Simply Sincere Sentiments

I began liking poetry in eighth grade. Before that, I hated poetry. I didn’t want anything to do with it. But in eighth grade I began reading poetry, watching spoken word poetry, (shoutout to Sarah Kay) and most of all, writing poetry. Since then, writing poetry has been one of my biggest hobbies. I now have a huge collection of poems, so I thought I would share one of my favorite ones with you today because while I still don’t love analyzing poetry, I usually either understand the poem or I don’t, I do appreciate the chunking technique that we have been learning in class. It makes analyzing poetry much more tolerable.            This is a poem called Numb. I chose this one to share because not only is it one of my favorite poems that I’ve ever written ( I still don’t know how this specific combination of words came out of me) but because it has a clear shift and can be chunked for analyzation easily. Numb Take her on a roller coaster She’ll sit in silenc...

An interesting concept that I was recently introduced to is the concept of how people play hide and seek with their identities. I never realized before how often and inconspicuously this occurs. Sometimes we are the ones doing it, and other times we are the ones  being fooled and only made privy to fakeness - someone hiding her true identity.            This concept has two variations. The first is the more common one and the one  I just mentioned; people often change  the identity  they choose to present to the world. They change what version of themselves the world gets to see. They frequently, but thus temporarily, change how the world perceives them and, therefore, who the world comes to know them as. This is done by changing the way one acts. One adjusts one’s personality so that one identifies with different people than one normally would. One acquires or achieves a new perception, and thus a new identity, as both are very much int...