Don’t tell me to write!
Plastered on the screen,
white …clean.
You would think I would feel so sererene
Why is it I feel I could scream?
People can tell me to write,
but I cant requite
My voice is blocked solid with a blue brick
wall partite
It looks like a fight between me and my bryte
Invite handwrite gunfight delight
I try to push with all my might
I kick, shove , lean ---miswrite
Pieces of concrete I cannot destroy
Words I can mend
Songs that devolve from pure joy
I jostle and heave with the force of my might
But all I achieve is a fleight
Recite and rewrite out of spite
---a kite sweet sight feels like
Words floating in an airborne pathogen platter
Drama that sckrews
anger that barter’s the adder
With a printer that threatens to ink the sheet.
Don’t tell me to write, the snake bites snow white in the moonlight
Get out of my sight.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Myth Myth Myth Myth Myth Myth
Before taking this class, I never really thought about myths. This might be an overstatement, but it is true. In high school, the extent of my myth thoughts were to the bare minimum. Maybe my teachers did not find them interesting or perhaps I was not paying attention at the time, but the fact of the matter is all I really knew about myths is that there are a lot of them and they involve beings that are not natural.
I think that being in this class has really enhanced my knowledge of myths (twice). The first time though was not as enjoyable as this time around. Again, this may be because of the people in this class, which make me feel a little more comfortable with my thoughts and ideas. Working creating a myth is immensely different from reading and analyzing one that already exists.
While I was writing the myth, I felt that I was the almighty God and I alone had the answers for my own little world. It feels great to have that kind of authority. God must feel pretty awesome! Aside from feeling power from being able to write a myth, it was relieving as it was informative.
On the one hand, I was able to unload my stress from the semester with this assignment, and on the other, I can understand myths a whole lot better. This is something that I will definitely pass on to my wee adolescents when I begin my journey as an English teacher.
It is impressive what one can do, what a catharsic moment can come about when one creates, especially when one creates a myth because it gives you that power aforementioned. I also learned a lot about what it takes to write and create a myth. With this knowledge, it becomes so much easier to analyze and compare myths. The only way I can really explain this is with the following example. Say you have an origami piece that you really, really wish to know how to make. If you take it apart and put it back together, most likely than not, you will have a greater sense of how it was made. The same concept can be applied in the understanding of myths.
I think myths should play a very important role in the lives of adolescents. It might seem like a mundane concept to them, but it can allow them to open up to creativity. It can also show them that the people who came before us, had a certain value for creativity and oral tradition. This is important because the things that are important today lean more so towards television, video games, and movies. These things are not necessarily bad, but it is important to sit back and contemplate every once in a while. Maybe with the understanding of myths and writing, they might be a bit more inclined to set some time to open up their creativity.
I think that being in this class has really enhanced my knowledge of myths (twice). The first time though was not as enjoyable as this time around. Again, this may be because of the people in this class, which make me feel a little more comfortable with my thoughts and ideas. Working creating a myth is immensely different from reading and analyzing one that already exists.
While I was writing the myth, I felt that I was the almighty God and I alone had the answers for my own little world. It feels great to have that kind of authority. God must feel pretty awesome! Aside from feeling power from being able to write a myth, it was relieving as it was informative.
On the one hand, I was able to unload my stress from the semester with this assignment, and on the other, I can understand myths a whole lot better. This is something that I will definitely pass on to my wee adolescents when I begin my journey as an English teacher.
It is impressive what one can do, what a catharsic moment can come about when one creates, especially when one creates a myth because it gives you that power aforementioned. I also learned a lot about what it takes to write and create a myth. With this knowledge, it becomes so much easier to analyze and compare myths. The only way I can really explain this is with the following example. Say you have an origami piece that you really, really wish to know how to make. If you take it apart and put it back together, most likely than not, you will have a greater sense of how it was made. The same concept can be applied in the understanding of myths.
I think myths should play a very important role in the lives of adolescents. It might seem like a mundane concept to them, but it can allow them to open up to creativity. It can also show them that the people who came before us, had a certain value for creativity and oral tradition. This is important because the things that are important today lean more so towards television, video games, and movies. These things are not necessarily bad, but it is important to sit back and contemplate every once in a while. Maybe with the understanding of myths and writing, they might be a bit more inclined to set some time to open up their creativity.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
What do you do when a lot of stones get in your shoe?
This is a reoccuring problem in college. There are problems which come along the way and sometimes we do not know how to deal with them. But what if the problem is not one big problem, but a lot of little problems. How do you deal with that? What if there is no time and you just have to do everything they ask you? I am having a crisis. I have come to a point where I must get the grades and I must survive the end of my senior year. I feel like this is something I have done before...I have surpassed problems like these, but it seems to drain me somehow. Problems with friends, problems at home, problems with falling grade...Money problems. How is it possible to deal with everything?
I completely understand when people say they want to commit suicide, I have had this sort of problem in the past. This is alot and I am currently trying to find a definite way of sorting it out. I have the problem of lacking time. I also am having a crisis with a VERY EXTREMELY difficult professor. It has come to the point where if I want to pass the class, I have to ignore everything else to focus on this one class. Why are professors like this sometimes? Why do they wish to challenge you to the point of passing out. I don't get it. I am never going to be like that when I am an instructor.
I wish to be reasonable. I wish to have a structure and be able to simplify enormous ideas. I do not want school to be a drain. Yes, I want it to be challenging, but not impossible. *sigh*
I completely understand when people say they want to commit suicide, I have had this sort of problem in the past. This is alot and I am currently trying to find a definite way of sorting it out. I have the problem of lacking time. I also am having a crisis with a VERY EXTREMELY difficult professor. It has come to the point where if I want to pass the class, I have to ignore everything else to focus on this one class. Why are professors like this sometimes? Why do they wish to challenge you to the point of passing out. I don't get it. I am never going to be like that when I am an instructor.
I wish to be reasonable. I wish to have a structure and be able to simplify enormous ideas. I do not want school to be a drain. Yes, I want it to be challenging, but not impossible. *sigh*
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