BIG WORDS & small words

Words, words, words, and more words. Words make the world go around and so forth. I am not the type of of person that you can ask how to spell a word because I may not be able to spell it myself. When it comes to words themselves I admire them. without words we wouldn't be able to communicate with each other clearly, we would probably be still grunting at each other to communicate some what. I do have a wide vocabulary I just do not use it at all. Must of the time I use a lot of slang words, mumble, or talk like a true southern and using words/context incorrectly. As I ramble on trying to figure out how to end this blog post I will end on this note.  Words are important.

Wonderful Weird Words

It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul. Eyes can cry and laugh, glare and glitter. Yet the soul has an infinite capacity that could never be expressed, no matter how fine the eyes.
I believe that words are the window to the soul. Words create paintings that reflect the reader's own hearts. The author is there, in the lines and letters, but words never stay on the page. They worm their way relentlessly into our hearts and minds. They capture a glimpse of a soul. Beliefs and fears are immortalized into a world of ink.
Words are portals. Sometimes they require wrangling, and sometimes they seem to walk unbidden into our souls, demanding to be given a home on a page. They can capture what we wish our lives could be and what they truly are. The messy, cringe-worthy failures and the soaring heights of humanity are reflected with brutal accuracy on the page.
Nothing can set hearts on fire or calm a soul like the world that shimmers darkly within those inky lines.

Without words we could not communicate to the same depth we do. We as people learn to put words together in a particular order to communicate, or try to, exactly what we are thinking. I hate words with an OI in it such as moist; they almost hurt to say. Universal grammar makes sense, as seen by all languages sharing certain characteristics. My favorite form of poetry is rap. Much of it has a common them, but is portrayed differently. Somehow words can hurt or even help people in an emotional way, which is odd considering that they are just understood sound.

Shut your Orifice!

Words are interesting and can actually be pretty awesome! In some cases, words are used to paint an image for a reader without using actual pictures. Words can also be used to emphasize a point. My favorite use of words is the former reason... Certain lyricists, like Oscar Hammerstein of the highly acclaimed Rodgers & Hammerstein duo, are able to incorporate such strange or seemingly-irrelevant words to paint images throughout a song. For example, Hammerstein uses the word "Whippoorwill" (a bird) in the song "Cockeyed Optimist." This funny word elicits in the minds of listeners the image of a cute little bird which helps portray the message of this optimistic song.

Some of my favorite words include squish, whimsy, whippersnapper, and yipperdoodle (even though I'm quite certain that one's not really a word...).

The only circumstance I can think of in which I dislike the use of words is when people constantly speak negatively or carelessly. I think in that case, it's better just to keep the good old orifice shut, as Ms. Reilmann would say!

Update: Tengo que añadir "pantalones" a la lista de mis palabras favoritas, aunque es Español. :) ¡Bien hecho si tú comprendiste este!

Words are Hard

So words can be hard sometimes. Sometimes when I am saying something, I think of a better word halfway through the sentence, and when I actually get to the word I want to change, I accidentally combine the two words. Like I said. Difficult.

Now when it comes to words I like, that's a tough one. I have always been partial to words like stellar and sabotage. It can be kinda difficult to weave those into a conversation though. One of my favorite things to say is, "Stellar observation" when someone says something obvious. :)


There aren't too many words I dislike. It doesn't really bother me that much. Other than stupid comments, I really don't care what words people use.

word

I'm not good with words, reading, spelling, or anything evolving the English language, but words are easily very important.  Speaking words is a very useful form of communication.  Being able to talk to people is easily important.  I like it when i can say some random words in a sentience and people are able to understand what I am trying to say or ask them.   The words I don't like are very big words, something that i do not understand or know what it means so i cant understand what someone says. I do not have a big vocabulary so it does not help when people talk to me like I do.   Universal grammar differently would help people because it uses grammar to understand things.

English is a weird language

What I like about words is how versatile they are. You can create an enter world, make someone feel better, describe something that happened a thousand year ago, or even change someone's life with the right words. That's not to say that language is flawless, however. In fact, words are often extremely counter intuitive, at least when it comes to writing them. From silent letters to words that sound that same but have different meanings and weird spelling rules, it's amazing people can even write! It would be a lot better if words were spelled like how they sound at least.

Snicker Snack

     This Jabberwocky animal seems like some sort of terror, enough so for the dude to kill it and slice off its head. This must be in some mystical land, but who knows what Carroll's words meant. Words can have many meanings depending upon the context and situation in which they are used.
    
     Because words can be polysemous, a plethora of combinations can be constructed. For instance, some words can make you squirm uncomfortably but some can just pacify you with their satisfying sound. Moist, pustule, secrete, phlegm....all sound incredibly gross to me and just make you shudder when uttered. However, some words I love, such as effervescent, lithe, plethora, quintessential, ailurophile and chatoyant (the last two are bonus because they relate to cats ☺)

     The GIF I included is a picture that contains all the Arabic letters and numbers. This is essentially every book you have and will read.

What are words

Words are easily the most important things in our lives. They help us express our selves to our loved ones, they help us tell our bosses that we've finished what we were told to do, and so on and so forth. With that said you would think everyone would have a favorite word, I am one of the few that don't. This leads into the fact that I don't have any poems I like to read aloud because I don't like reading poems. As for universal grammar, that is a very beneficial thing. Universal grammar helps everyone to understand what is being said and the context it is being said in. The only issue with universal grammar is that no one likes to use grammar. This is most evident in our texting. Messages are misread over and over again because people aren't bothering to use grammar to make the message more sensible. But at the same time, people understand quite well what a person is trying to say even if that person misspells the word. This goes back to our brains reading words as a whole. So even though people make mistakes a lot times the mistakes can still be understood.

Vocabulary??

I'm tend to not have a big vocabulary, but when I read words it's either a quote or meaningful poem. My favorite poem I like to read aloud is the poem titled the value of time. I saw this poem in 8th grade in my math teachers room. I looked over at his wall halfway through the year and saw it and loved it ever since. When I look up poems the first thing I look up is either something stupid or something meaningful that will make me cry. There are no certain words that get me hackled up since I don't know that many. I work with babies and live with toddlers so, all I hear is "blah, go-ga, uh" or " over dhere", that could be a reason why I have little vocabulary, haha.

Vocabulistics and Such

As far as vocabulary and words go, I am no expert. I would say I have a fairly limited vocabulary. However, if I do learn and like a new word, I often will use it a lot until it becomes part of my every day vocabulary. The only "delightful" thing about words is how they are used. For example I would never say that the words floats, your, whatever, and boat are delightful, but when used in the phrase "Whatever floats your boat" ,they become much more "delightful". I would not a agree that words are fun to say all the time, but I will admit some words are fun to say when they are new to you. The poem "Jabberwocky" is a decent poem only because it is intriguing to read the made up words of another human with an imagination. So, in conclusion I think words in phrases are the most delightful because it provides nearly endless combos of fun expressions.

Wordalicious

When it comes to words I do not consider myself an expert at all. I tend to have a somewhat closed vocabulary to crazy words. But as a songwriter words are very important. I constantly find myself searching for just the right word for a song. The cool thing about songwriting is that you can put any made up word or crazy phrase in a song and it can still make since. Some of the most famous songs have made up words. For example: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (however you spell that haha), Fergalicious (also bootylicious), Californication, Zip A Dee Do Da, Chim Chim Cher-ee, Tutti Frutti, and Buggie Woogie Buggle Boy. Words can add life and emotion. They are a very important and sometimes underappreciated in song writing.


Also I am strangely amused by animal group names too haha! The other day I saw an article that talked about a business of ferrets.

King of Rambling

As a person who says lots of words, many for no reason, I believe I could be considered an expert on nonsense. How words are ordered can sometimes fall into that category. There are many cases of "silent letters" that just don't need to exist, such as "pterodactyl". Come to think of it, the entire word is jumbled up and made more complicated than it needs to be. Thanks scientists, really making things easier for the world. No wonder the majority of the population is so uneducated on things that don't impact their daily lives.

v emosh

Ok. So, the post didn't make me cry. Sorry, Mrs. Carnes. To be honest, I thought I was going to (since I've been really emotional this week), but I didn't. So, thats kinda awkward. Usually, I have to be really worked up about something to cry, just reading heartfelt things on a blog doesn't really make me cry. BUT. I usually cry when I see those animal commercials. Those are seriously so sad. Movies can make me cry, but usually what gets me is music. I love a romantic comedy, or just romance movies in general. Those are the best and are definitely tear jerkers. But as an example, I cried in the car on Monday afternoon listening to the song From the Ground Up by Dan + Shay. It just talks about this guy living his entire life loving this one girl to the best of his ability. It just has the cutest lyrics, and I was an emotional wreck when I got to volleyball.

The Beauty and Power of Words

Okay- I love words. I kinda intend to base my whole life around words, so I'd better love them. And I love the way they sound together even more than they sound alone. I love stringing together winding sentences that twist and turn down pages of paragraphs, seething and foaming with vibrancy and life that is only defined by this finite limitation of letters. And then there are short ones. They say- "Stop," "Wait," "No," "Please." They contain more emotion in their measly amount of letters than all the orators of Greece.
Then there is alliteration- alliteration is an all time favorite. I once read of a character whose alliterating aphorisms turned victims to statues of stone, held by his hypnotic words. Alliterations have a melodic measure to them, dancing and dipping to the beat of a internal drum. They benefit the word world with a melody of musicality that is not matched in any other mortal form.
I have some favorite words that I have used previously in these paragraphs- musicality, seething, finite, dancing. There are other ones that should not go unnoticed- revelry, togetherness, hue, deluge, civility, femininity, sugary. Each word has a special place in this correspondence of communication, but some have a elevated stature of sound above the rest.

Knowledge

I like words because we can use them to describe anything. The word does not even have to make sense at all and somehow people know what we are saying. When I read this, it reminds me of just about every line in the musical Wicked. They make up their own words throughout the show, but somehow they all make sense when you watch. I don't like when people mess up the spellings of there, their, and they're or were, where, and wear. Those are annoying and I totally become a Grammar Nazi because of it. Other than that, the grammar thing doesn't get me.
All in all I lkie wrdos, but I dn'ot tnhik I hvae any wrdos taht fvoar the ohtres.

All Mimsy Were the Borogoves

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

You've probably received this email or seen it posted on Facebook: the claim that the brain reads whole words, not individual letters. It's interesting how quickly we can read it, though of course many of the words in the paragraph are still in their original forms. See this article for more on the limits of this thought experiment.

I'm reminded of Lewis Carroll's brilliant nonsense poem, "Jabberwocky."  Though most of the nouns and verbs are neologisms or derivations, the reader can still get much of the sense of the poem due to universal grammar, poetic technique, and similarities to existing words. It's an excellent poem to read aloud. Wikipedia has a great entry guessing at some of the word meanings in the poem.

Are there words you like? Do some words make your flesh crawl? I have always liked endoplasmic reticulum, epiphany, postprandial, onomatopoeia, archipelago. I love the names for animal groups:  a murder of crows? an exaltation of larks? a parliament of owls? a pride of lions? But verb a noun, and it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me: we have an impact--we do not impact others; we use our knowledge as leverage--we do not leverage our knowledge. I'm looking at you, Andy Stanley!

What delights you about words? Which words get your hackles up? What do you think about the idea of universal grammar? What poems do you like to read aloud? What on earth is "Jabberwocky" about? I'd like to read your thoughts about language, letters, words, and grammar.

SO I CRIED…

Omg I knew this blog post would be trouble from the start, literally tears are streaming down my face as I write this. The ones that tore me apart the most was #7 and #13. The video based on Scrubs really made me think about Greys Anatomy (I finished season 12 btw) which is an emotional roller coaster ride. Movies and TV shows really get me because I’m a visionary person and seeing the characters feel in certain situations and listening to that sad song in the background are so powerful that it brings chills to my body. And the way Animal Crossing brought so much joy to the mother and her son, made me so happy and sad at the same time. Of course it is terrible that she passed away; but she wasn’t fully gone, because the game kept her gifts and memories. Her love never ended and that is priceless. The dogs were pretty heartbreaking as well, because it just shows how dogs have feelings too, maybe even more than some humans (cough cough *Stephen).

Yes, I am one of those people who thinks crying doesn’t show weakness, but it sheds so many layers that are far more important and gives strength. Why did God give us tears? He wants us to cry. You can’t have great love or joy without great sadness. Crying is another form of bonding. It can be shown through sad moments, happy times, and sometimes I laugh so hard I cry. For example, recently my brother got married. When a few years ago he thought he would never find somebody. I saw my mom cry tears of joy when she saw the look on his face when his fiancé walked down the aisle. Finding someone to love and that person loving you back must be the best feeling. Some things are worth crying for so bring on the waterworks. :')

Emotion? What's that?

So yeah, not real keen on the whole "need a good cry" thing. It's not that I think emotions are bad, it's just I personally do not feel "a sense of relief close to euphoria." I do get sad, because, let's be real, life is dumb and can beat you down sometimes, but the idea to be sad for sadness' sake is lost on me. Out of all the art mediums listed, film (and books) is the one I am involved with the most. I love a good story. However the "tear-jerker" movies seem cheesy to me. I will say, the medium that emotionally affects me the most is music (again, not to a big extent). If I can find a song that gets me thinking about a situation I feel myself currently in, more than likely I will like it more. There is only one or two times I can think of where music specifically has brought tears (no other medium has up to this point that I can recall). Well, that's it I guess. Call me heartless or whatever but just know I consider myself a Terminator so jokes on you. >:)

Emotions = Strength but it also leads to Weakness

I try my best to suppress my emotions, but every so often it slips out and it usually ends pretty badly. Everything I read didn't faze me in anyway, shape, or form. It takes a lot to get me emotional, movies never really get me to that state, unless it hits close to home. This post is very hard for me to write about, because I really don't like talking about my emotions. To me, talking about my emotions is basically giving people a handbook that shows all my weakness, and I prefer to keep that type of stuff to me, myself, and I.

You can probably guess...

Alright, so I didn't really enjoy this blog post assignment... But I'm laughing at myself now because I SO knew this would happen. Yes, I absolutely cried. A lot. During the first five BuzzFeed posts, I was thinking, "Hey, I'm doing pretty good!" I got to number 6 and started to feel tears forming in my eyes... Number 8 pushed me a little further... By number 10 (the special day for the dying dog) I am SOBBING. After that point I couldn't tell if I was crying because of any of the next posts or if I was still a mess because of number 10 (probably both). I decided (just to see what would happen) to take a break for a minute and calm down, then I reread the first few BuzzFeed posts: I cried immediately.  I felt a little ridiculous and wanted to read other posts to see how y'all did... Congratulations, now I just feel more ridiculous! I knew this would just be the worst idea ever, but I then decided to try my luck at the Disney post. (Disclaimer: I haven't even seen Dumbo, Bambi, Old Yeller, and many others of these because I don't think I could make it through), but, as you can probably guess, I still cried! There's not very much more to say about that.

I think I'm just an emotional person, (and maybe I bottle up all my sadness until certain moments), because I cry at almost everything. Just about every Disney movie (even the non-sad ones) makes me cry. Commercials with puppies, babies, old people, horses, orphans, homeless people... I cry. I'm not sure if it's always cathartic, but I think there are many things that definitely are cathartic to me. Music gets me sometimes ("Cost of Living" always makes me cry), books and stories get me, and movies ("Inside Out"... holy moly) are probably the worst for me. Now that I think about it, I think shows (like plays or musicals) can be the most cathartic for me. I won't go into a lot of detail about this, but certain moments that I've seen on stage have sent me into tears so unexpectedly, it's crazy! I think a lot of that is because that's what I do, and I know what that feels like to be totally vulnerable in front of a bunch of people, so watching others do that pulls at my heart in a big way. I don't really know how to put it, but it's a good feeling (not like what I'm still feeling after number 10, yikes!). I'm gonna end it at that and hope that I'm all out of tears for a little bit haha!

The Joy of Sadness

I read the whole post without crying, or even feeling much sadness, although number six was mildly touching. I think my lack of emotional response had more to do with the subject of the article than the way it was presented, but there are some mediums I find more moving then others. For instance, to me music is a very cathartic medium. There's something about the tones and instrument choice or lyrics (or lack of lyrics) in a good song that conveys a lot of emotion, regardless of whether it's happiness or sorrow. 

"I'm crying because you're crying!"

I am a very emotional person. I'm not going to lie, I almost cried earlier today while watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy. I find myself getting the most emotional when I see other people in pain. I am a very compassionate person so when I see someone else upset it makes me upset. In movies when I get vested in a character and attached to them if something tragic happens to them it is likely I will cry. I am a very open person emotionally so if you've known me for more than a year you've probably seen me cry at some point haha. When I was younger I would get very upset about what people said about me. Even if kids were joking around and said something kind of mean I would take it extremely personal. However, now it is very unlikely that someone could make me cry by saying something about me. I don't take myself seriously enough to get upset about something like that. I'd be more likely to join in on making fun of myself haha.

HAH cry? me? sure....

I'm going to be completely honest... I do not cry. I hate to cry. It definitely shows weakness and that's not for me. Watching movies, reading books, and other catharsis do absolutely nothing for me. The most recent time I  cried was a few weeks ago because one of my youth pastors just moved to Tennessee. The time before that was at least 3 months ago haha. I do well up during movies sometimes, but it has to be a truly sad movie or there is no effect on me. I don't know what it is, but it is physically near impossible for me to cry. Movies and books when main characters die are hard for me to watch/read and I do well up sometimes, but it is never a nice good cry.

What am I?!

Admittedly, the most all of those posts did was mellow out my mood. Perhaps it was knowing that someone was trying to make me sad, or I'm just a stone cold calculator of a person. Whatever the reason, catharsis has worked on me before. What sets me off personally is a sad scene coupled with sad music, and a reason to be connected with the character or characters the tragedy is happening to. After all, it's admittedly hard to care about someone that you don't care about.

Catharsis

I am not very emotional at all, unless I am angry. Anger brings out the most emotion in me. In fact if I lose a family member I am usually the last one to cry because I first experience anger that they died. As far as Cathartic experiences go, I am probably most affected by movies because they appeal to multiple senses (sight and hearing). The most recent Cathartic experience that I experienced was about two months ago. It occurred on a summer night in July when I was watching the final season of The Office for the second time through. It must have happened in the finale but I do not exactly remember. However, I do remember that I did, at one point get a little choked up at one of the events that happened. 

Hallmark=Crying!!!

     I made in to number 6 in the post, I cried and got chills. I even read all the other ones and didn't cry. The 15 year old girl has a kid that is super young. This man buys her lunch, things for her baby, and a bus ticket back home. But thats not what made me cry, what made me cry was that she felt that her parents didn't want her but in reality they did. I know that when I get in a big argument with my parents I sometimes feel like they don't want me anymore, but they tell me every day that they love me and i'm a blessing to them.
       My uncle will always tell me " Jordan stop crying its just an ad about a dog." I know i'm very emotional when it has something to do with love. I know for me an example would be movies. I cry in like every movie even if it doesn't make since why i'm crying. Most of the time I might not even cry about the movie I will cry because I had a bad day, or the movie reminds me of my past, or even the couple ends up leaving each other, in like every hallmark movie.

Crying?

       Although I made it through the post without feeling incredibly sad, if there had been something about cats in there I would've broken down. Anyways...no one wants to see my ugly cry face.

       Whenever I listen to music that has softer tones, or lyrics that strike close to home it counteracts when I feel sad. Music has a striking effect on the mind and soul. The mind loves to find patterns and music provides those patterns along with a message in the form of lyrics. It can instantly determine the mood of the scene within a few bars of the song. One of my favorite songs that makes me just content is "Go Solo"   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VePaI3jX4Sk).

      Even more so than music however, books can grip your heart and either gratify it or twist it until you sob. If a good book finds its way to my hands, I become so invested within the story line it is as if I am there. Any plight that comes the character's way makes my heart beat faster, but when they are safe again, happiness overcomes me.

     Sometimes I don't seem like a very emotional person, but catharsis is wonderful even for us cold-hearted beings (although it usually takes place in private).

What is crying

I made it through both Buzzfeed and the Disney pictures without crying. Disney didn't really move me too much but the pictures of the dogs made me feel somewhat sad. It's always amazing to see dogs' devotions to their owners. For me war movies are the most cathartic to me. Movies like Lone Survivor and 13 Hours make me really sad but also really angry at the same time. It's saddening to watch what all these men gave up for their country, but then you watch something like 13 Hours and I become sad and very angry knowing that the events of 13 Hours could've been avoided if Hillary Clinton hadn't deleted the emails asking for more security. For me it has to be a war movie, I can't remember a time when i cried or had any emotional reaction to a movie that wasn't a war movie.

To cry or not to cry, that is the question

Nope. Didn't cry.
Alright, fine, some of them did make me a wee bit sad. Mainly the dog ones. But I did not feel any catharsis, in the sense that don't I feel any better now than I did five minutes ago.
I don't cry in movies, songs, etc., so, for the sake of this blog post, I will talk about my sister.
Now, my sister will tell you that she has eyes of steel; not a single tear slips out during a movie.
Yeaahhh right.
My sister and I were watching Me Before You in the movie theaters, an undeniably tragic story. Right about the time the sad music started playing and the dude started saying goodbye to his family/girl he loved, I did start feeling disappointment. I mean, is it too much to ask that the heartthrob doesn't kill himself? It was a somber moment.
Until I looked over at my sister and saw her shrinking into her chair with shimmering eyes and sniffles. Just like that, the bubble of sadness burst, and I spent the last bit of the movie contemplating the emotional effect that it had on my sister and analyzing its potent effects.
She spent the rest of the movie in poorly-concealed tears (although she will deny it), but on the way home, it was all she talked about. She truly seemed to feel better after expelling her surplus of emotions, and I felt better after getting in a good laugh with (at) her.

"I'm not crying, you're crying!"

I think we all feel a little bit of Catharsis anytime we experience art, no matter what type of art it is. Personally, I think I am most affected by books (music is a close second). The emotions you experience from books, I think, tend to get internalized, because some much of the experience is internal. All the images you see happen in your own brain, and your experience reading a book will never be like someone else's. You may not even imagine the characters looking the same way as someone else. So, it would make sense that those emotions that come from books tend to feel more like personal pain, rather than just empathy, because you are so mentally invested in the story. One good example I have is the end of the Mockingjay from the Hunger Games (particularly cause it was a recent experience). I decided to carve out a chunk of my school day last Monday (so the Monday before Labor Day) to finally finish the last Hunger Games book, and about 8 chapters through the last 10 chapters, I took a break to unload groceries and eat lunch. Now, anyone who's read the last ten chapters of the Mockingjay will tell you- they are rough. My mom thought I was sick when I walked downstairs, because I just looked ill after reading them. I was almost two seconds from chucking the book out my window and letting it rot in the rain, I was so done. But after reading the last two chapters and having everything wrap up, I was kinda left in the daze of numbness, where I couldn't really feel anything anymore. It was weird, but I definitely think it was a rough case of Catharsis.

Plumming

This poem gives me the impression of an older married couple. From the usage of plums in general to the way he writes about him taking the plum. He is a very kind husband for even thinking of apologizing for such a simple thing as eating plums. He may have even paid for them, or at least provided the money for the purchase. He almost thanks his wife for access to the plums, despite it clearly not being her intention. They are also both very healthy, if plums would make up their breakfasts.



I have
beat you
there is no room
for losers here

because we are the
champions of the
world now

You pass and run
you try and try
but you loose

Football is a
 sport for men
not you weak little boys

Crying and Catharsis

The ancient Greeks believed that art, especially tragedy, had a positive emotional effect on an audience. The audience would experience catharsis,  a purging of emotions while watching the sad, tragic downfall of hero. You might have experienced something similar while watching a tearjerker movie: you feel that familiar lump in your throat . . . your eyes are prickly . . . a  tear rolls down your cheek. After you wipe your eyes as the credit rolls, you feel a sense of relief close to euphoria. You've been purged of sad and negative emotions, but you weren't crying over your own problems. You were crying over the star-crossed lovers or the the younger cancer patient or Nemo's mom. It's a positive experience because you had a good cry, but you aren't the one in pain.

Here's the challenge: can you make it through this post without crying? I made it to #6. Post in the comments which items had the biggest emotional effect on you and why. If you are a big Disney fan, this post may do it for you even more.

Next, write about catharsis. Which kinds of art are cathartic for you - music? film? books? Examine why that art genre inspires your emotions. Give an example of a cathartic experience you had (or, if you don't want to be too personal, it could be the experience of an, ahem, "friend").

sweater weather

This poem is talking about an unhealthy relationship between two people. One of which takes advantage of the other. The speaker must be the person who takes from the other because he is apologizing for eating the other persons plum. I think that the speaker must have a superiority complex and doesn’t really care about eating the plum but superficially apologizes anyways because that is what’s right. The other person doesn’t even have a say in the poem which tells me that he/she isn’t as important, but still relevant because it was his/hers plums in the first place. The adjectives to describe the plums as “delicious, so sweet, and so cold,” might be a reflection of their relationship or it could be the speaker just trying to say how good the plum was.

 I have worn 

Your pink sweater 

You bought

And that 

you were

Saving for Christmas

Forgive me

It was cute 

So comfy

And so cozy