(Published in the February 2021 Issue of The Sequitur, Westdale Secondary School, Hamilton, ON) In literature, men are most likely to “grin” and women to “scream”. Ray Bradbury claimed that “cinnamon” was one of his favorite words, yet he used “spearmint” more than any other author, eclipsing many other authors, actually, in his use of spices….
Reading this famous classic by Herman Melville, I soon realized that there was a reason why people found it so notoriously difficult. From lengthy Shakespeare-esque monologues to unending descriptions of Folio, Octavo, and Duodecimo whales, Moby Dick could at times be, simply put, annoying. The overall theme was, to be sure, steadily present throughout the entire…
It is hard to deny just how much poetry has evolved through history. From the precisely rhymed and arranged stanzas of the 1800s to the free-falling, abstract, and unpunctuated words of today, poetry is constantly shifting, difficult to keep contained within a single definition. And perhaps this is natural; poetry expresses one of the deepest…