Blog #2

Finding Your Howl
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/51.01.YourHowl
Story 1 Summary

Mumon is a red Wolfe who lost his howl due to living in captivity. He went on a journey to find his howl. He saw a deer and decided to chase it. The deer told Mumon that when he needs his howl it will be there. Mumon ate the deer. He ran with the extra energy until he came upon a farmer. The farmer shot him. He dropped down hearing tribal chants. He howled. There is a howl inside of all of us. It will be there when we most need it.

Robert Frost
Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would sufficed


This poem is one of my favorites and speaks to me in many different ways on many different levels. The main question is asking will the world end in fire or ice and which would be more preferable for a person. Would you rather be burned to death or freeze to death? The rhyme scheme drawls me into this poem because as a creative person I like things to flow and sound natural. I love poems that rhyme because they draw me in more than a poem that does not rhyme.  I love the personal questions that this poem makes you contemplate. Which way would you like to die? I feel that in many poems you never face this difficult and horrid question. But the way Frost interprets it makes it not so violent and more trivial. It makes you think. I love it because its not a question about love, friendship, or fortune but about life and death. It deals with serious issues that we may have to face but the poem is not forecful or threatening. Personally I would rather perish in fire. It is quicker and I rather have a quick surge of pain rather then a long drawn out death. If you have ever experienced the emotion of desire you can account for how fiery and heated the emotion is, so it would be a more comforting way to die because you know how it feels. Ice might be a longer death but it would perhaps be less painful after a long period of time because your body simply goes numb. Also if you have known enough of hate in your life you are use to the coldness of that emotion so dying by ice would be a more desirable choice for you.  It's intriguing that Frost is making you think that you will have the choice about which death you can take. His words draw you in into a trick that make you consider one death above the other. But in all reality either death would suffice plus we would not have any choice over the decision anyways. I think from a creative aspect Frost is trying to say that if the world ends in fire that it will basically end in a hateful war. If the world ends in ice, then we shall all die in loneliness. Hatred, love and lust are capable of great destruct and as a human race we need to not abuse these emotions or it will be the end of us all. Frost is explaining that our greed, anger, lust, pride, wrath, envy, and gluttony will be the end of us if we do not be careful. Our sins will be our demise in the end. This poem could have thousands of interpretations but that is why I love it so much. Having a creative way of thinking I like to be able to think creatively and this poems lets my mind wonder and explore all the different options and meanings that Frost is giving.