William Blake's Trickshooter

Improved Essays
Improvement makes roads straight but crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. William Blake

As indicated in my sporadic publishing record, I have been dabbling in poetry a little over twenty years. I spent my first ten years writing and attending readings and workshops. A couple of poems were published which thrilled me, but I had no idea why they were published while other work was rejected. As a frustrated writer I started a reading series with my wife’s ballet company called “Trickshooter Poetry Club”. In this venue we combined poetry readings, dance, performance art, experimental film and live music. Though the life of “Trickshooter” was brief,the series proudly brought writers including Ander Monson, Joe Wenderoth,

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Many people often wonder, “How is ballet dancing and writing similar?” The only good answer to that commonly asked question is that both require alone time to hone individual skills and time with peers to get feedback. If one were to look at Dancers in the Foyer by Edgar Degas, they would see multiple ballerinas stretching in an otherwise empty room. The image of the ballerinas stretching on their own reflects how writers often write freely without restrictions to release their mind and flex their writing muscles. While most writers generally start and finish works on their own, unlike ballerinas who usually perform together and are judged together, both receive constructive criticism from others either during their preparation or after their…

    • 187 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Portrayed throughout the poem, the speaker uses an uneasy flow, to demonstrate how the future is often rough and not always consistent: “The art/ of how we build until management/ in turn builds us,” (7-9). Again this all adds up to say that the future is uncharted territory so things may be rocky for a while but it's all about pushing through, because all the work put in will pay off eventually. Sharing a similar flow, the speaker shares, “Elegant the logic / used. To draw out more than what is put in,(9-10).…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ted’s poem is a great example of how any reader can manage to turn their life around after understanding their true potential. It’s astonishing how the human brain has the power to discover the deeper meaning of poems and apply it for a massive change in their lives. Although many people often underestimate themselves, I argue that Selecting a Reader makes a commentary on society that people should realize their…

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    This phrase was said during aspeech that Blake gave to the men in the office. He tells him that he’s from downtown, Mitchand Murry. He was sent to them as a mercy plea, at least that’s what he tells them. He talks tothem any kind of way telling them that they are going to lose their jobs if they don’t start selling. The acronym ABC stands for always be closing.…

    • 147 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In some of Dickinson’s poems these characteristics apply. Emerson also said that poetry is basically an obstacle course. It is a…

    • 1201 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The air sirens wail like spoiled children as the snowfall beats down from English skies. In the States, Oppenheimer and his constituents are drafting the first of many blueprints of a bomb that will eventually force the Japanese out of World War II. Several thousand miles away, church bells ring for my great-grandfather and his new wife in Italy. Just like Michael Corleone in The Godfather, he is wearing his military uniform. I pass by their wedding pictures whenever I visit him, lining the cracked wallpaper of his room in a local nursing home.…

    • 597 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This past Thursday I attended the Hearst Center to view Crystal Gibbens as she read a few of her own works. Through my observations, I identified that Crystal was originally from a small town. Through her readings, she expressed her teenage-desires to leave her hometown and expand her experiences of different places. She later explained she was raised in Washburn, Wisconsin. She explained that many of her poems were reflections on events in her life.…

    • 311 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Raymonde Guillet Professor Nelson ENG 203-I01 25 July 2016 Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography Bruzelius, Margaret. "H.D. and Eurydice. " Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (1998): 447. Biography in Context. Web.…

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Leda Poem Analysis

    • 1723 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Being an editor for my publication Unnamed Trademarked Patent Pending has its up and its downs but writing an anthology for Gwendolyn Brookes, Sherman Alexie, Lucille Clifton, Sylvia Plath and Gary Soto was eye opening. These are some of the best poets that I have had the opportunity to read and appreciate in my lifetime. The diversity among the bunch was very fulfilling, from poetry about racial tension, native American culture, women empowerment, depression to young love. Initially the poems were picked at random but I think they came together perfectly by balancing each other out and ending with fiery.…

    • 1723 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Amelia Wang 11/4/16 8-3 English FLE Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiography depicting Richard’s childhood through young adulthood. Richard is born on a plantation in Mississippi, where he is brought up until the age of four after an accident in which his curiosity leads him to burn down the house. This is the first display of Richard’s burning curiosity that stays with him, continuing to land him in trouble and sparking his desire for knowledge. Richard eventually moves in with his relatives, who never approve of him because he casts religion aside entirely and behaves so unmanageably that they cease to care for him and almost completely abandon him. As a child, he does not understand the concept of the racial…

    • 1979 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Adroit Journal Mentorship

    • 632 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I don’t know how I started writing in the first place. I still can’t quite believe I write. To this day, I look back to the past summer with a mix of wonder and disbelief, because venturing into writing has completely changed the trajectory of my life, when I signed up for my first writing workshop. I think luck might have been involved in this decision: truthless, ruthless luck. Somehow the planets were aligned the right way, and the right song was playing in my head, the wind was knocking right against the windowpanes, and I was right enough to click on the first weekly assigned reading and fall over, smack in love with the words of Ocean Vuong, or Terrance Hayes, or Toni Morrison.…

    • 632 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    William Blake was born in London, England on November 28, 1757. He attended school for a short while and was homeschooled by his mom as a child. At a young age, Blake had many visions and at age 4, he was said to have seen god’s hands at a window. Blake’s visions would affect the poems that he later would write. At age 10, Blake sketched ancient statues of human bodies and at that point, it was clear that Blake was gifted with an artistic talent.…

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nonetheless, we must keep in mind that “A poem does not come into existence by accident.” as argued by William K. Wimsatt Jr. & Monroe C. Beardsley in their paper Intentional Fallacy, within which is argued that all decisions in poetry are closely precalculated and everything is intentional.…

    • 1461 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    “Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence” (“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”). The duality or contrary aspects of life produce a balance within human nature. These aspects are not just contradictory, they are complementary. To fully understand the dual nature of mankind, William Blake utilized his poetry to compare the divergent forces that are part of all individuals.…

    • 1110 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    William Blake was one of the great first-generation Romantic poets. In his poetry, Blake uses many variations of archetypes, which are basically symbols and represent a specific idea. Although Blake did not use the word 'archetype,' he understood the concept very well. Blake was very interested in philosophy and had an amazing view of nature and life. In his poetry, he often uses animals as his archetypes, such as in “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.”…

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays