Madye Moore Assignment 2

High School in Few Words

School.

Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 

Repeat.

Long, hard, demanding,

Never catch a break.

Homework, essays, college applications,

Calculus, Literature, Biology.

Crowded hallways, blank stares, people pass by.

New faces, new teachers, new ways to memorize.
People we don't know,
some we don't want to.
But we all have one thing in common-
we're all forced to go to this place called
School.

The tone I meant to create in my poem was a very exhausting, kind of miserable tone, because that's how I view school for the most part. I used diction choices like "long, hard, demanding" to help create this tone because those words imply a more negative connotation towards the subject, which in my case was the high school experience as a whole. I transitioned from short, choppy sentences at the beginning of the poem to long, drawn out sentences to put emphasis on the drawn out and exhausting effect that school has on me as well as many of my classmates. I also used the diction choice "forced" to show that school is not a voluntary thing, and if it were most of us wouldn't be here. That is also used to emphasize the miserable tone because it makes school out to be kind of like a jail, since we are forced to come and follow a routine from the time school starts to the time it ends.