things to do

it's April already....

actually, there is lots of things to do in this April

1. a peer teaching

2. scientific writing presentation

4. literary criticism's paper for midtest

3. mid test

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa stressss! I just tired with all of these stuffs..

P.s.: a peer teaching will do in five hours later, wish me luck ;)

why better is better?

Today still the same like yesterday, just flat, there is no greetings from you. probably because our last fight... yaa that was the worst war that we've ever faced. and I think God has planned this situation to make me more focus to my thesis, thank God *alibi* hahahaha

this morning, I just remembered that I have a lot of assignments that I haven't 'touched' yet. I don't know why I'm so lazy recently, how do we create the mood to finish all the assignments when the mood isn't there but the deadline is? still can not find the exact answer to that question and maybe only God knows.

my first assignments is about the topic for my thesis. Finally I found my topic for my thesis and it's related to literature. actually I ain't really sure about my topic because as a student who take teaching streams, I should take the topic that related to teaching streams but my brain didn't cooperate, I just can find the topic that related to literature. I should find articles or thesis that related to my topics and it will takes a long time but I have to collect it by this tuesday which means TOMORROW *sigh*

the second assignment is literary criticism, the assignment is about structuralism. well.. I really enjoy studying this subject because the way the lecture explain materials is very clear and make us easy to understand it and by understanding this subject we can analyze a literary works scientifically so that I feel like "mahasiswa satra yang sesungguhnya" hahahhaa

hmm .. I think, I'm gonna continue doing my assignment.

I will do my best

if best is possible

why better is better?

talk tou you later... xoxo

dwi

To The Mercy Killer by Dudley Randall

If ever mercy move you murder me,

I pray you, kindly killers, let me live.

Never conspire with death to set me free,

but let me know such life as pain can give.

Even though I be a clot, an aching clench,

a stub, a stump, a butt, a scap, a knob,

a screaming pain, a putrefying stench,

still let me live, so long as life shall throb.

Even though I turn such traitor to myself

as beg to die, do not accomplice me.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf

of glucose, bottled blood, machinery

to swell the lung and pump the heart, even so,

do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

analysis:
The poem was written in 1973 by the African-American poet and librarian Dudley Randall and has since become one of the most effective poetical pieces against mercy killing. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920. This poem takes one of the most controversial issues in America in that era; euthanasia. Based on BBC, Euthanasia means the termination of a very sick person's life in order to relieve them of their suffering. In most cases euthanasia is carried out because the person who dies asks for it, but there are cases called euthanasia where a person can't make such a request.

For the conclusion, as a whole of the interpretation of this “To the Mercy Killers” poetry, i think the writer portrays a darkened scene of a man struggling with himself because of his illness and he doesn’t want to be killed by the mercy killer. I think the mercy killer could be a doctor. The writer wants to describe, even the victims in the future life isn’t in the good condition or in miserable, they still have a chance to live their life and don’t want to be euthanized by those mercy killers.

The story we know by martha collins

The way to begin is always the same. Hello,

Hello. Your hand, your name. So glad, just fine,
and Good bye at the end. That’s every story we know,

and why pretend? But lunch tomorrow? No?
Yes? An omelette, salad, chilled white wine?
The way to begin is simple, sane, Hello,

and then it’s Sunday, coffee, the Times, a slow
day by the fire, dinner at eight or nine
and Good bye. In the end, this is a story we know

so well we don’t turn the page, or look below
the picture, or follow the words to the next line:
The way to begin is always the same Hello.

But one night, through the latticed window, snow
begins to whiten the air, and the tall white pine.
Good bye is the end of every story we know

that night, and when we dose the curtains, oh,
we hold each other against that cold white sign
of the way we all begin and end. Hello,
Good bye is the only story. We know, we know.

analysis :
based on my opinion this poem has a stong feeling, this poetry is talking about the birth and the death, for more specific, how we live our life until we face the death. Begin with birth and then we grow up. Every people has their own way to live their life, how people concentrate on the worship of the self; lunch on the luxury restaurant, eat an expensive food and many more. By the time we are growing old we know that we are getting closer to the death, like the poem said “Of the way we all begin and end. Hello, Good-bye is the only story”

BALI

Bali is an island located in the state of indonesia. Bali is the most beautiful place that i have ever known. Because first, Bali has some beautiful beaches, second, Bali has a lot of shopping places and the last, Bali has a beautiful scenery.

When we visit Bali it feels incomplete if we did not come to the beautiful beach there. Bali has many beautiful beaches such as Kuta beach, Sanur beach, Nusa dua beach, and Jimbaran beach. many of the tourists sunbathing on the beach, playing sand and so on. otherwise we can try water sports such as skydiving, snorkling, banana boats, para-sailing, water skiing and many others.

In Bali, there are have so many shopping places that we can visit to buy something or souvenirs. We can visit Sukowati Art Market or Kuta Art Market, at this market we will find many products such as cloths, handicrafts, beads or other hand mades in a very cheap price.

The last, if we are tired of the beach or the noise in the city of Bali, we can go to rural areas in Bali, many beautiful sights we can see there. there are mountains and green fields spread out very wide and also we can get fresh air.

So those are the reason why I called Bali is the most beautiful place in the world.