https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo Add a recycled poem, using phrases from the final page of the novel. en-us 2021-01-26 16:31:07 UTC 2025-04-07 06:03:28 UTC hello@padlet.com sdesseau680 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748977794 By Sierra Desseau
He dreamed of such a wonderful future,
Daisy and his ego together for the rest of their lives,
It  "seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it",
His dreams were already beyond him,
The green light was not his "orgastic future",
a mere pipe dream]]> 2023-10-16 14:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748977794 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980372 Here one stands, 
"the old island here 
that flowered once 
for Dutch sailors' eyes",
once belonged to natives
who had better reasons to dream.
These island 
now "pandered in whispers
to the last and greatest
of all human dreams"
is the grave of a narcissist's wish
"borne back ceaselessly 
into the past"
of white lies and greedy exploit.]]> 2023-10-16 14:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980372 jkumcur721 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980508 by Jesse kumcur, Nathan Freeman
As the world "began to melt away"
My sorrow grew each and everyday,
Today "for the last time in history"
I sat alone by the bay
to my dismay,
The "shore places were closed now"
And with that I had a price to pay
To stay for the rest of the day]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980508 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980589 Neil Armstrong. 
A man who upheld "the greatest of all human dreams."
Leaving this Earth, to "the old unknown world"
One small step for man, one great leap for mankind.
He had spoken as he wondered "the dark fields" of the moon.]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980589 mgrady913 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980675 Standing in the moonlight sprawled out on the sand, 
Wandering the beach hopelessness in hand,
the trees "making way for Gatsby's house" part ways,
No sport too old for his "capacity of wonder",
Face to face a man fallen from his impending grace, 
The belief in the fading greenlight had been a downfall, the sad old soul now "ceaselessly in the past",

]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748980675 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981387 Most dream of an "orgastic future"
Longing for an "unknown world"
But fail to understand
"it was already behind" them
Stuck in the past
Still in time]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981387 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981971 Many could recognize Gatsby's "wonder when he first picked out the light at the end of Daisy's dock,"
but as Jay further flaunted his grandeur, 
"he did not know that it was already behind him". 
It's soon revealed that his magnificence "recedes before us,"]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981971 trubalcaba287 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981986 "[As] the moon rose higher" Gatsby's dream came clear
Gatsby's "last and greatest" dream
So far last, he failed to see if was "already behind him"
So far great, it brought him "a long way"]]> 2023-10-16 14:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748981986 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748982477 A future out of reach,
"He could hardly fail to grasp"
The green light across the beach,
An inescapable past
the "future that year by year recedes us"
For tomorrow shall come
From the past that once was
"So we beat on,"

]]> 2023-10-16 14:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748982477 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748987231 By: Diya N
We couldn't forget our pasts even if we "wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand"
We can't predict the future and sit "there brooding on the old, unknown world"
We must live in the present unlike "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"]]> 2023-10-16 14:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748987231 https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748987444 The "green light"
a false "dream"
"believed in"
but would be "fail[ed] to grasp"]]> 2023-10-16 14:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tahomasd1/esxtk9blqae6ytoo/wish/2748987444