Having My Say

Something that I feel very strongly about today is abortion. I am very against the idea of abortion. I believe that abortion is murder because a child is living no matter how long it has been in the womb. A child is living even if it may only be a few centimeters big. I believe that a mother should not have the ability to take away their child's life. That is not fair to the child because they never even had a chance to live. Their live can be taken away by their mother just because their mother made a mistake in having a child. In my opinion abortion is a very sad thing. No mother should not want a child. That is absolutely horrible. I believe that God made every child and that God is the giver of life and of death, not a mother. I realize that in some cases mothers are informed that their child may have problems when it is born or the mother may have problems in birth so abortion is an option. I still think this is very wrong. The mother should be willing to risk her life and should want her child even if it has a disability when it is born. I am very against abortion and do not think it should be an option to expecting women. There are other options out there such as adoption that are much better than abortion

Connections to Whitman

 Me at 4years old on the right

I really enjoyed this poem about childhood. This poem talks about how everything the boy saw made part of him. One line that was in the poem said "the cow's calf." This was definitely a line that I could connect to. From the time I was born I have been around my cows. I have been showing cows since I learned to walk and working with my cows is a huge part of my life. I believe that working with my cows and helping on the farm have made me into the person I am today. Showing my cows and working on the farm have given me a work ethic that not many city kids today have. It also has given me an understanding about where my food comes from and I do not take my food for granted because I know how much work farmers put into making food for the world. This is a reason why I very much agree with what Whitman says in this poem about childhood. Cows have made me the person I am today and I would not trade all of the time I put into my cows for anything.

Emily Dickinson Poetry

By: Emily Dickinson

New feet within my garden go,

New fingers stir the sod;

A troubadour upon the elm

Betrays the solitude.

New children play upon the green,

New weary sleep below;

And still the pensive spring returns,

And still the punctual snow!

In my opinion this poem is not talking about just Emily Dickinson's garden but instead the whole world. In the beginning she says "New feet within my garden go" and I think this symbolizes spring because people start working with the Earth in the spring. Also in the second stanza I think she is talking about babies being born in the first ling and then people dying and being buried in the second line. In the last two lines I think she means that no matter what happens the world keeps turning and the seasons keep changing. 

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