Ethan’s Secret Page

Writing

• I’ve done some of my own creative writing.
• I started writing poetry fall of my senior year of college during finals as an interesting way to procrastinate my Math and Computer Science finals and projects

Tattered Time, or That Starred Ensign

• Tattered Time is my longest piece, six pages of two columns.
• In terms of style, it is my own, but inspired in short line length by lyrics written by Anneke van Giersbergen
• An additional inspiration was learning some amount of Welsh and its medieval literature. In form it is unlike their literature, yet echoes some themes such as prophecy of oppression.

Figure 1: Tattered Time, or That Starred Ensign

Time (a sestina)

• This a sestina, a peculiar poetical form from Italy, where line-ending words are repeated and permuted under a certain pattern.
• This was not easy to write, but it is interested and I’d be curious to have another try so many years after this was written.
• I wrote this particular one as part of a creative writing course.

Figure 2: Time, a sestina

Creation Myth

• This poem was created under the idea of a being that is immortal (yet not invincible) living forever and seeing everything the universe can offer, yet still of fallible, human memory.
• I wrote this and rewrote it under revision as part of the same creative writing course.

Figure 3: Creation Myth