I really enjoyed reading Pete's latest journal entry on "The Garden". Its nice to know that there are people out there just as cynical and sarcastic as I am. I truly appreciated his sense of humor in this one and absolutely loved the pictures and comments he included. I won't deny that I enjoyed reading Andrew Marvell's poem because it contained ( Read more... )

I agree with you Carolyn. Hedda's character is one that is tough to feel for because she is such a heinous bitch. You would think that a woman of her intelligence would be able to get herself out of the situation she was in without having to go and kill herself. Her action was totally cowardly and I agree that she had plenty of resources with ( Read more... )

In our tutorial we looked at Aemilia Lanyer's poem 'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'. We were debating whether or not her poem actually justifies anything. I thought that she did bring up some decent points, but also didn't put her poem into historical context to make her point stronger. Our Theology class actually just studied Adam and Eve at ( Read more... )

I've been trying to wrap my mind around Gerard Manley Hopkins, but I have to admit that at times my mind gets tongue-tied, as if I'm reading some sort of Dr. Seuss story. When I get past the thick alliteration and structure of the poems, it really is fascinating to see how much meaning and emotion each poem contains. In 'Binsey Poplars', I could ( Read more... )

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Ok so I'm currently reading "Hedda Gabler" and I haven't finished it yet, but this play is twisted. Hedda has some major bitch issues and I can already tell that I don't like her as a person. The play itself seems really interesting so far, but Hedda just really bothers me. That's probably what Ibsen intended, but I wish I knew more about the ( Read more... )

John Donne's poem "The Good-Morrow" really touched me the first time I read it. In the past, I haven't been one to read a love poem and be able to completely relate to it, half because I'd never really been able to experience some of the stuff that was mentioned in it, and half because some of the crap was so sappy I knew I'd never be able to ( Read more... )

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 has always intrigued me. I remember in High School spending a lesson on how Shakespeare used this sonnet as a parody on the way that Elizabethan and Petrarchan poets always used their words in sugar-coated ways to romanticize the way that they viewed their lovers. There are several poems that Shakespeare used as a basis ( Read more... )