"The Centaur" by VICTORIA SILLER https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq en-us 2025-09-22 15:10:48 UTC 2025-09-30 18:03:28 UTC hello@padlet.com vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3597836718 2025-09-22 15:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3597836718 One Literary Device you can notice in the Centaur is the use of hyphens. Hyphens can be seen in the very first couple of lines in the poem. One example, is "The summer that I was ten— Can it be there was only one" This is one place where a hyphen has been used, showing a cut of thought. Another instance of the poem using a hyphen was when it says "have been a long one then— 5 each day I'd go out to choose " vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3597863179 Victoria Siller

]]> 2025-09-22 15:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3597863179 There was time when my grandma used to garden a lot, she had a specific plan, still unknown to this day, I still don't know what I ate, but it grew like small red plants, and it looked like something edible. I went out one time with my sister and she dared me to eat one, I took a bite, my mouth erupted in flames, it was so spicy that I started to cry, and I got in trouble because I ate it. The end. vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599946123 2025-09-23 15:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599946123 Is the centaur a metaphor of feeling free? or having some case of free will? Is this a representation / example of projection in behavior? vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599955141 2025-09-23 15:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599955141 the imagery of "lovely dust" had me thinking and memorized for a second because when I was young around the 5th grade I had seen the prettiest dust rising and I was In aw so the way she explained that was so understandable and a small detail but so gorgeous. btate7506 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599957546 2025-09-23 15:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599957546 Two tones that me and my partner noticed in "The Centaur" was "Ghostly" and "Negligent". Both words are used in a negative sense in a majority of previous writings, they seem to be used for freedom and naivety to project the child's point of view in this poem, used to be running for no direction, running with the flow of what they're following. vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599966441 2025-09-23 15:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3599966441 I suspect the author ended this poem the way she did was a way to humor us or to be a meaning of snapping back into reality after daydreaming. The reason why I think this might be the reason is because when you compare the beginning, middle and end of the poem, they all have some sort of stark contrast. vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3611900045 2025-09-30 18:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3611900045 Around the end of the poem, when the author is talking to their mother, it shows a lot of question marks, as already we know it shows a worried or concerned mother asking their child what they have been doing. vsiller9243 https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3611903329 2025-09-30 18:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vsiller9243/usnhlait7rmc6haq/wish/3611903329