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Oronooko… staged so that it really hits you when you least expect it.
My feelings for Oronooko is hard to pinpoint. At first glance I thought it was a tragedy set in the scenes of the age of European Empires. I did notice its critique on the crime of slavery, and frankly I … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 #3 Post The Voice of Digging and Beowulf
Digging is one of Heaney’s first poems published in his first major compilation of poems Death of a Naturalist. Compared to… let’s say Donne’s poems, Heaney’s Digging lacks the metaphors that so characterize Donne’s Elegie: to a mistress going to bed. Digging uses … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 #3 Post The Voice of Digging and Beowulf
Digging is one of Heaney’s first poems published in his first major compilation of poems Death of a Naturalist. Compared to… let’s say Donne’s poems, Heaney’s Digging lacks the metaphors that so characterize Donne’s Elegie: to a mistress going to bed. Digging uses … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 Blog Post #2 Donne
I like Donne. I’m not sure why I do. When I read Elegie: To HIs Mistress going to bed, I thought his imagery was fascinating and downright beautiful at times. He has an incredibly good grasp of metaphor and simile, … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 Blog Post #2 Donne
I like Donne. I’m not sure why I do. When I read Elegie: To HIs Mistress going to bed, I thought his imagery was fascinating and downright beautiful at times. He has an incredibly good grasp of metaphor and simile, … Continue reading Continue reading
Borges, Hernandez, Arlt
From the beginning of “The Daisy Dolls” I felt it was pretty clear how crazy the story was going to be. The way things were laid out, though, I was expecting it to be one of those short stories where everything makes enough sense, initially, then at the end it’s revealed how completely insane the […]
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The Metamorphosis, The Yellow Wallpaper
I’ve never really liked “The Metamorphosis”, probably because he becomes a disgusting cockroach-beetle thing, but also because I could never figure out how I felt about Gregor. On the one hand, he’s an idiot and his family takes advantage of that, living off of him, siphoning off money, locking him in his room, throwing apples […]
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Frankenstein
This wasn’t my first time reading Frankenstein, and I still love it. I found that the exact era where this was written had the perfect language. It’s not of the modern world with our lack of elegance in diction, but it’s not so far back that I need a dictionary to understand it, like with […]
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Watchmen
This was the first novel I was actually completely stoked to read. Before I started reading Watchmen, I was expecting a relatively fast read, like a darker Archie comic. I soon realized how wrong I was. When I first began reading, from all the books and texts from arts one, I went into an automatic […]
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Foe
I really enjoyed reading Foe overall, but I can completely see why some people here may have not enjoyed it so much. It doesn’t lend itself to explaining certain aspects when it needs to – instead of clarifying certain back stories and messages at times, the text decides to include pointless details and troubling narrative […]
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