I have updated my photo and I need to credit my boyfriend, Ryan. It is a pen drawing titled, "The Winged Heart". Thanks Ry for allowing me to display it.

Janice

I so much enjoyed the Jonathan Swift poem we read this week in class that I have shared it with some friends and we all agree, it is delightful. Of course, "The Lady's Dressing Room," is filthy and perhaps even vulgar, but so refreshingly honest that it is appealing. It just 'is', that is to say that it is reality and as a lady who prepares and ( Read more... )

I mentioned this find in tutorial; However I will mention it again along with some bibliographical information, so you may find this text if you wish.

Billy Bishop Goes to War is a play written and originally performed by by John Gray with Eric Peterson (of CTV's "Cornor Gas"). This is a link to the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia (who knew there ( Read more... )

To find a dramatic text that contains poetry in this post-modern period is unlikely, but looking back through the history of English literature, one can easily find such a work. This week in lecture we explored the plays of Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot that contained both prose and verse. It really never occurred to me to notice that these sorts of ( Read more... )

Although I have not received a response as to whether anyone is interested in reading these posts, I am going to post this anyways. This sonnet is quite obviouly not a love poem; however, I like this sonnet so much, I feel the need to share it. The following poem comes from the collection, "Songs of the common day and Ave!: an ode for the Shelley ( Read more... )

I have been working on an idea for a new weekly post. Since Canadian literature is of such interst to me, I thought it may be fun to share with you (my readers) some Canadian literature that relates to the weekly subjects we discuss in class. For instance, last week we looked at English love poetry, well I thought perhaps I could post some ( Read more... )

This week's lecture on English love poetry was truly eye-opening. Throughout my academic career I have read Shakespeare, Donne, Spencer, Wyatt and of course Dante and Petrarch many times; however, I never made the connections between them or noticed the over-ridding similarities between their love poems and this is because I never considered the ( Read more... )

Firstly, I would like to commend Rosita on her lecture, it was both informative and interesting. I particularly enjoyed how she asked for the input of the class on the meaning of certain poems before giving her analysis. I feel that this made for an interactive environment that kept the class interested ( Read more... )

In the case that you haven't yet noticed, I am very concerned with crediting my sources. Thus, I would like to credit my sweetheart, Ryan, for my current user-pic. I enjoy his drawings and I suspect others will as well, so hopefully in the near future I will be able to display more of his artwork. Ryan, I thank you for your generosity.

Janice

This week in lecture, we discussed the elegy. This genre of poetry deals with death. An elegy may be defined as a lament for the dead (as this online dictionary does: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=elegy). But, this definition gets confusing when one learns ( Read more... )