Notes from the Delivery Room by Linda Pastan

The author of this poem is describing the effort that she is making to give birth. She implies that the process of giving birth should be like plants. They just have their crops without pain she explaining how painful it is to bring a life to this world. The pain that she feel was so deep that she even aware of where she was giving birth. Giving birth have ambiguous connotation in one hand you are bring to life a creature that was conceive by love. At the same time, the pain so horrible that does not have simile. Women have to make an extraordinary effort of labor to bring a child into this world. On the other hand, women that are medicated at the moment of labor do not experience the same pain level.

Rapture by Galway Kinnell

In this poem, the author is admiring his pattern beauty. He mentioned her sweetness and virginal appearance. He feel a deep love that unable him to describe her. He does not have word to express how beautiful she is. He gives us clues that the poem is about them making love. In his eyes, she is an angel that has coming to earth to save him. He describes every part of her body. When, you read this poem you get the idea that this lady is very sensual and she have turned him crazy with her enhancement. She is really charm that he is totally in love with her.

The House of Asterion

In this story, Jorge Luis Borges expressed his point of view about the legend of the Cretan Minotaur. He wrote the House of Asterion as a monogue in which Asterion is the main character. Asterion is in Greek mythology the Bull of Minos. When Minos became king, he asked Poseidon for a sign. Poseidon sends him a white bull, but the condition was that when he got the bull; he will kill it as a gift to the Gods. Minos disobey Poseidon’s condition because he though that the bull was so beautiful to be dead. Minos, the king of Crete sacrifices other bull instead. Poseidon out of spite caused that Pasiphae, Minos’ wife fell in love with the bull. They have intimate relationship from that union and Asterion is born half man and half beast. Consequently, Minos constructs a labyrinth in which he can hold the beast. At the end of the story, Borges tells us clues that Asterion is the Cretan Bull who was defeated by Theseus. In the last sentence, “Would you believe it, Ariadne?” said Theseus.” The Minotaur scarcely defended himself.” Theseus was one of the seven men destine to died in the labyrinth of Asterion. On the contrary, Theseus kills the bull of Minos because Ariadne, the daughter of Pasiphae and Minos king of Crete, give him the power of the sword to protect Theseus from the beast. She was in love with him; she actually was Asterion sister.Thesus represent the weapon and the justice that stopped the abuse to the commoners was summit by the king Minos who is the intellectual author of the sacrifices.

Tone of Voice by Charles Harper Webb

The tone of voice that we used when we speak gives a different connotation to the conversation. The attitude implied by the way statements are said. Word choice and syntax can give member understanding of what the speaker is saying. We can used as many tones as our vocal apparatus can express such as criticism, irony, affection, respect, intimidation, affection an so many others. Conversation to be effective most carried a specific tone of voice. According to the message that we are trying to communicate placed an attitude to emphasize what we are saying. To make a clear understanding; we implements method that will enforced the meaning of our conversation. The author is basically supporting the idea that when we speak we used specific tone to make sure that our listeners get the idea of what we want to communicate.

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

This poem is based on the suspicious death of the young wife of Alfonso II Duke of Ferrara in sixteenth century Italy. The Duke is to talking to his future father in law about the portrait of his ex-wife. He was arranging his future wedding, but at the same time he was warning his future wife by telling her and her family the story of her ex-wife. He is advising her that she must take a good posture according to what he wants her to be. He said that his wife was always smiling to everyone. He was a jealous and sarcastic. For that reason, he does not want her to smile at everyone. He interprets her smile as flirting. Duke might kill his wife because there is not other explanation to that premature death. The author of this poem implies that the Duke of Ferrara might be involved in his ex-wife death.

Go look by Christopher Graybill

Kath and Danny were in the forest; they hear a noise. They do not know what is making that noise they belief that that noise comes from a bear, or some kind of animal. The point of this ten minutes play is beyond the source of the noise. The author wants to let us know about social issues which are female and male roles and stereotypes. For example, males are capable of fighting beast because they are strong while women are fragile according to stereotypes. Kath and Danny are voices in this problematic and they are give us a message that we women and men are the same we both have strengths and weakness. The author used a simple vocabulary and funny tone because he wants to assure that we all get the message. Women are not the only feeling fear men will feel it too. Women are capable of having bad feeling. For example, Kath said something referring to her mother “she said something. I don’t remember what. Not very nasty, not for her. Something about my shoes. It was nothing, really. But for an instant I felt like letting go. Just letting go and watching gravity work. I imagined chair rolling down the slope, over the edge, and bouncing down the back steps. All the way to the garage. And when the police and ambulance would come, I’d be crying and sobbing and explaining. But inside I’d be dancing.” Feeling and thoughts are universal; people can experience them beside their sex.

A & P by John Uplike

This story talks about morale view from different perspective. In this story, Mr. Lengel a boss in A & P supermarket and Sammy a cashier. They represented different point of views according to their generations. Each generation established their own rules and values that may be are right for them, but not necessarily be right for others' generation. What is wrong for our parents today may be is right for us? What was right for our parents may not be right for our grandparents? In the way, we judge people has to do with the way in which we were raised and values that we learn along our life. Sammy shocked when his boss lectured the three girls in swimming suit at the store. He thinks that Mr. Lengel was wrong in the way he approach the girls. The boss must talk to the three girls at the moment they come into the store not when they were about to pay the snacks. From Sammy’s point of view, there is nothing wrong to enter the store wearing a swimming suit because it was just in and out. Mr. Lengel position was overreacting because the girls explain to him why they were dressed like that. Even though, he was right about the store policy; he should consider and take the time to hear the explanation. Sammy was mad at his boss’s reaction, but he knows that he cannot surpass his boss authority by contradicting what Mr. Lengel was saying. Sammy’s quit his job as a way of protest. He though that by him quitting will change the course of his life and give his boss a lesson. We have to obeyed rules and policies, but we has to make exception based on the event we are experience. What we want to avoid is made an unfair decision.