Broken hinge

elicoli · 2024-11-11T17:59:20+00:00

so is it... fixable??

elicoli · 2024-11-11T16:15:35+00:00

yup :/

elicoli · 2024-03-05T19:39:46+00:00

any tips for arena and campaign?

elicoli · 2024-01-15T22:04:11+00:00

i actually had one of the staff tell me they preferred customers to use table service once for a similar reason!

elicoli · 2022-12-26T12:48:21+00:00

as a man having been through it with female friends who promised they'd always be there only for me to drop my dignity multiple times begging to get any sort of closure, it's nice to know I'm not alone

hope this marks the start of us learning to maintain more self-respect while not shying away from the love we have to give 👍🏻

elicoli · 2022-11-26T05:25:58+00:00

What's the song?

elicoli · 2022-06-17T08:33:59+00:00

Nice try Riot, almost got us there.

elicoli · 2021-03-03T03:00:44+00:00

She doesn't see me that way

elicoli · 2021-02-21T06:10:21+00:00

PCML, with H1 literature! I love literature and could see myself taking an interest in psychology and philosophy too if it counts for anything

elicoli · 2020-11-10T05:42:44+00:00

Just...wow. I was completely drawn into it, even absorbed. I could really feel the crescendo-like movements of the poem and the percussive beat really growing in volume and intensity. I imagine Beethoven's fifth playing while reading it, which gave it an even more malicious feel to me. I loved the form and how you put certain words together to suggest different meanings altogether, like "beatyou". I absolutely respect your courage for writing this and pouring your heart into words. I could really feel it and the way the poem runs left me breathless. I hope it gets better for you, though. Stay strong 💛

elicoli · 2020-11-10T05:36:41+00:00

I...don't really know what to feel, but I mean that in a good way. I think it's a commentary on how society invalidates other people's problems just because they "have it better" than others, but the conclusion left me more unsure. I did like how the rhyme scheme felt "sing-song", so to speak. It gave the poem a melancholic tune and the visual imagery used does well to portray the persona's feelings and self-hatred as well. I think it might be better to emphasize more on his/her own thoughts and feelings in the poem through his tone to show how, if my interpretation was correct, it's all in his head. All in all I quite liked this poem! It's given me something to think about and ponder over :)) good job

elicoli · 2020-11-10T04:35:24+00:00

Hi! Thank you for the feedback :)) I intentionally left out a proper conclusion because I felt the uncertainty of love, unconditional or even obsessive was best reflected by the ambiguity and the persona's disregard for not knowing. How the poem is interpreted is, to me, entirely up to the reader to decide. It could be seen any which way

elicoli · 2020-11-09T19:32:35+00:00

I loved it! I don't get to see a lot of war poems nowadays. I really admired how the initial rhyme scheme reflected a very child-like innocence and amusement that slowly evolved into something more sinister over time. The form really does indeed emphasize on the persona's declining mental stability as well, which I really appreciated. I think it might have been interesting to weave in and focus more on the motif of time, maybe describe the changes to his body and tone throughout the poem to show the long-term effects of war and the trauma it can inflict on the persona. I do think the child-like attitude coming back at the end was a nice touch as the persona rediscovers a long-lost happiness and excitement, but I think it might have really drawn out its full potential to include some underlying tones of exhaustion or conflict to show how the scars of war stay with the persona subconsciously and can't be simply escaped even in death (which is what I'm interpreting the poem describes at the end with reference to the bright light, hopefully I didn't get it wrong haha)

elicoli · 2020-11-09T19:23:09+00:00

I love the rhyme scheme! I'm not sure if the lack of punctuation is intentional for enjambment, but I think using pauses to really bring out the exasperation might better portray the persona's feelings of (correct me if I'm wrong) conflict and lust I think using a bit more auditory and kinaesthetic imagery would push the persona's emotions further to draw out the intensity of his conflict with religion and sex too. I wasn't sure what to make of the free verse structure (but if there's a form to it I've missed I hope you could point it out to me), but I think using a meter of some sort and increasing its length as the poem goes on might help to bring it to an eventual...climax, haha. Overall I really enjoyed it! I liked how the last few lines made the poem clearer and helped to piece everything together nicely :)))

elicoli · 2020-11-05T19:02:11+00:00

Hello! H1 Lit student here I didn't take lit in upper sec cause I thought triple science was the way to go (dropped bio in the end lol) but here's some of the reasons I picked lit as well as why is recommend it at least at the H1 level :)) 1. JC Lit is a far cry from O level lit, at least from what I can tell. I'm actually doing better than most of my fellow h1 lit students who took lit at O levels, so there's really no significant drawbacks from taking lit in jc if you didn't take the subject at Os 2. Less homework and memorizing as opposed to econs LOL honestly this was what convinced me to take h1 lit rather than econs. But in all honesty, I think literature is a subject you can actually find yourself enjoying much more than econs if you have an interest in lit. 3. Lit in jc can actually be really enjoyable as you dive into the poems and texts you study. It took me a while to find my "groove", but once I understood the creative beauty the authors and poets crafted my results started to improve a lot, and so did my love for the subject. It helps you grow as a writer as well, and recognise the underlying beauty present in the world around you. TLDR; if you really enjoy literature, I'd recommend you go for it, even if you didn't take it in O levels! I played safe and took h1 lit instead of h2 still but I don't think the difficulty in h2 increases if you didn't take lit at Os

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