Essay Writing

Some writing assigments over the years of my high school career have really helped me progress in writing essays. for instance in freshmen year I wrote an essay on The Odyssey and it really helped me with a 5 part paragraph and how to do one. i have also learned to understand the sections of a essay and how important each section is and what chunks you need to have it be good essay.

When writing an essay I have to be open to ideas that be creative with words to use or transitions to select for my essay. I need to be able to completly understand the subject so i can write a good essay and have enough to write about. I need to have good vocab and speak clearly for the reader to understand what i mean.

Nature vs. Self-Reliance

The poem thats more relevent to me would be Self-Reliance because it talks about not conforming to society expectations and to live independantly. its more relevent to me because i want to be independant and i dont want to comform to what the society wants of me. I think that we need to make our own desicions and follow what our heart disires even if society is against it. we should be true to ourselfs and live out what we have a passion for instead of being pulled into a group of conformers who are taught to do the same thing everyday.

Poetry out loud - My poem

The poem I picked was "I Close My Eyes" by David Ignatow and what i think the poem means is that if we do everythig according to what the world see's right then why cant we live forever if we try hard enough? I think that if we try to live a busy life and try to do all that we can that is required of us that we will have lived a wasted life for trying to be perfect. I think this is what David was trying to point out and that we cant live forever obviously so why try to do what the world expects us to do. I think he's trying to point out that we cant live forever by doing everything in our power that is required of us, that we jsut need to live life the way we want to instead of conforming. so the way i was gunna read this poem would be in a way were its sarcastically speaking and at the end i would sarcastically ask " why cant i live for ever? " to get the audience to realize its not by the stuff we are required to do thats important to use but by the things we do to fullfill our life with out own interests.