Chicago author Nelson Algren said, “A writer does well if in his whole life he can tell the story of one street.” Chicagoans, but not just Chicagoans, have always found something instructive, and pleasing, and profound in the stories of their block, of Main Street, of Highway 61, of a farm lane, of a path sometimes traveled.
The best poems draw us in and make us part of them. Images bring us into the author's world. Write a poem that tells the story of your street, path, road—real or imagined or metaphorical.
Thanks to Eye of Amoeba for a link to the University of Chicago's Essay Questions.
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I really think that this post would be a really good to write about it. It would also be a little hard too.
“A writer does well if in his whole life he can tell the story of one street.”
The author is saying to compare your life to something else for example:
My life compared to my woods is like theres a hill and you have to go down it to get to the bottom that is an example of telling the story of one street
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