English @ SUNY Geneseo | Eric Berman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ejb3/activity/ Activity feed for Eric Berman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a76c5985792f049ac73bac27d34b9271 Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=381 Fri, 02 May 2014 17:32:01 -0500

Hey so I did a podcast and explained Yeats’s  “Vacillation” and “A Dialogue and Self and Soul”. For 35 minutes. Understandable if you don’t want to watch all of it, but some of it is cool, I think.

Here’s the rough script for it, though I also had some written notes that I was looking at, so if you don’t watch it you’re going to miss out on some totally cool stuff!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2ke1hY5FU1uZFQ6DVEY0j0n0SGNA9048_7dXsMbd0E/edit?usp=sharing

]]> 153198dfffec4e7c34a2f9845544bf7c Eric Berman commented on the post, Tree Lore and the Yeatsian Shadow, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/05/01/tree-lore-and-the-yeatsian-shadow/#comment-305 Fri, 02 May 2014 16:50:17 -0500 I like the idea of Heaney offering a magical realism counterpoint to Yeats’s mysticism – always I was thinking of Heaney as a more strictly realistic approach, concerned with the most physically real aspects of […]

]]> 4983c61f3a60a8e36f4823642983d0f7 Eric Berman commented on the post, William Butler Yeats & Pop Culture, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/04/17/william-butler-yeats-pop-culture-2/#comment-295 Thu, 01 May 2014 20:18:31 -0500 Damn, lots of work put into this. I really liked the Batman exposition, and the research you did in how an original artistic inspiration can flip between something as dark as that Batman comic appears to be and […]

]]> fe3e28d3d5ae713bca11b9c6feb5cf11 Eric Berman replied to the topic Heaney, and the "Tribe's complicity" in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/heaney-and-the-tribes-complicity/#post-415 Thu, 01 May 2014 03:02:12 -0500 I agree with you, Joe, that Heaney is attempting to absolve the Fisherman/drunk of his guilt in “Casualty”. He is creating a living and breathing man for we readers, one of the rare cases that he aestheticizes without feeling guilt as an artist for doing so.  In our in-class discussion on “Casualty”, Professor Doggett advised us to look at the…[Read more]

]]> 2d3bd6ee24751cad9c1abe7e1a171e28 Eric Berman replied to the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-and-heaney-violence-in-the-land/#post-414 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:52:49 -0500 I particularly like this topic in context of the essay that we just read, where Heaney examines “Yeats as an Example?”. You each are touching on the dangerous idea of poets – Yeats, in particular – taking their external realities and aestheticizing them into a symbol to work with in their poetry.

As we talked about in class quite a few times,…[Read more]

]]> 5bc32c9d7926c124b2b0b00c35a21234 Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=156 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:57:06 -0500 In the poem “The Wild Swans at Coole”, Yeats is staring at and meditating on the nature of swans, which we judged in-class to  symbolize a combination of eternal love and the representation of the anti-self. I […]

]]> 366e841eb25f30c969c4852ca23daeee Eric Berman wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/10/spoken-versus-written-words-in-adams-curse/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:28:32 -0500 In class we talked about “Adam’s Curse” within the context of poetry being a labor for Yeats that is unable to be understood by the middle class, due to its intangible and unquantifiable value to the self and to […]

]]> 36c695f79f527f7ef2cf2c2cbcd70d29 Eric Berman started the topic To Ireland in the Coming Times - The Wind/Unmeasured Mind Dynamic in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/to-ireland-in-the-coming-times-the-windunmeasured-mind-dynamic/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:21:57 -0500 Today we focused some on this poem, contextualized also with the recent MyCourses reading on Yeats’s stance on Rhythm in poetry (in “The Symbolism of Poetry”).  In this essay, Yeats asserts that rhythm is utilized by the writer to keep the readers in a sort of trance – “to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep…[Read more]

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