... of the most Fulfilling experiences I have ever had, when it comes to writing. Besides personal narratives, I also enjoy writing poetry. This is for the fact that poetry has Such a wide range of topics and subsequent emotions. Some of my greatest influences of poetry are Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Chet Silverstein. These authors are able to include sadness, Fear, wisefulness ... , beauty and humor into each of their pieces of poetry. When it comes to writing Poetry myself, I enjoy putting a hidden meaning inside. The reader has to read in between the lines to unde...

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• Grade Level: High School

... works I've written meet my standards of high quality writing, though they like most of writing did take long hours to perfect. They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails ... . I ask myself, "Who am I as a writer?" and this is the first phrase that comes to mind, for writing is my passion. I entered my first writing contest in the second grade. The elementary school sponsored a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... literature and started to go to the library quite often (Alessio 115). At the age of twelve, Shirley won a prize for her poem " The Pine Tree" which was entered into a contest for the "Junior Home Magazine". (Hall 18) When Shirley was in junior high, she began to keep a diary where she kept all of her writing's (Burn 378). "She wrote about ... two nude men. The pictures were removed and the first issue was published in the fall of 1939 (Hall 21). That same year Shirley won second prize in the university poetry contest (Hall 22). After graduation in 1940, both Hyman and Jackson were marr...

• Word Count: 1916
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• Grade Level: High School