AUTUMN

Whoever has no house now will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone
Will sit, read, write long letters through the evening
And wander on the boulevards, up and down...

Autumn Day                               Rainer Maria Rilke 


Its stain is everywhere.
The sharpening air
of late afternoon
is now the colour of tea.
Once-glycerined green leaves
burned by a summer sun
are brittle and ochre.
Night enters day like a thief.
And children fear that the beautiful daylight has gone.
Whoever has no house now will never have one.

It is the best and the worst time.
Around a fire, everyone laughing,
brocaded curtains drawn,
nowhere-anywhere-is more safe than here.
The whole world is a cup
one could hold in one's hand like a stone
warmed by that same summer sun.
But the dead or the near dead
are now all knucklebone.
Whoever is alone will stay alone.

Nothing to do. Nothing to really do.
Toast and tea are nothing.
Kettle boils dry.
Shut the night out or let it in,
it is a cat on the wrong side of the door
whichever side it is on. A black thing
with its implacable face.
To avoid it you
will tell yourself you are something,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening.

Even though there is bounty, a full harvest
that sharp sweetness in the tea-stained air
is reserved for those who have made a straw 
fine as a hair to suck it through-
fine as a golden hair.
Wearing a smile or a frown
God's face is always there.
It is up to you
if you take your wintry restlessness into the town
and wander on the boulevards, up and down.

P.K.PAGE

Patricia Kathleen Page was born in England, in 1916, when she was 3 years older, Page's family moved to Canada. Because her father was in the military, the family spent time in different cities, including Calgary, Montreal, and Saint John, N.B.

Page began publishing her poems in periodicals in the late 1930s and also began writing books.

Page published more than a dozen books — spanning poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's literature — and also developed a parallel career as an accomplished painter, after studying under artists in Brazil and New York.

She was died in 2009, and she was 93 years old.

She was one of our early explorers in poetry. She's one of the ones who made it possible for Canadian poets to believe in themselves," B.C. poet Lorna Crozier told CBC News.

A country in the world where Orwell’s fears have come true

That is North Korea. Indeed, There is no one who wants to be a North Korean. It is the totalitarian horror place where we can only see in fiction, and the brutal level is same as the place in 1984. Orwell predicted almost every aspect of nastiest political regime; everyone may surprise that how this kind country exists in the real world.

Kim’s exhortations to his citizen — “Let us live our own way”, “Adore Kim Jong Il with all your heart” — are reverberations of the slogans of 1984, which echoes in my ear. “Big Brother is watching you.” “War is peace.” “Freedom is slavery”.
Do the citizen delay in North Korea? – No way! Ruler keeps educating citizen that way. In Winston’s diary, he wrote, “Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death.” And, that happen in North Korea. There is no personal opinion and privacy in North Korea. Any perceived words against the regime are punishable by death, or at least go to jail. Forbidden free- speech, love, cellphones and Internet.

Kim Jong Il is getting piggy while citizens are becoming ant’s waist. People are starving while he is drinking Cognac. Birthday gifts for his son, 27 years old, are transported by train while children are dying because of the lack of nutrition. In 1984, the high rank party member only…… has a big office and drink good red wine there.


He is surely the weirdest leader in the world. He isolated North Korea from the rest of the world.

5)Create a chart with the titles of the films on the top, and “Film’s opinion of free speech”, “Government’s opinion of free speech” and “How the lead characters resisted” on the left side. Complete the chart.

4)“Mindless entertainment would replace recreational free thinking.” With reference to the film Fahrenheit 451, and maybe SUAS, can you provide evidence for this statement?

I don’t think the Mindless entertainment would replace recreational free thinking. The mindless entertainment as a popular juke permeates our life present. I did not watch it frequently because it might addict my brain loss the activity.
In the film of Fahrenheit 451, books were forbidden in their society. The citizens could not read the books, and then they use strange television. In Fahrenheit 451 when Linda was watching television, she answered questions from the TV show, then she got feedback form the mindless TV show.
In SUAS Natalie had spoken "Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." after this speech, she lost her fans because of the mindless report of the Media. I think the Media just want to make a news to entertain people, they are exaggerated the speech of Natalie.

3) What does the term “dystopia” mean, anyway? Can you give me another example, say one from real life?

Dystopia means a place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
After the catastrophe of Haiti, there became a dystopia county in the world. People kill and steal each other, without any control.

Orwell's 1984

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984.htm
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/whywrite.html

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