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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
Better Late Than Never? (Post on Cesaire & Kingdom of This World)
For this blog post, I will comment on not only Kingdom of This World, but Cesaire’s play as well. Both texts focus on similar subject matter yet manage to leave the reader with entirely different impressions of the, in Cesaire’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Césaire, Walcott and Henri Christophe
[In the Arts One group in which I’m teaching, this week we read two plays about King Henri Christophe of Haiti, one by Aimé Césaire called The Tragedy of King Christophe (mid 1960s) and one by Derek Walcott called King Christophe (1949)]. In class today I had planned to have us talk about the […] Continue reading →
the two other sides of henri christophe
ok first of all i swear i finished this last night and just noticed now that i saved it as a draft and i didnt publish it. my bad. i fully admit my mistake, that was stupid, haha. so im … 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
Ruins or Stones: What are they really?
So, being the last week and all, I managed to forget about this blog post. And now, at 2:32am, lying in bed, I remembered! So here we go! This week we read two plays, both regarding the Haitian revolution. This … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I lurve plays
Yay last blog post! I thought these plays were a good way to end off the semester since they were both easy and enjoyable reads.I did really enjoy Rousseau and actually had fun writing the essay even though it clearly … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I lurve plays
Yay last blog post! I thought these plays were a good way to end off the semester since they were both easy and enjoyable reads.I did really enjoy Rousseau and actually had fun writing the essay even though it clearly … Continue reading → Continue reading →
