Indian Summer

Indian Summer

Dorothy Parker
“Indian Summer”


When in youth you try to be your best and please everyone. Then you date and get married and try to please that person and make sure their happiness is priority number one. As time goes by you realize that you are who you are and how you feel is your genuine feelings and you care not for what others think about you but try to find your own happiness. Then you find that if people do not like the way you feel or what you say then they do not matter all that much and you could really care less.

The author starts the poem talking about in youth we try to please the world and everyone in it. We try to make people happy regardless of our own happiness. We try to understand and do what we feel is right. Then as we get older and start to date, we try to make that person happy and try to see their side of things no matter how strange it may seem. And when that relationship failed we did the same things in the next one. Then as we grow older we realize that all our trouble was in vain and that no one is really happier because of our misery and we start to be ourselves. Then people do not seem to like our new attitude and outlook. The irony is that we tell the people that we really do not care how they feel and express that sentiment with sarcastic love.

Author Unknown
“The Three Ravens”
Pages 806-807

Three ravens sat on a tree limb overlooking a battle field. One raven looks to the other one and asks what they are to eat. They see a dead soldier lying in the field and consider feasting on him. They cannot because his dogs are lying at his feet while his hunting birds are flying in the sky protecting him from predators. Then death like a dear lover comes to take him away. She kisses his head and his wounds and then places him upon her back to take his soul away. As he takes him away the ravens make note that every man should have such good friends, hunting partners, and lovers.

The ravens looking out onto the...