Dear Yona Harvey, I hope this letter finds you well. I wanted to reach out to express my gratitude and respect for the powerful experience I had while reading your poem " Hurricane ". I was looking through many poems during my English class this year and encountered yours, and it has stuck with me ever since. Your word choice and the way you wrote your poem resonated with me deeply. The impactful voice conveyed throughout the poem reflects the tone of devastation and release. I could feel and understand the emotions through not only the hurricane itself but also the emotional storm it brought upon you and the world. As you use the hurricane as a metaphor and personify it, I can vividly see the resilience you have faced in hardship, which resonated with me as recently I have faced my own. The structure of your poem also stood out to me as I recognized the repetition of the phrase "she do". To me, it almost seemed like a prayer of affirmation and a sense of your daugh...
It's interesting how humor, in its many forms, often hinges on the unexpected or exaggerated. A lot of the time, I don't catch on to sarcasm right away, which makes me feel like the gullible odd one out. Take, for example, last month when my dad and stepmom started making fun of how badly I parked at a restaurant. Half of my car was hanging over two spaces, and they sarcastically asked if I was planning on becoming professional at parking. At first, I thought they might have been genuinely upset with how poorly I parked, but then I realized they were just exaggerating the situation for a comedic effect. In the SNL clip we watched this past week in class, the woman secretly involved in the lesson says, "why do you have to criticize everybody?". This made me think about humor in general and how a lot of humor is based on making fun of people sarcastically or singling out one person. Humor often comes from something small and is exaggerated so we can laugh at something w...
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