Poetry Conclusion

               I'm one of those students that pulls out a groan when a teacher announces poetry as an assignment, and when I'm faced with a blank piece of paper glaring back at me, my brain tries to abort mission and uses procrastination. The reason for this is that poetry makes me over think a lot about what I should write. I like order and punctuation when it comes to story telling, but poetry is a whole other element where capitals don't have to be there and phrases can be in a form of a tree; it really freaks me out. However, I have come to the conclusion that poetry is simply beautiful to read and take in. Ironically, I have a playlist of different kinds of poems that I could just listen to for hours and have a different view with each replay. This is because poems are mysteries that I love to unravel, and though it may frustrate me after hours of pondering, the end moment of clarity results me in awe. Even if someone thought my interpretation of the poem as ideally wrong, I can still stand with my opinion as correct because poems are all about different interpretation.  One of the things I learned about poetry is that there is a process of hours of just thinking; thinking of the right words, thinking of how the words should be arranged and thinking of the point/goal you want to bring out. It's really exhausting, especially trying to make a haiku! I underestimated the stupid process of forming that poem while I sat  in front of a blank page, frustrated because I missed one syllable on my second line. So for someone to be able to continuously create poems that blows my mind is someone who is talented. In conclusion,  poetry is what brings out the inner depth of our desires, problems and hopes. Outrageous analogies can be used and still be considered a piece of art. It's another way to understand something important without having to read a long article. It's something to be worth looking into it and I hope I would be able to use them as inspiration when I write stories. I believe poetry will prevail for many years and I feel fortunate being able to read through many, but I still don't expect my poems to be written exceptionally well, and that is completely fine.

       On an additional note I would like to mention one of my favourite poets, Shane Koyzcan

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       He's a Canadian poet who usually writes with issues he has dealt with in his life. Goosebumps travel in every part of my body every time I hear him voice out compelling verses. There are so many poems that I enjoy listening to, but I'll show you my current favourites.

To This Day
My Darling Sara
Instructions for a Bad Day

       Here some intriguing poems and lines I found while browsing online.

Goodness, I really enjoy poems.

Meeting Expectations in Concerns with Assignments

         To be honest, one of the ways that'll make assignments catch my interests along with meeting the instructor's expectations is to leave the topic chosen open ended. That's right, generic assignments are quite amazing because  I receive an amount of variety within my choices, resulting a great imagination running through my head. I get this bubbling form of excitement when I ask a question about a project about whether a specific theme is needed to gain a good mark, and the teacher would just reply, "It doesn't matter." Cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I had the ultimate power to make a simple project, a mind-blowing, extravagant and fabulous piece of work that should be published on New York Times.  For example, during my third year of high school, my English teacher assigned our class a project about telling a biography of an author and explaining their writing styles. At first, we only had a choice of classical authors, which was fine, but then she later announced that we can pick any author. That gave the entire class presenting a variety of writers, from those that I still can't remember their names to known children's book authors such as Dr. Seuss. Each one of the presentations showed that writing can come to many styles and still be loved and inspired by many around the world. I remember doing the assignment with pure contentment and making sure I showed my author justice, which I did having marks of straight A's. I ended up loving that assignment, and it was most probably because my teacher gave the option of any author. I know there are projects that have to be very detailed because if not, it cannot relate to the subject (e.g. Chemistry labs), but the ones that can be open ended, I would love to keep open ended. I want my imagination to keep running its fuel and those projects would be great as my gasoline.

An Author and a Quotation

F. Scott Fitzgerald

         

            Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, or known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born in St.Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. He was a classified as an author who wrote five novels (one of them uncompleted), including one of the highly acclaimed classics of literature, The Great Gatsby, and published many short stories. His stories are fictional with themes of youth, despair and the Jazz Age. His style of writing became so phenomenal in his time, he was considered one of the best American writers of the 20th century. He was writing his fifth novel when he passed away on December 21, 1940 with the cause of a heart attack. 

            This is the quote I chose, said by F. Scott himself, and to me it represents one of the purposes of literature. When an author writes something that you can relate to on a deeper level, it can lift off a weight, that has been causing you to struggle, from your entire body. It doesn't matter if it's a novel, a short story, a poem or even a sentence, words have the power to change your entire mindset. I know when I read some novels, I would sometimes just reread a sentence so I can scream in my head, "Yes, I thought this as well!" or conclude, "Wow, someone actually understands my feelings." That is what makes a great story, in my opinion; a story that can connect with me and help me understand that I am not alone and isolated from anyone. I, instead, belong to this world and I'm pretty satisfied with that.