Dear Someone, You are not used to girls who caution your touch, your heart, your eyes. Because girls fall in love with you all of the time, thoughtlessly. But I am not – I cannot,[…]
Author: emustard
Home.
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. This class has been my home since my very first day three years ago.[…]
Useless Guilt – Polished Personal
Prompt: The nature of motivations that direct an individual’s course of action (January 2013) Below is my Polished Personal in response to the poem Useless Boys by Barry Dempster. In the poem the writer explores the[…]
Polished Critical – Pride and Prejudice
Discuss the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. When Circumstance Meets Self-Respect When an individual values their own personal happiness more than the conventional ideals imposed on them[…]
pretty how towns
Below is my personal response to ee.cummings’ poem anyone who lived in a pretty how town. In this piece I explore the separation between the minds of children and adults, for children have yet to slip into[…]
A Little Girl’s Shame
The following is my response and representation of our most recent study on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I have chosen to write a spoken word poem with the hope of using this as the foundation for[…]
Fire & Desire
So often we see the same cautionary tale repeat itself throughout time, history, and religion: the story of god creating man and forbidding him to act on the foundation of the human condition[…]
A Letter To the Boy Who Holds My Heart,
To the boy who holds my heart, The way your soul encompasses mine, when you lay down beside me, makes my heart plead that you will never let it beat without you there to hear[…]
Cold Essay – Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the human need to make a commitment or renounce a course of action.
Searching for a Course of Action Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the human need to make a commitment or renounce a course of action. […]
The Voice Inside the Box
This piece is a personal response to the short story “Voices from Near and Far”, that I read over the winter break. The original story is about a mother who yearns to hear the voices[…]