CNN) -- A Chinese official accused "Tibetan independence forces" Tuesday of planning suicide attacks, an allegation that the Tibetan government-in-exile immediately denied.
"To our knowledge the next plan of the Tibet Independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks," Wu Heping, spokesman for China's Ministry of Public Security, said at a news conference, according to a translation of his remarks by The Associated Press.
"They claim they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice," he said.
He did not provide details or evidence, and Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of Tibet's exiled government, dismissed the accusation.
"We never heard (of) Tibetan independence force, such a group or people. Now, our suspicion is that the PRC (People's Republic of China) might be staging such a violent act in the name of Tibetan people to mislead the world community," he said in Dharamsala, India.
Dharamsala is the center of the Tibetan community in India, where many Tibetans fled after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 and where the government-in-exile led by the Dalai Lama is based.
"It is our ... suspicion, otherwise there is no ground to claim that some Tibetan people or group is planning to (use) suicide bombers or something like that," the Tibetan prime minister said.
There was no immediate response from the Chinese government to Rinpoche's suspicion.
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In the U.S. State Department briefing on Tuesday, department spokesman Tom Casey said the United States did not share China's concern that supporters of the Dalai Lama were plotting suicide attacks.
The Dalai Lama is a "man of peace, there is absolutely no indication that he wants to do anything other than have a dialogue with China to discuss how to deal with some of the serious issues there," Casey said.
Beijing blames the Dalai Lama and his followers for violence that erupted amid protests for Tibetan independence last month. China has drawn international criticism for its crackdown on the demonstrations, which began peacefully on the 49th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising.
The protests have threatened to throw a shadow on the Summer Olympic Games, being staged in Beijing in August.
Tibet's government-in-exile puts the death toll from the protests at about 140, but the Chinese government restrictions make it difficult to confirm that number. Chinese authorities have reported a death toll of 19, and say most of those killed were "innocent victims" -- Han Chinese targeted by Tibetans.
Protests have spread across the globe with regular demonstrations in Nepal. A ceremonial lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece was also targeted by pro-Tibet activists. Watch protests in Nepal »
Also on Tuesday, China's official Xinhua news agency reported that the country's foreign ministry urged the Dalai Lama to "stop all separatist and sabotage activities if he really wants to contact and consult with the central government."
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu spoke in response to a March 28 statement from Dalai Lama.
In that statement, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists said he does not seek the separation of Tibet and has no desire to "sabotage" the Olympic Games.
"Chinese brothers and sisters, I assure you I have no desire to seek Tibet's separation. Nor do I have any wish to drive a wedge between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples," he wrote.
Instead, he said, the protesters seek "meaningful self-rule" while remaining a part of China. "Despite my repeated support for the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese authorities, with the intention of creating a rift between the Chinese people and myself, the Chinese authorities assert that I am trying to sabotage the games."
He called on China to called "to exercise wisdom and to initiate a meaningful dialogue with the Tibetan people."
China offered some media organizations -- not including CNN -- a carefully managed tour of Tibet's capital, but ran into a public-relations roadblock when a group of Buddhist monks began screaming protests at a holy shrine. E-mail to a friend
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Mirror
Mirror
Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of a little god, four-conered.
Most of the I meditat on opposite wall.
It is pink, with spectacles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of heart.But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Analyze
Many poetic devices is shown in this poem. First, the speaker of this poem is "I" which personification is used to the mirror.
For the first stanza, the reader can see many personifications, like the mirror can see and swallow. Also the mirror saids that itself is truthful, and this means that a mirror can show the person's inner heart. Starting from the fifth line, the speaker describes the girl who is the owner(?) of the mirror in a room. It also thinks that she could be the part of its(the mirror's) heart(that is innocent), but later it says that the part of its heart flickers, and later darkness separate them over and over. Perhaps the darkness can symbolize sins(or losing purity) as the young girl grows up.
On the second stanza, metaphor is used to the speaker as a lake, and it gives the deep, quiet mood of this stanza. The woman who was young looked at the mirror that shows the exact appearance and cries(maybe as a regret) and the truthful persona uses the metaphor to the old woman as a terrible fish.
Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of a little god, four-conered.
Most of the I meditat on opposite wall.
It is pink, with spectacles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of heart.But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Analyze
Many poetic devices is shown in this poem. First, the speaker of this poem is "I" which personification is used to the mirror.
For the first stanza, the reader can see many personifications, like the mirror can see and swallow. Also the mirror saids that itself is truthful, and this means that a mirror can show the person's inner heart. Starting from the fifth line, the speaker describes the girl who is the owner(?) of the mirror in a room. It also thinks that she could be the part of its(the mirror's) heart(that is innocent), but later it says that the part of its heart flickers, and later darkness separate them over and over. Perhaps the darkness can symbolize sins(or losing purity) as the young girl grows up.
On the second stanza, metaphor is used to the speaker as a lake, and it gives the deep, quiet mood of this stanza. The woman who was young looked at the mirror that shows the exact appearance and cries(maybe as a regret) and the truthful persona uses the metaphor to the old woman as a terrible fish.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
Lord George Byron
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since othes it hath ceased to move;
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the greif,
Are mine alone!
The fire that on my bosom preys
Is lone as some volcanic isle;
No torch is kindled at its blaze-
A funeral pile!
The hope, the fear, the jealous care,
The exalted portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share,
But wear to the chain.
But 'tis not thus-and 'tis not here-
Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now,
Where glory decks the hero's bier'
Or binds his brow.
title: a person who became 36years old.
paraphrase: being lonely when he is 36years old, wanted to love.
connotation: Rhyme scheme.(unmoved, move, beloved,love...)
Simile.(The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; )
Hyperbole.?(my days are in a yellow leaf; describe that the person's life is trifling)
attitude: lonely
shift:But 'tis not thus-and 'tis not here- Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now,
title2: being lonely when he is 36.
Lord George Byron
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since othes it hath ceased to move;
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the greif,
Are mine alone!
The fire that on my bosom preys
Is lone as some volcanic isle;
No torch is kindled at its blaze-
A funeral pile!
The hope, the fear, the jealous care,
The exalted portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share,
But wear to the chain.
But 'tis not thus-and 'tis not here-
Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now,
Where glory decks the hero's bier'
Or binds his brow.
title: a person who became 36years old.
paraphrase: being lonely when he is 36years old, wanted to love.
connotation: Rhyme scheme.(unmoved, move, beloved,love...)
Simile.(The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; )
Hyperbole.?(my days are in a yellow leaf; describe that the person's life is trifling)
attitude: lonely
shift:But 'tis not thus-and 'tis not here- Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now,
title2: being lonely when he is 36.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Homecoming
Homecoming
by: Nancy Lucille Taylor
Two months since that lonely day,
Mother said, "good-bye" and went away;
She left around the break of day,
Exact time, no one could say.
We longed to keep her here awhile,
She said, "Dad's waiting with a smile";
You kids, live good and come on,
We'll be waiting near God's throne.
Mother and Dad-sitting at the Gate,
Out stretched arms, longingly wait;
Where family will be complete again,
Free from all heartaches, sorrow and sin.
by: Nancy Lucille Taylor
Two months since that lonely day,
Mother said, "good-bye" and went away;
She left around the break of day,
Exact time, no one could say.
We longed to keep her here awhile,
She said, "Dad's waiting with a smile";
You kids, live good and come on,
We'll be waiting near God's throne.
Mother and Dad-sitting at the Gate,
Out stretched arms, longingly wait;
Where family will be complete again,
Free from all heartaches, sorrow and sin.
Copyright ©2008 Nancy Lucille Taylor
Analyze.
*Title1: comming back home.
*Paraphrase: The speaker's mother passed away(maybe after his father has already gone.(died.)) and he is thinking about them.
*Connotation: rhyme, symbol(the gate of death..heaven..?)
*Attitude: flashback (two month before), lonely
*Theme: Waiting for a complete family with no sin.
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