Reflection

Already being seventy-five percent into my ninth-grade year of Episcopal High School, it's time I've become more analytical with my decisions as a student as I am currently not. I can reach my full potential in academia when I finish assignments approximately two days before the projected due date. This allows me to be more flexible as a person and increased opportunities for leisure. As a reader, I've become more observant of the structure and word choice used, although these seemingly have no significant value, doing this has helped me become aware of writing tactics. As a writer, I feel on any given day if I had the compassion to write a paper I could write an "A worthy" essay, poem, or personal narrative. Yet I'm struggling to find the compassion and find myself reverting to my careless writing that continuously fails to impress, proving to be mediocre.

As a student, I'm hoping to become more compliant and to maintain a strong work ethic. The formation of an organized schedule would only do me better, so that has to come into the game. As a reader, I have to experience the fluidity of the work and embrace the meaning of the writing; I do this by reading the work once and admiring the writing, then the second time, begin to analyze the work. As a writer, I have to develop an extensive vocabulary, so I will be taking an advantage of vocabulary.com.  

Track

This season in track has breezed by so quickly. It felt like yesterday when I was filled with energy coming off of soccer to step on the track and prove myself. Those moments of pain, suffering, and questioning my own ability pay off to an incomprehensible amount of satisfaction. That being said, I was confused on how I felt when a fellow track runner revealed that track season is coming to an end. I reflected on negatives and positives based off of experiences during a simple 15 minute run.
     I quickly discovered track is a win-win. Not only am I improving mentally and physically exponentially each week; the progress only comes at a small cost of two hours of your time. Coming to this conclusion, I felt inconsolable, and not to my surprise, 15 minutes had past. Although, the end of this track season coming soon is inevitable, that does not prevent me from looking forward unto further track seasons to which I can experience great moments and reflect on precious memories with my teammates.

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Analysis

    The song I’ve decided to analyze Gillian Welch - Dark Turn Of Mind. Reading the lyrics, I can see euphony, an example being “don't all the night birds sing sweetly?” I was also to identify some simile, one line uses simile by saying “And leave me if I'm feeling too lonely / full as the fruit on the vine.” Reading the lyrics, I could also find imagery within the song for instance when Gillian Welch wrote, “you know some girls are bright as the morning.” The structure of the song is also set in stanzas, with each stanza break a different moment happens.

    Interpreting the song, I see some contrast between a girl “as bright as sunlight” to a girl with “a dark turn of mind.” The song is seemingly directed towards a partner in a relationship. The singer of the son was apparently hurt in the past by possibly a former partner and threatens to turn “dark” if the person hurts her. Welch likes to compare her sorrows or past loneliness to things that aren’t lonely and are surrounded by a lot. Welch also likes to mention a “dark turn of mind” and “girls that are bright as the morning”, this could possibly mean a girl who has been hurt and has changed for the worst, and a naïve innocent girl.

Break

 Over this break, I’m not planning to do anything significant. After this Friday, I want to go home and relax, I want to start the break at a slow date. Come Saturday, I hope to invite a coupe friends and go to a parade in Mandeville. On Sunday I will run two-hours around the neighborhood, then conclude the rest of the day with some down-time. It’s going to nice cool, calm, relaxed weekend. 

    When the week starts, I must prepare for over the break Track practices. I was sent the workouts ahead of the break and as of now I must prepare mentally and physically for the intense workouts. Towards the end of the break I have a Track meet on the last Saturday. Although I’m very nervous, I would consider myself excited at the same time. We have an ultimate 4x400m team consisting of Chris Jackson, Gautam Mahes, Brandon Leggio, and myself.

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"Poem" - Anders Melton

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"Poem" - Griff Strain