English @ SUNY Geneseo | Sophia-Elise Jenks | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sej9/activity/ Activity feed for Sophia-Elise Jenks. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:25:20 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7a583dd663c6ef0b26dc44735a0d613b Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-i/#comment-403 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:09:23 -0500 What isn’t clear to me here is how the Sylphs, who I have interpreted as very fairy-like and feminine so far, are associated with women straying off of what I assume is the accepted path for womanhood?

]]> 6c1ed262c720f1875b8a2d119dfcd29b Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/the-rape-of-the-lock/canto-i/#comment-402 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:06:58 -0500 What isn’t clear to me here is who Caryl (a muse, presumably) is, and why they are relevant to the matter at hand? Is this a reference that deepens the understanding of the point being made by the poem?

]]> 9b5c7586cdee11b728c014352257f1ee Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox/#comment-376 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:49:46 -0500 Oops I hadn’t realized we were required to do two until I was going back through Brightspace today – anyway, Montague writes Flavia to believe herself to have been better than everyone else before smallpox brought […]

]]> 82529283f4980fbbf7eecffe15455b12 Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/town-eclogues-saturday-the-small-pox/#comment-349 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:50:32 -0500 This line perfectly summarizes Flavia’s lament of the entire poem: that with a loss of beauty comes a loss of power. It begs the question, though, is Montague critiquing the system of women’s pretty privilege, or […]

]]> af93a429c91ef5a420197656fc0b7979 Sophia-Elise Jenks commented on the post, Chapter 3, on the groupblog Eighteenth-Century Innovations https://c18.sunygeneseoenglish.org/gullivers-travels/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag/chapter-3/#comment-295 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:34:57 -0500 I was not at all surprised that Gulliver didn’t actually like his previous master – I was more surprised that he did not act on this information while still in his care.

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