Benjamin Mena Plath's "Reflections of a Seventeen-Year-Old" by Benjamin Mena https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l Analzing craft moves that create rhythm en-us 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC 2021-04-13 00:59:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png Rhythm menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501303 "Oh, I love now, with all my fears and forebodings, for now I still am not completely molded. "]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501303 Anaphora menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501310 "Even now I dread the big choices which loom up in my life – what college? What career? I am afraid. I feel uncertain. What is best for me? What do I want?"]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501310 Repetition menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501313 "Now, now is the perfect time of my life."


 
]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501313 Parallelism menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501317 "I can see tragedies and happiness, all relative – all unimportant now"]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501317 Rule of Three menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501321 "Never, never, never will I reach the perfection I long for with all my soul – my paintings, my poems, my stories – all poor, poor reflections…"]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501321 Alliteration menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501324 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501324 THEME menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501327 Coming of age "Somehow I have to keep and hold the rapture of being 17. Every day is so precious I feel infinitely sad at the thought of all this time melting father and farther away from me as I grow older"]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501327 TONE menab2 https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501328 Regret and fortune of past. "In reflecting back up on these last 16 years, I can see tragedies and happiness, all relative – all unimportant now – fit only to smile upon a bit mistily"]]> 2021-04-12 17:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/menab2/88rl0rt5j4n69v3l/wish/1408501328