Saccharine!

5 things I'm thankful for:
1. Hard work paying off in the search for a word.
2. Proving myself right.
3. Knowing I know what I am talking about even when everyone disagrees with me.
4. Knowing that their was indeed a word that meant overly sentimental.
5. Realizing that the word I was thinking of was saccharine!

Quote of the Day:
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett

In my UCWR a few days ago I was talking about a poem that was overly sentimental and asked what the word for that was. I asked and nobody knew. My teacher kinda mocked me and said, "the word you're looking for is sentimentality." I knew she was wrong so today I spent some time looking for that word. It took 2.5 hours of hard work and I found the word. SACCHARINE. What now teach?

Today I wrote a lot. I've wrote a song and half of another. I will post them which I finish editing them into making sense and such;)

I wrote about some poems in class. Here is what I wrote.

Which Poet Does It For Me?
Why did I choose the poem I chose? That is the question. I used the process of elimination. I did not like the majority of these poems. I do not like ee cummings poetry and therefore did not choose “in just-.”
To ee cummings, first of its E.e. Cummings, don’t think that you’re the next Shakespeare and can do whatever you want with the English language and have it be kosher. Your poetry should follow grammatical rules and please, stop making up so many words, you’re not Snoop.
I am indeed a massive fan of William Shakespeare but I believe that the poem “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” is absolutely overrated and to “cute.” It is almost as if Shakespeare was trying to write a sonnet for pubescent-drama-plagued-Edward-Cullen-loving-teenage girl. This poem is too sappy and the only reason people give it a look is because Shakespeare wrote it. I believe that we shouldn’t give any literary piece a free ride just because a certain person wrote it. That’s absolutely ridiculous. Sorry Shakespeare, you’ve done better and that’s why I do not pick you.
“I Hear America Singing” this poem is overly sentimental. Another word for overly sentimental is saccharine (you didn’t believe me when I said there was a word for overly sentimental that started with an s, I spent 3 hours and found it). This poem is too patriotic. I love America but I don’t need a poem to tell me why.
“Portrait in Georgia” I did not pick this poem because I do not understand this poem. As I read it, it seemed awful. It used the word lyncher’s, fagots, and talks about different colors. I may be completely misreading this poem but it seems to me like it is about racism and prejudice. I don’t want to write about how anything that has to do with that is good writing. It may be good writing, but I will not defend it.
Rather than pondering over the two huge poems I decided to play it safe and stick with a poem I know to be good writing. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is a good piece of poetry. I remember going over this poem in AP English and coming to the conclusion as to why it was good.
Why is “Dulce Et Decorum Est” a good poem? This is a good writing because it has really nice syntax. The flow of this piece is nice. It appeals to the audience and is able to captivate us and help us catch a glimpse of war.

Sorry i'm not writing more...but I'm wakin up at 645 to work out. woot woot!
I love you all, goodbye.
Mi amor a todos, adios.
אני אוהב אותך כל, סלאמאת.”/>