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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post Poetry’s Loyal Accomplices in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 14 hours, 10 minutes agoWe’ve begun to think about translation and poetry in some pretty unfavorable terms as of late. After reading the clean shirt of it and framing ourselves, as readers, as accomplices to the poet/their speaker, […]
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post on Plath in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 15 hours, 55 minutes agoI made it my mission to analyze all of Sylvia Plath’s poetry. So far, I’ve read her collections “Ariel” and “The Colossus.” As a whole, her poems had melancholy tones, including “Morning Star,” which was writt […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Confessions about the Confessional in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 18 hours, 18 minutes agoThe Art of Losing
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept t […]
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Hailey Schiller edited the blog post Bakkaspect in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 14 hours agoDionysus is multifaceted, and therefore cannot be defined by a single name or culture. He is, as said by Percival Everett, “NOT [HIMSELF] TODAY.”
While there may be one fundamental “Dionysus,” different portion […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Emily Bronte’s Challenge to Gender Norms and Hierarchically Constructed Power in Withering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 1 day, 14 hours agoWe looked at two articles discussing the topic of how Emily Bronte challenges gender norms/hierarchically constructed power of the Victorian Era in her writing. These articles include “Fighting Back Against the E […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Interpretation is in the Eyes of the Individual in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 16 hours agoQuite frequently, I doubt myself. I question my interpretations of a text, and I also compare my thoughts to others which leads me to doubt my abilities as a writer and a thinker.
Upon embarking on Professor […]
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Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post The Irony of Being Earnest in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 18 hours agoIn the given epigraphs, Percival Everett had said that ‘real irony is far more sincere than earnestness’
The definition of irony, taken in range and source and sifted down, equaits to an outcome or appe […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Suspicious Godly Pants in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 19 hours agoYou may be currently asking yourself questions such as: who owns godly pants? What do godly pants even look like? Why exactly are these godly pants suspicious? Are godly pants even capable of being suspicious? Or […]
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Molly Brown wrote a new blog post The Failures of Language in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 22 hours agoHow Interpretations can Alter a Text
Within the first class of English 203, we started by analyzing a rather comical tweet. The tweet was captioned “Suspicious pants”. We gathered into groups and discussed […]
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Anthony Guttilla wrote a new blog post Perceiving Differently in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 22 hours agoBefore even going to my first English 203 class, I skimmed through the course syllabus to see what we would be doing throughout the semester. Right off the bat, I came across this picture. […]
