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[…]
Tag: innocence
Teddy Bear – Personal Response To The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
Trigger warning. My personal response is on child abuse. Child abuse is more than bruises and broken bones – while physical abuse might be the most visible, emotional abuse and neglect also leave deep, lasting[…]
Paradise Lost and Frankenstien
While reading Frankenstein, one can hear echoes of Milton’s Paradise Lost. The connections between it and Frankenstein are important and explain the human condition present in the novel. It is said to be as one[…]
His Blue Door
The following is a personal response inspired by Yasmin Marri’s “The Poison of the Blue Rose,” specifically the role innocence plays when an individual experiences love. Mr. Aziz was the old man who lived a quarter of a block[…]
Personal Response: I Am Superman
The following is a cold personal response to the picture featured in this post as well as this prompt: what do these texts suggest to you about the human need to make a commitment or renounce[…]
Girlhood
“Some of us can recall the exact time in which we reached certain milestones on life’s road – the wonderful hour when we passed from childhood to girlhood – the enchanted, beautiful – or perhaps[…]
To Organize Chaos
I have struggled with this topic for many days. So now, I have finally decided to just let my thoughts organize themselves and maybe I’ll come to realize the center of my discomfort.
Protecting young minds
When you see a child, yours or not, you have this intense, overwhelming desire to protect it, to shield it from the world. Shield it from the war, pain, and horror of everyday military life.[…]
Gold Keys From Gold Minds
This is a personal response to the poem “Reading the Brothers Grimm To Jenny” by Lisel Mueller. I would personally recommend having read the poem beforehand, and so I have included a link to the[…]
Not Allowed
This post was inspired by the movie Life is Beautiful. It is written in the perspective of a Jewish girl in the 1940’s, around 11 years old. “No Dogs or Jews Allowed” The sign was[…]