#grownupdecisions

If you're looking for the essays I was supposed to do this weekend, you won't find them because they don't exist.  I thought they were a great idea and if circumstances had been different, I would have done them.  This, however, was not the case because personal events, college decisions, and a calculus test had other plans for me.  I promise I will be ready for the AP test but my grade in Calculus needs more attention right now.

Groupthink

I missed class the day we went over the poetry charts so I was mostly an observer during class today.  Once I understood enough of what was going on, however, I was able to jump in and help Sam and Ashley with their understanding of "Marriage a la Mode."

SEVENTH READING Y'ALL

I like Poe's flow so I chose a poem by him that I had never read before.
Dreamland in the first read was a dismal place with a dreary landscape, not unlike California's Central Valley.  Lots of imagery and a somewhat comfortable rhyming scheme mask the deeper meaning.  In the seventh read, it's clear that dreamland is a place of isolation for Poe.  He mentions having just arrived there and makes the observations of imagery and before mentioning his departure he makes it clear that if your soul is damned you'll be happy there but if not, then it can seem like the worst place in the nightmare world.

Emily Dickinson is popular so I read A Bird Came Down.
The first read makes it seem childish and a bit like Animal Planet.  By the seventh read, however, I felt as if the bird were a person going about their own life and Emily cautiously tried to partake in his life.  Then, he flew away.  Perhaps like a man Emily Dickinson had loved.  Does reading these poems seven times create a meaning out of nothing?

This time I looked for somebody I hadn't heard of.  Lemme say that A Corn-Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar was the most moving poem I read today.
First read it sounds like an attempt to bring some scenery to a boring history chapter about American slavery.  Then I read it again and noticed the strength of the poem's rhythm and diction.  Using educated speech to describe what the " was feeling was a good move because it created a switch of the imagination when you read the lyrics of the slave song in their own accent. As for why it was so moving...I suppose it evoked the sentiment that there are many people who experience the same situations and, because of their own perspectives, their grass must seem a little brittle.

Reeling Guts and Little Glory

If there are any crickets out there, please abstain from chirping for the remainder of this post.

The last few months have been the most novela-like out of my seemingly scripted existence.  Really though, if college doesn't work out I'm gonna write for Telemundo or some creepy little fanfic forum, it's that bad (just ask my calculus grade).

But I'm not a punk. Maybe I used to be but I won't be anymore. If you see me being one, feel free to creatively insult me so that we both benefit from the experience.  

Thank you and I promise(the crickets and myself).  #performativeutterance