In the poem, “All But Blind” by Walter de la Mare, the author talks about three animals that are usually depicted as blind. These animals are the four-clawed mole, the hooded bat, and the barn owl. These creatures like the dark and are mostly nocturnal. After he describes them he realizes that he must be so blind compared to someone else. The title is ironic because it is stating that these creatures are not blind even though they are. Walter uses many intriguing verbs including twirls, blunders, and gropes. There are fifteen lines in this poem and four stanzas. What is interesting about this poem is that the first stanza has only three lines while the other four stanzas have five. Walter uses imagery in stanza one when he describes the mole’s den and shows how he finds and eats the worms. He also uses a hyperbole in stanza three when he states that the day is burning. This is over exaggeration for the day being hot. The rhyme scheme is complicated but rhymes every other line. Walter de la Mare uses repetition at the beginning of every stanza, except for the first one, by stating all but blind. I found the ending humorous because the author realizes how blind he is to someone else. This poem was very appealing to me because it had three different animals. I love animals very much which is why I want to become a zookeeper. Maybe the zoo I will work at will have these blind animals.
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This week, the seventh grade class went to the Huntington Library. There were many gardens, paintings, and sculptures at the Huntington Library. My favorite gardens was the Chinese and Japanese gardens. They were remotely the same besides the bamboo garden in the China area and the Bonsai and Zen garden in the Japan area. The China garden had a giant lake with a bridge over it. The lake contained many sorts of wildlife including plants, koi, smaller fish, and one red-eyed duck. There was a pathway leading through the backside of a waterfall. It was very peaceful there. The Japan garden had birds and trees native to Japan. It contained a beautiful Zen garden and countless bonsai trees. This area was also extraordinarily peaceful so Ms. Stronks took a picture of us meditating. The paintings that really caught my attention were “Blue Boy” made by Thomas Gainsborough, and “Pinkie” made by Thomas Lawrence. These paintings are in my dining room also. The painter of “Blue Boy” used his neighbor’s son as the boy. He ended up winning an artist’s competition with his artwork. “Pinkie” was the portrait of a girl in Jamaica that was wanted by her grandma. Unfortunately, she died of a disease in Jamaica. The painting was the only thing to remember her, so the grandma gave the painting to the parents. These paintings have a lot of color and stand out to me. http://www.huntington.org/
This Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. This day not only starts a new season of Lent, but also starts a new life of cleansed sin. The ashes that are used for the priests to put on your forehead are the burned palms from the last year's Palm Sunday. Unfortunately, the day of the mass, Isaac spilled yogurt down my pants. So, Tyler Suttles helped me by washing the yogurt off, during Social Studies. This left my pants wet because the boy's bathroom doesn't have any paper towels. I had to sit through the Ash Wednesday prayer service with my wet pants and some yogurt stains. Other than that, I learned a lot about Ash Wednesday through Social Studies and English Language Arts class. One thing I learned is that Ash Wednesday isn't about joy and praise. It symbolizes the beginning of Jesus's journey in the desert. The ash cross that we receive during the prayer service symbolizes the sin that we carry and that we are very sinful creatures. Lent gives us new hope and new life by giving us the chance to give up something we care about or by doing something more that enriches our souls. Lent is actually forty six days long and the six Sundays are counted as Lent. I think Lent is an amazing and great time of the year because of the fact of Jesus giving us the chance to relinquish our sin. Just like Jesus, we too our giving up things we enjoy or do during Lent. http://www.catholic.org/clife/lent/
This Sunday, at St. John Eudes School was Open House. My mother signed me up to help hand out donuts before Open House started. When I arrived, Kiana just got there so my mom and I escorted her to the Grill Hall. Did I mention that it was raining? It was pouring so hard that our umbrella almost broke. Luckily, we just escaped the cries of the clouds from the Hall. There was barely anybody in there besides Mrs. Gaines and the people working at the Book Fair. Mrs. Gaines was happy we arrived and told us what to do. We put on our gloves and started handing out all kinds of donuts to everybody. It was kind of slow at first until the RCIA came. There were so many people and pretty soon, we ran out of donuts. We waited for more donuts until finally, my mom came and gave us loads of donuts. After that, I left and went to the book store to pick out two books. One was a book about vikings and the other was the latest book of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. After my brothers picked out their books and toys, we left the Grill Hall. Then, we went to seventh grade where we waited for my dad. When he came, we explored all of the things in the English Language Arts room which also contained the Spanish posters. We then went to the other classrooms where we saw all of my work in the other subjects. After that we ended by going to the Science room and trying out all of the fun activities they had there. http://www.openhousescolastic.com/editor/main.php
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