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Matthew Albanese posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
Colonus’ Praise
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)Chorus. Come praise Colonus’ horses, and come praise
The wine-dark of the wood’s intricacies,
The nightingale that deafens daylight there,
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Matthew Albanese posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
Yeats wrote this poem in September, 1920 and was never published in any sort of periodical. It did however, appear as the second poem in Seven Poems and a Fragment in 1922 and again as the twelfth poem in The Tower.
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Matthew Albanese posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
The combined poem was untitled and written in 1926 accompanying the play “The Resurrection,” and was published in The Adelphi in June, 1927. It appears as the ninth poem in October Blast in August, 1927, and a […]
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Matthew Albanese posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
Leda and the Swan
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
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Matthew Albanese posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 3 months ago
Among School Children
(Poem as it appeared in The Tower, 1928)
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I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing,
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Intercultural Communication Through Dance in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago
While I unfortunately missed Friday’s class where Dr. DeFrantz came in and worked with students, I did attend his lecture the day prior called “The University Dances: Fifty Years in Motion.” He seems to be highl […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Coagulation from Hurricane Sandy in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
A few class periods ago, Beth presented us with What We Saw When the Lights Went Out: A Portfolio from Hurricane Sandy Many of the pictures are moving, both literally and figuratively. Excessive amounts of […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Violence as the Performance of Waste in Northern Irish Poetry in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
This semester, I am taking English 403 with Dr. Robert Doggett and the course is about northern Irish poetry during the Troubles. The Troubles was a multiple decade long time period of horrendous, terroristic […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Comparing the Theatrical Performance of Heroism to the Literal Performance using Superstorms and Gun Control Examples in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
Working through the introductory “Landfall” section of Kathryn Miles’ Superstorm, it reads like a science fiction novel only until Superstorm Sandy is explicitly mentioned. Miles described the horrific scene at Ne […]
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Matthew Albanese edited the blog post Carnal Desire in New Orleans: How Allochthonous Tourists Sully New Orleans in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Throughout Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, Solnit and Snedeker present various color maps which simultaneously reveal details about both New Orleans geography and culture, many of which contradict each […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Disparity in Pain Management due to Racial Biases in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Earlier in the semester, we listened to a podcast that shed light on the “backfire effect” which is the idea that people who hold deeply rooted opinions are not going to change even when presented facts. Rat […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Bodies Found Buried Beneath University of Mississippi Medical Center: Mental Health Plight akin to Racial Discrimination in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In Medical Apartheid, Harriet Washington details how African-Americans, during and post-slavery, were disproportionately victimized by grave robbers and unauthorized autopsies and dissections. This issue of […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Employer/Student Study in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In a 2015 employer/student survey done by Hart Research Associates, which was presented at the beginning of the syllabus, there were several key findings which ultimately relate back to Geneseo Learning Outcomes […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Collective Course Statement: How We Met Learning Outcomes Working Through It in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
On the Geneseo website, Geneseo’s Mission Statement is followed by GLOBE: Geneseo Learning Outcomes for Baccalaureate Education. These learning outcomes are sought after by all professors in all academic fields a […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Do Not Resuscitate: A Debate About Consent in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Suzanne was frustrated by the bureaucratic government that decided an arbitrary limit on how many sessions sexual assault victims could go to simply because of budget constraints not a consideration of whether […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Average Mark Spitz Deals with ‘Sea’ of dead in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
After grappling with Colson Whitehead’s Zone One in its entirety, I found that the racial element of the story is not as prominent and obvious as I had anticipated it would be. For one, we do not learn of Mark S […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Race as a False Construct Maintained due to the “Backfire Effect” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In the final of three episodes on the “Backfire Effect” by the “You Are Not so Smart” podcast, renowned cognitive psychologist based at the University of Bristol, U.K, Steven Lewandowsky introduces the concept […]
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Matthew Albanese wrote a new blog post Zombiism Through Poverty, Slavery and Disease in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In an article published by “The Guardian,” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty , Ed Pilkington reveals details about an epidemic that is r […]
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Matthew Albanese edited the blog post The White-Savior Industrial Complex and Voluntourism in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
Today in class, we examined two articles titled “The White-Savior Industrial Complex” by Teju Cole and “The white tourist’s burden” by Rafia Zakaria which both focus on the negative consequences of voluntourism. This term refers to privileged, first world citizens gallivanting around the globe “helping” poor people in variously afflicted parts of…[Read more]
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Matthew Albanese edited the blog post Dwarf the Soul and Preserve the Body in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
In PhD Alonda Nelson’s The Long Duree of Black Lives Matter, she explains that immediately after the Emancipation Proclamation freed African slaves throughout America, there was a tremendous spike in lynchings and also police violence against Africans, a problem which persists today. While I would never denigrate all police officers with a broad…[Read more]
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