The theme I picked this week was the idea of people speaking on the disorders they have. This girl's name is Sabrina Benaim and her video was posted on Button Poetry as well. This poem is about depression and explaining it to people and how difficult that can be. She describes depression as making her a shape-shifter "one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, the next day -- the bear." This poem is very different from the other one because this one doesn't make a positive light out of the problem the person speaks about. I like this poem for the artistic view she puts on the idea of depression. I think the two poems this week show my two favorite ways of writing poems about things aren't necessarily positive: 1. shining a positive light on them and 2. making them artistic. I love her passion and her metaphors a lot and I appreciate her strength shown in how she talks about her depression and how she can write about it.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
My Piece on her Piece called "Explaining my Depression to my Mother"
The theme I picked this week was the idea of people speaking on the disorders they have. This girl's name is Sabrina Benaim and her video was posted on Button Poetry as well. This poem is about depression and explaining it to people and how difficult that can be. She describes depression as making her a shape-shifter "one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, the next day -- the bear." This poem is very different from the other one because this one doesn't make a positive light out of the problem the person speaks about. I like this poem for the artistic view she puts on the idea of depression. I think the two poems this week show my two favorite ways of writing poems about things aren't necessarily positive: 1. shining a positive light on them and 2. making them artistic. I love her passion and her metaphors a lot and I appreciate her strength shown in how she talks about her depression and how she can write about it.
Friday, November 20, 2015
My Piece on his Piece called "OCD"
The theme I picked this week is the idea of people speaking on the disorders they have. This guy's name is Neil Hilborn and is a part of button poetry. He has OCD, which is obsessive compulsive disorder that is when people have obsessive habits. He wrote this poem to explain what it's like to be loved by someone with OCD and what it was like loving someone while having OCD. I like this poem because it explains the idea of OCD and love from a very interesting view. I like how he compares the obsessiveness of doing things over and over again to wanting the relationship to be perfect. He looks at OCD in a more positive light and sees the good side of it when it comes to a relationship. I love when people make the most out of their "problems" and look at them in a more positive way. This reminds me of the guy that had a stutter on America's Got Talent that makes his stand up comedy about his stutter solely. I believe in making the most of whatever situation you're in and I believe that is what he's doing.
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