Letter to Ayn Rand

Dear Ayn Rand,

            After reading your very inspiration and moving book, Anthem I’ve had some questions that I’ve been urging to ask. One of the most moving parts in the whole book is the part when both Equality 7-2521 and The Golden One finally arrive in the glass house, giving each other the names of the Greek gods. Something that really struck me was, why was the house a “Glass house” and what is the significance about it, if there is one?

Anthem Writing Idea

Anthem Writing Idea

Have you ever been in a good situation when you have a good idea and yet it still gets turned down?

            This one time I traveled to Lake Tahoe with a friend of mine. He’s a great guy but, every time I had a great idea about where we wanted to go, or what we wanted to do, it always got turned down. That really ticked me off. In a way, it almost reminds of politics. In this case he’s being extremely biased and closed minded, ignoring my opinions and not even considering my thoughts. The trip ended up great but I feel like I felt the same way that Equality 7-2521 did, always being turned down and away.

Advanced Research Topic

Advanced Research Topic

            Freedom can be interpreted in many different ways, in many different countries, in many different people, and many different political views. Ayn Rand’s definition of freedom contrasts strongly to that of many modern day Liberals. Through her writing, Ayn portrays a constant theme of freedom. Prometheus hates his daily life in his old city, under constant control Prometheus doesn’t even know what the word “I” is! I doubt he knows what freedom is either, until he ventures into the forest.

            Rand’s views on freedom are simple yet logical. Capitalism; in order for one man to be free another must be free as well. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, with the goal of making a profit. Obviously most of these facts describe many modern day Conservatives, the party in which Liberals are against in their political views. Liberals love to lean toward a more socialist and even communist views, they love equality and they love benefiting the poor. They believe freedom to use the power of government to equalize, clean up, and improve the lot of the disadvantaged.

Ayn believes in the conservative view of freedom, which has been conveyed to the public very effectively in the last couple of decades; it needs to be deconstructed and challenged, but also transmuted into acceptable forms which can be absorbed by the left (Liberals).

 

 

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

What is beauty?

When your team scores?

Or when you get new floors?

 

How you show yourself?

What can one say,

When all you do is pray,

To the one above

 

Or is it nature?

How it teams

With so much life as it seems

 

 

Is that your beauty?

Disillusionment at Ten O’clock

Disillusionment at Ten O’clock

             Originality is the basis of success. No one looks at you in a job interview and says: “hey, your average, you can have the job because we like people like you, who are average!”. This world is revolved around this one word, “originality”. Every person is different in their own special way on the contrary, in Wallace Stevens poem “Disillusionment at Ten O’clock” every single person is dressed the same, wearing all “white night-gowns” and long “braded socks” while the only people who are different are the drunk sailors who wear what they want and act they want.

A Poison Tree

A Poison Tree

                Don’t steal ones anger, as it might “bite” you in the butt. In this poem, Blake describes a person whose anger constantly builds and metaphorically speaking the apple get more and more potent, killing his “foe”, as the “foe” steals the apple and steals his last bite that he may ever take.

One Perfect Rose

One Perfect Rose

The disappointment that the speaker is having is about the clichés of love, specifically about how people in love always send flowers. The speaker does love the fact that she has received a rose, which is the symbol of love yet she thinks it’s very ordinary and wants something special that not a lot of people can get, like a limousine. If you want to prove to somebody that they're the most important person in the world, doing some lame thing that everybody else always does and that doesn't require any real thought isn't the way to go. This what the speaker of this poem is trying to say.