If you ever, ever get the chance to see Sigur Rós live, take it.


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Having finally made some headway into the month of April, I would say that Eliot didn’t know what he was talking about - I was most definitely March’s bitch. Yes, I have exams, but they are a vacation in the Bahamas compared to the essays and assignments I put my life on the line for last month. After Wednesday, it’ll all be over, and I will be ( Read more... )

The saturation of allusions used in The Waste Land presents an interesting question about a poet's motivation for writing and the intentions in creating and sharing one's work. Eliot's chosen strategy of writing footnotes to accompany his poem was compared to two other methods of dealing with the writer/reader relationship: leaving allusions out ( Read more... )

mwahahahaha, I finished!!! The essay is COMPLETE!

HAPPY SPRING!


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MLA Citation help please!!

I know I have some smart people out there on my friends list. And even one smart professor. Well, to the best of my ability, this is how I have concluded I should properly cite a poem from the Norton Anthology for my Modernisms essay:

St. Vincent Millay, Edna. "Recuerdo." 1920. The Norton Anthology of Modern and ( Read more... )

For all the death and destruction that came out of World War I, it seems the least we can say is that we at least received some moving war poetry out of it. Also:


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To broach the topic of Rudyard Kipling, I could go in a lot of directions. His celebrated children's book The Jungle Book, his bitter war poem "Tommy", the advice on human virtue found in "If"... but for now, let's talk about the first poem of his that I encountered, in the good days that were my High School History Class with Mr. K... the poem ( Read more... )

Sigh. The sappiness of the story of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning is almost too much to take. Two poets, a forbidden marriage, their long-lasting and supportive love for one another... The Victorian age is known for its valuing of sincerity, kindness, love, and beauty, and here I am in the age of irony and sarcasm. And I feel that I can ( Read more... )

 I have finally returned to write -- returned from Cuba as a matter of fact -- and therefore more than a little bit pleased to be able to combine memories of my trip with my discussion on nature poetry and the Romantics. The, er, nature of this type of poetry is generally to express a distaste for emerging industrialism and thriving cities taking ( Read more... )

 
Following the great period of Satire came an emergence of poetry of feeling... most noteworthy, there were many poets who wrote in high style about their feelings of melancholy. Specifically, much of it consisted of nostalgic poems that reflected on times passed, or reflected on the beauty that surrounded them. Professor Kuin mentioned that a ( Read more... )