The Season of My Life

What season of your life are you in? Well, in my life I’m in spring that means that I really don’t have any priorities. I don’t even wash dishes, sweep, or mop my life is basically carefree. I’m very goofy I laugh when aren’t even funny. Playful no, that’s not even the word. I’m beyond playful.


First of all, being carefree is great. I throw eggs at people without worrying about the consequences. I play tackle football in my good clothes, because I know my mom is going to buy me more clothes. One may call my favorite pass time running the halls of Constitution High School even though its wrong but who cares. On Mischief Night My friends and I throw eggs at people that we dislike or whom we don’t even know.


I‘m very playful. I don’t know when to stop. I play childish games like mocking people, or tying people shoe strings together I love doing these things, they keep me full of life, When people tell me to stop I laugh and continue doing what I was doing. Just recently, I was in Geometry class and one of the students said “Ish stop playing all the time! Be serious for-once dang.” Then I just continued to play-acting like they never said a word.

Being goofy is my forte. I’m the best at it! I laugh at everything even when there isn’t anything to laugh at. When people trip, stumble, or fall-hurt or not-I think that’s hilarious! Sometimes I just burst out laughing for no apparent reason Last year in Spanish class I burst out laughing and Mr. Todd had to send me out the class for a drink of water.

When all is said and done, being goofy, carefree, and playful, keep me I the spring time of my life knowing that I will have to grow up, I hope it doesn’t come to fast. But after finishing this paper I feel like I might have crossed over to the summer of my life, not a lot will change though.

The Whipping

Some people learn to abuse from their parents and may continue to abuse their loved ones because they don’t know how to express themselves. Well here is a poem written by Robert Hayden, which is titled The Whipping. I enjoyed this poem because it has great images. Even though this poem has great images I couldn’t help but laugh. The Whipping is comical but it is definitely realistic in its own way.



First of all, the images in the poem are very vivid. The author really showed me what was going on in the poem. I also felt like I was in the setting the poem. The author of The Whipping also kept me engaged in the poem.



Second, The Whipping is very humorous from my point of view. One part the poem that I found entertaining are the following lines “She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling boy till the stick breaks in her hand”. I also found the part of the poem hysterical when the old woman was tired after chasing the boy with the stick.



Finally, the poem is also very realistic. The Whipping really hit home, it made me think about when I was younger and I would run from my mom when she tried to beat me. The topic that the author chose was a great topic I could really relate too.



When all is said and done, The Whipping by Robert Hayden is a great poem with wonderful images, great humor, and its very realistic. Next time you see a Robert Hayden poem pick it up because I can bet you will like it.