My Overall Learning Experience

Learning Experience
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My last blog for my English 102 class is a reflection of how I have grown throughout the course as a writer and a thinker. I took a look back to all the blogs I have done and I can see a big difference. Writing blogs is something I never thought I would do. Starting from the design and the font, to the title it was a learning experience. I have learned how to better put my ideas together and become a better writer and my skills have expanded from blog 1 to blog 15. It is interesting how my vocabulary have grown and expanded giving me the advantage to write longer paragraphs. The ability to connect the text with other sources such as my own experience and other texts has made my blogs more comprehensible to the public. Some descriptions that best describe my blogs are:

The blog entries
• organize the writer’s ideas around a main point.
• connect the texts with other texts in the packet, texts outside class, or personal experience
• are written in a clear, easy-to-read style

The writer

• selects graphics and multimedia to enhance the blog's visual appeal

• writes in an appealing style that reflects her/his personality

• stimulates class dialogue by extending the discussion in new directions

My online writing experience for this semester has been very productive. It has helped me write faster and accurate. It also, has helped me enhance my vocabulary by learning more synonyms and correcting my words with spelling checks. The experience of writing online helps me to organize my ideas before putting it in writing, giving me the advantage to erase and rewrite more efficiently. By writing blog entries my abilities as a writer have improve greatly, just the simple fact that I know other people are going to look at it makes me bring out the best of me. Now every time I write I try to make it perfect and understandable so that my message and ideas get across more easily.  Just as I like my classmate and professor to read my blogs, I also like to do the same with their blogs. Reading other people’s blogs give me the opportunity to provide and receive feedbacks and to realize that I share common ideas with other people. Therefore, I very often read other’s students online work. I believe that other member of the class have often read my blogs. I have received many feedback and suggestion that have helped me to change and improve my work.

The first lesson I will be taking away from this class and the most important is that I have improve my writing skills significantly. I had also learned how to blog and post my ideas online to receive feedbacks from others. Everything we have discussed is basically what a student would want to learn from his/her English class and the professor has explain in depth every topic and assignment. A memorable moment in class was the Much Ado Jeopardy game. We had fun and enjoyed it; the anxiety of being called to answer the question and answers it right for our team was pretty exciting and rewarding. My recommendation to a student who plans to take this class next semester is to read the books, write and submit all his/her blogs on time and take advantage of all the extra credit the professor may give to the class.  

Self evalution and Reflection

Much Ado About Nothing
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Blog fourteenth is one of my favorites blog. Once again I have the chance to choose one of my previous blog and talk about what makes me feel proud of. I also can identify it with what I have learned from the readings in the class. The one I have chosen is blog thirteenth; I feel it was one of the hardest blog I have done in the entire class. The amount of time and dedication I put in this blog was tremendous. Trying to understand Shakespeare vocabulary in this play was one of my biggest challenges.

From the in class reading and quizzes of the play Much Ado About Nothing, I have learned about many things. One of them is the meaning of the literary terms comedy and tragedy in a play. It is interesting how Shakespeare integrated these two kind of literary terms in a single play. Watching the film version of the play made a big different for the class because it helped me have a better understanding of what the play was about and why they expressed themselves the way they did. It also taught me a littler history of how women were treated in those days. Some were treated as a goddess and other were treated as shrew.

I believe that the ending of this play was really interesting, is not usual to see a double happy ending in a play and the way Shakespeare made it happen it was really creative. He uses death in order to rebirth the characters' “true selves”.

Double Happy Ending

Double Happy Ending
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The third set of series of the play Much Ado About Nothing is my blog thirteenth for my English 102 class. This ne is going to be about the symbolic meaning of the unmasked ceremony.

In the play, the unmasked ceremony served as a symbolic meaning to clear Hero’s name and prove that she was innocent from the accusation Claudio had made in front of everyone all Messina.  In order to do that she had to reborn herself  from death. Another important symbolic meaning was that Claudio accepted to marry Hero's cousin as instructed by Leonato just as a punishment for what he had done to Hero. Claudio felt that he had made a big mistake by accusing Hero of being unfaithful in front  of the entire Messina, without having sufficient proof nor confirming it with her. A new Hero was reborn because it was the only way for her to clear her name and prove that she was mistakenly accused of something that she did not do.

Claudio also had to reborn himself. When accepted Leonato's proposal to marry his niece in order to pay for his wrong accusations to Hero. He had accused Hero in front of  all the witnesses of the wedding of something he was not even sure about, before even listening to what she had to say. From that point Claudio became a new person, he learned from his mistake. Beatrice and Benedick were unmasked by accepting their true love in from of everybody, something they had been in denial for so long.

Beatrice and Benedick have revealed themselves in front of everyone. They have shown unconditional love to each other against their own will. They have reborn themselves as new characters in the play, changing their status from being single characters and thinking of themselves as longtime bachelors to being truly in love with each other and belonging to someone other than themselves.

In a way, this double happy ending for me was perfect. First of all. it surpassed my expectations as a reader with the way it ends; by having both marriages at the same time. Also it made the story a lot more interesting at the end, it felt like Claudio did not know what he had until he thought he had lost it. Also, Benedick who bragged, would stop being a bachelor because he found his true love.

True Love

True Love
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My blog twelfth for my English 102 class is the second from a series of blogs from the play Much Ado About Nothing. On this blog I am going to analyze the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick.

After their failed wedding, Benedick show his love for Beatrice in numerous ways. The main act of pure, gratifying and indulging love is when without hesitation Benedick gives into his lover request as if killing a man was just a way of making amends with Beatrice feelings. Benedick accepts and will challenge Claudio. Another way in which a sense of love for her is shown, is by being there when she needs him the most. He listens to her outburst of revenge and will satisfy her every need if given a chance to. This scene shows love in every aspect from tender compassion to the ability to stand by her side, even when he knows the outcome of his actions might be wrong.

By asking Benedick to kill Claudio, Beatrice risks losing her most loved one. She believes that her cousin was falsely accused. Revenge takes the form of an unsettled woman who is willing to do anything to bring justice to her cousin. She asks him to kill Claudio in order to prove his love to her. However, Beatrice believes that Benedick is not the man for the job because he is not part of the family, therefore he does not have the right to represent the family. Benedick risks his friendship with Claudio when he accepts Beatrice request. A friendship entitles trust and loyalty but when he takes on her request, he is breaking all the rules of friendship. He is also willing to kill his best friend for the love of his life. On the other hand, by killing his friend, he gains Beatrice’s love and respect. He feels that he needs to make her feel safe and loved.

It is my opinion that Benedick should not kill Claudio. The reason why Benedick would kill Claudio is to prove his love to Beatrice, but he should not make such a challenging decision based on Beatrice’s assumptions. He will also end up hurt because of this horrible action against his best friend and will lose his best friend.

I truly believe that the death of Claudio would make a difference in their relationship between Benedick and Beatrice. If Claudio dies Benedick will feel resentment against his beloved one and this feeling would make their relationship weak. Even if Beatrice feels as if Benedick proves himself to her, this will not be enough for Beatrice. Love would be the only feeling to make this relationship work and keep them together.

Women's place in Shakespeare's society

Women of Shakespeare's time
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My blog eleventh is going to be the first blog pertaining to the play we are currently reading in my English 102 class. Our professor has giving us a series of questions on which we are only allowed to pick only one and write a blog from it.  The one I have choosen is really interesting because it talks about how women were place in shakespeares society.

In the early act of the play Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare, we can see how women were diminished in Shakespeare society. Men were believed to be superior and dominated women in every aspect. Stereotypes were used to downgrade women’s position in society; one of them is women as whore or a wife.

Claudio, Leonato and Don Pedro think that Hero is a wife to be owned and manipulated; they also believe that she is a goddess. Hero is a quite, shy, sensible, vulnerable, and very polite woman, she would let her father and Claudio manipulates her. Later in the play, Hero has been dishonored and accused for violating her chastity; Margaret and Borachio made believe that Hero was making love with Borachio. The days of the wedding, Claudio humiliates and mistreats Hero in front of everyone. She is stereotyped as an adulterer and accused of infidelity in front of the public.

Beatrice is very independent and strong, not easy to manipulate. She refuses to get married because she is a strong person and has not yet fall in love with the right person. She wants to find partner that does not control and manipulates her; she is accustomed to be a free and independent woman. Benedick thinks that Beatrice is a scapegoat and always uses animal names when he refers to her or talks to her.

At the masked ball, Don Pedro proposes marriage to her Beatrice. Not knowing that he is really in love with her, she refuses him with good humor. I think Beatrice refuses men because she was hurt before and is afraid to be hurt again. Beatrice becomes vulnerable when she listens to Hero saying that Benedick is in love with her. It was very hard for Beatrice to admit that she is love with Benedick.

I think that Beatrice will be able to keep on resisting men’s attempts to control her actions forever. She is not like Hero that gives love and obeys her partner as if she was kid obeying her father. Beatrice has her own way of loving; she is intelligent, astute woman, capable to manipulate a man and make them do whatever she wants.

A Reflection on Kindred

Understanding is more than just an Award

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Blog tenth is one of my favorites because I was able to pick one of my previous blogs that I feel proud of doing. This is a hard question to answer due to the amount of time, thoughts and knowledge I have dedicated to all of them. However, blog eighth “Domestic Violence Equals Modern Slavery” have been stocked in my head for quite a while and the things that I have learned from that blog are amazing. In this blog, I was able to deeply analyze how domestic violence can be the same term as modern slavery and how women are treated like animals even though we are in the twenty first century.

From the in class readings and quizzes of the story Kindred, I have learned about slavery in the United States during different periods of times. I have learned how people were treated back in that time, analyzed the relationship between slaves and masters and compared it with how people are treated nowadays, especially women. Another remarkable thing I have learned is how old masters molded their young white kids to be masters. The quiz on literary terms helped me to understand better the story I was reading. It helped me to analyze the story from different perspectives; identify the different characters in the story and understand the types of narrator from this story. The setting played an important role in this story, it was a little confusing and at the same time is exciting, but it kept me hooked and focused into what was going to happen next.

My blogs comments and feedback from my classmates have been helpful. By commenting on other blogs we are able to improve what we have done wrong and shape us as better writers.  Most of my classmates have done a good job because they were able to respond what we were asked for and provide good ideas. However, other classmates were only able to respond only part of the assignments and left it unfinished.

Definition of Heroism



Torture of a female slave
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This is blog ninth for my English class 102. On this blog we are going to take into account the definition of Heroism that Karen Joy Fowler uses in her tribute to Octavia Butler. Also, we are going to plot in this definition on each of this three main characters, Dana, Alice and Sarah, by bringing out their endurances and sacrifices in a way that are being consider heroism.

Most slaves, especially women slaves, were forced to endure constant exploitation and degradation. The author in kindred uses three of her major character to show the different ways how women were exploited and degraded. One of these characters was Alice, who suffered tremendous amount of pain from the abuses of her master. Rufus, who was obsessively in love with her, used to treat Alice like an animal. He took advantage by raping and whipping her whenever she refused him. She was also punished many times for trying to run away from him but every time she did she was caught. Another character who had suffer tremendously was Sarah, however she had opted to live a passive live and accept that she was a slave. She saw how her master Weylin destroyed her family, took away her children and sold them to different bidders. He left her with only one child, Carrie, who was mute, so this way he could make sure that Sarah was not going to escape. Dana’s case was worst because she was from a different time of life; she was not used to the life style of the 1800’s. She had to suffer all types of punishment, from being whipped, insulted, to almost being raped. She could not talk back to the master or any other member of the Weylin family because she was a black woman; this was unacceptable behavior for the slaves. Dana was accustomed to talk back and defend herself if she felt attacked by another person; she had to sacrifice her freedom and life style. The only way Dana was able to escape from the past was by putting herself in danger situations. 

In my point of view, Dana was the most heroic person of the three. Even though she lived in a different time in life, she was able to manage all the punishments she received and still continued to save the life of Rufus every time he was in danger. She was only the black person who was well educated and knew how to read and write. She was able to teach these skills to some slaves of the plantation who she was allowed teach to. At the end, she was able to overcome her fears and killed Rufus while he was trying to rape her

Domestic Violence Equals Modern Slavery



Slaves Violence
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Domestic Violence
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Equals

My eighth blog for my English 102 class is about an interesting story that we are reading in class, the store is named “Kindred”. The story makes emphasis of two major problems we have been facing for many years around the world. These two problems are Domestic Violence and Slavery, which in fact become one big problem that affects many people. At the beginning of the story, the author makes the readers believe that Dana is a victim of domestic violence in her own house. By doing this, the author tries to catch the attention of the readers so that they think that the story is about domestic violence. However, later in the story we realize that Dana is being transported to the past; to the slavery time. On one of her returns to the present, Dana came back horribly beaten up; she had been whipped by her master, Tom Weylin. When she comes back, her relative, who assumes that Dana is being beaten by her husband, asks her why is she letting this happens to her.

In the story, the author wants to emphasize a problem that has been going on during many years. She addresses that some people adapt to domestic violence after they have suffered it a few times, especially those who are in love with the aggressor. After a couple of times of being physically abused, Dana’s and other slaves’ body get accustomed to the whips and this kind of violence suffer becomes a routine. Today, people who are victims of domestic violence also get used to be beaten all the time. In addition, because the love the aggressor, they decide to not do anything about this situation.

The author uses this scenario to compare domestic violence with slavery. These issues are both similar, almost the same issue. Domestic violence is the abusive behavior in the modern epoch and slavery is what they used to call it in the old days. Even after black slaves were badly whipped and tortured by their masters, they would still serve to them. Even though some slaves did not want to continue to serve their masters, they had no other choice. The same way, a woman who gets beaten by her partner is afraid to run away because she believes that if he catches her he may kill her.










The Fight

Rufus' manipulative love
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My seventh blog for my Eng 102 class talks about the decisions and attitudes of the characters in the narrative story Kindred by Octavia Butler. One of the characters, whose name is Rufus, is a selfish and manipulating young man who wants everything to go his way. He does not care if he hurts someone along his way. He thinks that the way of loving someone is to mandate and dictate them for his will.

The author refers to Rufus as a "destructive single-minded love" (Butler 180) who shapes the lives of two of the characters who he loves; Alice and Dana. Alice, a free black, is Rufus’ friend and Dana is Rufu’s savior, mentor and friend who have to suffer the cruelty of his way of loving. He has always found a way to accomplish his wills by threating them with something they care about. Rufus have molded their lives according to his desires and wills, making them prisoners of his caprices.

Dana and Alice do not have other choice than confront Rufus' love and try to be submissive to his will. Rufus forces Dana to help him to convince Alice to go to his bed and Alice has to let him rape her. If Alice does not do what he has ordered to do voluntarily, she can easily get whipped in a cruel manner or be forced to have sex. She could escape but it would cost her life if he catches her. Dana desires and need to see her husband again; he is the only one that knows where she is. She cannot escape either because Rufus would kill her if he catches her.

Being the only way for them to not get hurt so brutally by Rufus, I stronly agree with the choices both Dana and Alice have made. This may sound bad, but I believe that is the only way for them to survive. Rufus would whip, rape and kill Alice if she goes against his will. And Dana would not be able to see her husband Kevin again if she does not help Rufus and act as his friend.

A Slave more educated than her Master

Slave owners began to fear the power of an educated slave.
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In this blog I will explain the reason why I think Tom Weylin believes that Dana is trouble to his family and his plantation. Tom Weylin thinks that Dana is trouble for several reasons but mostly because of Dana’s ability to read and write, and her educated and proper manner to speak to others. She respects white people the same way she respects other people of her race, treating everyone at the plantation equally. However, he resents her education and dislikes the idea that a black woman could read and write better than him. He also dislikes the fact that Dana comes from a free state and she is an independent woman. The way Dana talks to him is considered inappropriate; he believes that as the master she should refer to him as if she is a slave and that she should feel afraid.  Tom Weylin is not only surprised by the way she acts but by the way she dresses; he disapproves the fact that she wears pants. Women in the 1800’s did not wear this kind of clothes, because at that time they believed that only man should wear pants.

Tom Weylin thinks that she is dangerous to the way of life in the Weylin household because he thinks that she is going teach the slaves freedom ideas and therefore they would be able to escape. In addition, he knows that because she is well educated, the slaves would admire her and feel motivated to learn and explore new things. She is also danger to the family because Dana is attached to the kid and she could change the way he should be treating the slaves in the future when Rufus takes control of the family slaves.

Slave Families Life

Slave Auction

Michele Bachmann's Family Values, circa 1861.

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Family life in the United States at the epoch of slavery had no value. People were treated as piece of animals and sold to the highers bidder. Master and owners of slaves didn't care about their feelings nor their working ethic, they just wanted to make easy money by selling their whole family wife, children and babies. The states at this epoch had no legal protection for the slaves and their marriage. Kids and mom could be separated at any time and send any where without their concern or care. Most of  the families that were separated never got to see their family again. Slave families were taken to auctions an sold as if the were sheep or lamb. They were even sold by pounds and age. Their physical appearance made them worth more in the eyes of the bidders. The worst thing about it is the owners of these slave didn't even let them say goodbye and always made sure to send to saep[arte the families as much as they could by selling them to different states.

Learning Experience

Learning Experience
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My fourth blog is kind of interesting. It consists on me picking one of my previous blogs that I believe I have done a good job and I am proud of it. However, it is hard for me to just pick one because I believe that I have done well and proud of all of them. It has been a learning experience for me as writer, since I did not know much about literary terms and did not read poems before. It is been quite rough, I am not going to lie, but the overall progress has kept me motivated to do more. After writing the first 3 blogs, I can say that I have strengthened my skills as a writer impressively. Blogs 1 through 3, each and every one of them has been special.  

Let's start with the first one which was about choosing a passage about roses. This first blog taught me too many things at once. From the beginning it was a challenge since I have never done it before. The picking of the images, setting up my blog with a cool template design, quoting up the passage as a block quote, giving an introduction to the passage were the easy ones. But when it got to explaining the poem, trying to understand it and learning how to interpret the meaning of a word (symbols and/or allusion) that poet often use to suggest something greater than its literal meaning the task became quite hard and complicated. My second blog was somewhat the same just that this one was at a bigger scale. This time was a whole poem rather than just a quote like the first one.  On my third blog I learned great things too; how to paraphrase poem, picking key words and interpreting them and most valuable understanding the tone of a speaker. All these blogs together have made my experience in class greater, even though it is been tough I have learned a lot.

The projects we have done in class so far have been great. The professor has made it real interesting by creating houses in the class, something I have never done before. Working with My Plath House members have been excellent.  We have shared experience, learned from each other and understood better the class projects with the help of each other.

My experience evaluating the member of my house was great. They all are great writers and it was hard for me to find things wrong in their papers. By evaluating the member of my house I inspire my classmates to improve their skills. Also I have the opportunity to give and receive feedback from someone other than the professor. Lastly, this evaluation can help the member of the team to gather new ideas that they may have not tough before.

Friends with Benefits

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On my third blog for my English 102 class, we had to choose one of six poems, analyze and identify all the categories we have covered during the previous classes. I decided to write an entry about Sharon Olds' "Sex Without Love," which was written in 1984.

Sharon Olds, the speaker of the poem, provides a personal interpretation and understanding about sex without love by asking and responding her own question “How do they do it, the ones who make love without sex?”. The poem of twenty four lines has an ironic tone and is intended to those who do not believe in love.

In this poem the author seems to dislike the idea of having sex without love. Throughout the poem, Olds uses metaphors to compare beautiful situations of life with the act of having sex without love; however this is an act that cannot be compared with beauty. In her first lines, olds compares sex without love with two ice skaters dancing over the ice; the dancers are just performing an act to entertain the public and the ice suggests that having sex without love represents cold and something dispassionate. From lines 6-8, olds uses metaphors to compare sex without love with the joy and love that is felt by parent when having a baby; however these parents would give the baby away because of the absence of love. Then, from lines 13-17, Olds uses religion as a metaphor to point out that sex is an act of love not an act of pleasure and how people lie to themselves to satisfy their physical needs.

Some keywords are:

1.       The ones who make love without love- refers to whom the poem is intended to.

2.       Beautiful as dancers- refers to the couple having sex.

3.       Faces read a steak- refers to their body expressions.

4.       Wet as the children at birth- indicates body response.

5.       Love the priest instead of the god- indicates hypocrisy.

6.       Mistake the lover for their own pleasure- refers to a mind driven by pleasure, his own pleasure.

7.       They are like great runners- Compares this act with loveless sex as a physical and mental need.

8.       Single body alone in the universe- refers to a physical need satisfied but an empty soul.

The poem “Sex Without Love” is a straight forward and honest personal interpretation about a topic that is controversial in every society. In contrast, the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning is a narrative story of a dramatic event in which a man commits a homicide as an act of love.

Sharon Olds from Poetry.org

My First Poem Interpretation

Interpretation of  Porphyria's Lover
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Magazine: The New Yorker
Date: November, 1995

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On my second blog for my ENG 102 class, I am suppose to read a variety of poems and pick one that stands out for me. The poem I have chosen for my blog is "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning. 

Porphyria's Lover is a dramatic monologue in which a man decides to strangle his wife in a cruel manner. Even tough, I was in shock when i realized that he had killed the woman he loved, I liked it so much because poems are usually romantic, descriptive, narrative but this one was dramatic and that is what makes it interesting. There is romanticism at the beginning of the poem, but all of the sudden the poem turns into an assassination and this is when the poem becomes more appealing and I felt curiosity about the end. Different ideas came to mind about this poem, I thought that this man was dead and that the women, who was alive was suffering due to an illness. However, the fact that he decided to stop the life of another person makes believe that he did not believe that god existed. Besides being atheist, I also thought he was a psychopath and fetishist. On the other hand, when the speaker says "to-night's gay feast", I became confused, was the speaker actually a woman and not a man? or was this phrase was used just as comparison?

In the poem, we clearly see that her name is Porphyria. This is also the name given to a serious and terminal illness in the blood. The speaker repeatedly makes allusion to her illness within the poem, an example is "too weak to set her passion free". People with this illness experience a horrible death, this is why I believe he decided to help her dying as an act of love. Clearly, Robert Browning is giving a different sense of love.

I have chosen this image because it clearly represent "Prophyria's Love". It Portrays a women with a rope around her neck and her body giving us a visual way on how she die; But it also shows a good image of a women suffering. The skeleton dress as men underneath her shows two think. One is the love and feeling that the men had for the women by trying to get her out the rope. And also, that he always had her in his mind and now that their are together their love will be forever. This feelings can be seen in one of his lines "And thus we sit together now, And all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!" This also show his atheist side, by challenging god what he had done in the past. 

This poem stuck so much in my head that the first thing I did once I read it, was to emailed to my wife. I told her in the email how hard it is to see the person you love suffering and even harder is to know that the only way to stop that suffering is by killing them. This poem really put me to thing and compare this poem with the same feeling a person's feel when they have their love one's in a state of comma.    

Red Rose Mother of Flowers

Red Roses
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My first blog from my English 102 class is about symbols and allusion; therefore I am posting something that have a thousand meanings, and that is red roses.  

A passage that cought my attention in my research is:

"Almost any flower can represent a girl, but the rose has always stood for the most beautiful, the most beloved – in many languages "Rose" remains a popular given name – and often for one who is notably young, vulnerable, and virginal. Shakespeare's Laertes, when he sees his sister Ophelia in her madness, cries "O Rose of May!" (Hamlet 4.5.158), bringing out not only her uniqueness but the blighting of her brief life. Othello, on the verge of killing Desdemona, thinks of her as a rose which he is about to pluck (Othello 5.2.13–16); Orsino tells Viola, "women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour" (12N 2.4.38–39). The French poet Baïf vows, "I will not force the Rose / Who hides in the bosom / Of a tightly closed bud / The beauty of her flower" ("La Rose," in Livre des Passetems II)."

I have chosen this passage because it gives a good description of a rose; it compares roses with the beauty and other qualities of women. It shows how roses had being a symbol of inspiration of almost every poet, writer and artist. I like this passage because they all have a different meaning of what a rose is.

As we see Comparison and Similes can be seen any one these lines from many poems:

1. "Almost any flower can represent a girl, but the rose has always stood for the most beautiful, the most beloved – in many languages "Rose" remains a popular given name – and often for one who is notably young, vulnerable, and virginal." On this line we can see how he compare the beauty of a rose with the beauty of a women.
2. Shakespeare's Laertes, when he sees his sister Ophelia in her madness, cries "O Rose of May!" (Hamlet 4.5.158), bringing out not only her uniqueness but the blighting of her brief life. This line shows that roses cry like women.
3. "women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour" (12N 2.4.38–39). On this line shows how women need to be conservatives as roses.
4. The French poet Baïf vows, "I will not force the Rose / Who hides in the bosom / Of a tightly closed bud / The beauty of her flower" ("La Rose," in Livre des Passetems II)."

"Rose." Dictionary of Literary Symbols. Ed. Michael Ferber. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge, 1999. 172-177. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 Mar. 2012.