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Three-line poems that describe the conflicts between beauty, sadness, fear, and desire.
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I want wrists curved like butterfly wings; a jawline arched like the vein of a leaf; a ribcage like a harp. I will sway to music-box melodies beside the daisies: the dandelion ballerina…
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A collection of pieces that revolve around the nature and nurture creation of a human being, told from the perspectives of air, water, earth, and fire.
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She was trying desperately to break the boundaries of her being and bind her blemishes in bandages...

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Archive of posts published in the category: Critical and Analytical Responses

The Colour of Corruption

  White is a beautiful colour. White is a quiet and peaceful expression of childhood – it is pure, innocent, virtuous. White exists as a perfect combination of every colour in the spectrum – it is equal, perfect, whole. White is angelic in…

Flame and Frost

Ice is an unwavering anchor, a cool and handsome medium that can be sculpted to perfection. In ice, there is reason and purity, but there is also a sense of restriction and exile. While the security of isolation can be found, there is…

The True Monstrosity

Women in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein play apparently disposable roles that are founded in a docile pliability. Females appear to be one-dimensionally portrayed as possessable and passive supports for the actions of the more prominently capable men. However, Shelley portrays them this way in…

Quixotry As it Dies

Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life. (Polished Critical) Aspiring to our ideals is instinctual. Idealism – the forming and pursuing of conceptually perfect desires – is…

The Looking Glass

Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. (Polished Critical) Mirrors are cruel, for they refuse to show what we want to…

Physical Force and Physical Love

Through currents that are subtle yet nonetheless powerful, dominance is a controlling factor in relationships- both of the past and present.  Dramatized to demonstrate the effects of dominance, the connection between passion and violence in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire is based on…

Temptations of Preservation

Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) created by the text creator in your chosen text about the role of self-preservation in the face of competing demands. (Cold Critical) Human beings are creatures who place enormous importance upon our individual self-preservation. We take every opportunity that…

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