Invisible - An Original Poem

Invisible 

Following mine friends’ lunchtime savage roast,
To them I hath passed away, like a ghost.
Outside Michelle’s locker I doth roam round,
Lamenting the loss of mine friends’ gay sound.
Now I doth regret acting so brashly,
For I miss the beautiful, sweet Ashley.
Gone art Yi Wen's tuneful chimes of laughter,
And I feel adrift, much like a rafter.
Slowly within me a darkness unfurls,
It conquers me, it dances, twirls and whirls.
I art betrayed, mad, lachrymose, truly,
I refuse to be thy puppet - Julie

The iambic pentameter, colloquially termed the heartbeat rhythm, cements Julie's unshakeable love for her friends. This is ironic because similar to Rosaline and Romeo, her affection is unreciprocated. The narrator's longing for the now-vanished camaraderie she used to take for granted is apparent in the semantic field of names utilized by the poet, which indicates closeness and familiarity, and makes the sudden loss more stark, like a yellow hammer and sickle juxtaposed onto a red background. Enjambement breaks up the poem and forces it to read in a disjointed manner, thus mimicking the narrator's fragmented and conflicted state of mind. End stop lines are present in every line except the last to amplify Julie's lack of closure.

Tybalt and Lord Montague - A Semi-Original Play

Earlier on in the year, we did a project to consolidate our knowledge of the characters and themes in Romeo & Juliet. Our group [me, Lin Yin Tan, Daryl "team carrier" Pung and Tae Eun Kim] decided to rewrite Romeo & Juliet without Romeo and Juliet. The result: a 22-page, 5-act Shakespearean play, complete with a full-color cover page, a summary, a sonnet, review activities, pictures, as well as an acrostic poem.

Victor's Place Review - A Collaboration Piece

This is a review of Victor's Place, an Indian restaurant nestled cozily somewhere between Jenny Wang's and Europlaza, penned by the scholar Michael Wang and edited by me. 

My 50 word short-story submission

Panic. Anxiety. Trepidation. May/June would’ve been the end of me. I was so desperate, ready to bribe Edexcel. I was prepared for utter failure until a kind, benevolent stranger handed me a slip of paper.

Eight weeks later, I received two A*s.

On the paper was a single word:

www.yqh3lpenglish.blogspot.com

(fingers crossed my story makes it to the top 3!)

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