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Window

April 17, 2019
By Anonymous

A monotone, almost lecture-like noise, drowns the classroom,

but the voice remains in the background.


As I nod off and struggle to remind myself why I’m here,

a light peeks through the cracks of the clouds,

stretching from the sky,

           through the window,

                  and landing gently on the floor of the room.


The clouds begin turning into shapes.

The barking, driving, and screeching sounds of the outside world cannot be constrained through the thick, barbed glass wall.

Feelings of jealousy and sorrow consume the classroom.


Longing for the freedom of the outside world

through the lens of the windows.


The author's comments:

For the sentence poem I think I achieved trying to use new types of sentences that I wouldn’t normally incorporate in my writing and having each sentence be meaningful. I wanted to include hints of humor in my poem which is a tone that I don’t usually use, but I think it makes the poem more interesting and fun to read. I have never been strong in writing poetry so I knew that this would be a challenge for me, but I found that writing about a subject such as school made writing it much easier because I have a lot to say about it since I’ve spent the majority of my life in school. Also I tried to be more subtle about what the objective correlative is instead of explicitly stating that it was the window by putting emphasis on the things outside of the window and how it is the only thing in the classroom that lets you see what is on the other side.


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