{"id":301,"date":"2019-06-28T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:40:07","slug":"a-gleaming-window-into-new-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/a-gleaming-window-into-new-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gleaming Window into New Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the slithering seasons come and go,<\/span><\/p>\n

As the ceaseless tides ebb and flow,<\/span><\/p>\n

Time marches on with blatant disregard<\/span><\/p>\n

To human history and its heavenly bard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature is a gleaming window;<\/span><\/p>\n

Love, satire, gallant deeds, what a show!<\/span><\/p>\n

Black symbols, merely ink on a blank page,<\/span><\/p>\n

Scrawled down by many, an undying sage<\/span><\/p>\n

Enthrall generations of humanity<\/span><\/p>\n

With no more than subtle allegory.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote this poem as our second term at Mass Academy neared an end, very much surprised at how fast time seemed to fly as we struggled together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My goal then was to compose a sonnet in the Shakespearean style, however, it proved to be quite difficult. I maintained the verse structure of the two quatrains and the rhyming couplet, but I did not use iambic pentameter or the <\/span>abab cdcd efef gg<\/span><\/i> rhyme scheme. I morphed in the style of the Petrarchan sonnet, but again took many liberties to ease the creative process and simplify the style. For example, this sonnet is not about unrequited love nor does it introduce a problem and end with a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Literature is extremely important because it is, as I mentioned in the above sonnet, \u201ca gleaming window.\u201d I very intentionally chose the word <\/span>gleaming<\/span><\/i> because of its meaning with regard to a shiny, reflective, quality. We tend to embed ourselves in the stories that we hear. Literature opens a new world in our imaginations; worlds in which we can be heroes or villains. Stories bring back our childhood. We need that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the slithering seasons come and go, As the ceaseless tides ebb and flow, Time marches on with blatant disregard To human history and its heavenly bard. Literature is a gleaming window; Love, satire, gallant deeds, what a show! Black symbols, merely ink on a blank page, Scrawled down by many, an undying sage Enthrall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sahilnawab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}