Reflection

Yesterday, I dreamed that,

Providentia foretold the right path for the apple,

Plutus was beyond the paradise,

Muse is nowhere distant.

 

Today, the mirror reflects,

A Fool, inverted in the void,

As if blindly tottering toward mirage,

Only tripping to the tartarean trench.

 

Tomorrow, what will be there?

Belphegor that corrodes into the soul,

A commoner that Matthews prophesied,

Or a camel that can’t go through the eye of the needle.

 

But the day after, none of them varies,

All from the Earth, all back to Earth,

Nothing can last forever,

The end is always the same equality.

Do Seek Their Meat from God

      The Short Story "Do Seek Their Meat from God", written by G.D. Roberts recounts a story of interaction between mankind and the nature world. The title of the story can trace its root in Psalm 104, a poem about praising God's power of creating the univers and setting the law of the universe. In verse 21, it is described that "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God". "Seek their meat from God" can be interpreted as the evolutionary method for a predator to find their food. In context, this can be interpreted as the panther specie's own unique way for searching the prey, or the child in the story. In verse 28-29, it is described "That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust". These two verses descirbe the ruthlessness of the nature. In the story, the two panthers find the separated child with pure luck, as the verse 28 described living will find enough food when in God is pleased. And the death of the panther cubs can be seen as the God is not pleased with them and turned away which were described in the Bible.

Review on "Rape of the Lock"

"Rape of the Lock" is a epic poem written by Alexander Pope in the eighteenth century.  In the beginning of the poem, the protagonist of the poem, Belinda is sleeping. Her "guardian Sylph" told her that something horrible will happen in her dream. Belinda then wakes up and gets help from her maid to ready up oft the day. Belinda the dresses up nicely for a party at Hampton Court. Pope also described Belinda's locks of hair here.  Ariel, the guardian Sylph, meanwhile summoned many sylphs to protect Belinda unknowing what the threat will be. In the party, The Baron, one of Belinda's suitor conspires to steal one of Belinda's lock of hair. After three attempts of cutting off Belinda's lock are failed because of the sylph's blowing "back the hair" and moving "the diamond in her ears" to make Belinda turn her head, the baron still succeeds. Then a gnome journeys to Cave of Spleen to bring a bag of anger and bring them to Belinda. This causes Belinda to get angry to yell to the Baron to get her lock back. Many people supported Belinda and demand the Baron to give her lock back. Nevertheless, the baron refuses and they get into a fight. However, during the fight the lock is lost. In the end of the poem, Pope tells us that the lock of the hair became a star and "this lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame, and 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name." This poem is written by Pope in order to criticize a quarrel between two families which resulted problems to the whole society, but was caused only by one boy of a family stole the lock of hair of a girl in the other family. Pope is also criticizing the idleness of the high society in the eighteenth century while many others were still suffered from famine.