Gatsby Poem

A poem constructed using quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

No amount of fire or freshness

can challenge what a man will store up

in his ghostly heart.

So with the sunshine

and the great bursts of leaves

growing on the trees,

just as things grow in fast movies,

I had that familiar conviction

that life was beginning

over again with the summer.

I was within and without,

simultaneously enchanted and repelled

by the inexhaustible variety of life.

There is no confusion

like the confusion

of a simple mind

And life starts all over again

when it gets crisp in the fall.
So I beat on,

boats against the current,

borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Reviews

[Ian Faraway]

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind"
For some reason, those 3 lines stuck out for me and really packed a punch. It's been a few years since I've read The Great Gatsby, could never reread it because of how it ended (almost made me mad), but Fitzgerald was definitely the type of writer to have meaning behind every little scene, word, and action. Especially in a novel such as that. This poem definitely had that books feel to it. You did an excellent job of capturing the tone. Keep up the good work!

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Easy adorable piece. To wish became one who is describe at poem. I just love it for this wonderful beauty.well done

[Jared Payne]

Very detailed and beautiful. The descriptive language paints a strong picture in the readers mind about the struggle of having a mental illness.