Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

for me, no.

It doesn't help that I'm a rather "dead" person on the inside...

the poem:

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour;
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

I only see that due to the words, I don't get the rhyme structure nonsense.



I get the story of the poem, how it's written just doesn't change how I read it...

no :|

iono now. I'm taking summer classes basically all summer long. living at my friend's 1 bedroom apartment. So i'm basically sleeping in the living room on a recliner chair. (literally). For breakfast its usually a glass of milk. Skip lunch, and dinner is a poorly made roastbeef sandwich(just meat and bread, no dressing or veggies or anything else) or an egg sandwich.

really wish I was at home =(

so your parents went through with it?

/comfort

Alright, I read through that poem a couple times. Let me tell you what I'm getting out of it. And hopefully after reading this, maybe it'll help you see this for yourself.

Notice how the rhyming pattern appears sporadic. This in turn with the lists that are written within the poem suggest that this poet is using his narrator as a sort of ranter, showcasing that this poem isn't entirely a complete thought. There is order to the rhyme scheme, but at the same time it is chaotic (for instance, the -ower- syllable at the end of lines 1, 4, 5 and 8, which is irregular for a well composed poem). Because the poem itself is an appeal to the past, this poem has the feeling of an old codger howling at the powers above to heed his words.

Like all poems, this is simply one's analysis of it. I just hope this will lead you in the right direction.

Men don't make any sense at all.

ftfy

yeah but mostly men.

>women
>Making sense
OH DAT'S A GOOD ONE.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19850_5-absurd-sci-fi-scenarios-science-actually-working-on.html

Number 3..

They're gonna kill us.. I can see it now.. Somehow they're going to nudge the wrong thing and it's going to end up sending some giant asteroid right at us...

I just don't hold my race in high esteem. :x

But obligatory "Women don't make sense to men either."

So... what happened?

Men seem to think you're either a *** or a ***. If you sleep with them you're a ***, if you're not your a ***.

Gotta love it. A few douchebags act like idiots, and because of it, the entire male gender is pock marked. That's why nice guys never get a chance.

Ah, but nice guys aren't the ones that are attractive, at least this is a generalization witnessed in much of the same format by many men. Thus the terrible circle keeps twisting perpetually.

/sigh

CHURCH! lol

/brofist

Mag hit me right in the heart with that one.

Wait, wut? lol

I think he meant that you're telling the truth. /grandma from Family Matters.

Slang! My only weakness... Danke, Eike ol' bean.

Do Dog's know what faking is? My dog's been like, limping around but his foot is fine and like, he can stand on it just fine. >.>

thanks, maybe.

I'll have my sister help me tomorrow, I'll just turn it in when it's done, won't be that much of a penalty...

Yes, they do.

Also fixed the typing errors that bothered me a lot D:

I liked it better when money ran the world.

The world was better when it ran on LOVE and PEACE.

But then, everybody was stoned off their butts too.

I'll like it better when I rule the world.

Yeah but most of them are gay.