Theater Review

I have to say this is the best comedy in English ever also the only comedy I’ve watched. The comedy doesn’t start with their first show but with two people introduce the whole comedy, one introduces the whole thing and speaks a lot, the other reply. It is kind of similar with a Chinese traditional comedy called Cross Talk is also played by only 2 people.

To be honest, every time I finished watch musical, comedy, drama, I feel awful. Not because of the play because they are all awesome but because my English is too bad. There are too many jokes that I can’t understand, some because of unfamiliar words, some because of culture. As a international student, I was taught by different culture, I don’t really know who Trump’s daughter is, or how crazy a Christian could be, I don’t even know the joke “Knock, knock. Whose there?” until I come to America. This comedy once again makes me feel my distance with American culture further. This is not the comedy’s fault obviously. But it really makes me realize I have to learn English hardly to join this place where I am going to live for 10 more years. I don’t want to be a normal international student who looks dumb and pretend to understand jokes. I don’t want to look so stupid and I don’t want other people know I don’t understand what they said so I could only pretend laughing when those Americans are laughing. But this makes me feel so embarrass and looks even more like a mutt.

Back to the comedy, it is awesome, especially the Morning Meeting. Every one who sits there or stands on the stage really looks like teacher. For Zola, her dog, her pink Crocs, Her red hair, her yellow scarf is really Ms.Minahan’s style. I recognize her plays Ms. Minahan immediately! Also John’s role who is Mr. Dykeman is good. The iconic gray CA shirt and the DD coffee is what we see him wearing almost every morning meet. Also the pose he stands beside the lectern is so alike. I can see every one in this comedy works really hard. They did not only wear teachers’ cloth but also shows audiences teachers’ accents, emotions, movements, and also words they usually say. I believe morning meeting is what students in CA remember the most clearly after they graduate.

Poem Analysis assignment

The poem I choose is Baby's World by Rabindranath Tagore. From the title of this poem, it is not hard to know this poem is a very soft and peaceful poem that describes world only exists in people’s imaginations. On the other hand it also shows writer’s expectation of real world. Tagore is a writer I know from my primary school textbook but this is my first time to really recite his poem. It is different form normally poems which has a special structure with only one stanza.

The poem Baby’s World describes things happens in a baby's world. The writer wants to travel to baby’s world where there are toys, stars, stories... The baby has his own house and people come to him with stories and toys, and he lives a happy life. Sky and stars are friends with him, clouds and rainbows play with him. He never needs to worry friends leave him because stars are always with him. Also not only baby him self lives a happy life but also people who live in this world. They are all equal, have the right for freedom, The facts, laws, and speaks are free. “ Where messengers ran errands for no cause”, describes the pressure of working and in his imagine world, people work form their personal willingness. People can say what ever they want and no one lies. Facts are supported by Truth, laws in his world were decoded by the baby. Things follow his mind. It is obviously to see that the writer really wants to live in this kind of Utopian world where there are no trouble and full of happiness.

 In the first sentence of Baby’s World, the writer says he wants to go to " the heart of my baby's very own world" which shows how deeply the idea of living in an equal and adorable world is in his mind. The writer uses baby as a significant figure of innocent, clear, and cute. So in the baby's world, there is no need to think too much, things go as what he wants, no need to care about lies and facts because " truth sets fact free from its fetters". For the writer, maybe he meets some thing that doesn't reacts as what he wants, or people lie, him self have too many worries... The troubles he meets in real life makes him write a poem like this. “And out beyond all bounds”, shows that he has experienced the tastes of bounding.” By using the words stars, rainbows, toys, and stories, it is easy to make readers constitute an image of bright world with soft clouds, shining stars, and soft colors houses. In the poem, the writer uses" I wish I could" twice at the start and the middle. It separates the poem in to two parts, the first is used to describe people's action in baby's world, the other one is used to describe those Laws, Truth, and Facts. He also used many o sounds in his poem which sounds connected fluently. It counts as a free verse poem even though there are repeated sounds. In the last two sentences, even though they both uses " where" to start the sentences but the second sentence is longer and have a comma in the middle that shows the specialty of this sentence.

Reading this poem makes me remember my childhood when I had to trouble, and no pressure. The reason why I choose this poem is that I have the same hope as the writer does, so does everyone, no one doesn’t want to live in a Utopian world.

Poem recitation link

https://youtu.be/AtHuHyK01Jo

Tone+Music

The poem Baby's World has a relax and soft tone. In the poem, it describe how free the writer would be in baby's world where there are sky, stars, and toys. It is a pretty lovely poem so I choose a lullaby of Schubert that can make people relax.

http://youtu.be/Qkzy59Bo1qs

The first song in this video is what I choose.

Choose a poem- Baby's world

Baby's World

I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very

own world.

I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops

down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows.

Those who make believe to be dumb, and look as if they never

could move, come creeping to his window with their stories and with

trays crowded with bright toys.

I wish I could travel by the road that crosses baby's mind,

and out beyond all bounds;

Where messengers run errands for no cause between the kingdoms

of kings of no history;

Where Reason makes kites of her laws and flies them, the Truth

sets Fact free from its fetters. 

By Rabindranath Tagore

Birth: 05/07/1861

Death:08/07/1941

Poem-Little Mermaid

Once upon a time, in a splendid palace on the bed of the bluest ocean, lived the Sea King, a wise old triton with a long flowing white beard. He lived in a magnificent palace, built of gaily coloured coral and seashells, together with his five daughters, very beautiful mermaids. Sirenetta, the youngest and loveliest of them all, also had a beautiful voice, and when she sang, the fishes flocked from all over the sea to listen to her. The shells gaped wide, showing their pearls and even the jellyfish stopped to listen. The young mermaid often sang, and each time, she would gaze upwards, seeking the faint sunlight that scarcely managed to filter down into the depths.

Little Mermaid

A splendid palace,

on the bed of the bluest ocean,

lived Sirenetta,

the youngest and loveliest mermaid.

when she sang,

fishes flocked, jellyfish stopped, shells gaped wide,

showing their pearls.

she gaze upwards,

seeking the faint sunlight,

that scarcely managed into the depths.

paragraph into poem

Dorms at Cheshire Academy are more than just a place to sleep and study. These residential homes are also a place to unwind, study, talk to friends, listen to music, play games and find time to be alone. Living together on campus helps students and faculty to bond and forge lifelong connections. Friendships built here continue long after graduation.

Dorms

Dorms at Cheshire Academy

more than just a place to sleep

These are homes

a place to unwind, study , and find time to be alone.

Living together on campus

Friendships built here

continue long after graduation.