Looking back: what is a poem?

So, many weeks and a unit's worth of content later, we're just about done studying poetry. We've looking at its lingual tropes, figurative language, meanings, and analyses of content, structure, and more. Yet through all of this, we've yet to answer one of the first questions we asked ourselves: what is a poem?

The Power of Birthdays

Malcolm Gladwell is sort of a hero of mine. The combination of entertainment, inquiry, and simple curiosity his works embody match very well with my own attitudes towards life; his clarity of writing and accessible style serve as a model for my own.

Six things: a blogging retrospective

Nine months. Twenty-six blog posts. Six about books, three about music, two poems, and two more about poetry in general, with the rest distributed across a wider variety of topics.

I have to say, when I started this blog, I expected it to feel very much like "work": an assignment, a task, a thing I was forced to do because I would receive a grade for it. I would be lying if I said that was never the case, but more often than not (especially recently), it's become so much more than that. I've learned to express me, the myself of me clearly, and with that blogging has become as much a hobby as it is an assignment.