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Explanatory Essay: My Authentic Identity

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Throughout the first quarter of our freshman year in english class, we have been working toward the goal to showcase our identity-both the assumption and the genuine-in a writing piece to answer the essential question- Who are you?. Finally, after weeks of practices with imitation writing rough drafts, and examining excellent pieces of mentor text, I have composed my final product—titled “What’s within me.” In my writing, my main focus of the topic was my authentic identity, rather than the assumption of identity what was made about me. I wrote about how “me” as the person, are differentiated into two— “anima”- The inner consciousness of mine, which is the one that I view myself as being my authentic identity. With the …show more content…

The other tool I have used was sensory detail. The senses in my writing concern mainly with the sight. For example, “I’m in the wandering back, as the third person-view in my solitude./Yet coincided, to be my own reality, for I who think of chimera.” (stanza 2, line 2 and 3). This gives the sense of me being in a third-person view as it is my way of perception, but it slightly deviates from what a normal sensory detail may be. However, I have purposely left it as it is with the intent to create the melancholy tone that I have. By just writing [in the wandering back], [third person-view in my solitude], [be my own reality], if the audience peruse these parts of my writing, a sense of sympathy could engrossed into the presented situation. Now, going back to the previous stanza, it reads “To complement, I’m here of nowhere, where everywhere of mine is gone.” (Stanza 1, line 4) With this part being written, if the audience focuses on the setting here, they could get the feeling that “I” am at a place of emptiness. This is a place where nothing existed, and where the traces of my existence is erased. With the use my my purposeful …show more content…

Then, as I read through his poem, although being short of text, it is concise and impactful. Just by reading the poem one round, I have already gotten the sense of solitude from the rose. The rose from the concrete was never cared, stayed unnoticed despite its talent. This made me think about myself, specifically my assumed identity as the contrary, but with the incorporation of my authentic identity where my true self is unnoticed. The first imagery I got from the poem in relation to myself is myself being confined in a corner of nothingness. After that, I realized what I can write about my identity and started there. As to look for an example as a start, I used the poem itself. In the poem, the author have used sensory detail, describing the setting of the rose, being placed at the crack of a concrete, and thriving slowly. Like the author, I have also used sensory detail to describe my identity, for it being at solitude, of its wonders being from the perception belonging to the body of the assumption. However unlike the author, due to the nature of the purpose between our poem, the way I have wrote all contributes to the melancholy tone

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