Spontaneous,
Unique appeal,
Rare to find.
Living to please no one but myself.
Far from being a deity
Carrying on my mother
And my father's faults.
I am but nearly a mortal.
A daughter of Adam and Eve.
I have been told of blunders,
And experienced them for myself.
Frightened by the thought
Of repetition of such events,
I have over-thought this scenario
Of choice and consequence.
Life is full of labours,
Along with impending decisions.
Those given to me by my own Creator.
Sometimes naive,
I am ashamed for my misdeeds.
Trust has been lost,
Awaiting to be earned again.
Determined,
To prove myself worthy,
I'll do anything and everything.
And to prove those wrong,
Who have continuously tried to break me,
Put me down,
Said I couldn't do the impossible.
Nothing is impossible.
I won't let you interfere
With what my heart desires.
You can't break my soul.
Reflection:
ReplyDeleteThe process in selecting my mythological allusion was quite hard at first. I tried coming up with the different characteristics/qualities I had. I even asked a couple of my friends about what qualities they thought I had. They all pretty much said the same things and weren't being specific or giving it much thought. I then thought to myself that no one truly does understand me except for me. I came up with characteristics and searched online for different gods/goddesses that matched those characteristics. It was hard to choose until I came across Psyche. There were some situations that she has experienced according to myth that is similar to my own personal situations and I could relate.
In constructing my poem, I first thought of which parts from the myth that I could relate to. I structured my poem to start of with describing my personality (preferably qualities in relation to Psyche's), then going into personal experiences. For the allusive part, I included the allusion of being "a daughter of Adam and Eve" showing that I am just a human "carrying on my mother and my father's faults," which is referring to mortal sin.
I researched symbols of the goddess Psyche. In my graphic, I used a picture of myself and added a few pictures of these symbols-waterfalls, crescent moon (waning), butterfly, lily of the valley, amythest, and three stars representing "body, life, and soul." I placed each symbol in my graphic creating the allusion of some magical and soothing environment that I thought portrayed the goddess Psyche as well as my own personality.
Creative responses such as my poem and graphic can help me to understand and appreciate myself and my world better by making me think hard about the good qualities and characteristics that I have. In doing this assignment, it made me feel good about myself in a way. I found out that I could relate to a goddess from a myth, and it makes me feel better knowing that I'm not the only one going through these struggles in my life and proves that others have it worse than I do. It made me think and appreciate the good things in my life and thank God that I have the life that I he has given me.