Fairy Tales By: Mihaela Codreanu, Jesse Harad, Dean Gouda, Kelly Fagan

1. Fairy Tales By: Mihaela Codreanu, Jesse Harad, Dean Gouda, Kelly Fagan

2. Shu Ting Shu Ting wrote Fairy Tales for Gu Cheng. She believes that there is a lot more to life than just love. She explains that the world is full of endless possibilities. These ideas are portrayed when she says, “The heart may be tiny, but the world’s enormous”.

3. Gu Cheng Gu Cheng views life differently than Shu Ting.He focuses on his immediate surroundings and only views the world by what he can see.Gu Cheng is close to what he isfamiliar with.Gu Cheng’s outlook is reflected when he says, “The world may be tiny, but the heart’s enormous”.

4. Theme The theme for this poem is hope for a better future,being able to look at the glass half full, be positive and optimistic. Anything is possible you just have to want it and believe it. “The world may be tiny, but the heart’s enormous”, “the heart may be tiny but the world’s enormous. “You believed in your own story, then climbed inside it” The world or a certain situation is exactly what you make it to be.

5. Title Explanation The meaning of this title is that the author is describing a world where everything is perfect and there is no conflict. They imagine kites in the sky and everyone singing. in reality though, everything is completely different, “You gazed past ailing trees, past crumbling walls and rusty railings.” The speaker has hope and he sees past the ruin and sees a world that is peaceful

6. and where everyone has a happy ending. This hope is somewhat unrealistic and fairy tale-like. the thought of having a world like how the speaker describes sounds like a dream, something that can’t actually be reached but it is what everyone hopes for. This makes it a fairy tale.

7. Misty Poets The “Misty Poets” are a group of Chinese poets in the 20th century. During the Mao era, emperor Mao ZeDong had given cultural restrictions for literature during China’s Cultural Revolution. These poets reacted negatively to Mao’s order and began writing a different style of poetry opposing the realism of Maoist literature.

8. Misty Poets (continued) The term “Misty Poetry” is derived from the Chinese word Menglong Shi. It means “obscure poetry”. It was called obscure because it wasn’t the type of poems that were written in the communist, Maoist era in China. A synonym for obscure is “misty” or “hazy”, and so they were called the “Misty Poets”.