"Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines" by Pablo Neruda

In his poem "Tonight I can write the saddest lines", Pablo Neruda, talks about his lost love. The poet writes down on a paper all his feelings for his beloved one. He remembers the days when he used to kiss her under the open sky. The fact that makes the poet really angry is that her eyes and body will now belong to someone else. The body that once was his, now will be another man's. He tries to convince himself that he does not love her any more, but yet he doubts that he does. However, what the author knows for sure is that these lines that he wrote for her would be the last ones that he will dedicate to her. Moreover, he swears that this will be the last night that he feels pain because of loosing her.
I really liked the poem very much, it was so sad and romantic. The author has expressed very well how someone feels when he brakes up with his/her girlfriend/boyfriend (the one that s/he truly loved).

These lines were the ones that I liked most in the poem:

"The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance"

"MY LOVER THE SEA" by Reinaldo Arenas

In this poem, the author Reinaldo Arenas, describes the life of the children that were abandoned, and their predicted future which is "to become criminals". In the very first lines of his poetry, Reinaldo Arenas mentions the sadness these children feel because they were left, and the shame that they have because they do not feel as part of the normal world; more precisely they feel anxious and afraid that they actually bother the other members of the society. Further, the author expresses the different phases of these children. Firsly, they feel abandoned and ashamed of the fact that they are unwanted by the other people. Secondly, they start to hate these people because of leaving them besides and considering them unworthy. Thirdly, they want to revenge to all these people that made them feel so bad; thus, finally, they become criminals. Another fact that should really make us worried is that nobody cares about these children and their life; which is so poor and full of misery. They do not even try to find a family who can take care of these children, therefore, their life ends up being prisoned and accused of various kinds of crimes. People should understand the fact that they are just "children" and they need to be loved and cared for just like every other child in the world.

The End of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Now I can really understand the behavior of Mersault. He just does not feel as a part of the society, also the society did not actually let him express his self and find his place in the world. He did not speak in front of the jury and the prosecutor, he did not reject what they said, he did not complain about anything. Simply, he was not given the space to express his self. Mersault believes in what happens today, what is there, what can be seen and touched. The society considers him as a "junk" and someone who does not have the right to be part of the society. Moreover, he does not take the things to seriously because he considers that life had brought them, and  it is all just momentary. Even being a few hours before the execution, he does not really care what the priest has to say, he does not want to confess. Mersault doesn't believe in God, he believes in the moment, and no matter how much the priest tries to explain to him why should he confess, Mersault, in a very smart way responds to him and continues not to regret on the things that he had done, and the life that he had lead.
And there we are, at the end of the book, waiting for Mersault to be executed, but the author never mentions and does not even speak about the execution. We only know that the early morning is arising.
"The Stranger" was one of the best books that I have read so far, even though, it was very hard to understand it, I really enjoyed every single line that I read because I could connect the Mersault's behaviour with psychology and philosophy. The book really made me go beyond only reading it.

The Stranger (Continue)

As I keep reading this book, I really start to realize what kind of society they were living in, in the years when "The Stranger" was written. The prosecutor, and the jury, who are supposed to judge Mersault because he killed a person, did not actually put much effort into the crime that Mersault commited. Moreover they were judging and accusing him of his personality and his "strange" behavior. He was being accused all the time because of his own feelings, because of his cold heart, his indifference on the death of his mother, rather than the fact that he actually murdered an "Arabian". To the society of that time it wasn't really important whether a so called "dirty" Arabian was murdered, more that the real feelings that Mersault had and the impact of these feelings in the society. I keep reading the book and the case becomes more and more complicated. I can't wait to finish the book and see if I can find the explanation of Mersault's behavior.

The Stranger Chapter IV, V, and VI.

I really hoped that by reading the book further something would happen, and I would realize what makes Mersault behave like this. He is so cold, he does not show any sign of warmth within his heart. However, there is something that makes me think that he has a little bit of emotions, even though he does not express them. The appearance of Marie in his life, and the feelings that he expresses (but not quite often) make me believe that still, he has something in his heart, not only coldness and darkness. Still, he does not seem to care much for Marie, to him it is really the same whether he marries her or another girl. He does not even care about the fact that he actually killed someone, to him it was all calm, like something that life gives you everyday and not a murder of a human being. He seems to be the kind of person that does not doubt much about what he does, and what his future would look like. He lives for today, and takes the things as they come.
I really wonder what kind of person he is, because from what I read until now, it seems like he has a very disordered personality.  

The Stranger

I consider "The Strager" written by Albert Camus as one of the strangest novels that I have read. The fact that Meursault is so indifferent when hearing about his mother's death, and the fact that he did not want even to see her face in the last moments of her life, at first made me a little bit upset. My first impression was that Meursault is a person who does not care for anything, including here his own life as well. However, after reading the story further, what really confused me was the fact that he was helping his neighbors by listening to their problems. Later on, the author of the book compares the character of the human being with a character of an animal (in the case of Salamano and his dog). Albert Camus uses different ways to express and portray to us a "selfish" and "cruel" world.
I found the first three chapters very interesting, and I am looking forward to continue reading the book and see what happens further.

Trans-Siberian Prose and Little Jeanne De France by Blaise Cendrars

The poem that we read today in class, was one of the most wonderful pieces of literature I've read so far. The way how the author, Blaise Cendrars (which is not the authors real name), has written the poem and described his trip in the train is very interesting. He has seen so much things and so many cities during his voyage! Another interesting detail that I noticed while reading the poem today was that he has used a lot of contrast in the poem. Once he talks about beautiful and romantic things, he immediately skips to some really dark and scary details i.e. he mentions love and death one following the other.