Poetryphobia If you ever find yourself in a highschool classroom, you’d most always hear a collective groan from the class when the teacher would announce the beginning of the poetry unit. Why are we so impartial to poetry now, however, when it was so widespread before? Simply put, it’s come from our disconnect with our inner selves. The emotional plane has become a taboo space in western culture. It’s seen as a distraction and untruthful so it’s ignored, and this ignorance over time has made us lose knowledge and understanding of our emotions. Poetry IS emotions, and because we’ve lost touch with our emotions, we’ve lost touch with poetry. Ok so uhhh that was really short but that’s the best way I could put it. Here’s a haiku in the meantime that I wrote just now; The cry of the finch Is the cricket's morning song, A beautiful doom.
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The Hero's Journey- a Personal Take “The hero's journey” is something I find myself thinking about a lot in a personal sense. The stories we consume about the hero’s journey contain great escapades, mighty stakes, and heroic protagonists. Even if these stories seem unrealistic, personal meaning can still be drawn from them. A prime example of the hero’s journey is Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha . When reading the novel, especially part one, I couldn’t help but draw parallels between it and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit , specifically the movie because it’s been a while since I read the book and it’s too long for me to feasibly reread any time soon. The similarity between the two in this case comes from the heroes themselves. Siddhartha, in Siddhartha , is a young religious man who is destined for greatness. His community holds him in high regard due to his father being a Brahmin and due to his own religious achievements. Siddhartha is dissatisfied with this li...