The House of Asterion

The House of Asterion is based on The Myth of the Minotaur. I really enjoyed this myth because it has so many different stories going on within one. For example, the story mentions how Pasipahae falls in love with a bull and bears a minotaur as a curse from Poseidon to King Minos. It then tells the story of how, after the death of one of Minos' human sons, Androgeus, King Minos seeks revenge against Greece with the aid of Zeus. That is why they had to sacrifice some people every nine years to the Minotaur, which was locked up in a labyrinth by Minos. The Minotaur was finnaly killed by Theseus, son of Aegeus and Aethra, with the help of Ariadne who had fallen in love with him. However, he left her abandoned when they stopped at the island of Naxos. On his way home, he forgot to change the his sail from black to white, to signal his safe return to his father, and consequently, caused his father to commit suicide.

Two of my Favorite Poems

For this weeks blog, I decided to write about some of my favorite poems. One of the poems that I especially like is Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. This poem is romantic and tragic and I believe that it captures the grief of the writer over the loss of his love very well. It is very well written and very easy to understand. When the poem is read, it has a tune similar to that of a song.
Another one of my favorite poems is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I love this poem because it shows people to be nonconformists. I really enjoy the structure of the poem and I like the ending in particular because you can tell that the writer is very confident in his decision to follow his own heart and not be like the rest of the people.

Swarthy smoke-blackened smiths

This blog is about the poem swarthy smoke-blackened smiths. I like this poem because it uses a lot of descriptive language to help us actually hear the sounds illustrated in the poem. This poem uses plenty of alliteration which makes the poem more interesting. The explanation for this reasoning is that by repeating the sounds over and over, it somewhat gives you a sense of just how annoyed the narrator in the poem is by all the clatter. I love the way that he describes the noises each tool makes very vividly. The made up syllables used to capture the exact sounds of the noises also give the poem a little bit of humor.