Muse

Sylvia Plath was a well-known American poet. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up to be a straight-A student in school and published her first poem at the age of eight. Sylvia was a very bright student growing up and she was very popular. “I think I would like to call myself ‘the girl who wanted to be God’” (Barnard 15). Sylvia set such high goals for herself because she wanted to accomplish the “impossible” (Barnard 15). Although Sylvia seemed like the perfect poster child, she had many…

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As a child of immigrant parents, whom never passed secondary education, I had been told several times by my mother, “I came here so you can have the opportunities I never had.” I never took her words in for consideration. Being callow was part of the predicament, and my early teenage mindset kept me in captivity. Unlike my mother, I’ve been oblivious to the fact that as a citizen, I’m capable of achieving anything. During my last two years of high school, I realized that she was utterly right.…

Holmes uses Ashley to highlight moments and positions of inequality starting fairly early in her development. Johnson also works to destabilize the idea of modern gender equality, through a ‘girl’ character. Like Ashley, Candice is in a transitional age. At nineteen, she is a legal adult, but still very dependent on her parents and, to use a whitmanism, the ‘adultier adults’ around her. She alternates between the autonomy one would expect from an adult woman, and the ignorance/innocence seen in…

In New Mexico Gerogia O’Keeffe (1886-1897) became a born-again artist. Filled with inspiration from her time there, she would continue to return for the next twenty years. Summers there would produce O’Keeffe’s finest works, which had become the amalgamation, and perfection of her earliest flora, and landscape works. Of these, Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills of 1935 serves as a remarkable example of O’Keeffe’s use of symbolism and her emergence from a period of separation from her work.…

Apollo, the god of music and healing: Mighty Athena, goddess of war and wisdom. The Greeks believed the god was humanlike who influenced lives of all Greeks. Although the Greeks had a group recognized as deities. They didn’t have any organized religion or religious beliefs. They even have a word for religion. Apollo was also an oracular god (holding or claiming the authority of an oracle). Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated. Several towns…

feet and hushed voices. My choir director motioned me forward to the microphone. I peered over the crowd in front of me and then the manuscript in my hands. It had been four months in preparation for this night; four months wrestling with writer’s muse and competing with time’s arrow. As my choir director introduced me to the audience, I knew that all the efficacy invested in this moment had come to a close. It was finished and it came time to exhibit what a passion can nurture. My choir…

to avoid the perils and temptations of the world through sheer religious devotion but at a cost. By using religion as his shield, Ahmed can continue living a pious lifestyle, but he understands the detachment he has created with the world when he muses, “I had been generalizing about the world so much that I began to lose my grasp of it.” (Selimović). In the pursuit of maintaining his identity, Ahmed’s religious shield has created a divide between him and the real world allowing him to be naïve…

In the clandestine cover of nearby bramble, I witnessed the raid of Ichabod Crane. Many have speculated, but I am certain of the events of that fateful evening and where legend abandons, I elucidate. I had followed Crane throughout the hours succeeding the attack. However, not only had I followed, I lusted. The Van Tassels’ yearly party marked the date of the event, however it seemed the other way as the party was full of ennui. This was not my first party with the Van Tassels and each year…

From the earliest days of the human race, people have used art to express themselves and interpret the world around them. Prehistoric art consisted mostly of images of animals, such as horses, deer, and buffalo, carved into or painted on the walls of caves. Since then, the means by which art is created has evolved, but it is still abundantly inspired by nature. Some extremely famous artist have invoked this theme, including Vincent Van Gogh, known for Starry Night and Irises, Albert Bierstadt,…