Thursday, March 31, 2011

CALVINO-ITALO-INVISIBLE CITIES Cities & Memory 2


As all other poems in the book, Cities & Memory 2 is also about journey and the cities. The writer talks about the city Isidora which "the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the betters”(cities &memory 2)
In the last part of the poem, writer actually trying to imply that the Isidora is his imaginary or dreamed-of city that he always imagine or dream about it. The writer is actually old person but he contained him as a young man. In my opinion, If we think about his dream of city and his wondering to be a young man, we will understand that there is a secret message about the importance of time. As we know time is the most valuable thing one can spend but unfortunately people don’t aware of its valuable.
"Time is the coin of our life. It is the only coin you have,and only you can determine how it will be spent" 
Carl Sandburg





CALVINO-ITALO-INVISiBLE CITIES Cities & the sky 4



This poem mention about Perinthia city.  Position of the city is as same as the position of some stars on the sky.  All details, but especially order of the city were very important for the astronomers (who are the establishers of this city.) I said the order was very important, because in their belief every single star will be effected every living things in Perinthia city. So their goal was to do everything like perfect.  They were thinking that reflect of the harmony of the firmament, nature’s reason and the gods benevolence would shape the inhabitants destinies.  But things didn’t happen how they were thinking. Because they didn’t think about something. Even though all the details were well done, diversity of people would not let them to receive same reaction. It is kind of same situation like our real life. We try to be or try to make things perfect but even though we get so closer to it every single time we fail. 

CALVINO-ITALO-INVISiBLE CITIES Trading Cities 2


The poem “Trading Cities2” talks about the great city Chloe.  Chloe people move through the streets but they are all stranger to each other.  Everyone has different ideas about the other person. No one greets anyone. A girl, a woman, and a tattooed giant come along but something was running among them. Even though it is for several seconds, the writer believe that these people have an eye contact with each other which are like arrows, stars or like triangles..When some people find themselves together for to do something, they are all consummated among them without any word exchanged, any physically contact or even almost eye contact.
Briefly, Calvino explains about the strange position that people face in their daily life. My opinion is, I’m sure it always happens to us. We think what the people around us thinking about while we walk down the streets. We look the other peoples’ eyes for a second or they do that to you. The most interesting part is, we never know how to react on that moment. It’s kind of weird moment that sometimes makes us smile but sometimes nervous.

CALVINO-ITALO-INVISIBLE CITIES Cities & Eyes 3

The poem "CITIES & EYES 3" is about the city which is called Bausic. It is an imaginative city that it is not in touch with the earth, except its long flamingo legs. So imagine a city, which is on the sky, on the clouds, and far away from the earth and has two long legs that is in contact with the earth. There are several hypotheses about Bausic people; They hate the earth, but they really respect it so much and avoid all contact with it. They love it, as it was before they existed and They never tire to examine things by their telescopes..like examining leaf by leaf, stone by stone or animals by animals..

Friday, March 4, 2011

Elizabeth Bishop - I Am in Need of Music

Music…We listen it in every places: at home, school, work, shopping malls, concerts.. on train, bus, ship or taxi. We listen it even if there is no one is playing it. It starts in our head and then we continue to sing or listen it. Because it is part our life that we can’t live without it. Music occupies a lot for our lives. It is just like water. We really need it. I am really in need of it. It gives a way to our live my live. When we are happy we sing, we dance or we listen it. We spread smile around and sing again. When we are really sad maybe we cry, but most of the time we listen it to relax. It helps us to overcome most difficulties in our life with its own special way. Therefore, music is really very important thing for human beings. Briefly, in this poem Elizabeth Bishop points out the importance and intense need of music. It’s magical effects to our emotions or feelings.  


“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.” Harry Allen Overstreet