Personal Essay Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions? Thesis: The ultimate driving force behind every decision — good or evil — is one’s[…]
Tag: Poetry Seminar Personal Response
is there no power?
personal response to James Weldon Johnson’s “Art vs. Trade” Is there no power to rescue her, protect, defend her? There has always been power, Found in the hands of the people who roam the earth:[…]
“How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!” (Irises) – Personal Response to Kahlil Gibran’s “On Beauty”
On Beauty by Kahlil Gibran And a poet said, ‘Speak to us of Beauty.’ Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And[…]
Late Night, Moon Bright
Here is Barbara Kingsolver’s original poem, “Remember the Moon Survives,” which is the poem my group used in the Poetry Seminar. Remember the moon survives, draws herself out crescent-thin, a curved woman. Untouchable, she[…]
Protector – Tormentor
REMEMBER THE MOON SURVIVES by Barbara Kingsolver Remember the moon survives, draws herself out crescent-thin, a curved woman. Untouchable, she bends around the shadow that pushes himself against her, and she waits. Remember how[…]