Item 1: Poem

ABOUT LOVE

I hate the way you talk to me... 
or don't talk to me when your mad. 
I hate the way you don't need me... 
and don't care if you've made me sad. 

I hate your moody silences... 
and the way you block me out. 
I hate your indifference to me... 
and I hate it when you shout. 

I hate the way you're always right. 
and that you refuse to show you care. 
I hate it when you laugh at me... 
and I hate it when you stare. 

I hate it when you're not around... 
and I hate when you don't call. 
But the one thing that I hate the most... 
is the way I don't hate you... 
not even close... 
not even a little bit... 
not even at all. 
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When your looking at the stars, 
In the eternal blue 
Remember that each star out there 
Is a reason why I love you 
And when you think your alone, 
And when no one is there at all 
I'll be right in front of you, 
To catch you when you fall
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I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay.
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1.Rhethorical device: 

1.1.         Repetition:

 “ I hate”  “not even”  “when”  “I wrote your name”……

1.2.         parallelism:

 
I hate the way you talk to me... 
or don't talk to me when your mad. 
I hate the way you don't need me... 
and don't care if you've made me sad. 

I hate your moody silences... 
and the way you block me out. 
I hate your indifference to me... 
and I hate it when you shout. 

I hate the way you're always right. 
and that you refuse to show you care. 
I hate it when you laugh at me... 
and I hate it when you stare. 

But the one thing that I hate the most... 
is the way I don't hate you... 
not even close... 
not even a little bit... 
not even at all. 

1.3.         Climax:

 not even close... 
not even a little bit... 
not even at all. 

1.4.         Rhymes:

 

Mad-sad

Out-shout

Care-stare

Around-most-close

Away-away-stay

1.5.         Symbol:

I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away

the wind and the waves blew and washed the name away is the symbol of the hopeless love.

2. Message:

Although there is no evidence if the person in this poem is girl or boy, I have a feeling that a girl is telling about her love. She wrote about her hopeless love through many images. No matter how hard she tried, he did not pay any attention about her. She hates that feeling but she can not prevent herself from loving him, more and more. The wind can blow his name she wrote in the sky, the waves can washed his name she wrote on sand, but nothing can delete his name she wrote in her heart!

Item 2: Fable

                                          Important work
The last to board the plane from Seattle to Dallas were a woman and three children. “Oh please don’t sit next to me,” I thought. “I’ve got so much work to do.” But a moment later an eleven-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother were climbing over the empty seat next to me while the woman and a four-year-old boy sat behind. Almost immediately the older children started bickering while the child behind intermittently kicked my seat. Every few minutes the boy would ask his sister, “Where are we now?” “Shut up!” she’d snap and their new round of squirming and whining would ensue.

“Kids have no concept of important work,” I thought, and quietly resented my predicament. Then I differently had another thought coming from a father’s heart, against all my testiness up to that moment – so clearly: “They’re so lovely!” Then I immediately countered to myself: “But these kids are brats, and I’ve got important work to do”. Then my inner voice simply replied, “Love them as if they were your children.” So as to answer his repeated

“Where-are-we-now?” question repeatedly, I turned the screen in front of me to the in-flight magazine map, in spite of concentrating on my important work.

I started to explain our flight path, dividing it into quarter-hour flight increments and together we estimated when the flight would land in Dallas.

Soon they were telling me about their trip to Seattle to see their father who was in the hospital. As we talked they continuously asked about flying, navigation, science and grown-ups’ views about life – things that they heard or saw somewhere before. The time passed quickly and my “important” work was left undone.

As we were preparing to land, I seemed to remember something and asked how their father was doing now, they grew quiet and the boy simply said, “He died.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry.”

“Yeah, me too. I loved him very much! But it’s my little brother I’m most worried about. He’s taking it real hard.”

I suddenly realized what we’d really been talking about was the most important work we ever face: living, loving and growing in spite of heartbreak. When we said good-bye in Dallas airport, the boy shook my hand and thanked me for being his “airline teacher.” And I thanked him for being mine.

- Dan S. Bagley

Message: nowadays, our life is becoming busier and busier. We try to earn more and more money. We do not know anything but works and works. We run after them and forget what are really important to me. They can not be works; they are love and caring between people; they are the way we go on living…

Item 3: cartoon

Symbol:

The melting of the snow ball is the symbol of global warming

Two bears are symbol of human.

Message: the ice is melting because of the global warming and our life is threatened. However, instead of trying to improve it, we are just calm and with a stupid optimism, we consider it as a hoax.

Sources:

Item 1: http://forum.zing.vn/dien-dan-gioi-tre/mot-so-bai-tho-tieng-anh-d/t1679.html

Item 2: http://www.quangtrung.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14325

Item 3: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/globalwarming/ig/Global-Warming-Cartoons/Global-Warming-Emails.0zJ-.htm