Into the Rye, (Updated)

Thank you Pint a stoli, Feel free to correct my grammar. I will appreaciate and implement any needed corrections. I am learning the hard way, I have come very far from my first posts and dependance on spell check, but still have far to go with grammar and its complications. Thanks for reading! Julie D.D.

Oh I am from just a little ways back Anna, My first profile started in Novemeber of O8. One day soon I have been promised all of my old posts will find a way to my new profile. But it is no ones fault but my own for leaving. Anyways it was well worth seeing past my immeadiate issue and re-evaluate why I wanted to be here and what I expected from Neopoet. What was realistic. But again worth it. I started at the very bottom. I showed up with heartbroken poetry from some deaths I took very personal, with only an amature love and knowledge. And well, here I am just a year and half later able to write something not just fluff. Although still amature. It amazes me daily. Thanks for reading Anna. I will consider your kind suggestions. Julie D.D.

Ladies who have already graced this page. And any one else I am lucky enough to have read my tribute, be sure to re read and give me your thoughts on my changes!! Julie

Bash hardly, Never bash Mona. Espeacialy not you. No I will consider your thinking. But my imagary and intent was involved with the book The catcher and the Rye, and mourning the loss of the author. Although he wrote other stuff. I could have been approached in several differant ways. I chose one using the angle of how Catcher and the Rye is taught in school. Its relavance to what it has been used for, as an excuse of. And what we send it in to the classroom as. The cliche's associated with it and influence on popular culture. Let me explain my meaning to the cliches. I didn't sit and pour this out. I set a task, studied. Which I had to do more since posting. And laid it out. I love spontanous poetry but this one moved me because of the vague lessons that have evolved over time from it. And wanting to express that in my poetry, which doesn't nessasaraly honor the Author at all. He was not a poet, in the sense that we are. He was an Author. He may well have called it pure fluff. As for it not being my best. You are proably right. But my best comes when it is natural. I put a lot more work in to this. This is the challenge, when its not so much: I learned something. And the fact that you cared enough to comment, means alot. a relic of American pie like the memory of James Dean- This is in referance to the fact many don't see the relavnce that particularly CR has. and it is considered out of date and irrelavent. Their for a relic, and American pie for me is the American dream. And CR was published after ww2 and the time of the image for american pie for me. Also it is said, not proved, that James Dean somewhat modeled the charecter in Rebel with out a cause, on Holden Caulfields charecter. he embodies the Catcher victim of the political machine- here he turned into his charecter, to me relavant. and they both have been victioms of the polictical machine. A Rebel known as Holden-he is known as a Rebal,- but it is up for debate, so known as.. J.D. Salinger created a shield did he know what it might do the influence it could wield was he writing for me or you do we know Holden Caulfield? - Pointing out that most including myself don't always get what he was doing, or the waves it would cause in the political world. For what ever reason. So I posed it as a question. And he did create a shield for what CR created around him. From the gun of Mark David Chapman in the taking of Lennon’s marked life- Mark David Chapman referanced CR after he shot Lennon. He was a whack job, but for some this is all they know about the book or the Author. A shadow of such madmen living life gray and full of strife- It has been seen as being written from him in latter yrs, or I should say first person. That CR was written from an insanatoriam and may just have been the ramblings of a madman about his youth. Infact that was my first impressions and what I told my teacher after I read it and before we reviewed it. Although Salinger was a bit dingy in his later and ecentric yrs. I will consider your thoughts, but the cliches are the story. Thanks for reading and taking the time, it is much appreaciated. Julie D.D.