I’ve many reasons to draw my curtains and take long naps during the sunset hours. The obvious reason that is easier to explain would be that those hours are great for naps, slow and quiet and receding. The more complex reason would be how they instill great fear within me…

At a glance, the 2 works do seem to have extremely tones: tongue in cheek sarcasm and parody, paragraphs worth of build up for an unexpected punchline, and hyperbole. They both base nearly all their premises off of relatability, or at least experiences the target audience would be able to…

The air is frigid. The dark soil is wet with puddles everywhere, the water reflecting the dim torches lining the walls. “You’re too late,” I say menacingly, “I can end you at the drop of a single feather.” I hold out a tiny, white down feather and let it fall, watching it slowly float down into a puddle. Floating, wandering- My teacher calls for me ;we needed to go see the hedgehog exhibit next. I’d been talking to myself, away from my field trip group, playing around with feathers. When they ask what I was doing, I couldn’t answer.

Reading the text had me constantly whirling around different sceneries, like a fantastical zoo of places I knew. It actually reminded me of one of my favorite books, “Tales from the Inner City” by Shaun Tan. Tan’s writing focused on exploring the relationships between man and beast, and how modernization…

The name I’ve lived with seemed to live a life of its own. Sometimes, it lived as Gaea, the goddess of the all things Earth, mother of us all. Other times, it lived among the plants and nature as the very concept of the magnificence of nature. My own parents…

“Eye Candy” is probably one of the most entertaining and amusing short stories I’ve ever read. An amicable way to tackle a character study is the best way I can condense my description on its thoroughly captivating writing style. The tone of the writing oozes personality rather than just a…

Both poems have a more playful tone than the previous poems to me, mainly because the way they play with metaphors in their imagery is really entertaining and satisfying to interpret in more ways rather than just repeating what was clearly shown. It is this interpretation that also seems to…

A surge of pain and heat is what greeted me upon reading the text. The words themselves, at first glance, tasted bitter to read and felt searing to look at. The persona immediately opens with the sorrow, plight, and injustice that led them to creating something so convicted and scathing…

Upon finishing the poem, the first thing that came to me is the concept of internal conflict and intrusive thoughts of the speaker or persona in the poem. The words seem extremely intimate and somewhat like inner thoughts, so it led me to believe that the poem is the persona’s…