FINAL ESSAY 

For the finals on Friday, I did not feel so good about the essay. Having little time I felt that I was being pressured. Maybe I just need to practice more in writing an essay under a short time. I don't know. But I didn't like how my essay turned out so I decided to rewrite it. 

Emerson once said “Trust Thyself.” He refers to the self-motivational mindset that tells one to hearken to their instincts, mind and heart. Emerson’s ‘’Self-Reliance” portrays the qualities of a poet, to do what you want to do. The poet, Rushdie, elucidates in his quote on what portrays a poet, one who is imperil, one who points at frauds, starts feuds and one who transforms the world and stops it from being stolid.

In Rushdies quote, the main theme of it, is to be imperial, to take risks, to do the unimpossible, possible. To challenge yourself in shaping this world from being stolid. The tone of this quote is confidence. To take a challenge, risks,  takes a lot of confidence.

In addition, taking a risk takes a lot of confidence. One can either agree or disagree towards your thoughts and opinions. Which can create a backlash. But as poets we have the right to speak for ourselves. We have the right to speak out on our minds. For instance, in “The Right to you Opinion’’ it discusses how no-one has the right to stop us from thinking and saying whatever we want. As poets we have different ideas and it takes confidence to share those ideas that may lead you at risk. As poets we want to share our ideas and grab their attention to the important things. For instance, in “A Modest Proposal,” by Jonathan Swift. Swift advises that eating children and selling them in markets as food is a solution to aiding the Irish in their economic problems. Clearly, he was trying to grab the audience attention, that there is a big problem in Ireland. That there is a prodigious amount of children starving in their country and that no one is aware of this crisis.......