Saturn Devouring One of His Children

People are letting ambition and greed take control of their lives
just like the mighty titan Saturn.
Ambition and greed destroys the things that really matter to a person.
Ambition and greed makes one commit evil deeds to ensure they get what they want.
Greed is a traitor and unreliable.
It comes around and stabs you in the back
Just like the only godling Rhea was able to save from the evil Saturn
that overthrew his father and saved his brothers and sisters.
How foolish of Saturn, to eat his children because he feared he would lose his power to one of them.
The prophecy only came true because he believed in it.
Sometimes its not good to know the future.
Knowing it makes us hysterical and bring disaster upon us.
Greed and ambition is our mortal flaw.

Modern Day Pardoner

The Modern Day Pardoner in my opinion is a Con artist. The pardoner would sell forgiveness and "religious items" which were in reality just normal objects. But he was able to have people trust in him and was able to sell all these things. That is why, in modern day he would be considered a con artist.

Shakespeare:Sonnet LVII

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

Time, like waves, accelerate to their end. Each wave replaces one before it, just like minutes do. Each wave marching towards the beach in a march, one after the other. It goes on to explain, a life, comparing it to the sun. A new life compared to the rising sun, and as it matures, the sun rises to the peak at noon. time begins to fight against this kingly sun and time which gave that glory and youth takes it all away. Time makes you old and takes away beauty by marking the skin with wrinkles. Nothing stands in the way of time and death. Shakespeare hopes that his writings will survive time and be always remembered, despite time.

Wife of Bath

In my opinion she is not a person that one should be proud of. She marries men and controls them to her advantage. It's a dirty business in my opinion. It shouldn't be that way. A marriage should be held sacred. No woman should want to control men the way she does. There should be compromise, trust, and real love in a relationship. The wife of bath doesn't view marriage that way. At the same time though, she does make some good points about not letting men take total control. It isn't right for them to want to keep us women tied down. That comes to my point of compromise. In the end, the wife of bath isn't some one to be so proud of.

Is Grendel a Monster?

I believe that Grendel is a misunderstood creature. In my opinion Grendel isn't a real monster. I believe that people turned him into a demon because that would make them look like innocent threatened people in need of a brave hero to rescue them. Just because Grendel killed a lot of people doesn't make him a monster. It makes him a murderer but not a monster. Beowulf killed a lot of creatures and people even, but he's not a monster, he's a hero. Grendel might have had good reasons of why he killed the people. He was mistreated by them in the first place. Was turned into an outcast, and bragged about killing the rest of his people. They tormented him for many years and Grendel snapped. He turned crazy. I can bet he wasn't a mean or bad creature, but a person can only take so much and Grendel took in plenty of abuses. All he could do was get revenge. To Grendel, the monsters were probably everyone else. I really do feel sorry for Grendel. The pushed him away to darkness into a cave in the swamp. No, Grendel was not a monster. He was treated like one and he had all right to take revenge. I bet that if he was treated nice and accepted, no matter how he looked like, then he would have been very nice and nothing would have happened and no one would have died. That is why I strongly think that poor Grendel isn't a monster.

Another Riddle

I am the wisest story teller. I dance across the pages of history. i leave my mark on my stories. A scratch on one corner of the world, a blot on the other. Yet no one recognizes me for my stories. They don't give me the credit of the other worlds I help create. Who am I?

Riddle

I am as free as a soaring eagle for a moment. My wings are so long they shade where I fly. As free as I might be, I have restrictions as to how far I can fly. Just once when I am having most fun, I am pulled down to reality by a string.

Response to "Good Readers and Good Writers"

This writing had many good ideas. I believe it did a good job describing how a reader should read and how a writer should write. It was useful to me in understanding what should a good reader do because I don't actually take time to actually "read" a book correctly(according to Nabokov). I don't actually appreciate most books and I certainly don't read a book with a dictionary at hand. In my opinion if I have to stop often to look up words and disrupt the wonderful; story being told then the magic of it won't exist anymore. It is OK to use a dictionary when reading something that isn't for fun and is more educational. This is one point I do not agree with Nabokov. The other definitions he gave I can agree on. As for what makes a good writer, there are many things I can agree on, such as a book should be magical and be able to tell a good story. But in my opinion, there are a couple books that don't follow his guidelines on what is good literature. I have read many books that are just great but might not have all the qualities he says. There can be stories that have all the qualities of the perfect literature but it just might not be appealing to me. In conclusion, Nabokov and I have have different perspectives, but his take on reading and writing have fantastic ideas and many that I agree on.