LYric Essay
What is a lyrical essay? it is a form of writing that combines qualities of poetry, essay, memoir, and research writing, a notable quality of these essays is that they often attempt to break many formatting rules of the traditional paragraph essay, as a storytelling device.
After reading “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine, we were assigned to make one of our own, here is mine.
MK1
Moving from one country to another is a tall order
for a small child,
To a place with people who don’t
look anything like you,
Who don’t even speak
the same language,
This new school feels like being pushed into a busy city street
The honking of horns scream as you struggle for breath trying to get onto the sidewalk.
Separated
Based on nothing they can control.
Learning a language is a long, frustrating, and difficult process, but this… this is like learning to swim, 500 feet out to sea, with someone draped lifelessly around your neck
Putting
More
And
More
Responsibility, pressure, isolation
Stacking
Up
Makes it a whole lot harder to do much of anything. It’s easy to lose hope with no one to tell you to keep going, when they go to sit down for lunch and no one wants to sit near you.
They will look at you because what you are eating isn’t the same as them, because you don’t have enough money for anything else.
Back in class, everyone is partnering up in class, and you can’t even express what they want.
The teacher will put you in a group, but it’s no help as you still can’t talk to anyone.
Motivated not by what pushes most people forward
Using their pain as a push, as a fire underneath them,
Pushing, working, harder and harder
The isolation only motivates
“Great results!”
Don’t show the process
The sheer motivation that it took to keep pressing through the rejection has molded a strong person
But one that knows the value of true kindness
The kind of strength
That not many can even think of
With a caring spirit a careful balancing act