A Random Autobiography
April 10th, 2000: the day I came into this world.
8 pounds, 3 ounces and already trouble.
17 months, 12 days later, along came a blonde haired, blue eyed baby. Maya, although I refused to believe we were calling her anything but Pinky.
A baby that, to this day, I have trouble believing is my biological sister.
Windy days in California. Only 2 years old, and I still remember it well.
Bawling my eyes out when I saw the crabs along the beach, afraid that they were going to attack me.
Mistakes, open gates and running. Who knew he’d actually get away?
5 years old and I’d already lost a dog.
August 2005. I cried when my mom came home from the doctor and told me she was pregnant with another girl.
I never did get that brother I wanted.
Five months and a lot of crying later, Isabel came into the world.
I stayed with my grandparents that night, both my sisters and I, sleeping in their guest bed as we waited for the call that Izzy was born.
Sickness. The cat that my mom rescued years before I was born came down with an ear infection.
A month later, I stared at the empty cage in the living room; my …show more content…
Many may say that the overall feel is worry, while that’s not entirely the case. The tone of the poem is ignorance for death, and not fear. For example, the beginning states that the sudden blow from Death kills thousands but instead of cowering away from it, life continues on. Also, later in the poem, Whitman writes “Yea, Death, [they] bow [their] faces, veil [their] eyes to thee...”, not in a way of being frightened but instead in the instance where they bow their faces to hide from and ignore it (Whitman). The poem has a theme of ignorance because Whitman intentionally uses sentences that force the reader to read deeper and realize that humans shouldn’t go through their life without seeing that death comes sooner than they
April 10th, 2000: the day I came into this world.
8 pounds, 3 ounces and already trouble.
17 months, 12 days later, along came a blonde haired, blue eyed baby. Maya, although I refused to believe we were calling her anything but Pinky.
A baby that, to this day, I have trouble believing is my biological sister.
Windy days in California. Only 2 years old, and I still remember it well.
Bawling my eyes out when I saw the crabs along the beach, afraid that they were going to attack me.
Mistakes, open gates and running. Who knew he’d actually get away?
5 years old and I’d already lost a dog.
August 2005. I cried when my mom came home from the doctor and told me she was pregnant with another girl.
I never did get that brother I wanted.
Five months and a lot of crying later, Isabel came into the world.
I stayed with my grandparents that night, both my sisters and I, sleeping in their guest bed as we waited for the call that Izzy was born.
Sickness. The cat that my mom rescued years before I was born came down with an ear infection.
A month later, I stared at the empty cage in the living room; my …show more content…
Many may say that the overall feel is worry, while that’s not entirely the case. The tone of the poem is ignorance for death, and not fear. For example, the beginning states that the sudden blow from Death kills thousands but instead of cowering away from it, life continues on. Also, later in the poem, Whitman writes “Yea, Death, [they] bow [their] faces, veil [their] eyes to thee...”, not in a way of being frightened but instead in the instance where they bow their faces to hide from and ignore it (Whitman). The poem has a theme of ignorance because Whitman intentionally uses sentences that force the reader to read deeper and realize that humans shouldn’t go through their life without seeing that death comes sooner than they