"The Signal Man"

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Frankenstein Jr.

Mary Shelley raised a very important topic to people, “accept or be accepted in the society.” While I was reading this story I realized that the world of who is not accepted is very dark, and it happens everyday in every place nowadays. The creature is a clear example of living a nostalgic life being not accepted by the society, therefore this story is so dark and gloomy.
This is what I learned when i read this story, we should learn to live with others in society as social beings we are. At the same time, I realized that I am not a close minded person who tends to separate someone because of his/her differences. I am an open minded person and I am able to tolerate “different people.” This is not about someone strange that does not belong to a social group, this means to find new worlds with this peoplo who is different to our customs and around, especially people who is abandoned by his/her family because of hi/her differences. These differences provoke Franky to live a social-rejection and, thus, a self-rejection which left Frankenstein grow up and understand his own world.
Although, he found a family which one he felt they were his real family, he was rejected by them, and fro the people who appear later. Franky lived a hell on his abandonment and rejection from the people and society. I think this is what Mary Shelley tries to emphasise in her story, about social issues, rejection, abandonment, and so on. And, nowadays, if we discussed this story’s issues it would be very interesting in terms of realizing what kind of people we are and if we like that, especially, if we, as teachers, could discuss these kind of topics with children, and it would be very helpful for their feelings and thoughts about themselves and for and with the world.

"The Daffodils" by Wordsworth

The golden leaves falling in a heavy fall after an intense summer are what daffodils mean to me. As the poet claims, “Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze,” this portrays the leaves of the trees which show the process of nature in its purest form, becoming the treasure of the ground that waits passively to get rich with the golden leaves after their dancing in the hostile breeze.

And the relationship between nature and the poet is the breeze that connects the top of the imagination with eager people waiting for the wealth of imagination and the poet's expression reflected on sheets of papers. But, at the same time, nature and the poet are related with the lonely cloud. The poet is in the earth as lonely as the cloud in the sky, as the cloud which is observing and expressing the beauty of the nature down in the ground; and as the poet who is observing and expressing in a beauty manner what he feels from the natural relationship aming people in society.

Finally, what I inerpreted in “A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company,” is the poet falling in love of his similar, the poet being the man looks at nature as his similar... there is not an opposite, being the poet similar to nature as the company in its way of working in the world.

"When I Have Fears that I may Cease to Be" by Keats

Reading the first verse of the Keans’ poetry I thought it opens our eyes in terms of any moment we will cease to be for and with the world. The biggest fear we have as human beings is the death and the way we will disappear from our world, though we are surely going to live the death process.

According to my interpretation about what Keans tries to express, the following verses are the attempt to describe the feelings and the despair to think in the death, but not only in the death itself, thinking in the minutes before the death's appearance. Imaging and feeling the fears and the despair that you can not be with your love ones anymore, because death comes without desiring it. Without knowing that your time and your life in the world is completed, everything that you had to live it is already done, however you feel it is not like this, you still need life to live; as a result of our feelings to the others and to some moments that make us to feel alive, thus we are trapped in this world hindering death’s way and work.

I think that feelings are what make us to feel alive, but we have to leave this world physically ti is the process of the life. Even though, we can still be alive in the people's minds, our acts in the world are what people is going to remember of us.

Kubla Khan

How to understand a poem is something too difficult to do, even more if people are every day reading less. Furthermore, poetry needs a lot of interpretation, imagination and history, and with all technology we have makes more difficult to understand it, because everything people need is on internet and so people make less effort according to what they want to do. Therefore, it's more difficult to comprehend what Samuel T. Coleridge wants to say in his poems, such as "Kubla Khan".
This poem is a huge representation among divinity, paradise, superiority, and the terrenal world. Although, this poem was written many years ago, these simbols or representations are still in our minds. Meanwhile, you are reading this poem you are realizing that all of us need our oun paradise but according to our perspective and what we want for us that could bring us calm and peace. However, this paradise is not so far away, we can make it real; but we have to be opened to our world and see what the Earth can give us, and it can make possible to give our paradises if we can and want to see it. Nevertheless, living in this terrenal world, especially in cities like Santiago, makes us to live blind of the beauty we have.
In sum, people are facing two important elements that do not leave them to live in their paradise, such as this terrenal world/terrenal life and the technology nowadays. However, Coleridge is showing us that we can se our paradise and we can live our divinity with the superiority but if we are stipulated to see it. We ca live our calm and peace, peradise, and divinity if we want to see it, because it is in front of us.

"The Little Black Boy" Poem

This poem written by William Blake is a clear example of christianity and faith of God's love. Moreover, this author talks a lot about nature and all things that belong to it. For instance, in nature we have all living things evolve in our world and every peer has family in some sense, thus in terms of mather and children there is a big love. God, as our father, loves us blindly; so William portrayts this enormous value in this poem with the story of this boy.
On the other hand, William shows a chain of conections among the superiority, nature and humans, for example humans receive God's love with nature elements such as air, flowers, lights, sunshine, and so on. Through nature God gives his big love to humans, and that same love, mothers give their children.
Having this perspective from this poem, there is other author that reminds me about this chain or connection, his name is Salvador Dali and his incredible painting called " La Madonna de Port Lligat". This painting showed me the same feelings of what I read. The images of divinity and supremacy between God, Nature and "mothers" who give love to the world, to humans beings. Each element is esential to have peace, beauty and love.