This little poem is meant to express by its metrical form as well as by its words how unnerving and painful the process of learning can be. It is, of course, based on Plato’s cave metaphor.
I sat upon a slab of unhewn stone,
Imbibing all the chill solidity
That oozed in clammy moisture from its pores
and petrified [...]
This poem is a little joke. A molossus is a metrical foot with three stressed syllables (´´´), and I wrote this ditty after one of my professors said that the word “molossus” sounds like a creature from Jurassic Park. Critique, anyone?
On a night when the crickets were chirping slow
And the windows were clouded with cold,
A [...]
I just finished scribbling down a few verses for a class assignment, and, not being a scrupulous person, I decided I would hoist them on you. Their theme is related to an essay I wrote a while back. (Icarus, by the way, is the character from Greek mythology who used wax wings to fly close [...]
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