Ring of Fire

Love Is A Burning Thing

And It Makes A Fiery Ring

Bound By Wild Desire

I Fell Into A Ring Of Fire

CHORUS:I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire

I Went Down, Down, Down

And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns

The Ring Of Fire The Ring Of Fire

I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire

I Went Down, Down, Down

And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns

The Ring Of Fire The Ring Of Fire

The Taste Of Love Is Sweet

When Hearts Like Ours Meet

I Fell For You Like A Child

Oh, But The Fire Went Wild

CHORUSI Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire

I Went Down, Down, Down

And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns

The Ring Of Fire The Ring Of Fire

I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire

I Went Down, Down, Down

And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns

The Ring Of FireThe Ring Of Fire

And It Burns, Burns, Burns

The Ring Of Fire The Ring Of Fire

Johnny Cash talks about how love is a feeling inside that burns. The only metaphors I could think of when analyzing the song and relating it to Eros is when Cash sings how love is a burning desire and how he fell for a woman like a child. First, burning desire: when Eros left his arrow in one of his targets, he left the victim with the largest desire for that person to love someone. Secondly, how he fell for a woman like a child: the only thing I could think of is that the child is actually Eros and how the child made him fall for the woman.

Eros

Eros is the god of love in Greek Mythology. He was one of the reasons for the creation of the world. Through the power of love, he created peace and harmony. He was like Superman, and Chaos was his Lex Luthor, or Bizzarro Superman, whichever you prefer.

He's usually depicted as a cherub child with wings and carries a bow and arrows. In Roman Mythology, he's known as Cupid, which is the most widely known name for the god. Pop culture usually shows Eros as innocent child who fires his arrows at a man and a woman which causes them to instantly fall in love.

What is Love?

What is love?
Why is it that everytime a girl likes me, I don't like them?
Why is it that everytime I like a girl, they don't like me?
How come that seems to happen most of the time?
Love is like air conditioning in my house.
When it's winter, I have all the cold air I could possibly want,
But do I need that cold air in the winter?
No, I need it during the summer.
And when it's summer, I have all the hot air I could want too,
But do I need that hot air in the summer?
It's funny how it's there when you don't need it,
And not when you do.

The Circular Ruins

The poem Circular Ruins was a very interesting read. At first, it was a slow start, but the ending was very interesting. I thought that the story was similar to the Sixth Sense. Not the part about a child seeing dead people walk around completely oblivious to the fact that they're dead, but the part about Bruce Willis thinking he was alive the whole time just to find out in the end that he's been dead the entire length of the movie. The man in the story, The Circular Ruins, is similar to the Sixth Sense because he dreamt of another person which is parallel to Bruce Willis talking to a child who saw dead people. Also in the poem, the man discovered that he was a dream dreamt up by another person, which is also parallel to Bruce Willis discovering that he has been dead the entire time and was seen by the child who saw dead people.

Break of Day

The poem "Break of Day" and "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain" are linked together because of how both mention something that involves dreaming about a world in their own view. In "The Poem..." by Stevens, it explains how someone, possibly himself, imagined a world in his own image, able to change whatever he wished to what he wanted. In "Break of Day" by Borges, he talks about how ideas are not eternal, but are immortal like a forest or a river. Stevens' poem is about a man's idea of a world, and Borges talks about how such ideas are immortal.

Metaphor

A metaphor is a direct comparison between two or more unlrelated subjects. Metaphors use "is a" to directly tie the unrelated subjects in a sentence. An example would be, "The whirlpool is a unforgiving hole into oblivion."

First Essay

J Browning
Mr. Berg
English 121
February 2, 2007


Into the Wild


Today’s adolescents usually go on some sort of “soul-flight” throughout their youth to try and find themselves and discover who they really are. However, in Into the Wild, Everett Ruess’s father said, “The older person does not realize the soul-flights of the adolescent. I think we all poorly understood Everett,” (Miller 306) makes it look like only today’s youth go through these “soul-flights.” That’s not true. People of all ages at one point in their lives have gone through a time when they tried to realize who they really were. So why are did Everett’s father say that older people don’t know what it’s like to be an adolescent when in fact they were just like them in their younger days?
Let’s think about the population of youths at different points in history. For example, some Native American tribes required their youths to go through a ritual right of passage requiring them to go into the wild by themselves. They had to fend for themselves, retrieve food, and survive without the help of anybody. This was their form of a “soul-flight.” They adventured out into the wild without their security blanket of their tribe and family. Also, what about some of the teens in WWII who desired fight against the Germans in order to feel a sense of accomplishment and becoming a man? These events continue to happen all the time, only under different contexts. Now, imagine these people in their elderly life. Just because they’re old, does that mean that they don’t remember what it was like to be an adolescent? Does it not mean that they know what it’s like to find themselves and go through their own “soul-flight?” Just because they [older people] were born in a different generation, it doesn’t mean that they haven’t gone through the same things through life that younger generations have gone through.
Even though Everett’s father was an older person who said that they don’t understand the soul-flights of the young, it’s possible that Everett’s father didn’t really know his son. Possibly he never went on a soul-flight of his own in his youth, but the thing is that many people everywhere at one point in their lives have gone through such soul-seeking expeditions.