Entry 1 - Nguyễn Thị Hương Giang

Item 1

A Dream Within A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe 

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now

Thus much let me avow—

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Message : the question of the author distinguish between the reality and fantasy. The painful when watching the important things in his life slips away. The poem reminds people the valuable of the human life. Don not let them pass away as a dream.

Rhetorical devices

Repetition “ is but a dream within a dream”/ “while I weep”

Rhyme:       Deem- dream/ Day- away /Roar- shore/ hand- sand/ creep- deep/ grasp- clasp/ save- wave

Metaphor:   in a night, or in a day/ in a vision, or in none ( massage: his whole life, he could not figure out whether it is a dream or not)

Item 2

Five More Minutes

Submitted By: James, USA

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.  “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.  “He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.”

Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. “What do you say we go, Melissa?”  Melissa pleaded, “Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.”  The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart’s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. “Time to go now?”

Again Melissa pleaded, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.”  The man smiled and said, “OK.”  “My, you certainly are a patient father,” the woman responded.

The man smiled and then said, “Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.  She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play.”

Message:  Life is all about making priorities, and family is one and only priority on top of all other, so spend all time you can with loved ones.

Rhetorical devices : 

Metaphor:   the story is not just about” 5 minute”; 5 minutes was just a image of time- of human’s life. There will be a moment  that even 5 minutes we are not able to see the one we loved.

 Repetition :  Just five more minute

Item 3

Message: when woman don not want to do housework, no cooking, no cleaning, less work and more money; unless they turn to man.

Rhetorical devices

 Metaphor : unless the woman turn to man, they would not do everything as she wished     

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 References  

  [1] : http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16092                                             

 [2] : http://eislaminfo.blogspot.com/2011/12/just-5-more-minutes-motivational-story.html 

[3]: http://funnyads.biz/posters/img67.search.htm