Please help me. I'm really stressed out with school and I just took a test I don't know if I did good on. It's really bothering
me because when I was little I always felt like I was the smart kid, like I knew everything. Now, I feel stupid. I'm so stressed out about school that I can't function correctly. I get up super late, rarely eat breakfast, and I DREAD getting up to go to school. I have so much homework to do, a quiz every three days, a test every five days, and so much homework I need to complete by tomorrow. Right now I don't really have a reason to be living. I just feel all this stress will be removed if I just died right now. I've always had good grades, A's and B's, and I don't want my parents to hate me if I don't do well on this test, because they've always been the parents strict on grades. I feel if I don't do well, they'll never speak to me again and hate me forever.
Dude, I know that feeling. I did the IB program, and let me tell you, the IB program is stupid difficult. All these giant essays hunting you down, Theory of Knowledge classes, and gross requirements of volunteer hours. I had this biology teacher who always gave us tests that were impossibly hard, but he had always told us something after the test results were given back to us. He would always say "It's just one test. If you failed it, sure it's going to impact your grade. One quarter of one year of your entire life will be slightly impacted by this test grade. Don't worry about the numbers. You're going to have a life." That phrase never left my memory, and I often go back to it whenever I'm stressed about school or life.
In Thomas' poem, the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" are refrains. In villanelles, the refrain comprises the last lines of the poem.Thomas uses a villanelle because villanelles often dealt with pastoral, natural, or simple themes.
