Summative Entry for American Literature

“We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal,” besides every time I hear those lines my first thought is of the broad-way hit Hamilton, I can’t help but also laugh. For a country that loves their constitution more than their own first born child it’s laughable to say that …

Modernism and Post Revisit

In today’s tutorial we decided as we were talking about the beats movement and the New York School Poets and their relation relation to the post-modern movement. It was quite interesting to delve into to ideas that surround the post modernist movement. But in order to full understand or appreciate the works we studied in …

Peer Review 4 – Brooke Kelleher

https://brookekell.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/blog-4/ Hey Brooke, I just finished reading your piece on Faulkner and I believe you're on the right track, you did very well to give a small summary of who Faulkner was a fascinating writer. I feel you wrote very smart and quick in regards to the question. You gave your view and that's it, …

Faulkner’s Call

What do you think Faulkner might have meant by the caption that is around his neck in the image at the top of this blog? “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself” Ah William Faulkner has done it again with another piece of wise and …

Peer Review 3 – Elora Woods

https://cardiophobicspokenword.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/ponderings-on-being-deliberate/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Hey Elora,   I just finished reading your piece on “living deliberately” and I found it a very entertaining read. Firstly, as a university student as well I have to say that I have the same feelings as you in regards to attempting to just find a life that is simple and whole, but …

In a Station in My Head –> Best Creative

So for this week's blog I've decided to write a poem in the same form as that of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro."   The bliss of night, serenity of the water, Giving peace to my restless mind   Now from just two lines written, I believe I must explain the reasons …

Peer Review 2 – Isabella Woodley

https://bellawoodley.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/african-american-literature-du-bois/comment-page-1/?unapproved=109&moderation-hash=f15674e0d8bbfc98d043183efb88423c#comment-109 Hey Bella, I just finished reading your blog Du Bois and it was quite a nice, easy read. You had a good start and introduced the text that you were using quite well but didn’t really go into too much detail in regards to quotes, you raised some good points and arguments but your …

Faulkner’s Speech –> Best Critical

How do you understand Faulkner’s extraordinary statement in his Nobel Prize speech “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself … alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat” ? From this statement and this statement alone it seems that Faulkner is bringing …

Peer Review 1 – Ethan Hua

https://ethansopinion.home.blog/2019/08/26/twiddle-dee-twiddle-dum/comment-page-1/?unapproved=51&moderation-hash=e5482ea390d6dbbc5589e1336419eefd#comment-51 Hey Ethan, Just finished reading your blog and I really quite liked it. Firstly I understood that the subject was meant to be a skit but I seemed to find myself reading it once in my head, then repeating it a second time but imitating their respective accents and mannerisms (I found it funny). …

Emerson’s Nature

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence. Emerson’s essay on Nature brings forth several ideas about human living through the view of nature. This line …