September 1, 1939

This poem written by W. H. Auden was really touchy for me, because it talks about war and how war affects people lives. Maybe it really touched me, due to the fact that I am a mother and I do not know what I would do if my daughter has to go to war and, in concequence, die. Going to war for most people, including me, means that you are going to die, because that is the main point of a war, kill the enemy.

Auden talks about how devastating was loosing husbands and sons to women of that time. Maybe for some women loosing their husband was not so terrible as it was loosing their sons in a war that had nothing to do with them, because let’s face it, wars are made by people who never stands up for the country, I mean people who has never been into a war, they just watch how people die because of his or her beliefs, ambitions and greed. With this final thought I am trying to say that ordinary people do not choose wars, wars are impose upon them by others.

Comment on Cinthya's entry: Virginia Woolf

I totally agree with you. I truly believe that in order to write, paint or even think, we need our own room, our own private place, because we need peace and be relaxed if we want to reach our deepest thoughts and ideas.

It is important to have our private place, but I also believe that to do so, we need money, because if we want to write a book or paint something we need time and materials to do it. Also because if we want our work to be perfect the idea is that we only concentrate in that piece of art and not being worry about other things like a job. We cannot work and be relaxed at the same time, because having a job, whichever, it is quite stressing.

Cinthya, I really liked your post,because it is an interesting topic that you can talk about for ages. Maybe you could have written more about what you think or maybe about the importance of having our own place to be by ourselves and be able to think about our deepest thoughts.

See you around, love you!!

Virginia Woolf by Cinthya Romero V.

Writing is art, as it is painting, dancing, singing, etc. Every time I think about art, I analyze how important could be to have his/her own space for the artist. For example, if a writer wants to write a book or a poem, he/she may need to have privacy in order to feel to think and to do whatever he/she wants to do. That is why I strongly believe that to have our own space makes us feel more comfortable.

As it was easy to see in Virginia Woold`s essay, women`s role was not important, so for her it was essential to have her own room to write, to think, and to be free to express her ideas and thoughts. I think that our own room is our best space, and it is unique, our room is the only place in which we can rest, because it gives us tranquility.



Having a room for our own can be difficult, so what happen when someone does not have his/her own room, and he/she needs to have it? In Virginia Woolf, she did not have any money to buy her own room, and she need to have it because she needed to reflect on what she wanted to write. Spaces give us the chance to reflect, think and analyze our lives or whatever we want to, and each person must have that time.




People should have their own place to reflect on themselves!

T. S. Elliot: The Waste Land

What really called my attention about this poem was how long it was, because I have always thought that poems were kind of short. This poem broke all my perceptions about poems characteristics with its lenght.

Another thing that called my attention was the mixture of languages. Although I do not understand what he wanted to say in those parts, I really liked this mixture, because we could see that this poet knew a lot of things. I could say that T. S. Elliot liked to mix things, because he also talks about mythology.

I also liked some lines like “April is the cruellest month” and “In the mountains, there you feel free”, because he uses Nature to provoque emotions in the reader, I mean he uses specific moments and places, which are emotional to most people.

To conclude I would like to say that this poem has been one of the most difficultones to understand, even though we read and heard it in class. I still can not get the real meaning or purpose of this poem.

Odour of Chrysanthemums

I really enjoyed this short story, because, in my opinión, it is very realistic for the time that it was written, I mean, I think that kind of issues were present in those years.

When I read the story I did not know much about D.H. Lawrence´s life, so I could not see how his childhood was represented in this story. After knowing that his father was a miner and his mother was a teacher, I realized that he was inspired by his childhood, I mean by his parents’ way of living to write this story.

I believe that Lawrence did not have a very happy childhood, because of the wife’s personality in the story. In other words, he knew how uncomfortable and unhappy was his mother with her life and husband, so he could not have a nice childhood at his home. I also believe that he had a dysfunctional family, because his father was almost never at home.

I have this conclusions about his personal life, according to what I read in the Odour of Chrysanthemums short story. I really believe that it is a passage of his real life as a child.

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

I truly believe that it is quite important to have our own place, a personal place, if we want to write or if we want to think about our most deep feelings and thoughts, because we need privacy in order to go deeply and have clear what are our real and true thoughts about any issue.

Some people would say that in order to have our own private place to write or just to think about life we need money, because it is not easy to spend time writing and have a quality life in terms of money. I agree with this idea, because writing takes a lot of time and people also need to work in order to have money to live and to take care of their families. It is not easy to be a writer if you do not have the resources to do it, because you cannot leave a side your quality life and your family, because, as I already said, you need a lot of time to write about issues that you are concern about and especially if you write fiction, because, in my opinion, you need more time to do it.