Hi! Welcome to my UCWbL Digication site. Here you will find lots of information about me and what I do at the UCWbL. I'm a non-traditional student, so I bring a lot of different experiences to my role as a peer-tutor and writing fellow. I believe that my diverse interests are apparent in the way I've chosen to represent my year at the UCWbL - take a look around and enjoy!
During the winter '14 quarter, I took a poetry class. I was unsure about my choice because I didn't know much about poetry and I found it intimidating. The class was difficult but I worked really hard to make the most of it. It's important to me that I take something good away from everything I do, especially when those things seem impossible at the time. Because of this, I have learned about the beauty of poetry and I learned a lot about myself. In my class we read a beautiful poem by Marianne Moore, and I loved it so much that I've made it my motto for the Spring quarter. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did!
The Paper Nautilus
by: Marianne Moore
For authorities whose hopes
are shaped by mercenaries?
Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by
commuters' comforts? Not for these
the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell.
Giving her perishable
souvenir of hope, a dull
white outside and smooth-
edged inner surface
glossy as the sea, the watchful
maker of it guards it day and night; she scarcely
eats until the eggs are hatched.
Buried eight-fold in her eight
arms, for she is in a sense a devil-
fish, her glass ram's-horn cradled freight
is hid but is not crushed;
as Hercules, bitten
by a crab loyal to the hydra,
was hindered to succeed,
the intensively
watched eggs coming from
the shell free it when they are freed, --
leaving its wasp-nest flaws
of white on white, and close-
laid Ionic chiton-folds
like the lines in the mane of
a Parthenon horse,
round which the arms had
wound themselves as if they knew love
is the only fortress
strong enough to trust to.
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