Hi, I'm new here.
I'm a high school senior as of now and am going to college next year for a bio-medical degree (pre-med).
Hmm..I like writing stories and I volunteer at a hospice. That's really all I have, haha.
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Hi, I'm new here.
I'm a high school senior as of now and am going to college next year for a bio-medical degree (pre-med).
Hmm..I like writing stories and I volunteer at a hospice. That's really all I have, haha.
Hi everyone, my name is Michael and I have writing poetry for a number of years, but I am always looking to improve and expand the range of my voice. I am currently a social work student working on my masters degree, and I like to write about a variety of topics, issues and experiences. I am currently on break between quarters and will look around when I can, but when school is in session it is very time consuming, and I will have less time to explore. However, I look forward to checking out the site and reading new poets and writers.
hi there, very happy to join this forum and hope enhance my understanding for life from this wonderful site.
Just registered here. I thought this would be a good time to say hello and tell you guys about myself. I'm in high school right now and I thought joining this forum would be beneficial to my studies in my Honors English class. My favorite books are the novellas, Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, and Animal Farm by Orwell. I enjoy sports as well. My favorites are baseball and football (American), but I've been trying to find interest in basketball and soccer lately. Nice to meet you all.
My brain is dangerously aware that we are all involved in a thus far unsolvable mystery. I'm a socialist girl and I like it. I'm an atheist/vegetarian/artist/actress/writer. My sense of humor is like Sarah Silverman's, but with almost zero jokes about excrement. I am far too attractive to have normal relationships with anyone in the real world, so I am here.
I love quality cinema and I love mocking horrible movies. I like to play pretend a little too much. I hope no one makes the mistake of taking me too seriously, because SHUT UP! Really though, I am sweetness and light.
My secret reason for being here: I followed a boy.
Welcome to knowing me, and congratulations! ;)
Hello everybody, I m new to this site.
here is something about myself.
I m Nav. I live in India. I am post graduate student In English literature and want to do research in the field of deconstruction.
I would be very thankful if somebody helps in this regard.
Thanks
Wow this is a fairly diverse forum! I'm glad I can talk to people who share my love of literature now! It was so frustrating asking people what book they were reading only to find that they weren't really READING it, nor really willing to talk about it....
Hey
I'm an English lit graduate. To be honest I have never been interested in literature until collage. I was just interested in foreign languages. But now I love reading. It forces you to overthink everything about life and try to solve this eternal mystery. Ironically my other hobby is drumming and I absolutely don't want anything on my mind other than the noises of the skins I'm beating while performing.
Also English is not my native language. Turkish is.
Nice to meet you.
Hi,
Im a Irish-Luxembourgish and a student. I've lived in France and Luxembourg but never in an Enlgish speaking country but english is stil my first language. I'm not really interested in literature, in fact being dyslexic I avoid literature. However recently a couple of friends and my girlfriend have somehow bullied me into trying to write poetry because I apperantly talk poetically or talk "in poems" as they put. Seeing as I'm not at all sure this is in anyway my thing I doubt I'll be here long, but anyway . . .
I think thats about it.
I am a newcomer to the site and needing distraction this week I have immersed myself in Goethe , reading both The Sorrows of Young Werther ( for which there are already many threads I notice) and Elective Affinities for which there is scant discussion on any internet forum. I have picked up Goethe for the first time ever I am ashamed to say. I have been under the weather and my lethargy (coupled with the snow outside and difficulty in moving out of the village) have allowed me to read greatly and to really appreciate the wisdom of the German Romantic writing back in 1770-1800s. He draws metaphysical conclusions which he reaches through observing people during his Journey Through Life and emphasises the vital richness of personal experiences in shaping our world views. His conclusions are timeless, observing some people are driven professionally and physically to build and to work, to acquire reputation and personal position, whereas others are driven emotionally and spiritually with sensuous experiences paramount in their schemes of life , and vital to their very existence, and for whom material possessions are an irrelevance.
While his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, featured a hero driven by unrequited love to suicide, the eponymous hero of his second novel, Wilhelm Meister, undergoes a journey of self-realization. Try this for a wonderful metaphor for life : All the world lies before us, like a vast quarry before the architect. He does not deserve the name if he does not compose with these accidental natural materials an image whose source is in his mind, and if he does not do it with the greatest possible economy, solidity, and perfection. All that we find outside of us, nay, within us, is object-matter; but deep within us lives also a power capable of giving an ideal form to this matter. This creative power allows us no rest till we have produced that ideal form in one or the other way, either without us in finished works or in our own life."
If you haven't tried Goethe I can recommend him unreservedly - timeless and engaging narratives.
My name is madalin gavrila ! i'm from Romania ,20 years old and i love writing and reading poetry ! My favorite book is sun tzu's Art of war and on second place Crime and punishment by Dostoevsky .
Well, don't feel bad, I took me fifteen years to get my BA, though part of that interval was spent in the military and part working.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
With formal training in both lit and engineering you may see things differently than many people, which could be advantageous if you can figure out what to do with it. You can look at it as straddling a fence or building a bridge, your call. The application of knowledge is not restricted by fields of study.
Hello community! And Merry Christmas!
(Oh, it's alright, I'm politically incorrect.)
I'm new to this site and I saw the invitation to Start Here!
So, I promptly responded to someone else's post and now
here I am with my intro. In brief, I enjoy writing, woodworking,
playing guitar and trying to keep up with advances in science and technology.
I also enjoy hearing other peoples ideas and perspectives,
so thanks for inviting me.
I have worked with kids who were challanged when it came to learning. I learned some interesting things about myself from these kids. Each of us has ways in which we learn. In my case, I am a very visual learner. I read things and pick them up quickly. But it had always bothered me that I had such a poor memory for names. It became a problem when I was I was in high school. In a social situation I was usually introduced to other people verbally, "Leo, this is Voluptua Smith, Voluptua, this is Leo." "Oh, Hi!" "Hi, nice to meet you." And within twelve seconds of meeting this beautiful girl, I had no clue as to what her name was! "?#%@&!"Quote:
Originally Posted by TheWhiteKenyan
However, I discovered, if she had a nametag, no problem! Cool! But I couldn't expect every good looking girl or anybody else, for that matter to put on nametags, outside of special events. But then I realized that I could meet someone and as soon as I heard their name I could picture it written out... on paper... or, on the wall in spray paint! Whatever! When I did this I was usually able to remember their name.
In your case, it's the written word that's a problem. So what can you do?
One way around that is, if you're on your computer, go to Start, Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Narrator and you can have an adjustable narrator voice read whatever is on the screen to you, out loud. This might be one way to get around your dyslexia and not have it limit your involvement with literature. Try it out. You can do the same in reverse using windows voice dictation to speak what you want to say to people on the internet, rather than having to type it.
As for your poetic tendancies, I write poetry and I believe that doing that is a very good exercise for the mind. I would do it anyway, but I've realized that when you compose poetry you are coordinating your creative and analytical faculties; you're getting your right brain and left brain to work together on a project! That's something Einstein was very good at.
It took me 16 minutes to register with you in order to get T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," which I got in less than a minute from Wikipedia.
Bah, humbug!