Sorry I thought I already posted this for last week... In english we are talking about the Shakespear's Julius Caesar. While personally I do not mind reading Shakespear as long as I can break the story down line by line. Breaking it down is more fun for me. This week I will be breaking down  a poem from Shakespear called Shall I compare Thee to A Summers day Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

1.Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?     Self explanitory
2.Thou art more lovely and more temperate.-You are more lovely and calm(temperate- less changing)       
3.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,- When the rough winds come and shake you(like darling buds on plants in may)
4.And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. -And summers contract (the contract being the time summer is in season) is here such a short time(a date means of the year)
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,- When it is to hot the sun shines(heaven shines)
6.And often is his gold complexion dimmed; - there are a lot of times when the sun gets hidden 
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,- (fair to Shakespear meant pretty, gorgious, exelent and fun.) and every pretty face from fun ends
8. By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;- by fate or just nature being nature ending(untrimmed meaning not sugar coated)
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,- The summer in you will not fade(comparrison of nature to you, lines 8 and 9)
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,- and you will not loose the beauty you have
11. Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,-No death or devil will bring you down (his being the devil)
12. When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.- You will never end and you flourish in eternity
  13.   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,- as long as man are alive to witness your beauty
   14.  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.- this poem is for you.

basically this is comparing everything in summer to you. Except you live longer then summer, and are better then summer.

To make up for this weeks post I am doing a ryhming poem that talks about Julius Caesar.(pattern is A, B, A,)

That be him that is so powerful and mighty,

He who manipulates for a kindgom,

While his people consider him unsightly,

Loved, Revierd and fear,

He was a man of much power;

T'was they who dislike and they killed with many a spear.

He was one who they would die for;

While they were one he would kill for...

That this caused a civil war.

While his people would wail and cry-

"Julius Caesar why leavest thou me?"

While he ruled up in the sky.

   First off I want to apoligize for the non post last week and since this is my spring break I am making up for last weeks blog post. We were doing black out poems. Black out poems are where you take a piece of text and block out some of the words leaving a message, It is similar to a message inside a message, or reading in between the lines. Here are some examples

 SO for this week's blog post I am going a black out poem using the Decleration of Independance as my base for the poem.

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one peopleto dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizine its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.         The poem reads: Uninimus people band to secure rights and to organize powers, effect saftey and happiness. But when persuing security patient sufferance is the necessity of tyrany.   Thanks guys see you next week!