Comic Story

Clemson versus South Carolina at Death Valley November 2010.

The most anticipated game in Tiger and Gamecock football season has finally arrived. Clemson takes on South Carolina at Death Valley on a crisp fall day in late November. The game begins as the referee administers the coin toss. Clemson wins and gets the ball first. Clemson scores first the first touchdown of the game. It was a long pass down the sideline to give them a 7-0 lead. The referee signals an offside penalty against Clemson. South Carolina marches down the field and scores a touchdown just before halftime to tie the game. The referee blows the whistle for halftime. The teams head to the locker room for a quick break and to discuss the game plan for the second half. The first call of the second half is a penalty called on South Carolina for an ineligible receiver downfield. The referee signals for a delay of game penalty against Clemson. Clemson takes a late timeout with only a few minutes remaining as they set up for their final drive. Clemson drives down the field and scores a touchdown in the final seconds of the game. Clemson wins the game 14-7 and adds another win to their rivalry with USC.

Intro to Poem Paper

Through out the history of time, communication among loved ones has always played a major role in the functionality of a family. Interaction among family members can be positive or negative and can directly affect them in one way or the other. Getting along and communicating well can be hard to handle even when living under the same roof let alone in separate realities. Stevie Smith writes about the struggle a husband and wife endure when forced to cope with one another’s extremely different worldly locations in her poem, “The Jungle Husband.” Using examples from Michelangelo’s famous work of art, The Creation of Adam; the popular novel, The Lovely Bones; the well-liked country music song, “Letters From Home”; and the chick flick, P.S. I love You, I will further investigate and reinforce Smith’s changing message in “The Jungle Husband”. In this poem, Stevie Smith writes about the struggle a couple is forced to deal with when their relationship becomes long distance and how the husband tries to cope with it by writing letters home to his wife from the jungle.

Poem/Book

I have chosen the poem "The Jungle Husband" to write my paper on and I have decided to use the book The Lovely Bones to compare and dissect the poem with. Both works of literature have to do with family relationships. The book discusses how a family deals with the death of their young daughter and sister while the poem is about a husband and wife who are not physically together but still married. In addition to dealing with relationships in unordinary times or times of distraught the poem and book both have parallel universes or worlds. In "The Jungle Husband", the jungle and the real world are mirrored together while in The Lovely Bones, we see characters different perspectives from Earth and Heaven.

Hiroshima Poem

Word Connections:

beer/thirst

afloat/river/water

coffee/pancake/sandwich/pizza/cherry

horror/grim

eight-fifteen

glass/shard

Research Points:

time significance of eight-fifteen - time atomic bomb was dropped by americans on hiroshima, makes me more and more of an emotional reaction when referring to child's wristwatch

peace parks's floral hypocenter - erasing memory of bomb's massacre by honoring people, other war memorials/ground zero

humanity erases its own erasure: humans killed their own kind/species - IRONIC