character as it impresses others, and the quality of being a person; a personal identity. If I were to choose between two meanings, I would go for the second one. Personality, as we all know but not in profound manner, is a character that lives inside us. It is an identity that one holds that distinguishes from others and holds its true meaning. There are several personalities that one holds in which demonstrates physically to others’ eyes and perspectives. Then, others decide whether one’s personality is good or bad, but this does not mean that the person is morally good or bad since everybody holds different personalities and it is not right to specifically criticize an individual. Thus, in other sense, the first definition seems to fit for the best meaning. Then, if personality determines one’s identity, what determines a good person? Is good person morally just or good in serving others? It is a vague and broad term to decide upon a definition of a good person. However, it is easier to differentiate good personality from good person. As I mentioned, having good personality does not mean being a good person because personality is merely to individualize one from everybody else, and good person is a characteristic of a person to do good things to others. Relatedly, having a nice lifestyle and living well means different. Having a nice lifestyle means living in high standards of life. In other words, one can say if one is living in a house of two or three floors with a car and can afford three meals per day, one has a nice lifestyle. In contrast, living well means living healthy and doing what one dreams of. Thus, it does not necessarily related to living in affluent economical conditions.
Moreover, if I were to determine anything in common between “personality” and “lifestyle,” they all depend on each other, in which the play demonstrates. Personality is like the identity of a person and lifestyle is like the living conditions of a person’s life. Because one’s lifestyle is in dire situation, one tends to lose own identity. Thus, Willy is constantly harassed by his monthly insurance payment, and as a result, his mind collapses because such confinement consumed his identity.
-According to its dictionary meaning, personality is the visible aspect of one’s character as it impresses others, and the quality of being a person; a personal identity. If I were to choose between two meanings, I would go for the second one. Personality, as we all know but not in profound manner, is a character that lives inside us. It is an identity that one holds that distinguishes from others and holds its true meaning. There are several personalities that one holds in which demonstrates physically to others’ eyes and perspectives. Then, others decide whether one’s personality is good or bad, but this does not mean that the person is morally good or bad since everybody holds different personalities and it is not right to specifically criticize an individual. Thus, in other sense, the first definition seems to fit for the best meaning. Then, if personality determines one’s identity, what determines a good person? Is good person morally just or good in serving others? It is a vague and broad term to decide upon a definition of a good person. However, it is easier to differentiate good personality from good person. As I mentioned, having good personality does not mean being a good person because personality is merely to individualize one from everybody else, and good person is a characteristic of a person to do good things to others. Relatedly, having a nice lifestyle and living well means different. Having a nice lifestyle means living in high standards of life. In other words, one can say if one is living in a house of two or three floors with a car and can afford three meals per day, one has a nice lifestyle. In contrast, living well means living healthy and doing what one dreams of. Thus, it does not necessarily related to living in affluent economical conditions.
Moreover, if I were to determine anything in common between “personality” and “lifestyle,” they all depend on each other, in which the play demonstrates. Personality is like the identity of a person and lifestyle is like the living conditions of a person’s life. Because one’s lifestyle is in dire situation, one tends to lose own identity. Thus, Willy is constantly harassed by his monthly insurance payment, and as a result, his mind collapses because such confinement consumed his identity.
Significance of Willy's Death
2. What is the significance of Willy's suicide attempts? Why and how is he trying to kill himself? What does he expect willresult from his death? Will that happen?
Death portrays significant part in this simple, but central play. Just as the title signifies, death happens to a single man who is battered, tethered, and withered in dust and time. This man, Willy Loman, commits suicide in the end of the play. This event is the climax of this play where there is no return for the protagonist. What this death signifies is the central message that Arthur Miller is trying to evoke and inform the audience. As 1940s and early 50s were propagandized of a dream called “the American Dream,” many Americans who were in dire situations and low in economy stepped forward to have better lives. In reality back in 1950s, the dream was like a manifesto, in which whoever dreams of success and works toward it, one shall reach to have bountiful life. However, this play shows that American Dream, ironically, is devastating bait for many Americans seeking for success. In fact, Willy had a dream that he would be like Dave Singleman, a successful mythical salesman mentioned above. He longed for money, better life, and better standards of living for himself and his family. This motivated him to follow the path of “American Dream” and was lured to this bright light. This bright light seemed to be hopeful and promising, but in turn, it was a light that seduces little parasites into destruction. Like a moth visually and mentally sucked into this light regardless of what is happening outside of its mind, Willy merely focused on this dream and was unconscious of his reality. His reality, in other words, his condition of living and his situation as a salesman and a father seeking his sons’ successful life, was too far apart from the promising “American Dream.” Even though many believed that this dream would outcome success, Willy exceeded in thinking that this Dream will must bring joy and money back to him. That was why when situations did not work out, as in losing his job and Biff giving up to live like his father, Willy decided to commit suicide in a car crash. Moreover, what he expected from his demise was freedom from American Dream, and, in reality, not being harassed by his monthly household payment. Thus, Miller sends messages to the audience that if one goes over the boundary seeking for success, one would end up tragically and hopelessly like Willy did.
Death portrays significant part in this simple, but central play. Just as the title signifies, death happens to a single man who is battered, tethered, and withered in dust and time. This man, Willy Loman, commits suicide in the end of the play. This event is the climax of this play where there is no return for the protagonist. What this death signifies is the central message that Arthur Miller is trying to evoke and inform the audience. As 1940s and early 50s were propagandized of a dream called “the American Dream,” many Americans who were in dire situations and low in economy stepped forward to have better lives. In reality back in 1950s, the dream was like a manifesto, in which whoever dreams of success and works toward it, one shall reach to have bountiful life. However, this play shows that American Dream, ironically, is devastating bait for many Americans seeking for success. In fact, Willy had a dream that he would be like Dave Singleman, a successful mythical salesman mentioned above. He longed for money, better life, and better standards of living for himself and his family. This motivated him to follow the path of “American Dream” and was lured to this bright light. This bright light seemed to be hopeful and promising, but in turn, it was a light that seduces little parasites into destruction. Like a moth visually and mentally sucked into this light regardless of what is happening outside of its mind, Willy merely focused on this dream and was unconscious of his reality. His reality, in other words, his condition of living and his situation as a salesman and a father seeking his sons’ successful life, was too far apart from the promising “American Dream.” Even though many believed that this dream would outcome success, Willy exceeded in thinking that this Dream will must bring joy and money back to him. That was why when situations did not work out, as in losing his job and Biff giving up to live like his father, Willy decided to commit suicide in a car crash. Moreover, what he expected from his demise was freedom from American Dream, and, in reality, not being harassed by his monthly household payment. Thus, Miller sends messages to the audience that if one goes over the boundary seeking for success, one would end up tragically and hopelessly like Willy did.
Significance of Dave Singleman
1. Who is "Dave Singleman"? What is the significance of his name? What is Willy's attidue toward him? What does he find admirable in him? What is the attraction which surrounds the figure of Singleman and his salesman profession? Is Willy's motivation for going into salesmanship related to a way of dying rather than a way of living?
-Dave Singleman is the mythical figure who has succeeded in business of salesmanship. This is another figure that succeeded in American Dream, which Willy longs to obtain. In fact, Willy extols him by saying “when he died-and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York- when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.” In other words, it seems that Willy dreams about this “Dave Singleman” and compare to himself. Hence, his illusion of a legendary salesman contributes to his deluded understanding of the world. Willy finds Dave Singleman admirable that he is well respected and imposing this title of “success” in his life. As salesman by its name explains what the job is all about, it is a job that is unlikely to leave mounts of profit to one’s business. However, without looking its downsides, Willy has mere dream called the “American Dream.” He thinks that the dream can be reached by anyone at anytime if one has constant mind towards it. However, like what Arthur Miller is trying to inform, this dream consumed Willy’s identity. Identity is crucial to oneself because it distinguishes who we are from other and is a source that determines the specialty of one’s being. If one loses his/her identity, like Willy unconsciously gave up his, one looses purpose, hopes, and consciousness of reality in living. Thus, Dave Singleman is a motivation yet a path leading to ultimate destruction. Willy’s demise was merely a “death of a salesman”, not the “death of the salesman.”
-Dave Singleman is the mythical figure who has succeeded in business of salesmanship. This is another figure that succeeded in American Dream, which Willy longs to obtain. In fact, Willy extols him by saying “when he died-and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York- when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.” In other words, it seems that Willy dreams about this “Dave Singleman” and compare to himself. Hence, his illusion of a legendary salesman contributes to his deluded understanding of the world. Willy finds Dave Singleman admirable that he is well respected and imposing this title of “success” in his life. As salesman by its name explains what the job is all about, it is a job that is unlikely to leave mounts of profit to one’s business. However, without looking its downsides, Willy has mere dream called the “American Dream.” He thinks that the dream can be reached by anyone at anytime if one has constant mind towards it. However, like what Arthur Miller is trying to inform, this dream consumed Willy’s identity. Identity is crucial to oneself because it distinguishes who we are from other and is a source that determines the specialty of one’s being. If one loses his/her identity, like Willy unconsciously gave up his, one looses purpose, hopes, and consciousness of reality in living. Thus, Dave Singleman is a motivation yet a path leading to ultimate destruction. Willy’s demise was merely a “death of a salesman”, not the “death of the salesman.”
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