The Accident

My theory for the poem “Accident” by Erica Funkhouser is that the mother is recalling the accident that had happened with her son to the neighbor. After recalling everything the mother invites the neighbor over. So the neighbor observers what is happening in the house. If anything has changed after the accident or not.

Poem Explication: "Red Shift"

In the poem “Red Shift” Ted Berrigan suggests that life changes as the speaker ages and so do his emotions. The emotions are established by the title which explains change that has happened to the speaker through out the poem. 

The emotions start with the title “Red Shift” red meaning love and anger, “Red shift” also meaning the scientific term immeasurable. He can be describing how love can be immeasurable and how love can change through out experience as said in the poem “Not that pretty girl, who was going to have to go...” 

The tone also changes as the poem’s sections change to more depression tone, but it had to do also with weather he is in “February, fierce arabesque on the way to tree in winter streetscape..” then he was thinking about his past what has happened such as political & love life. I also think the poem has to do something with “red scare” that caused him to be depressed, “who would have thought that I’d be here, nothing wrapped up, nothing buried, everything love, hundred of the. Money, marriage ethics, a politics of grace...” He also can’t think about happy thoughts either “There’s a song California Dreaming, but I wont do that” which suppose to be a cheerful song.

Ted Berrigan suggests that life changes as the speaker ages and so do his emotions. The speaker also wants to be remembered when he dies “I will never go away & you will never escape from me...” The whole Idea of the poem was that the speaker repeated his past what he went through and going through till now. Life changes as it goes it can be for the better or for the worse like shown in the poem.

ACT 1 " THE DOLL HOUSE"

The movie clip we had to watch in the class for act one of “Doll House” By Henrik Isban was set long time ago in the winter. At the beginning of the clip takes place in a snow field where there is a horse carriage, so that means that the setting is about 1800's. I can tell its winter and Christmas time because Nora enter the film by bringing in presents and talking about a Christmas tree and also on page 5 in the play Thorvald says, “Do you think I don’t know what a lot is wanted for house keeping at Christmas time.” It is also shown that the scene is taken olden times because they’re no streets or other transportation to travel rather then a horse. The starting of the movie begins with Nora bringing the presents for her family, She looks like young women in her late 20's. she has brunette hair tied up in a bun. She is wearing a red wool coat with white fur and later on she takes it off and she is wearing a purple dress detailed with white flowers. When she enter the study room where her husband she looks very young for her husband. Torvald on the desk doing his work. He is wearing a three piece suit. He has a black suit jacket on, he is wearing a vest, and he has a shirt and olden time tie, under his vest. Torvald looks like he is in his early 50s. He looks very strict and proper man. Nora and Torvald both have a accent as I remember in class aren’t they from like Norway. 

I think that the author is trying to show Nora as very greedy for money like she is in love with it and maybe that why she has married torvald also she lies to torvald she doesn’t seem like she has that honesty relationship with her husband that all relationships should have I can say that because in the play when she bought the macaroons she hid it from her husband and wiped her face and after when torvald asked her she just liked to him that she will never go against his will find out that Nora is a liar. We know this because Nora wasn’t supposed to eat candy, but in page 4 of the book, the narrator says, “Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.” When Nora’s husband came to the door, she acted quickly to hide what she was eating (macaroons) and she made sure she wiped her mouth so Torvald would not see that she had been eating candy. That’s how we know that Nora has no problem lying to her husband.. She has a cast spell on torvald when she touches him and act so foolish he just melts in a way. When he wants to get mad he can’t. 


On the other side torvald seems to control his money very well and also think about the future. As I said before it seems like Nora had some kind of spell on him because. In one of the scenes he is handing Nora some money for her present when she asks for it. He also plays with her when he is handing the money to her and she looks very desperate for that money. He Is denying himself front of her. He should show her that what he thinks is true and she need to be mature and responsible to save money just in case. It seemed strange for him because he was complaining before to her how she is “Little expensive person” he also would like a better Christmas parties they had before but he doesn’t want to waste money on useless stuff. He wants to stay on a budget and just don’t blow all the money in one second that he worked so hard for. 


In the play in act one in “The dolls house” by Henrik Ibsen, Nora and Torvald who are getting ready to celebrate Christmas. The author is trying to show that Nora is a young women who seems to be very desperate for money and on the other had her husband is the responsible mature man who knows how to safe the money. He also thinks about the future what if a incident occurs what would happen to his family.