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border-right: 2px #F696E3 ; border-top: 2px #F696E3 ; border-bottom: 2px #F696E3 ;"> <div align="left"> <center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/piggyangel/caho/endlessroad.jpg" width="560" height="480"></center> </div> </div> <div align="justify" style="position: absolute; top: 500; left: 40; width: 480; padding: 5px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto;"> <p> <div align="left"> <a name="1807355949647403934"></a><b>Tuesday, June 15, 2010</b><br> </div> <br> <div align="center"><u> Poem Post (1) </u></div> <p><div align="justify"> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF6666;">Pain In Pleasure</span></span> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">by Elizabeth Barrett Browning</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And drew around it other thoughts like bees</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For multitude and thirst of sweetnesses;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whereat rejoicing, I desired the art</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Of the Greek whistler, who to wharf and mart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Could lure those insect swarms from orange-trees</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That I might hive with me such thoughts and please</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My soul so, always. foolish counterpart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Of a weak man's vain wishes ! While I spoke,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The thought I called a flower grew nettle-rough</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The thoughts, called bees, stung me to festering:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Oh, entertain (cried Reason as she woke)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Your best and gladdest thoughts but long enough,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And they will all prove sad enough to sting !</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF66;">This poem tells its readers how pleasure is associated with pain. The poet loved and had experienced happiness before. He had sweet thoughts like flowers but later bees came to draw the nectar out, signaling that when other things came along, that were not as pleasurable as the previous happy thought, the poet would feel pain as he gradually felt pain after the drawing of nectar. With pain, there would be pleasure, but without pain, there would be no pleasure. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF66;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF66;"> </span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, serif;color:#C0C0C0;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#99FF99;">Just like in The Giver, a memory of pain gives meaning to pleasure. In the community, life is monotonous, without joy, devoid of emotional variation because pleasurable things do not have the value that a memory of pain would give them. Pain is not felt as fully as it would be if the person experiencing it had the knowledge of pleasure. In Jonas’s community, everything was provided for the citizens, from the rudiments like food and clothes to each citizen’s mates and children that they will live with till they enter the house of childless adults. The citizens lived a life of comfort and have never experienced pain in their entire life; hence they do not understand the meaning of pleasure. No matter how delightful an experience is, one cannot experience the value of the pleasure it gives unless one has suffered before. Therefore, I can conclude that pain is associated with pleasure, with no pleasure there would be no pain and vice versa.</span></span></span></p>  </span><p></p> <div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> <p> <div align="right">Walking down an endless road,<br> <b>Jonas, from The Giver.</b><br><a href="http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/poem-post-1.html">10:14 PM</b> <a class="comment-link" href="https://draft.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5451399553141967018/1807355949647403934" onclick="window.open('https://draft.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5451399553141967018/1807355949647403934', 'bloggerPopup', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=400,height=450');return false;">0 comments</a> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div align="justify" style="position: absolute; top: 20; left: 480; width: 470; padding: 5px;"> <center><b>Me.</b> <br> all about you. <p></center> <center><b>Friends.</b></center><br> <center> <a href="http://the-receiver-of-memory.blogspot.com/">Judith</a><br> <a href="http://www.the-giver-lois-lowry.blogspot.com/">Divya</a><br> <a href="http://giverofmemories.blogspot.com/">Nicolette</a><br> <a href="http://maysingiver.blogspot.com/">May Sin</a><br> <a href="http://rachelsiew.blogspot.com/">Rachel</a><br> <a href="http://www.aworldofsameness.blogspot.com/">Andrea</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><p> </center> <center><b>Memories.</b></center><br> <center> <a href='http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/'>June 2010<br></a> <a href='http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/'>July 2010<br></a> <br><br></center><p> <center><b>Credits.</b><br> <b>Picture</b>:<a href="http://gettyimages.com">GettyImages</a><br> <b>Design</b>:<a href="http://www.ohwhatbaloney.blogspot.com">Caho</a><p> <center><b>Yadda.</b></center><br> <center> <-----tagboardcodehere---------> </center> </div> </div> </html> <noembed> <body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://draft.blogger.com/navbar/5451399553141967018?origin\x3dhttp://thegiver2m.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script><div id="b-navbar"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="b-logo" title="Go to Blogger.com"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/navbar/3/logobar.gif" alt="Blogger" width="80" height="24" /></a><form id="b-search" action="http://www.google.com/search"><div id="b-more"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="b-getorpost"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/navbar/3/btn_getblog.gif" alt="Get your own blog" width="112" height="15" /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/redirect/next_blog.pyra?navBar=true" id="b-next"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/navbar/3/btn_nextblog.gif" alt="Next blog" width="72" height="15" /></a></div><div id="b-this"><input type="text" id="b-query" name="q" /><input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" /><input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="shadowmist.blogspot.com" /><input type="image" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/navbar/3/btn_search.gif" alt="Search" value="Search" id="b-searchbtn" title="Search this blog with Google" /><a href="javascript:BlogThis();" id="b-blogthis">BlogThis!</a></div></form></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><div id="space-for-ie"></div> </noembed> <BR><BR> </Blogger> </div> </body> </html>