Dynamic Characters In High Fidelity

Firstly, the speaker’s attitude or the tone demonstrates how a person can be the cause of their own misery. From the very start of the poem the speaker has a depressing tone. Any little event that occurs the speaker reads it as a negative occurrence that adds to his ever growing misery. For Example, when the speaker says “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” The speaker hears a knock on the door and opens it to see that there is no one there. Instead of going back to sleep he demonstrates his negative attitude by

A poem that I find relatable is “Ars Poetica?” by Czeslaw Milosz. Milosz’s writing on line twenty-four stood out like a sore thumb to me, “As leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics” (701). I can relate with this because that line sums up poetry, especially when I write it, it’s a therapy session for the author that occasionally helps the reader with their own problems. Poetry is an outlet for expression and decompression helping the author to express their own feelings in a positive manner and occasionally helping the reader to say something they couldn’t find the words for. We are all human and experience the same emotions, it just so happens that sometimes someone else say’s it for us.

This poem is written in free verse. My paraphrase of this poem is: I am fourteen, and now my skin is marked with acne. The boy that I love is still immature. How come my skin is so dry? What if I was gone before morning? Even so, my mother leaves me isolated. I have to learn how to dance before the upcoming party. I cannot practice in my cramped room. Maybe if I die before graduation, they will chant melancholy tunes. There’s nothing I want to do, but there are too many things to be done. Even so, my mother leaves me isolated. Nobody wants to listen to what I have to say. I should've gotten into the math team, I had better grades than him. How come I have to be the one with braces? I don’t even have anything to wear tomorrow. Would I even live long enough to grow up? Even so, my mother leaves me isolated.

In middle school, 5th to 8th grade, I endure multiple adjective to describe my experience in middle school. While in Middle School, I struggle with my appearance which has stayed as an adult. For I always look at myself and all the flaws in my features, as my family members and/or friends state my beauty features, I will brushed them off by stating the negative feature I visually observe. Until recently, I’ve overcome my inability of reading in public and/or to my peers. As my cousin passed away tragically, his mother (my Aunt) asked if I will read his poem to her and a group of 50 strangers. She knew my fear of public speaking, she also knew my dream of becoming a teacher and starting to a career as a substitute teacher. Therefore, she knew I needed to overcome the fear of speaking. I am extremely pleased with myself to speak clearly and to have the strength and encouragement of my family to overcome my greatest fear with a poem in dedication to my beloved cousin.

The sense throughout the entire poem is that the speaker is nervous about embarking on a new journey in their life. Something encapsulated perfectly when the speaker says “this is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself” (24). The irony here is that many children dream of becoming older from the time they can talk. Hell, maybe even before that. They see a distorted view of freedom in adulthood and oppression in childhood. This speaker’s view of blossoming out of childhood, however, is bleak and contrast with what most children want. Maybe the speaker is scared of getting closer to going to high school, having to leave certain things or people behind or, maybe they just fear change in general. The poem does not hand the correct interpretation to the reader and leaves it up for interpretation, something that makes the poem more powerful by allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions as to why the speaker is apprehensive about reaching their new milestone. Thus rings the bell, calling for a pause of reading and the start of thinking. This openness leaves different readers with different backgrounds, different experiences and different personalities to all read differently into what the speaker fears about growing up. A reader who grew up affluent may attribute this concern as a normal progression of feelings which starts as fear but grows into excitement due to having new experiences to enjoy. A reader who grew up poor may think the speaker realizes they will have to make tough decisions to survive and that the best years of their life are behind them. This openness of having different people read differently into the speaker’s irony is why a thirty-two-line poem leads to an infinite amount of interpretations. As well as being used for humour, irony is also used to highlight certain expectations of growing

This poem resonates deeply with me because it offers a different perspective to any challenges and hard times a person can face. Throughout my sophomore and junior year of high school, my attitude towards life was not optimistic. I grew towards pessimism, and would simply go through my days waiting, begging for the day to be over. I, like the narrator, had "out walked the furthest city light." I can remember just sitting through one of Coach Day's math classes and closing my eyes, envisioning the 2:55 p.m announcements coming on, and knowing that I would be able to go home.

This poem is closely related to me surprisingly. It shows a person who has set a goal for themselves in life and is just beginning to accomplish it. Through his/her journey, this person faces many troubles such as unhappiness and receives bad advice on how to succeed. No matter what help or annoyances he/she inherits, they will never restrain themselves from attaining their goal. This poem is closely related to me because I have set a goal for myself and I will do whatever it takes to reach it.

Growing up is full of obstacles and challenges but it is our choice to either let them build us up or tear us down. As you can see in the poem Hanging fire the narrator has a low self esteem and lets these challenges tear her down and make her feel miserable. It is good to face these challenges though because they prepare you for the future but dwelling over the past will not change anything, for it is what you do in the present that matters. Focusing and only thinking about the past will not prepare you for the future. It is better to move on and quit thinking about things that you could have done better because it won't change anything.

Personal growth is inevitable for a teenager going through high school. As much as my freshman year self didn’t want to admit it, I knew walking into the doors freshman year that my life, and myself, were going to be different when I left Lowell High School. Throughout my high school career I watched myself change, becoming more confident in myself and more curious about the world around me, but unable to pinpoint why that change was happening. I still had the same friends, did the same sports, and had the same hobbies as I had all throughout high school. After some deep reflection, I realized that I didn’t just wake up one day, suddenly more grown up and mature. It happened slowly throughout my junior year. And why it happened? Junior year

The mood of the poem gives me the understanding that it may not be the happiest after stating what is going on. At the beginning of the piece not everything was understood. After continuing reading, I felt as though I comprehended

Most people would relate this particular poem with passing over, however I relate to this in a completely different way. As I am a little too young to die. Anyways, the point is, this poem has a completely different meaning to me. While reading this poem, I actually connect it to how my creed is. Not waiting for the future, and taking risks. Sometimes my close ones discourage me from doing a certain action with phrases like: “you sure,” and “do you have to do it.” However, to no avail. In fact such phrases tends to only “add coal to the fire.” After all, to me there is no future schedule, as future tends to be unpredictable.I do it now, or I might as well not do it. And more than once I was able to find this side of mine in this

John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life.” Change is the universal theme in the realistic novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. To start, I began to witness people I have been close to for years, transform into totally different people. My former friends began to hang in different groups and forget I even exist. The sad truth is that change began to challenge me too. My frightening experience with an older guy adjusted me into a new person. I was depressed and the ‘weird’ girl that no one liked. This book helps you see the scary truth of high school. Different is scary when you start going to a new school or when you walk into a huge lunchroom and have no one to sit with. People who we have known forever convert into people

This symbolize that something is wrong with the boy. The reader hears the boy cries and frustration with society. He is trying to express himself and create. By the last stanza, the boy is filled with grief and loneliness that he thinks he has made a mistake in trying to have a life that would not grant him access to be free. The reader sense the boy having to choose between his art and society.

At a certain point in people’s lives, time seems to stop and they become stagnant, almost as if they can’t progress any further. It’s at this point that they are given a choice to move forward, and at a young age I was also given that choice. When I was in elementary school, I was told by many people trying wouldn’t get me anywhere because I was naturally bad at many things. I was told that I had no talent and even if I did get better I couldn’t be compared to my peers. This idea didn’t seem right to me and I immediately questioned it, however for a long time I let their words get to me. I remained one of the slowest runners in my grade, I had some of the worst grades, and I thought it was just how the world worked. Although, I let their words affect me, I didn’t really believe them.

This line reveals that his tone for this poem is negative towards death, but encouraging towards his