Note

Nature is what we see - Emily Dickinson

- The three factors: see hear how

- Short poem with structure (3 steps of metaphors) 

- the rhythm (see eclipse and so on )

- heaven and harmony - connection and meaning

Blood

- Connection with Arabic culture

- connected with mother nation

- sterotype and how the poet trying to explain

- tradition to characteristics

- nowadays situation

- tragedy 

- her goal (wave the flag of stone and seed, peace and neutral)

- questions to all around the world

- the judgement of being "civilized"  

- sadness

- wish of peace

- how her father cares and how proud for themselves

Nature is what we seeee

Natural is what we see. In Emily Dickinson's poems, a lot of them contains about natural. Due to her own experience, for example, she lives alone in a place which is far away from populations and communities. So she has a lot of chances to find the special meaning of nature to her, and take adventure for it. So this poem is about both in realistic that the beauty of natural, but also the metaphor from the the description of nature. 

This is a short poem, with only a single stanza and 12 lines, with her unique settings of dashes and non title poem, but meaning instead of the size. She goes really straight to it to give us her definition of natural. " "Nature" is what we see—The Hill—the Afternoon— Nay—Nature is Heaven— Nature is what we hear— Nay—Nature is Harmony— Nature is what we know—Yet have no art to say—" Natural. From anything listed with time, (afternoon), metaphor (heaven), harmony (description). To be surprised, normally her poem has double meaning, one positive and one negative. But this time she wrote anthem for the natural, like worshipping the god. As a great poet, her poem in physical shaped well too. For example, the rhythm is really beautiful. For example, the ending of the lines are connected with words "see, eclipse, bee, sea , say , simplicity" with "c" sound. And nature (nay) with "heaven, hear, " and so on.   

Analyzing the poem

The poem that I am choosing from the first line with "I dwell in Possibility - ", also as the title of the poem. This is the unique part of Emily Dickinson's poems, which she does not write the title for her poems, and to be respected, we do not use any adaptations, so directly we put the first line of the poem as the name. There are also something else that are famous for how unique they are from her poems. For example, the several " - " as the ending in her poems. Then the last thing which is quiet important to talk about, is the implications that she has in her poems. Just like a typical female, always has "words under words". 

  This is the topic of possibility, which is complicated and have so many changes itself already. For example, the line "A fairer House than Prose- More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors- " In any cases, windows and doors are the entrance for living things and air. Door is opened to outside, a brand new world waiting to explore, which means adventure and future - that is the representation of possibility, which is connected to the topic "possibility" itself.  Window has the similar meaning. Because window is facing to the fresh air and the sky outside, every thing new comes from window - sounds, air , smells, even sometimes birds would fly to the window as a guest. For those we are not familiar with, or "opened" things are all considered as possibility in the poem from Emily Dickinson. And mostly she chooses to write in a quiet positive way. 

She uses a lot of metaphors in her work, and mostly they are not so direct. For example, another metaphor for possibility is she used for roof and sky. They are connected really tightly. Roof is the way to reach sky, sky is what makes roof wonderful and attractive. And both of them as I mentioned, they all mean and related to the word possibility. In the end of the poem, she tells the positive meaning sneakily. "For occupation - This- The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise - ". The destination, or definition of possibility towards to paradise. 

Take me to broadway

This Wednesday, we went to a 10 hours long field trip to New York city to watch a play in broadway, and the theme of the play is the indicate of the curious dog. It was a book that we read long time ago, and I was surprised that it can be adapted by performance. As the time that we entered the theatre, it was really brand and good looking from the outside decorations. But the central part which those actors took place to perform look a little bit simple, or poor. That was the first impression for me to the theatre. But later on, when it uses the sound effects and light effects, I was amazed by how fancy and creative the technology using by it. Then when the actors directly opened the hided boxes under the floor, and when Christopher climbs on the wall, the train coming on the rail way, and train station and so on effects. Especially the digital projection, which is just mentioned in class how we can do it. This impresses me a lot. It is just like having a great meal, and the harvest is put by steps, from when I just sit in  the theatre I did not feel anything special, but the feeling of admire increases by time. Since I started to do drama as afternoon activities, I started to know how to analysis or understand the staging and quality of practise of working in pairs. The only comment I have is they are professional. I do not really like that character Christopher, because of his behavior of being annoying, but I have to say that that leading actor is really good at it. The autism kid acting is really realistic. I think I have a lot of things to learn from them, in order to improve my performing skills.

Poems

1. The grandma in the traditional Arab village, is gathering grapes. It was represented by the scene of grandma working and granddaughter imaging aside, with the faithful connection of prayers. "I woke from the long fever to find them.   "faith and life "

covering my head like cool prayers."

2. The grandma is talking about the things that are important in her life are gone that she's not surprised by anything now. Her passed away husband, and the coming death. "who fly from her like seeds into a deep sky.     "

They will plant themselves. We will all die."    "face to death"

3. In the family dad talked about the traditions of their nation Arab, about the religious connection of death and afterlife. "Once I said, “When we die, we give it back?”   

He said that’s what a true Arab would say." "religious traditions" 

2 Diorama

Since I have not chose any thing specific ideas for my scene, I will do the final scene of the adaptation just right now. Because the ending part is way more significant. The scene is about the part that Kahu finally became the whale rider with the whale, and leaving her tribe, and her family. Her grandfather, Koro the leader of the tribe with his wife say farewell to Kahu. The style of the staging is mostly sad, which shows how the old traditional grandpa feels sad and regrets for his thoughts of his awesome grand daughter. As in the pic, I will use digital projection with sea and beach as the background, and with grandparents on stage right, and Kahu with the whale (maybe she hangs a model of whale) on the stage right.

Whale rider live

As we had a long time period of our class over the whole year of working on "the second part of the class", performance, I guess I am more familiar with the word and everything behind that. We used basically one and half quarter of the year term to work on staging and adaptation from some novels. It is just like a progress of a production, and I am getting to it right now. Those IB course exams helped me a lot, although I am not a full IB student so that the grade of the exam is not that obviously important. Especially when my teacher commented after I finally finished my oral presentation with only 9 bullet points, that I have learned a lot. I agree with that totally with fully appreciation. So now I am here to talk about the possible / pretending that we may do an adaption of the novel The Whale Rider. 

This is the novel which kind of truly represented the nowadays situation of Maori people, the natives around New Zealand. There is a word that was so obvious, and seem like a key word that we even have seen it in the test we had: Magical realism (Maybe those two words I am not 100 percent positively sure about it). The story that it tells is real and realistic in the same time, but with a kind of "magical production" within. For example, the conversation and the tale of whale and whale rider. In those stories that participates with gods and super nature, I call it "magical production". But the meaning and idea that the story teller wants to express is very realistic and clarified. This is the key work that we may work on. So I agree that the adaption can have a lot of wide ideas, and we do not have to settle them into an original staging. We can set the whole story into any time periods, with different groups / races of people, as long as we are connected with the connection between nature and humans, and tradition with humans are fine with it. I am sorry that I could not have a clear idea about the staging and story line for details, due to my poor imagination. But I have the outline about how the story would be like. 

I think this topic of story is really brand with deep meaning, but also a common topic. We can separate the idea into two different ways, due to everyone's perceptive about what the most important information that the novel is trying to tell us. I will put the connection between human beings and nature, then the another one is the conflict between tradition and modern. (Obviously, this novel supports the part of protecting tradition the most.) But it also shows the "invasion" of modern life, for example when the Maori tribe leader "picked up the smart phone and call his son from South Island". This is what is interesting and comedic from the topic, but sad in the same time. This is the factor that we can comedic the staging and the adaption.