A FLITTERING THING

This is just a little something I've been working on while walking across campus.  Poetry is definitely not my area of expertise--I much prefer literary analyses--, but i thought I'd give it a shot.  As a twelve-year-old, I would write moping, depressing poetry that was just terrible.  I threw it in the recycling as soon as I found it because it wasn't even worth the nostalgia.  This is a little less clueless-twelve-year-old-esque.


A Flittering Thing

An idea is a flittering thing
Still warm as it claws against the leaden curve
Of its newfound form and newly hated shape,
Bent to fit a foreign shackle
And too far from its native conception to offer up its voice,
But only more determined than before,
Scratched into being
By the dripping edge of the pen

THE NAME OF THE BLOG

I decided to start a blog two months ago and was on the look out for a name.  Sitting in Scott Samuelson's English 314 class, I found the perfect phrase.  Someone had asked a question about writing and Brother Samuelson gave him a very detailed answer, ending with this gem: "Consider yourself educated."  

Don't worry, the point of looking at this little phrase everyday is not to boast; I know that I'm not here to educate YOU.  But, there is something quirky about education itself, isn't there?  For me, an almost college grad, I could look at myself and think, "My, you are so educated," but that idea would be prove that I was further away from true knowledge than I could even comprehend.  This title is to remind myself that I am very, very far away from being educated and that such a gap is okay.

On that note, check out this fantastic article (and expect a post about it soon!): "Unskilled and Unaware of it" (Kruger & Dunning)

THE GOAL

Today is my last day of college classes and I LOVE school.  The idea of graduating has been hard for me to process because I wish I could just stay here.  This blog exists as a place for me to continue my education outside of the classroom.  My goal is to spend at least six hours a week--even busy weeks!--studying Latin, French, poetry, literature, drama, and grammar.  I'm going to keep writing so that I don't forget how to do it.  It is just too soon for me to say goodbye to homework.  Wish me luck!