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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Weird. So much for that. It was working fine this afternoon but now I can't do anything.
edited 27th Feb '14 6:54:16 PM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayAnytime I write poetry, I can never write happy poetry. No matter how happy I am, no matter how much in love I am, no matter how much positivity that I have inside me, I'll usually write some of the darkest writing. I find that it's impossible for me to write anything that is happy. At one point, I tried to write a romantic poem, but it ended up being a bit of a downer with a bitter edge. You can put me in front of a girl, or guy, who I'm madly in love with but I wouldn't have any words to describe her or him. I keep thinking about a person who I see in my dreams and I can't stop thinking about her...and she's a real person! I tried to write a poem about her but it ended up being a dark, depressing, not to mention, unfinished, poem.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qAnyway, I'm actually hoping they fail and black out again so that we have another shot at Operation Icequake and Make Air Useful.
Dumb literature classes
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI must have gotten really lucky with english teachers, because I never really had that problem.
... Or I was just good at reading the teachers and instinctively pleasing them. Considering they probably asked some pretty leadign questions, that may be the case.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Isn't that just what we were complaining about?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayYeah, I'm just saying I may have had the same kind of teacher you were complaining about after all. I don't really know, since I did fairly well in English one way or another.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Yeah, I've always thought that most literary analysis was complete bunk of the "I'm pretty sure that doesn't really symbolize anything" variety, and was always more interested in analyzing character motivation and how the narrative style contributes to the events of the story. However, I'm still glad I had to go through it because of one major reason: it taught me how to articulate and defend my views and back it up with material from the work in question. Knowing how to organize your thoughts so that you can clearly and concisely explain them to others. It helps that my teacher, while uber strict, was good enough to give you a pass even if you disagreed with her so long as you managed to defend it well.
Needless to say that skill has been immensely useful in dealing with the fandom.
And we did focus enough on the literary device side of things that it actually really helped me be a better writer because it helped me be more aware of various literary devices and how they could be used to subtly influence how the reader reads something.
edited 27th Feb '14 7:39:45 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryMy teachers actually liked my depressed poetry, however. My college teacher said he liked it, it was just WAY too depressing. I had to had in a small mini book of poetry I wrote in the class and I picked a few of them. There were different types of poetry and all of them were extremely depressing...and then there was the last poem in my book...which was in the style of a rant.
You see, in the last class of that course, we had to perform one of our poems in front of the classroom. Now, everyone in the class considered me to be a nice, easy going, laughing kind of person, and I am. But, as the course went on, I thought I was failing and, no matter what I did, no matter how tightened my writing was, I thought I was failing. So, I was slowly getting frustrated, however, I was keeping it in. It isn't healthy, I know, but I didn't know it, at the time. So, after a few performances, I was up next. I was angry and, thanks to a tearjerker of a performance, I was on the verge on tears.
Everyone in the class thought I was going to do some sort of comedic performance, lifting up the spirits of the depressing poem that made a few people cry....I performed my rant poem. The angriest, bitter, profanity laced rant I had ever done. I threw my glasses (my old glasses that I didn't use anymore) across the room, I took off a tie I was wearing (since I decided to dress outside of my "grunge" look and wear a dress shirt and dress shoes), and almost flipped over a table. I actually got so angry, that I ended up making up a few lines in it. I was really close to tears (thanks to the depressing performance), listening to Alice In Chains before that didn't help, and I almost stormed out of the room, because I didn't think I could calm down. Needless to say, everyone in the classroom was horrifying shocked and scared. Maybe it's because the first line in my rant was me shouting "F*** YOU!"
People asked me who the rant was about but I couldn't tell them because I thought it was obvious. I can never do happy writing because it ends up being dark and depressing.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
Yeah, if you're teacher is of the "I'm going to fail you if you don't conform to my interpretation" type you're pretty much boned unless you suck up to them.
If it weren't for my rant performance, I think I would have failed my class...I ended up getting a B+ in the end.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qWell, you used the poetry to express yourself, which is the core of what it's about after all.
Reaction Image Repository@Marcen: Heavens. What a heck of a way to go out in a bang with the last poem. I found my writing to generally be relatively happy. (Namely, a couple fics of equines and changeling OCs, but I won't be showing them out of the fact it'd require a whole lot of explaining, and my explanations are succinctly beige.)
Anyways, I do wonder if I should consider a simple fanfiction or poem or haiku... Y'all are kinda tempting me to one of those three...
I know poetry is a way to get out my frustrations. My deviant art account is definite proof of that, whether it is bloody, angry, depressing or, near the end of high school, sexual. But, I've written more of those then love poetry. Like, I find it near impossible to write love poems.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qI'm so glad Colin isn't on the thread at the moment. I watched him go crazy over his last semester's performance. If he wasn't so good at maintaining his emotions, I could easily see him pull a Lesson Zero Twilight, without the magic of course.
From what he's told me, he had decent enough teachers, sans his programming teacher. He complained that the teacher was to tangential when he asked for help.
We are all made of star stuff. Very, very weird star stuff.Back to watching Adventure Time, specifically "Marceline's Closet". Finn just had a childhood defining moment.
I don't feel that I learned anything of the sort in English. Writing a persuasive argument or whatever isn't something you teach, and most of what English teaches is bunk.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayUm, yes, it kind of is. A lot of teachers don't, but that doesn't mean it isn't something that can't be taught.
Reaction Image RepositoryI learned quite a bit about critical thinking and writing arguments in English. I learned a lot of shit along the lines of Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory too, but I learned good stuff.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/As far as going against the teacher goes, I remember one time there was some sort of essay contest about a life lesson you learned. Mine was voted almost unanimously by the class, but the teacher overruled it and picked the runners up to go. Probably because mine was funny, but it didn't technically meet the word count requirements (I wrote about learning that dishonesty is the best policy, not that I actually follow that).
I guess it's YMMV. I can't really think of anything meaningful I learned. Besides obvious advice like supplying supporting arguments to your thesis or whatever. But there's no step by step guide to writing so everything is hopelessly general and vague.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayJust because you personally didn't learn it doesn't mean it can't be taught. It's like how Calculus itself isn't useful to the vast majority of people who aren't mathematicians, but learning how to think in that manner can still be useful.
Also, this needs to be used more often.
edited 27th Feb '14 8:35:11 PM by JapaneseTeeth
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Darn it. I'm trying to help Twitch, but whenver I try to chat it says it can't connect. I've tried refreshing, logging out and back in, and nothing works.
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