My blog is based on the book Heartbeat by Sharon Creech. In my blog, I explain the book through summaries and I share my thoughts on some of the happenings that occured in the story. The summary's are in white, my thoughts are in green and the pages/poem titles are in purple. However, for the next two sections, i am going to have a seperate posts for my summarys and my thoughts (i will still keep the same colors though). I truely hope that you guys enjoy my blog and leave some great comments!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Section 3: Thoughts (Pg. 120 - end)

Connection: part 1
This passage phenomenally brought out a different side of Annie and changed my interpretations of her. After reading this section, i noticed how similar Annie is to Robert Frost - a famous poet. All of his poems astoundingly represent what Annie noticed about life. Each of his poems pin-point how to take the small details in life, and make them something larger and more important than what they are known to be. Annie and Robert Frost remarkably show how you can change something, as small as an apple or as simple as a snow-covered hilltop, and extract everything from their simple but intricate details. Robert Frost, in one of his poems called "The Sound of the Trees", connects the trees to his life, as if they are more meaningful and majestic than just leaves and bark (you can read the full poem at the bottom of my blog). He visualized the tree as if it had a voice and he connected the sounds and movements of it to his life. Robert swayed like the tree in the poem, he listened to it's every action and he said "I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice;Some day when they are in voice;And tossing so as to scare;The white clouds over them on;I shall have less to say, but I shall be gone" as if his life is directly connected with this intricate tree.

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