Vicious Circle.

When I read this poem for the first time, I thought that it was written many years ago, but still fits in our cultural background; because greed is everywhere we go and everywhere we look. I think that this happens, because we, as human beings, have not change our behavior, in terms of personal success. The only thing that we want in our lives is having more and more material things, in order to be more “powerful and successful” than the person who is next to us.

The greed that corrodes us is guilty of all the poverty and injustice that exist in our world, because if we care a little in our “brothers and sister” (in God’s eyes) we would not be so selfish and we would not be thinking only in having things to ourselves. We will be worried in help others to succeed in the same way that I have succeed.

I really think that this will never change, because there are people that can not tolerate that their neighbor has the same things that they have, because the human being is always competing in having more and more. This is a vicious circle that will never ends.

Epic Poetry

My definition of an Epic Poem:

I did not know what people mean when they said that they have read an Epic Poem, ‘til I read a piece of Beowulf, and could come out with the next definition. An Epic Poem, I think, is a long narration about a single hero, in which you tell the adventures that he or she has had. It also tries to give you a moral.

"Literature and Human Beings"

Quote:
“Since the object of literature is the human condition itself, the person who studies id and understands it will become, not a specialist in literary analysis but an expert in being human” (page 31).

I totally agree with this quotation, because Literature expresses human feelings, beliefs, thoughts, ideas, etc. Saying this, I am trying to explain that whatever we read, we are reading a part of that person, the perceptions that she or he has about the world that surround us. These perceptions are influenced by the experiences that every person has in the course of their lives, and as we know, every person has a different experience in life, because we are unique.
We can say that the more we read, the more we learn about people, about the different points of view that people has about everything, even about a tiny ant. These experiences and perceptions that we learn about every time we read something can help us to understand in a different way the world, because we have the possibility to know the experiences of a different person, who has had a different background.