Activity 1

Nuggets from Africa by Maya Angelou

1.) Why did the author use a "woman" as a metaphor for Africa?
2.) How may the Philippines be compared with Africa?

1. The correlation among africa and how ladies are abused are practically indistinguishable. While
africa was attacked by the Europeans and forced to them their principles just as thought about
africans as slaves, ladies are being treated by the general public dependent on standards, their
qualities and poise are dismissed while some are denied of regard. Both are being abused by
strangers or for ladies, the general public. In spite of all the separation, misuse, sexism, and so on.,
both africa and ladies correspondingly conquered the preliminaries they experienced and will keep
on transcending the hardship they may look later on.

2. There are similitudes among Africa and the Philippines. Both have been abused by colonizers
who need to benefit from them. They accepting the residents as slaves and removed their rights to
live in their homeland. The character of the two nations has been removed numerous years prior and
are attempting to take it back the present moment.
ACTIVITY 2:
1. Nuggets on the literature "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
2. Nuggets on the literature "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being presented the subject of light and weight. These components
turned into the explanation for the activities of each character in the story. For the characters, these
variables sway their choices in life that they think would lead them to having joy. Life is really
isolated into two sets. The gentility which fills in as the positive, and the weight which fills in as the
negative. Through the idea that was presented in the story, I came to understand that there are a
great deal of things that could occur throughout everyday life. We may encounter a great deal of
difficulties or inconveniences which could be viewed as the weight in our life, however that doesn't
mean we would do things that we would in the end lament at last. Individuals will in general consider
planning something for break from life's weight and bounce into something that they think would
satisfy them or as it were, the softness. However, we should understand that each weight we
experience has a reason. Regardless of what occurs, we ought to dependably ensure that we are in
the correct track on the grounds that occasionally, the weight is the one that would really lead us to
life's gentility. Attempting to maintain a strategic distance from the weight by doing things that should
be could even draw us even a long way from softness

2. One of the most important lessons that Huck learns is that adults are not always right in their
thinking and decisions. He has always been submissive towards adult authority, although he is
contemptuous of it, and he assumes that even obvious con-men and dullards like the Duke and
Dauphin have some knowledge of the world that he lacks. However, events show him over and
over that everyone is fallible.
ACTIVITY 3:
1.) List the metaphors found in the poem "I Felt the Funeral In My Brain" by Emily Dickinson and give
their meaning/ implication
2.) What is the emotion expressed by the persona in the poem I felt the Funeral In My Brain?
3.) What do you feel about the poem?
4.) List the metaphors found in the selection "A Rose for Emily" and provide their meaning/
implication.

1. Dickinson utilizes the representation of a funeral to speak to the speaker's feeling that a piece of
her is biting the dust, that is, her reason is being overpowered by the unreasonableness of the
oblivious. "I felt the memorial service in my mind" a burial service is a fitting picture for this trial. The
burial service denotes the entry starting with one state then onto the next (Life to death, mental
soundness to craziness). Likewise a burial service is a formal occasion, whose standards and
methodology recommend control and request. The control and request certain in a burial service
balance unexpectedly with the absence of control and loss of sanity that undermine the speaker.
Nonetheless, the artist isn't watching the memorial service yet is feeling it. She is both spectator of
the memorial service and member, showing that the Self is separated.

2. One can trace the process of the speaker’s loss rationality in stanza three and four. The last two
lines of stanza four assess her condition, “And I and silence some strange race/ Wrecked, solitary,
here.”she sees herself as wrecked and solitary. Her descent into irrationality separates her from
other human beings, making her a member of “some strange race”. Her alienation and inability to
communicate are indicated by her being enveloped by silence. This is also shows Dickinson in an in-
between state of sanity and insanity. She finds herself in a strange place with a “strange race” not
knowing where to go or not to do.

3. I feel sad at the same time having a guilt in my mind because I may not be sensitive sometimes to
the person who are having this situation. I may not considering it seriously because I am a kind of
person who looks like not serious in life but having my own personal problems also. I thought they
can go on with their life and nobody can help them because at the end it is at their will whether to
continue or to meet the end. Also I cannot give a good advice to the person who have this attitude
because even myself I cannot do the right thing.

4. As the town modernized around her, Miss Emily turned out to be step by step increasingly
antisocial. Since individuals had lost enthusiasm for the sophisticated craft of china-painting, she quit
welcoming individuals into her home for exercises. She enabled herself to end up fat and failed to
acknowledge new design patterns or home improving updates, liking to live in the past in her quit for
the day faintly lit home. Her dismissal of the changing occasions is apparent in her dress and difficult
sticking to the man of his word's understanding her dad had with the town as to the family's expense
liabilities. Her withdrawal from society subsequent to being such a noticeable "grandiose" resident in
her childhood means her dismissal of advancement and her longing for the South to hold its old
ways
ACTIVITY 4: Provide the metaphors and its meaning of "I'm nobody! Who are You?" by Emily
Dickinson.

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
In this stanza, the speaker discloses to her listener precisely why she doesn't wish to be anyone. She
says that it would be "dreary to be Somebody". She wants to be disregarded. She fears getting to be
somebody "open" and depicts an open individual as being "like a frog". It appears to be odd that the
speaker would contrast an open individual with a frog. Maybe this is on the grounds that frogs live out in
the open, laying on lily cushions in lakes. Maybe this is on the grounds that frogs can be boisterous and
will croak, helping everybody to remember their essence. For some reason, the speaker trusts that to
live covered up and calm is superior to live out in the open, talking uproariously and attracting
consideration regarding oneself. She in this manner analyzes frogs to individuals who live in the open
eye, or rather, are "somebody". The last two lines of this lyric uncover the speaker's appall at carrying on
with her life to recount her very own name "to an admiring bog". A "bog" portrays a spot in which a frog
may live. This gives further knowledge into the speaker's examination of an open individual to a frog.
Despite the fact that the frog croaks continually, it recounts its reality just to the swamp. Nobody
appears to hear it or care that it croaks about its own reality. This is the reason the speaker does not
wish to be known or publicized by anybody. She trusts it would be just as she were recounting herself to
a "bog". Nobody would be there to mind or tune in, and she would feel as stupid as a croaking frog.
ACTIVITY 5
1.) List the metaphors found in the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson and give
their meaning/ implication
2.) What is the emotion expressed by the persona in the poem.
3.) What do you feel about the poem?

1. In the first line of this poem, the speaker exclaims that she is “Nobody”. The use of the exclamation
mark reveals that the speaker is actually excited to be nobody. This is ironic, because the majority of
people would like to be known as somebody. Thus, it strikes the reader as somewhat odd that this speaker
says that she is nobody in a voice of exclamation. She is rather excited to be “Nobody”. The second part
of the first line reveals that the speaker is meeting someone else. She exclaims her identity as “nobody” to
that person, and asks the person, “Who are you?” Then, in line two, the speaker asks in a hopeful voice,
“Are you- Nobody- too?” The speaker seems to be hoping to have met another person who is also
“nobody”. In line three, she exclaims, “Then there’s a pair of us!”. She is clearly excited to have met
another person who claims to be nobody. The speaker then admonishes her hearer not to tell anyone about
the two of them each being “nobody”, exclaiming, “They’d advertise- you know!”. This reveals that the
speaker was clearly afraid of being found out. She enjoyed having no fame and no recognition, and she
feared that if someone found out that she loved being “nobody” they would advertise her and make into
into “somebody” and she dreaded that.

2. This poem mocks the pretensions of the public world calling them a loud frog who advertise their
own name to maintain the so called "fame". This poem may be speaking towards Dickinson’s lack of
publication, even if she published, she did it anonymously. The frogs are praised and made famous
by a group of people to whom Dickinson call ‘an admiring Bog’. As the main theme of the poem is
self-identity, for her all the members of this Bog lose identity and individuality. They cannot put their
opinions, but just agree on what is said. Thus their life is dreary, dull and worthless. It has the
hallmarks of a Dickinson poem, namely lots of dashes, unorthodox punctuation and beautiful use of
words.

3. For me it sounds unfair, because her right as a writer and publisher is being oppressed by the
public and society since men have the higher status before. And through her imagery and words
being used, she became anonymous in her own writing, but still portraying her situation as a writer.
So for me I feel sad for her because of this challenges she went through just to create this beautiful
and meaning poem.
ACTIVITY 6 : Among the selections( apart from your literature) taken up in class which made a
strong impact in your life (Personal, social and spiritual)?

For me, the "I felt funeral in my brain" because as the writer and most of us sees a funeral,
we are about to see grief and sadness. But the writer shows the sad reality and terrific experience as
she portrays the life after death. This sounds crazy but that is a fact, everyone will experience this at
the end of our time it is so happened that there are someone who experienced it first, and some may
be late. It also shows that there are many ways or reason why this death incurred. And the writer
shows that she is starting to loss touch to the reality. It is a serious matter and we should be able to
guide or help person who are in need. This can be applied to our present since many people have
been insane, delusional and commit suicide. And for me, personally I do have lots of problem and
sometimes I wished I was dead or what if I commit suicide? I guess life is a game and we should do
whatever we can do in this world. We have our own candle and once it runs out, that is the time that
our curtains will close to this stage.