English speech
I feel like poetry is exactly like this topic. Confusing. You have to read it a few times and then read it
some more and finally come to terms that you still don’t understand it. And that is when you have to
stop reading the poem and start to gain an understanding about it. And isn’t that the whole point of
poetry? Doesn’t the poet intend to get the reader to stop reading the poem and get to them to
connect and find a personal meaning to it. Ok so let’s do that.
To me, this quote means that poetry is the formula for making impossible. Obviously, a sea animal
can't live long on land and cannot fly. However, these feats are made possible through poetry.
Poetry can vividly explain dreams and hopes through poetic techniques such as alliteration,
assonance, rhyme, rhythm and so on. It is also connected to the idea that through these dreams and
poetic techniques you are able to comprehend feelings and emotions that are difficult to put into
words.
As many of you know I am one of the most emotional people you will ever met. I usually find myself
just as confused as you are to why my emotions all of a sudden spark up. However, while looking for
poems for this CAT I found that “nobody loses all the time” by ee, “Success Is counted sweetest” by
Emily Dickinson and “If” by Rudyard Kipling were poems that I felt spoke to my frustration of success
and failure through my academics
Success is counted sweetest uses style and format in a traditional manner to deliver a powerful
message. Dickinson argues the paradoxical aspect of success, which is the more successful you are,
the less you appreciate that success, and vice versa. Dickinson uses a metaphor to compare a solider
who has won the battle to a dying soldier to explain this concept. Dickinson’s use of the metaphor is
extremely vivid and effective as they simply explain the message of the and invites me to think of my
own visceral experiences towards the feeling of being on the wrong side of success and what it has
felt like to witness everyone else succeed. For me success was determined by an academic symbol
and while chasing that definition of success, I lost sight of all the things I have done in between. The
dying solider did not win the war, nevertheless, he was still successful in fighting until the end. My
success has come in forms that I never set out to be successful outcome such as my art and music.
They were thing I merely experimented with and didn’t feeling any pressure towards. Dickinson
made me realise that success is not the outcome but is rather the approach.
“Nobody loses all the time” felt like a longer version of the quote. I felt just as confused reading this
poem as I did to the quote. However, after analysing how ee cummings opposes Dickinson’s use of
past values and traditions, he shows how failure is actually linked to success. The poem makes use of
irony, peculiar language and a lack of punctuation to emphasise that success can come in the most
unexcepted place and what may not be accepted by society. This concept resonated with my idea
that success is not determined by society’s hallowed academic excellence. The absurdity of the
poem and the use of a non-traditional style felt like a truer representation of me and my definition
of success. ee cummings demonstrated that success is not deemed by society but rather success
comes from failure or in places that are unexpected.
Finally, Rudyard Kipling’s inspirational poem personifies triumph and disaster. The poet’s main idea
of the poem is about becoming a man, which yes, I do not associate with, however, Kipling also
writes how one must have been on either side of success and failure to truly understand it. Success
comes from when “you can meet with triumph and disaster” and “watch the things you gave your
life to, broken, and stoop and build them up with worn-out tools”. These lines invited me to think
about all the times I just wanted to give up because of all the copious amounts of studying and effort
I feel like poetry is exactly like this topic. Confusing. You have to read it a few times and then read it
some more and finally come to terms that you still don’t understand it. And that is when you have to
stop reading the poem and start to gain an understanding about it. And isn’t that the whole point of
poetry? Doesn’t the poet intend to get the reader to stop reading the poem and get to them to
connect and find a personal meaning to it. Ok so let’s do that.
To me, this quote means that poetry is the formula for making impossible. Obviously, a sea animal
can't live long on land and cannot fly. However, these feats are made possible through poetry.
Poetry can vividly explain dreams and hopes through poetic techniques such as alliteration,
assonance, rhyme, rhythm and so on. It is also connected to the idea that through these dreams and
poetic techniques you are able to comprehend feelings and emotions that are difficult to put into
words.
As many of you know I am one of the most emotional people you will ever met. I usually find myself
just as confused as you are to why my emotions all of a sudden spark up. However, while looking for
poems for this CAT I found that “nobody loses all the time” by ee, “Success Is counted sweetest” by
Emily Dickinson and “If” by Rudyard Kipling were poems that I felt spoke to my frustration of success
and failure through my academics
Success is counted sweetest uses style and format in a traditional manner to deliver a powerful
message. Dickinson argues the paradoxical aspect of success, which is the more successful you are,
the less you appreciate that success, and vice versa. Dickinson uses a metaphor to compare a solider
who has won the battle to a dying soldier to explain this concept. Dickinson’s use of the metaphor is
extremely vivid and effective as they simply explain the message of the and invites me to think of my
own visceral experiences towards the feeling of being on the wrong side of success and what it has
felt like to witness everyone else succeed. For me success was determined by an academic symbol
and while chasing that definition of success, I lost sight of all the things I have done in between. The
dying solider did not win the war, nevertheless, he was still successful in fighting until the end. My
success has come in forms that I never set out to be successful outcome such as my art and music.
They were thing I merely experimented with and didn’t feeling any pressure towards. Dickinson
made me realise that success is not the outcome but is rather the approach.
“Nobody loses all the time” felt like a longer version of the quote. I felt just as confused reading this
poem as I did to the quote. However, after analysing how ee cummings opposes Dickinson’s use of
past values and traditions, he shows how failure is actually linked to success. The poem makes use of
irony, peculiar language and a lack of punctuation to emphasise that success can come in the most
unexcepted place and what may not be accepted by society. This concept resonated with my idea
that success is not determined by society’s hallowed academic excellence. The absurdity of the
poem and the use of a non-traditional style felt like a truer representation of me and my definition
of success. ee cummings demonstrated that success is not deemed by society but rather success
comes from failure or in places that are unexpected.
Finally, Rudyard Kipling’s inspirational poem personifies triumph and disaster. The poet’s main idea
of the poem is about becoming a man, which yes, I do not associate with, however, Kipling also
writes how one must have been on either side of success and failure to truly understand it. Success
comes from when “you can meet with triumph and disaster” and “watch the things you gave your
life to, broken, and stoop and build them up with worn-out tools”. These lines invited me to think
about all the times I just wanted to give up because of all the copious amounts of studying and effort
