Scaling+Everest

Scaling Everest

My foot prepared to veer, With tough reflexes challenging, Anything that harm me on my way to the vertex, And leave me torn, Away from the mountain, erupting Into anguish, cries of concision.

Back from the lapse of a trance, the lack of concision From a possible reality, a veer Into the current reality, a reality where the erupting Of a fatal injury, never occurred, and your body still is challenging, Like a seatbelt trying to be torn, The mountain can't deny you the vertex.

The vertex, Screaming to you in a way without concision, Trying to leave your seatbelt torn, Wanted you to veer, Away, challenging You to come erupting,

Like a dormant volcano finally erupting. You answer to his challenge, bulldozing toward the vertex, The end so close, the journey been so challenging, And with the fuel, of you thinking of your glory being sung in a concision, But in the carelessness, you forget to veer, The incoming chunks of the ice torn,

You fall flat on your face, your spirit torn, Emotions erupting, Tears of frustration, shock from the sudden veer From the vertex Of your hope, to the end of your songs of concision, And you lay there, the cold snow challenging.

But from out of nowhere, challenging! Infused with newfound strength from my spirit, torn From frustration, the simple words of concision, The name of my loves one fueling the way, and erupting, One foot at a time, slowly inching to the vertex, Not stopping to veer, Straight without a veer, nothing left challenging, Reaching the vertex! My frustration torn! Trumpets in triumph erupting! His story in concision.

1. What big ideas of English I do you see in this piece? What does it have to say about those ideas? Do you still think this? How have your ideas changed?

In this piece, I see a variety of the big ideas of English I. Among them I see the idea of voice, evolution of language and literature, experimenting with different forms of style, figurative language, creativity, and vocabulary development. The ideas that are shown, such as figurative language are shown by my similes, and metaphors, while the vocabulary development is created by the assignment itself. The assignment wanted us to make a Sestina poem using words that we randomly got in class from each other. This also caused us to experiment and be creative with our poems because I had never wrote a sestina before.

4. Compare this piece of work to another piece of work. Do you notice similarities? Differences? How has your thinking or writing or reading improved between the two pieces?

Compared to my words poem, this is different because of the form and vocabulary that I used. This poem emphasizes the literally meaning of things, and the visualization of someone actually climbing a mountain. Also, this poem in its whole is designed to be one giant metaphor, as one climbs a mountain, he is actually climbing through life. While the words poem is a small metaphors. Also, the Sestina format makes it so that it is quite different in reading it. However, both of the poems demonstrate a variety of ideas that are evident. Ideas such as voice, personality, identity, and creativity. I also planned them out the same way. I would see what I would have to do, and just think, and figure out what I would have to write.