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…
I remember borrowing this book for English class in Grade 8. The cover, in black and white, showed a boy in an unbuttoned shirt smoking a cigarette. Of course, then and there I immediately formed a distasteful opinion about the book. Little did I know, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton would prove me wrong…