A Loss Into A Lifetime

The Loss Into A Lifetime

“A fragmentary lapse of reason caught in the alcove you call your mind. Days interlay into reoccurring eras, but you remain stuck, misdirected by the abrupt notions defecting your perception of time. Bring on the pensive dreams, bring on the new wave.”

This is a little snippet of a bigger poem that I did. The poem is quite lengthy and on the prosy side, but I believe that it still contains some valuable poetic characteristics. The way I write is very free verse because I am mainly a storywriter. I am the type of person that overwrites and has to cut down half of what I write. Once I get going I just let the ideas bleed through my fingers and onto the paper. Sometimes, it works in my favor and sometimes it does not, but that’s the beauty of being a writer.
The “Fragments on Fragments” text really wet my appetite for reading in this class. My views on writing are very similar to the ones that a handsome number of these fellow writers share. Lauren Albert lists one of my favorite quotes though, “Fragments represent the state of in between-ness, the source of all creative thought.” I totally agree. What you write should make sense, but the idea of having to guess or fill in the blank is quite an anomaly to me. For example, take a songwriter, you do not necessarily know what the song is about, but it’s catchy and attractive, so it’s up to your interpretation, that is if they do not tell you what it means. The same goes for a story that leaves that distinct level of ambiguity. I have often been told that my writing seems to veer in different directions sometimes, but I tend to disagree. I like to leave the reader to fill in the void spaces with their on intuition. It brings a sense of excitement and curiosity.
Fragments are like connecting the dots. To bring together impressive writing and an ability to triumph with cognition, is the essence in fragmentary writing. It is impressive when one writes back and forth and then brings it all together in the end. It is imperative to write in such ways, otherwise most stories may become tedious or outdated.





















From Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
“There is no point among the many incomprehensible anomalies of the science of mind, move thrillingly, excited then the fact-never, I believe noticed in the schools-that in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”

To begin with, Edgar Allan Poe is one of my all time favorite writers. His use of melancholy events and out of the ordinary plots is just mentally exhilarating to me. I have always been a fan of the darker literature, such as Poe and, in some cases, Hemingway. They have this sad demeanor to their writing that brings a genius plot to life. When I read Poe I am consumed into his story or poem. This piece is from one of his early short stories called, Ligeia. The story is about a man who marries a woman and she dies then comes back to life. The story, I will admit, is not to exhilarating among others, but this quote matched mine almost perfect.
My quote played with the idea of memory loss. I have always been fascinated with the cognitive function of memory loss. It is amazing that all the thoughts in our head can, in times, permanently deteriorate. With this notion in mind, I wrote a poem about a man who has Alzheimer’s and the reader is being informed of his thoughts in 1st person point of view. The end of Poe’s text is what I find most captivating. There is always that idea that there is something there, but you cannot put your finger on it, and eventually you just subside or forget about it. The memory just perpetually ceases to be and becomes a faint dust particle that has permanently blown away.
Poe tends to establish a lot of different illnesses in his writing. I find his writing to be very credible because, in a documentary that I read, he has had many people close to him die of these illnesses he describes in his stories. It’s moving for an author to use these different life experiences to create an interesting plot. Many times Poe will write in odd ways and use small fragmentary ideas and leave the reader thinking. This ambiguity is exactly what enthralls me to write in the same fashion.