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Tag: Dreams
‘The Sandman’: A Masterclass in Unfaithful Adaptation
Netflix’s 'Sandman' is quite different from the comics and that opens up the story to a whole new fandom.
Parents, Households and Mental Health
The toxicity of a family might vary from being very trivial to extremely unbearable. But the worst part is some of us don’t even realise that it’s not normal.
The Sandman: How Representations of Dreams and Nightmares Have Changed Over Time
Gaiman’s dream goes by many names, each inspired by different ideas of what dreams and nightmares have been to people throughout history.
On Turning 50
'Though youth is a dim memory, our glories are not.'
What Do We See When We Look Up at the Sky?
'Before you ask what I see, tell me which sky to look from / and which one to look at.'
Burden of Dreams
A poem on missing the romance of illusions and dreams as one gets older.
In Dreams, to Death
A poem on the contradiction between the present cultural push to 'dream big' and the starker mundaneness of what reality often turns out to be.
Taking a Gap Year Was Like Taking Frost’s Less-Travelled Road
We often treat norms or rules as 'truths' just because they are practised so often.
The Golden Door
A poem on the life of a young girl – a flower handler – who doesn’t know what it's like to go to school.