preview

Donald Hall's Argument Essay

Decent Essays

Welcome back my friends to the blog that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend. Read along! Read along! There in this class is some prose that’s pretty crass. Be careful as you pass. Read along! Read along! Wow! How disappointed Emerson, Lake and Palmer must be in this sophomoric attempt at humor. Certainly, a painful finale to wonderful class. Admittedly, I have struggled to produce original and interesting content for these blogs. It wasn’t always so. In the autumn of 73, I experienced no such struggle. Ideas burst forth freely and often to form exquisite prose delighting my English professors. Indeed, the fact that I now struggle was a compelling argument to register for this class.
At first, I thought I’m just too old and senile to be clever. Maybe, it’s a …show more content…

However, at the ripe age of 86 years old, the ancient one, the poet laureate himself and the author of my freshman text, Donald Hall, claims he can no longer write poetry. “Not enough testosterone, he says.” Yet, he has just published a collection of prose titled Essays After 80. Therefore, I’m discarding age as a contributing factor. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to mention my difficulties to my doctor during a recent exam. I asked him if it was the medication, prescribed for chronic pain following two back surgeries, causing my difficulties. Two of these are opioids and two others, Neurontin and Ambien, alter brain chemistry in other ways, including short term memory loss. He confirmed they could be interfering with my mental faculties. Although, he admitted the possibility they were detracting from my writing skills and journalistic acumen; I’m not sure I’m buying that explanation, either. I’m reminded of Samuel T. Coleridge who produced two poems of considerable renown while addicted to opium. Who has not had to recite parts of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner or does not remember the lines, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan\A stately

Get Access