Questions for this week: Can you remember any moment in your life where you have been deeply challenged to change the way you go about your normal affairs? Does this help you to understand what takes place in Priam as he confronts the need to reclaim his son's body?

This weeklooking at Ransom, I was intrigued as I was deeply moved by the story of ( Read more... )

Hannah, Moss, ePortfolio, ENGL329

This semester, writing and contributing to not only my own literature blog, but to other’s, has been an experience which has only been made possible by blogging’s electronic /digital nature. It was indeed this nature that made it possible for me to access quickly and efficiently the opinions and ideas of my peers, ( Read more... )

Art gallery Visit

Although I didn’t get to go to the art gallery with the rest of the class, I did get to go the next week where I took myself through the rooms filled with Blake’s work.

While looking through the gallery, I felt that Blake’s work came together to tell the story of  his and our spiritual journey of life. Each of the images has an ( Read more... )

The Vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my Visions Greatest Enemy

Of all that seems heavenly

Is indeed but a heresy

Of all that seems to be light

Can darkness be found in the night?

For what seems to be not of this earth,

Does deceive for all it’s worth

Until death do us part.

My experience of the not so ordinary, Patrick White…

Reading Riders in the Chariot has indeed been an experience for me. What I have taken away from this piece of work is a new look at the way in which I live, and the society I live in. Catching the train to and from uni a few times in the last week has made me take unordinary experiences and create ( Read more... )

Critical
Chose any single Blake poem that meant most to you this week and explain in a letter to a friend why you think the poem is really worth exploring.

Dear Jessica,
I’m So sorry I haven’t replied to your previous letter but I thought I would take the opportunity to fill you in on what been going on in my life!
A lot has happened since you last ( Read more... )

when reading the question that MG posed to you I firstly thought of how i would answer that myself and it was completly different to how you answered it, but in saying that you answered it alot better!! I know the song your thinking of and it is completly relevent to the question and it made me think of all of the roles that i play in my life, be ( Read more... )

This week in class we have been studing drama and one of the plays I read in the prescibed reading was really beautiful. Andres Mother by Terrence McNally, is a short but well written meaningful play that deals with a few things. When reading this play i was listening to my ipod and evermores song I'll never let you go, came on. It deals with the ( Read more... )

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Individual and Society
"If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid"
- Arther Schopenhauer
I love this quote, and what it stands for. We are always being told that we should read, effectivly being told what to think. ( Read more... )