This blog has been created for students enrolled in my one and only section of English 10 Advanced. Feel free to ask questions, react to class assignments, or post thought provoking quotes, passages, and poems. This blog has been created to encourage and inspire the writer in each and every one of you! Start writing!
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Please read the following poem and Respond/ React/Reflect:
"To Risk"...
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental,
To reach out for another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self,
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure,
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing,
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love....live.
Chained by his certitude's, he is a slave;
He has forfeited freedom,
Only a person who risks is free.
-William Arthur Ward
*** Consider making a text connection (self, world, or text). I'm giving you some academic freedom with your response. That is why I have NOT listed a plethora of directions =]
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