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Sincerely, Almost a High School Graduate

Cliché: It’s hard to believe this is the last blog post I will ever be assigned to write for a high school English class. I imagine we are all thinking that. Cliché: It’s hard to believe that my senior year and my secondary education career is almost over. I imagine we are all thinking that. As much as I love clichés, here are some more meaningful and creative words to conclude the biggest chapter of my life so far. I have learned that “jumping on the bandwagon” is still very much a thing. People CANNOT resist doing it! If I hear the phrase “unprecedented times” one more time, I am going to scream my head off! At this point, “We had an unprecedented time” should’ve been our senior quote.  I believe that “it won’t always be like this” - Carly Pearce and probably a million other people before her. I have hope for a future in which we don’t have to wear masks anymore, and every day the news isn’t filled with stories about more senseless and racist crimes. I believe the class of 2021 is go
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Sincerely, The Amateur Psychologist

A Psychological Analysis and Interpretation of an AP Prose Passage           Just this past week, one of our AP multiple choice practices was on a prose passage that pondered immortality by posing a hypothetical situation. “Suppose that people live forever,” it began, begging the question to the reader: what would you do if you were immortal?           The passage classified the two major types of people that emerged in this hypothetical immortal population into two categories: The Laters and the Nows.           “The Laters reason there is no hurry to begin” anything because they have an infinite time to achieve and accomplish everything they want. The Laters are essentially the ultimate procrastinators and excuses makers. I imagine them being extremely lazy and lacking all ambition. The Laters are like your friend that is staying with you because he is unemployed, yet he sits on the couch all day stuffing his face with cheeseburgers and binge-watching The Office . The Laters still hav
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Sincerely, The Art Appreciator

  Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth           I enjoyed the poetry and paintings lesson so much that I decided to choose another painting and write a poem based off of it. I almost never look at formal art on my own, so after that lesson, I appreciated the inspiration art can provide so much more than I did before. I have always loved to go to art museums, but I had never really stopped long enough at one exhibit or item to really focus on it, analyze it, and try to decipher what story it is trying to tell. Once I did that for the first time in class, I was amazed at how easily inspiration from a single painting came to me. Now I think that looking at paintings will be a great strategy for me to get new inspiration and ideas for my poems when I have writers’ block.            I had seen Christina’s World before and that’s why I chose to use it as inspiration for another poem. I find it so interesting because the girl at the forefront of the painting, who I assume is Christina, co
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Sincerely, Brenna

Dear Ms. Kay, My name is Brenna and I am a 17-year-old high school senior. Please forgive me for my formality because although I feel like I know you from your poetry, (that is already a testament to how talented of a writer and poet you are) and thus simply call you “Sarah” in my head, I know that we are not on a first name basis. I am also a writer and a poet, in fact I am a newly published poet and soon-to-be published again poet, so maybe one day we will cross paths and become on a first name basis. Until then, Ms. Kay, I wanted to share with you how much I appreciate and admire you.           You are essentially the reason that I am a poet today. You probably hear that a lot from all your fans, but for me, that is no exaggeration. I was in eighth grade when I discovered you. My eighth grade English teacher used a YouTube video of one of your performances as the introduction to our poetry unit that year. It was a video of you performing your poem “Hands.” From the moment my first v
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Sincerely, The Wordsmith

We all know by now that I am a HUGE word nerd. Therefore, I love when Mrs. Liamini teaches us things like hyperbation : the inversion of the normal order of words as customary to their language for the sake of emphasis.  Some of my other favorite words about words are palindromes and portmanteaus . Here is my attempt at “hyperbating” a poem I wrote. Here is the original poem: Reconvening for Dinner Reconvening for dinner That ordinary time is special for us All other time that is ordinary is isolating for us That is the definition of dysfunctional to me But the others don’t see any difference From the people glowing in the windows across the lawn (instance of imagery) We seem ordinary to them Isolation doesn’t like light Isolation doesn’t let people glow (pinch of personification) They only see fraudulence All our truths are behind shut doors Closed blinds Tight curtains Isolation is the cave of darkness we all prefer to sit in (masterpiece of a metaphor) Here is the poem when I use
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