poetry as a revolution
the ecology of power and the written word
A fly dances in my tea leaves. It burrows its head the size of a pin beneath the black plant and eats away at its remains. This choreography of decay in something mother nature is so used to—she knows it well. I throw the leaves …
“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one Root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that root? Is not that the soul …
In Adrienne Rich’s selected poems book, Dark Fields of the Republic, there is a heavy political element to her storytelling. She’s known for her work in feminism and a heavy focus in lesbian literature and activism in the second half of the twentieth century, as …
Analyzing poetry is like performing an autopsy. The assiduous dissection of flesh and bone by the pathologist, looking at the body that tells a story of life and death—looking at certain parts that capture a fleeting moment in time that nobody but the person lying …
In class, we spoke of the many ways to define poetry. One quote from A.R. Ammons says, “a poem is a walk.” Though it is short, it is heavy with meaning. A poem is a pathway of language forged by words. It looks at poetry …
The practice of Gay and Lesbian literary criticism, or Queer theory as it is often referred to now, dates back to the turn of the nineteenth century, though works focusing on this field of criticism most likely stretch back much further than that. They were …
Humans primarily interact with the environment in two ways; collection and production. Collection is a noninvasive interaction that sees the natural world as connected to humanity and wishes to cohabit with the surroundings. Production is the thought that nature was created for humans, often based …
English is a multifaceted field of study. It is not a static field that can be confined to one category, it is structured more like a great oak tree; with its roots in traditional literature and branching off into many different forms of study. What …
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde. This quote has floated around my brain since my junior year of highschool. My English teacher had it as an epigraph …
Essays have always made sense to me. I am able to convey my thoughts and processes in a concise manner, where any other method feels unorganized and lacking in direct communication between my thoughts and the material at hand. I feel that they serve a …
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