Scarlet's Essay

Scarlet Caruso

English 9

Hamilton Salsich

5/11/09

Losing Love:

An essay on two poems and my life

1: What if you dropped a penny down a drainpipe? 2: Would you say “Adios!” to it or maybe you would ponder how quickly life takes things from you? 3: Most people would not do this but Emily Dickinson and Naomi Shihab Nye would be inspired by this small loss. 4: They both understand the strange way that life’s large hands can quickly grab the things you care for.

TS: In the poem "Adios" Naomi Shihab Nye has a abnormal (FAST) way of looking at parting. SD: She says use it to your advantage. CM: "Strap it to your back like wings" and you will become a better person because of it. CM:If you look at parting as a good thing it can help you. SD: Ms. Nye also mentions, "If you are known for anything" it should be that you are able to let go of things. CM: Being strong enough to say goodbye is a great thing to be known for. CM: She believes that allowing yourself to let go of things is a wonderful quality. CS: Naomi Shihab Nye thinks of parting in a way that most don't; she believes saying goodbye can be a marvelous thing.

 TS: In Emily Dickinson’s poem she talks about life and the way it makes us part from things we love. SD: She says that, “[her] life closed twice before it’s close.” CM: So far she has had to part from things, twice, that were very important to her. SD: Ms. Dickinson talks about other events that might be thrown her way. CM: She wonders if, “If Immortality unveil A third event to [her].” CM: She thinks about how fragile life is, how you never know when you have to say goodbye, and how you can never tell what the future holds. CS: You never know what bad things are going to come your way in life and Emily Dickinson explains that perfectly through her poem.

 SD: From saying goodbye to life long friends to losing a favorite t-shirt to the dryer, I have lost many things. (PERIODIC SENTENCE) SD: For example, last year my best friend Ethan told me that we wasn’t returning to Pine Point the following year and I was heartbroken. CM: He had been through it all with me but I had to learn to say goodbye and accept that I would have to survive a year without him. CM: In this time I had to try to, “Strap [this goodbye] to [my] back like wings” and use it to fly past the worries I had. SD: Another example of loss in my life was when I lost my security blanket “Tickle Blanket”. CM:I had lost somewhere in the large supermarket and when I realized it was gone I was terrified. CM: From ages 1-6 I brought the blanket with me absolutely everywhere and when I lost it I felt, “My life close{d}” CM: Now that I look back on the memory it doesn’t really seem that scary but at the time I felt that I had really lost a huge part of my life. SD: A final example of losing things in my life is now. CM: As the days get warmer I cannot help but to feel a certain discomfort and this is because I know an ending is near. CM: I am so nervous for graduation, for not seeing my best friends everyday, for not feeling completely comfortable all the time. (LOOSE SENTENCE) SD: As these wonderful times begin to end I want to try to be known for, “the way [I] rise out of sight when [my] work is finished,” here at Pine Point School, my home. CM: I want to try to be graceful in my leaving and not sob and cling on to the place I love most. CS: In my life I have lost people and objects I love most. CS: Naomi Shihab Nye and Emily Dickinson both describe the loss in my life perfectly through their brilliant and creative writing.

 

1: In my life I have tried to, “let everything, easily, go.” 2: Both of these poets tenaciously describe how it feels to lose and how to learn from it. 3: Loss can be hard no matter how big or small but you must, “use it,” and realize that life is, “hopeless to conceive,” loss. This coming June I will, “rise out of sight,” from this wonderful place I love, gracefully.