Since we're on the subject of war, here are some lyrics by Smile Empty Soul ( Read more... )

This week, Stephen Voyce made a delightful lecture on the World War I poets. It was nice to be swept away into history and the land where everything seems like stories and not actual history. It was very engaging. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been being a soldier in the trenches. I remember once on a canoe trip I had to trek ( Read more... )

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William Wordsworth is someone I have admired since I was fairly young. When I was eleven, I remember going through my mom's old poetry books and finding his "To A Butterfly" poem and I remember thinking it was just beautiful ( Read more... )

The more we learn in Poetry 2110, the more I find we've ruined the English language. We've taken some of the most meaningful words and turned them into non-meaningful words, if that makes sense. For instance, melancholy used to be a word for one of the four humours. The humour in question, represented by water, was birthed by a bodily liquid called ( Read more... )

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I can't see my post anywhere so I wasn't sure if it was working correctly or not. If someone could please comment me back and let me know, that would be appreciated. Thanks, see you all on Monday!
Lisa

This week we looked at Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room," and I think like most people did, I absolutely loved it. I found the bluntness of it to be fabulous and the harshness to be delicious. The amount of effort some women put into their appearance is questionable. It almost makes you wonder what they would ordinarily look like. Although I think ( Read more... )

I must say I really enjoyed lecture this week for the simple fact we were introduced to FW Harvey's "Ducks." A huge part of this was because I actually understood it from a first reading, but also because of the delightfulness of it. I love the way Harvey incorporates his feelings and ideas in such a simple, clear and accessible way. When he writes ( Read more... )

When Professor Kuin conceived the idea that we should survey friends and family members about whether or not they had an appetite for poetry, I jumped right to the occasion. I quickly called up all my friends and annoyed my brother with "whys" until he basically told me to f#%* off. Regardless, I found some really interesting results ( Read more... )