Repetition

Rep·e·ti·tion

By Addison Callahan

1. Love,

2. First love,

3. Long first love,

4. First love long ago,

5. First love lost long ago,

6. Never lost first love long ago,

7. Never lost first love from long ago,

8. Never lost my first love from long ago,

9. I never lost my first love from long ago,

10. I have never lost my first love from long ago,

11. I have never lost my first love from back long ago,

12. I have never lost my first love back from long ago when,

13. I have never lost my first love from back long ago when we,

14. I have never lost my first love from back long ago when we met,

15. I have never lost my first love from back long ago when we first met,

16. I have never forgotten my lost first love from back long ago when we first met,

17. I have never forgotten or lost my first love from back long ago when we first met.

18. I never have or will forgotten my lost first love from back long ago when we first met

19. I never will have lost or forgotten my first years love from back long ago when we first met

20. I never will have lost or have forgotten my first love from back long ago when we first met years ago

Venting blog

Dear song stuck in my head,

I hate your constant nagging

Your ever catchy rhyme

Your lyrics about that boy you dumped

It’s just a waste of time

Your debate over which seat to take

Or the difference between right and wrong

The $20 in your pocket

Or partying all night long

I don’t care if you’re hot or cold

Or whether everybody talks

I don’t want to call you maybe

Or see your gannam style

I frankly want you to go away

And don’t need 50 ways to say goodbye

I’m not going to be whistling baby

And on my instrument I will not cry

I never want you back

And some nights I won’t even remember your name

So just sigh no more 

Dead Poet Society

Addison Callahan

3/3/13

Poetry

Dead Poets Society Essay

            At a boarding school founded on the ideals of tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence there is little room for free thinking and new ideas. But when Mr. Keating arrives at Welton Academy he opens the eyes of his students through his very unique and radical teaching style. Through the creation of the Dead Poets Society seven of his students undergo a reawakening that will change their lives forever.

            Mr. Keating uses a lesson in which he has three students start walking in a circle until they finally end up with the same stride. In doing this he shows the boys the influence of society and conformity in their lives. He stresses the importance of the boys having their own voice and convictions in life. Like this lesson in poetry we are taught that we must have a conviction or power behind writing or else it will have been pointlessly written. This is prevalent in life as well for if someone has no conviction in what they do there isn't any point in them doing it. Through the poem “Knock Knock” by Daniel Beaty we saw the affect that conviction has on writing giving it more purpose and feeling.

             Another lesson Mr. Keating teaches the boys is to stand on top of their desks so that they will always look at things from a different perspective even if they think they know everything about it. This lesson shows the importance of always approaching things for another way in order to gain a better understanding of it. In poetry we must always remember to look at things from a new perspective to write new pieces and enhance them with even more detail. We better explored this ideal through Taylor Mali’s poem “Totally like Whatever You Know”.  We looked at the phrases so commonly in today’s world from a new perspective better opening our eyes to them as a whole.

            Dead Poet Society connects in many ways to our class as a whole. Through both we learned how to become better poetry writers as well as better people. Life like poetry must always have purpose and drive behind it which is why through these two experiences I believe I have gained a better sense of how to live in the future.