I was doing some research on
different types of poetry and was trying to revise different literary terms and
I stumbled across the word ‘palindrome’, unsure of what it meant I did a little
digging and learnt that it is a phrase that can be read both forwards and
backwards. I searched examples of this using Google and a poem called “Lost
Generation” came up, I clicked on it and was truly inspired so I wanted to
share it with you all. A man called Jonathon Reed who is a graduate student
from Harvard in his late twenties wrote it, he really conveys a great positive
message that makes you want to change the world for the better. He really puts
things into perspective using a paradigm shift when reading it backwards, I
really think what he has done is so skillful.
Very cool! It was a phrase-level palindrome, not a word one, so I was trying to anticipate the reversal. I also like his allusion to the generation born exactly 100 years ago (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and all other flappers and modernist). Gertrude Stein coined the term originally, and it would be interesting to compare the "Millennials" to this cohort.
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