This is a declamation I wrote for Rhetoric class. The assignment was to write a lyric poem. I wrote mine on sleep, basing it on my extensive personal experience. Without further ado, then: Sleep is Enigmatic Sleep, you are cold-blooded, merciless, an executioner. You softly slit my throat from ear to ear into a smile […]
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Lyric poem on sleep
May 1, 2010 – 4:55 pm
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By Matthew Hurley
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Posted in art, life
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Tagged caffeine, Calvin, christian, classical education, college, declamation, free verse, lyric, metaphor, New Saint Andrews, poetry, rhetoric, school, sleep
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