post-exam relaxation
Monday, May 17, 2010 | 11:59 PM
whee it's so slack in school now. For pe today we just played soccer! all the way! and i scored three goals(all the goals my team scored) ! whee. but of course it's thanks to si kai, simon, jeshua for the awesome assisting. i can't beleive andrew chia saved a penalty.. and jiayao.. um helped. yeah.
english teacher said he've marked ten scripts from our class, and we're doing well :D yay.
any bubble tea flavours to recommend? esp milktea. i've never really tried, and the once i tried some peach milk tea which tasted really weird ><
our english teacher mr lim went through a poem with us today.
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For A Child Born Dead
What ceremony can we fit
You into now? If you had come
Out of this warm and noisy room
To this, there'd be an opposite
For us to know you by. We could
Imagine you in lively mood.
And then look at the other side,
The mood drawn out of you, the breath
Defeated by the power of death.
But we have never seen you stride
Ambitiously the world we know.
You could not come and yet you go.
But there is nothing now to mar.
Your clear refusal of our world.
Not in our memories can we mould
You or distort your character.
Then all our consolation is
That grief can be as pure as this.
-Elizabeth Jennings
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it's an elegy, which is the opposite of an ode. (so an elegy is to commemorate a sad event, usually read during funerals. something along those lines).
The message and emotion here is so well presented in this poem. the grief of not losing a loved one, but the sadness of nothing; the sadness of a missing potential. It's a completely different feeling.
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ah well, just thought i had to post this. really meaningful.
wooh exams are over!
