** Warning; The poem below touches on ideas of religion and culture that may be sensitive to some readers. I advise those who choose to read this post proceed with an open heart and an[…]
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Que Deseo Poder Explicar: Spanish Civil War Seminar
Spanish Civil War: Cultural, Rhetoric, and Poetry Seminar The poem below is a personal response emulation to the Poem “I Explain A Few Things” by Pablo Neruda who happened to be our poet of choice[…]
Death, Dreams, and Daisies: Another Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others. Death, Dreams, and Daisies When thinking of the American Dream, often[…]
A Mother’s Nature: Polished Personal
This piece is an honest attempt at a CPU (Critical, Personal, Universal) personal response to an excerpt from David Guterson’s Snow Falling On Cedars. The excerpt is set in an American relocation camp in 1941 just[…]
Passivity Is The New Pretty: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty. Ideally, the ability to balance honour and certainty comes naturally to[…]
Ophelia: Character Perspective (Alysha, Yasmeen, Shyla)
Ophelia’s Pursuit of Honour & Certainty QUOTATION “When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,[…]
The Runner
Below is a free choice spoken word poem about the idea of someone running from a past self, and the consequences of doing so. As one can assume, this is a piece that is very[…]
Parallelism That Exists Within The Fates of Oscar Wilde & Dorian Gray
I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease… Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensations. What the paradox was to[…]
We Are No Longer The Same: The Words
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.” – Emily Brontë Unlike those who feels completely moved by the epigrams of Oscar Wilde, or the profound[…]
How The Lack of Fulfillment Drives An Individual’s Course of Action: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in you chosen text about the nature of motivations that direct an individual’s course of action. The desire to fulfill one’s goals and achieve one’s wants is[…]