"Across the Universe" The Beatles

1. I saw a field of tall, wavy grass. I saw a man laying on a hammock on the back porch of a large, white farm house on the top of a hill in a field of tall, wavy grass. The sky above the field is bright and perfectly blue with large, white clouds that dominate the heavens and add to the brightness of the day. The green of the grass is always changing and flowing as the grass waves in the soft wind and the sun reflects and creates shadows in different parts of the field.

2. I did not pay much attention to the lyrics of the song, but from the class discussion I gathered that it was about the constant flow of ideas that the singer has and how he cannot keep all of those ideas into his head at one time. Despite the fact that my image is based on the singer's accompaniment, I think I can relate my image to the lyrics. The man in the hammock is contemplating the field of grass outside his house. He realizes that the field is constantly changing and that he could never take in the entire scene every time it changes. This means that, with each passing moment, he is missing some beauty that will never return. However, he also realizes that despite the field's constant change, it still maintains a fundamental beauty that never goes away. This means that regardless of the fact that he can not examine the beauty of every shift in the field of grass, he can be content with the beauty of the field as a whole, which is something that he can enjoy at any time.

3. A symbol in my life would be Saint Dismas. Not many people know the story of Saint Dismas, so I will summarize it. When Jesus was crucified, he was not alone. There was a man on his left and right who were also being crucified, but since they were common thieves, their punishment was not as severe and they were only tied to their crosses. One of the men next to Jesus confronted him and said that if he was the son of God, he should free them from their punishment. The other man, Dismas, defended Jesus by saying that Jesus was being punished worse than them even though he was innocent. Because Dismas defended Jesus in his hour of need, he made Dismas a saint, but since Dismas spent his life as a thief, Jesus said that Saint Dismas must help all those who prayed to him the find the things that they are looking for. We have a large family and we lose many things on our house, so my father bought himself, my mother, my sister, and me a chain with Saint Dismas on it to help us find the things that we have lost.   Everybody is looking for something, and if you pray to Saint Dismas, he will help you find it.