"The signal man" Charles Dickens

Does a person who live isolated be remembered when he dies??

The signal man is one of those people who live by himself, doing his job. His responsibility was over the top; not only to give way to the trains, moreover to prevent accidents from happening. After the visit of this misterious person/ghost, the signalman clearly focusses his purpose of life to avoid certain situations that can cause harm to others; worrying about his job obsessively.

Do these ideas seem real??

Nowadays we are living in a world which promotes and permits individuality. We can communicate with each other but not by talking; a phone call, an email or a SMS. For instance, this person was living something we experience day after day: people doing their job, being more worried about the task than the people who they relate with.

The story is very descriptive and makes you think. However, I am not thinking in how Dickens portrait his reality into this story (neither Modernity). I am more interested in the way this story can be applied into situations we live everyday.

To improve our way of living, we need to start by caring about others. This caring must be based on respect but also truth. I am sure we can make a better world. The problem is: we have not created a "we", yet.

"Frankenstein" Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was not known as the owner of this master piece. The only aspect that did not allow her to say from the beginning that she created Frankenstein was that she was a woman.
She had a really difficult like and her family was very unusual. She was raised in an environment that allowed her to dream and create new characters and new ideas taken from what she could see and think.
I believe one of the main feelings that she developed in this novel is the relationship between love and family. Victor gave life to a creature that did not know anything about this world, and when he saw him for the first time, he rejected him. In these days this act is penalized by law; any parent who does this is rejected by the society and punish by the law. Nobody has the right to give life to a creature and then live it alone. So, this makes me wonder....was this usual in M. Shelley's time?? Was maternity seen in a different way in those times? were men involved in this process?
I started reading Frankenstein without knowledge about the novel. I've never watched a movie neither read a book. So, at the beginning was only a descriptive way of reading. However, after sharing experiences and ideas with my classmates I saw how much feelings arouse from me when thinking in this creature being born without a family and being raised by himself.
Maternity is something that must be taken seriously in order to have in the future better people to change this world.

"I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD" W. Wordsworth,

The first image that comes into my mind is a colorful summer day in the woods. I am glad to acknowledge that happiness is also a good topic to write about. This is why I believe this part of the poem: "A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company" is kind of ironic. Wordsworth demonstrates by this writing that he can do it. He can be the one to open nature to poetry, to show those colorful feelings that he sees in his life. We need in this world more of these writers to improve our living style and the relationships with other human beings.

I am not sure about what daffodils mean, but it is one of the things which provokes him happiness and joy. I see more than feel. My eyes worked better than my heart with the colorful images that he described and I interpreted.

I am happy to find out that there are many common objects that provokes feeling into sensitive people such as Wordsworth.

"When I have fears that I may cease to be" by John Keats

There are many feelings that we as human beings are allowed to feel. I believe most people avoid suffering which it may sound natural, but How are you going to enjoy happiness if you have never been sad??

This poem made me reflect about the power of human beings. There are some people that can take whatever comes to their life while others make a storm in a tea cup. We are all different; we try to live our lives in the best way we can, but why do we avoid sufffering? Is it natural? Is it cultural?

The author stated that he feels fear of losing what he is and he has. He tries to express his feelings through these lines. I wonder what do I fear the most?

This poem keeps me wonder about the importance of living your life day after day instead of waiting for that perfect moment that may be never come.

Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge

“Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”.

Poetry is more than a text. It is a way of representing your feeling through words. It’s a way of showing other worlds to people who don’t see beyond their nose. But, who is the one in charged of telling these stories? Where are places in which these stories and feelings occurred?
Samuel Coleridge is one of those men who were allowed to tell his own stories, a man who found into Poetry a way of expressing his own self to the rest of the world. The one who could take a pen a write about those other places nobody had seen until he found them.
To me Poetry is a complex art. It wants to express the author’s feeling at the moment of writing but sometimes, it does not find a feeling in the audience’s hearts. This is the reason why I believe there is a book for everybody, there must be a poem for every feeling.

"The little black boy" W. Blake

To distinguish colors we need to be able to see. Most people are allowed to see biologically, although not everybody has the skill to see through things. This is the reason why I believe William Blake had the gift to put into words those elements he could perceive in human beings. He incorporates nature as the basis of every human being, for instance, showing a relationship between a mother and her son. At the same time, he describes some important elements that are involved when talking about the time: the present where the story is being told and the past where the story took place. Finally, the author ends his work with the development of some ideas that are tangible as a hug or a kiss and intangible, represented by the love the both characters feel for each other. How can love be represented?? In this case, by a mother taking care of her son and the baby being as calm as the environment allow him/her to be. Can you see through this picture what I just tell you in my own words?