I zipped up my coat as a brisk wind danced and twirled around me. I turned my head so that the cool air would not nip at my nose and watched as an auburn leaf played at the tip of a bare limb and finally broke away and sank lightly down to join a crispy golden canvas of foliage on the dew drizzled grass.
Simply an observance of a seasonal prevalence? Or a symbolic message in a literary art form?
For me, I see this simple observance as a metaphor for days passing. As each leaf falls another sun rises, as each leaf joins the others on the ground another moon sets. Already a sixteenth of the leaves have fallen off the tree of my high school vocation.
So far, in ninth grade honors English the most important skill I have developed is the ability to analyze a literary work and be able to pick up and define the greater symbolic message or theme behind the writing. For example, when I first read To Kill a Mockingbird I read about a girl who lived an the racist town of Maycomb who’s father defended a black man against rape charges and who had an odd neighbor. After discussing the book in class I read the book a second time and this time I read the story of innocence being lost due to the harshness and evils of life in the world. I have also learned to analyze poetry and prose to get a very heartfelt deeper meaning expressed through tone developed by word choice and rhythm. Thus far we have done this with The Knife, Lobsters, and Shoulders in class.
I feel this tool will be obliging to me in the years to come of my high school career and much past my graduation as well. I hope to develop this skill into an art form so that when I read I don’t just see words on a page, instead I will see an image leaping out at me, a story telling itself to me, and a message creeping into me through my thoughts and emotions.
Simply an observance of a seasonal prevalence? Or a symbolic message in a literary art form?
For me, I see this simple observance as a metaphor for days passing. As each leaf falls another sun rises, as each leaf joins the others on the ground another moon sets. Already a sixteenth of the leaves have fallen off the tree of my high school vocation.
So far, in ninth grade honors English the most important skill I have developed is the ability to analyze a literary work and be able to pick up and define the greater symbolic message or theme behind the writing. For example, when I first read To Kill a Mockingbird I read about a girl who lived an the racist town of Maycomb who’s father defended a black man against rape charges and who had an odd neighbor. After discussing the book in class I read the book a second time and this time I read the story of innocence being lost due to the harshness and evils of life in the world. I have also learned to analyze poetry and prose to get a very heartfelt deeper meaning expressed through tone developed by word choice and rhythm. Thus far we have done this with The Knife, Lobsters, and Shoulders in class.
I feel this tool will be obliging to me in the years to come of my high school career and much past my graduation as well. I hope to develop this skill into an art form so that when I read I don’t just see words on a page, instead I will see an image leaping out at me, a story telling itself to me, and a message creeping into me through my thoughts and emotions.
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