Ballad

As Louise drove down Mountaineer Boulevard, she was nervous about going to court again, being unsure which would upset her more, listening to her husband’s yelling about her drinking or Judge Lucas’s lectures. When she pulled into the parking lot, she glanced at Mike sitting in his car. Opening the car door, she noticed the look of disappointment on his face as she sat in the front seat and fastened the seatbelt. Without acknowledging her, he backed out of the parking space without saying a…

There are about two hundred drunk, sweaty college students in my house right now. Music is blaring throughout the whole place and I can barely hear anything else. “CLAIRE!” I turn around and see Rachel running towards me with two red solo cups in her hand. “Take one.” she hands me one of the cups, filled to the rim. “Do you realize how many people are here? There are people here that I’ve never even talked to before, how did they all get in?” she continues, practically yelling in my ear.…

"I came to show you how to drive?" "That is sweet of you, but I don’t have a permit for this state. I need to study first." "Do you?" "I haven’t even cracked the book." I said. He smirked at my response. "There is no need to study. I got you covered." "Don’t tell me you think you are going to take the test for me." "Psst, why would I do something like that?" "How else are you going to fix my dilemma?" "I will get you breakfast then take you to the DMV." "Are you crazy?" "A…

2 Pip Scribbling around in the muck on your hands and knees. That 's not a good look. Xolelwa. I don 't blame myself! I blame Lebo! She sold me! It 's like it 's happening now... Where is she? Is she okay? Sphe is pregnant. Look, I know it changes things, but not between us. We 're perfectly fine. - Have some tea. - Thank you, but you really didn 't have to. I wanted to. It 's so lovely to have you back. Living in this house... full of men. No ways. I 'd like us to have dinner at…

In “Tintern Abbey” by William WordsWroth, He revisits a place called The River Wye with his sister after five years. Throughout his tour, he discovers that his experience this time differs from the one when he was young. Simply because he looks at nature from a new mature perspective; he views nature in a very deep way with an intense understanding. In this essay, I will interpret one of the stanzas in the poem which describes what Wordsworth was feeling during that particular moment of his tour…

Bryan and I were best friends. We did everything together, whether it was finishing up our Calculus homework five minutes before class started or sitting on my couch eating popcorn and watching the scariest movies we could find. Neither of us had many other friends, so it had been just the two of us all through high school. He was the first person I would go to with all of my problems, even the ones that girls would generally only share with other girls. Sometimes we would stay up for hours at…

During the romantic era, There were poets like William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who used their lives as inspiration.William Wordsworth is considered the father of modern romantic literature. While Shelley paid a tribute to William Wordsworth, however it was more of a look where you are now. Both poets used themes, symbols, and characterization to get their thoughts across. “To Wordsworth” was written by Shelly and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Wordsworth. To begin, there are…

In the poem, Love’s Philosophy, Percy Bysshe Shelley suggests through imagery, personification, speech act, and the structure of the poem that love completes meaning of life since everything in nature pairs, and that without love, everything is in vain. Shelley uses nature to demonstrate the complementary pairings. “The fountains mingle with the river/ And the rivers with the ocean” connect these flowing substances together. Without one of them, there will be a gap, a lay of land separating the…

John I want to apologize to you for that last letter I wrote. I knew as soon as I wrote it that I shouldn 't have done that, it was wrong. John it 's been a year and half since we have even talked about matters of faith and I have chosen not to bring it us because it only causes problems. I believe the only reason it came up this time was because there have been things that over the years have really aggravated me, but I don 't think till now I have quite understood why. John for the…

I am a green dragon living lonely in a mountain by a small town. I used to like looking down the town from the top of the mountain. People living in the town were living simply. They did not seem to have much stuff, Sometime they weeped when people died, yet the most of the time, they helped each other and looked happy. I started wondering what the true happiness is. So one day, I left for a journey to find the happiness. I flew over a couple mountains. I skipped some lakes. And I arrived an…