So this week in class, we continued reading the play, “Romeo & Juliet”, by William Shakespeare. During Act 1 of the play, Lady Capulet describes Count Paris and Juliet’s potential love with an extended metaphor to a book. I found that this was a very interesting and graceful way of poetry and description. So I decided to write my own extended metaphor, describing someone that I know to an object.
But, I ended up writing two different paragraphs; one about my late grandma, and one about my younger brother.
Here they are:
First I pondered upon who I would write about; Who did I know well enough to dive deep into their persona and explain all about them, in just a paragraph of words? I chose my grandma first. She was a huge part of my life, even if it was just for a small amount of it. Writing about her was just so natural for me.
In my mind, autumn leaves represent her.
Next I wrote about my brother. He is crazy and annoying and endlessly buzzing; everything a brother should be. Describing him as a circus was super simple and it made me smile.
I represented him with a travelling circus.
Overall, I believe that writing is one of my strengths; I just love to let my mind go free and let my ideas turn into something that I am, in the end, really proud of. I think this process happened with this mini project. And even if these paragraphs weren’t perfect ones, I’m very happy with them and I wrote them with a lot of effort.
