Linguistic Sculpting

Linguistic Sculpting 

The essay is an extremely effective, powerful and potent means of assembling various components into a whole. Primarily, an essay is a form of inward-reflection meant to impel the writer to go inside and encapsulate an intangible idea in tangible linguistic symbols. Ideas are often not a singular component but a sculpture with many intricacies that cannot be neglected; if you neglect a single component of the sculpture, its harmony as an entirety will be insufficient. An essay, in essence, is merely a coherent assemblage of linguistic symbols that harmonize as a sculpture while conveying a complex idea.

Often times, education inadequately, although earnestly, attempts to instill the habit and cultivate the skill of essay-writing; where they fall inadequate is through forced-regurgitation of information. An educationally-assigned essay is often times just the product of assembling facile information garnered from a novel or any other assigned-source which is inapplicable to the real-life demands of the individual. Perhaps this isn’t the case for every person but I cannot be alone in this, it’s ludicrous to think that every essay ever written in school was communicated from my deepest of inquisition. I’ve written numerous essays which I cannot even recall which were only written to satisfy the requirements of someone else which were imposed on me simply to determine my “intelligence.” This misses the artistic-expression component of writing entirely; an English class is more akin to an art class than a journalism class. 

Every essay that I’ve ever written by my own command is stored in my memory; at least large fragments of it are. Every essay I’ve ever written on my own has been a deeply personal exploration of the depths of my mind, where the subconscious and conscious mingle and fornicate to assemble and produce an idea. This has always been a profoundly visceral experience for me with philosophical implications that overwhelm me. The formation of an idea, which I choose to do through linguistic symbols, is the faculties of my mind coalescing to construct an idea seemingly out of a nether-realm which we can only feel but never touch, sense but never see. The brain has many elaborate ways of communicating its information; each person has a subjective method of conveying the brains information. Some are acutely attuned to the linguistic method, others musical expression, others through images. Regardless of your medium for expression, your brain is coherently amalgamating information and then fabricating a tangible expression of that information which is a fascinatingly humbling and emotional experience.

 

I’ve been able to infer, after a lengthy period of enduring the education system, that this urge or enthusiasm to express is often subdued, constrained or even vanquished entirely through the forced nature of literary expositions in a school-setting. The essay in particular has been an indispensably valuable way for me to explore the depths of my mind and then bring those findings to the world. Not because of any external-command, I write essays purely by my own command and relish in the process. Not because some teacher commanded me to and then put various constraints on my expression, because I myself enjoy exploring my mind and bringing my findings to the world. There is literally an innumerable amount of linguistic symbols available to anyone with the interest in learning them and through these symbols you can explore realms beyond the physical. These symbols can comprehensibly present your perspective on the world, enhance others perspectives and even lead the subject through an entire journey through stories which not only entertain the mind by enabling an escape but convey the authors philosophy of life.  Linguistic sculpting is indisputably potent and fascinating.