One day you finally knew What you had to do, and began, Though the voices around you Kept shouting Their bad advice Though the whole house Began to tremble And you felt the old tug At your ankles. “Mend my life!” Each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, […]

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice ‑ though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […]

It was August in the year 2004 the Zanu PF party was out of control, the government was corrupt and the country was deteriorating. People around us were leaving the country. It was chaos, but we had to stay we couldn’t just leave this was our lives. Little did we know, soon we would have […]

Mary Oliver not only breathes new life into poetry, but into the essence of life itself. Throughout everyday of everyone’s lives, a struggle must be overcome one way or another. “You felt the old tugs at your ankles,” some readers take this particular quote as the sadness of Mary’s poem. I chose to interpret this […]

The Climb is a song by Miley Cyrus. I chose this song because it is a very encouraging and it is quite similar to The Journey. Both the climb and the journey show how voices around them/in their mind stop them from moving on and achieving what they want. “…and you felt the old tug […]