"Daddy"

Just reading this poem, without doing any research, I would guess this is about a young girl who had sexual relations with her father.  I'm guessing that the town's people found out and they killed the father because of it.  Some parts of the poem seem like the young woman hated her father, but others seem like she wanted him back; maybe only to kill him herself.  Didn't really like this poem.

leda and the swan

I may be wrong, but this poem seems to be about a male swan having sexual relations with a woman.  pretty strange to say the least.  It seems it is not consensual, so that makes it even worse.  From doing a little research, the swan is suppose to be a greek god "zeus" that has taken the form of a swan to hide his true identity while he rapes this mortal woman who he fell in love with; and would eventually give birth to helen of troy.  I think its almost impossible to tell that just from reading the poem.

London

I walk through the streets
and keep track of every face i meet
they look week and destruct

In every man
in every baby
in every voice
the mind is ill

the chimney sweepers cry
the churches are dark
the soldiers feels regret
for the people he's killed

but over everything i hear
the young harlot's yell at their babies

the chinmey sweepers

My mother died when I was young,
My father made me work
As a chimney sweeper i cried.

my friend Tom Docre cried
when his head was shaved
i tried to cheer him up

He stoped crying and that night
had a dream
thousands of chimney sweepers, like us
were killed and put in coffins of black soot

He dreamed that an angel came to them
she opened the coffins and let them free
they were happy
they washed themselves in the river and laid underneath the sun

Clean and with no worries
they fly among the clouds
the angel told tom to be good while on earth
so that he can live a happy after life

Tom woke from his dream
We went back to work
it was cold, but tom was happy and war
if they struggle through life they will be rewarded

paper topic

my paper thesis is--the community conspires, almost unconsciously, to protect both miss Emily and the small town from the shame and stigma of Miss Emily’s illness and behavior.

Harrison Bergeron

I liked this story.  Variety is good, and the story brought that out.  Without variety the world would be boring like in the story.  The fact that it was George and Hazels son who was shot on tv was interesting because I don't think they even realized it was him, or couldn't even remember they had a son.  It was kind of a sad story because of that.   The overall idea of the story, i think, is very unrealistic but makes you think. 

the ones who walk away from Omelas

I had never read this story before.  I kind of made me think of our lives here.  We live privileged lives for the most part.  We all have everything we need to survive and most of us have love ones around us we can go to for support of comfort; but yet we all know there are many people in America, and in the world, who have none of those.  We probably don't think about it every day, but there are people who live a life more or less like the boy in the story.  We don't get upset about it, it's just the way it is, it doesn't even really bother us.  Are we just as cynical as the people in Omelas?