The Outcasts of Poker Flat

I enjoyed the short story the outcasts of poker Flat written by Brett Harte. This story was about a professional gambler named Mr. Oakhurs who goes on a journey with four other people. While they were on there way to their destination. They got tired and wanted to stop and camp out for the night but Mr. Oakhurst doesnt want to he wants to keep going. Later on they they meet a horseman named Tom Simson he was known as the innocent. With him was his wife Piney she traveled with him from the sand bar to get married at Poker flat. They went to a cabin to stay the night. away from the camp before the snow came. While staying there Oakhurst wakes one morning and realizes that one of the people traveling with him has stole their mulesduring the night. Later throughout the story one by one each one of the people started dieing. From starvation, disappearance,and shot. The only too that servived was the thief billy and the innocent Simson. I really found enjoyment reading this story it showed me how helping out people you dont know can be disasterous to you and others you know . Because they can be theives, prostitues, and serial killers. It help me understand alot.

The Dalliance of the Eagles/Wild Nights Whitman/Dickerson

I really enjoyed reading these poems on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickerson. Whitman more of a poet that writes free verse poetry. I really tuned in on the poem the dilliance of the eagles. Whitman i think was basically outside one day close by a road by a river and all of a sudden glances in the sky and recognizes two eagles. Two eagles seem to be in a tussal over something maybe a female eagle, because in the poem i read that two eagles tightly together,wings flapping fiercly they where going after it. Maybe one of the eagles didnt make it so later on in the poem last line in the poem on page 983 it says (she hers, he his, pursing). So yes the females eagle sees that one eagle is still on his true flight to mate with her because he was the last eagle out of two to still flying victorious. I enjoyed the writtings of dickerson poetry but the one that really caught my eye was wild nights. I think it wasnt emily who was the one in this poem. She could be just narrating this one, Emily tells use the wild nights that a certain peron had with someone. That someone to me i thnk shes talking about was the sea. Wild nights they may have had on this sea maybe drinking, fishing, or probably just out on a big boat shooting in the skies. this poem just showed alil of what was going on but it caught my interest.