It saddens me that every time I open my mouth in Dr. Green's classroom, whether it be to offer some personal insight regarding a particular piece, or share some of my own creative work, my peers are discouraged. If anything, I hope to inspire others to reach a level of comfort with their mastery of the English (or any foreign) language. This puzzles me greatly.
Today, I read aloud my poem, an assignment extended from a reading of one of The Canterbury Tales (and my personal favourite), "The Wife of Bath's Tale". As soon as I was finished, and this is a frequent occurrence now, my classmates issued sighs of self-deprecating disgust. They joked around, telling me that I should have gone last. Dr. Green also jested that he doubted anyone would want to go next. Sarcastically, he remarked, "So that was a C poem, anyone else want to have a go?" While I found it all somewhat amusing, I have a problem here. Can it be that no other student in all three of his AP English classes is capable of producing the same quality of work as I ? Surely there must be another out there somewhere, floating shyly about, hoping to be plucked out of obscurity and publicized. Why should I be laid on the rack, punished for "setting the bar too high" ? How dare I! Shall I point out that in my opinion, no bar is too high when it comes to the beauty of written expression. No such bar exists but that which lies in the mind of the writer in order to hinder his artistic calling to create and express.
I am a humble writer. Truly, I am. I do not smirk arrogantly upon receipt of accolades. In fact, my cheeks blush and I cannot help but look away. But I know that I write well. But I also know this: I am not the best there is. Certainly not. Why, if that were so, then I should be the last living soul of my generation to produce the written art of literature. It is sad that we live in a world that wants only the mere writings of fact and notification...memorandum and lecture, or speech of some kind in whose words reflect less passion and more plain affliction of opinion upon some gentle ear. Mere words. But they are not mere words, they are the expression of tradition, of soul and wit, brevity or detailed literary mythology, tragedy and truth--the exposition of life, death, love, and all the complexity that is bound within and by each. They are a medium through which we reveal our human strengths, as well as weaknesses.
I refuse to accept the mere of things, of society, of life.
I do not do anything, nor do I write anything, merely.
After all, how can I keep the most natural desire to stir my soul at bay ?
I think what you are missing, meaning overlooking but perhaps as a deficit in ability to consider the audience, is that what to you seems innate, the ability to express yourself verbally by means other than vocally is something, I think, takes most people a lot of effort to do until they feel comfortable writing.
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http://www.progressiveu.org/090204-dont-miss-this-chancethe idfference verbally or not? They wouldn't be making fun of her if it wasn't good quality. If she was bad, others in the class are just as bad or worse and there would be no reason to poke fun. Why else would the teach intimidate by saying :that was a c...anyone else?"
Don't have a clue what you just said. Whats
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Verbally, in the context of the sentence (obviously as opposed to vocally) infers to the primary definition; meaning of or pertaining to words. I think artful.exodus would/will (what the hell context is this?) catch my drift of primary definitions as opposed to communized definitions being relevant to the subject of altering style to suit the audience/readership.
Other inferences: it seems like artful.exodus was given an assignment which was to be an oral presentation, which to me says that her audience was to be her classmates. It’s great that artful.exodus can get swept up into the verve of the times when The Canterbury Tales was written, but I’m thinking Mr. Green was looking for inflections of modernity, perhaps to make it easier on himself.
Mr. Greens apparent overly crass demeanor could be appropriate if artful.exodus assumes to have more talent than artful.exodus has.
Finally to clarify what I meant by innate, artful.exodus seems to have spent a lot of time writing, perhaps spinning fanciful tales for as long as artful.exodus remembers and maybe the area most needing improvement is artful.exodus effort or ability to relate to the audience/readership.
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Could it be that you are better than your teacher and he knows it? Which would explain why he "encourages" the class to join in mocking you?
DISCLAIMER: I am not being rude. I'm stating my opinion. No personal attacks are meant. Please give some leniency on how you take my words. imagine me saying them with a smile. ^__^