they live a life different from mine a life filled with entertainment and awkward laughter; vice, vodka and vanity. they create their own stories of fake smiles, fake friends, fake laughter as if the[…]
Tag: sadness
Pride & The Failure to Grieve
“It was pride that changed angels to devils; it is humility that makes men as angels” -Saint Augustine The Necessity of Pain The most important themes in literature are sometimes developed in scenes in which a[…]
Αυτή η δεμι-θεά είναι η ουσία της ποίησης
Ted Talk The eye of the universe bats its lashes at a a single sliver of splintered light blinking boastfully in the opaqueness– a crescent m☽☽n is birthed, carved by the Huntswoman’s ➳silver tipped arrows➳[…]
We, the Empathetic
There is this music that I hear. It’s the kind of music you can’t listen to for long before it starts hurting your head, the kind of music that makes you feel like your blood[…]
Infestation
I. The Fireflies There was once a time when the fireflies had made a home out of me. One evening, long after the sun had surrendered itself to the hazed horizon and the pregnant[…]
To Watch Them Thrive
Below is a piece I would consider to accurately represent my experience of my first three years of high school. I feel like it depicts my comfort in the safety of watching very well, as[…]
A Requiem – To Me
If there is one thing I have learned throughout my life, it’s that an innocent man will always be used by others. Those that are corrupt. Whether it is his parents, siblings, or friends, there[…]
The Final Goodbye
Sorry, thought this posted yesterday but it didn’t… Sometimes I hate technology. What does the text suggest about an individual’s capacity of self-sacrifice in the face of a compelling situation? Theme Statement: The text creator[…]
This is the Definition of Beauty (This is the Definition of Pain)
The following poem centres around the idea of body image. It also focusses on an individual’s personal definition of beauty. It explores the struggles young women often go through–though this is an issue that affects[…]
Lady Macbeth’s Descent into Paranoia
The response below is an AP analysis focusing on Lady Macbeth’s changing character/nature within Act 5 Scene 1, but specifically focuses on the lines 23-47 (within this website: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_180.html). Please note that these lines represent a[…]