Final Blog for Class

So this is the last post for my class! I don't know if I'll keep up blogging or not. This weeks topic was Mrs. Dalloway and although I had read excerpts in high school I had never read the whole book. I loved it!!! I love how Virginia Woolf portrays her characters and how there is so much to learn about them all. Clarissa is my favorite although I found Septimus interesting. I enjoyed the multi-faceted personalities that you get to see because in most books you just don't learn that much about the characters. I have really enjoyed this class and I wish that it was one of my other literature classes ending and not this one. But alas all good things must come to an end. Hopefully I'll get a decent grade!!!! The only thing I have left is the audio piece and thats proving difficult!

T.S. Elliot

So I got really excited when I saw that we were studying T.S. Eliott. I really like his writers voice. "The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock" is a good poem. I like how its not the traditional love song yet it speaks to our humanity in much the same way. I must confess that I was really hoping for some CATS. I love his book of poems about cats. Macavity is probably my favorite! I also suprisingly to myself really enjoyed the webpage assignment. Everyone should check it out! its at : http://emccurley.tripod.com/.

The Goblin Market and Great Expectations

So I loved the poem although long poetry is definetly not my favorite. I do like the feminist aspect although I do not consider myself a feminist. I like poetry alot so it wasn't to bad. I have read Great Expectations so many times I just couldn't force myself to write another paper on it. I was glad there was another option. The book is amazing though as its author. I have actually had the opportunity to visit the pub in which he wrote many of its pages. I highly suggest A Tale of Two Cities. It is one of my favorite books. I wish we had studied it instead. Oh well life goes on.

Dr. Romanticism Brings a Novel to Life

Imagine the perfect political candidate, the one seen in movies. He is concerned with what the common people want not just the rich. He appreciates the traditions of America. He wants what the people want. He sets up those wildlife habitats and seems to know your name. He makes those heartfelt speeches about growing up in a good family. He wants to give each individual child that life. He donates to the art gallery and helps fund the children’s library. He wants to experience all he can. He is a romantic. Romanticism is the emotion, the art, the traditions, the democracy, the change, the common people, trust in nature, and the danger of knowledge not drawn from nature. Romanticism is the individual’s heart. These traits are ones of Romantic philosophy and are expressed by many authors. Mary Shelley was an influential Romantic writer of her time. Romantic philosophy is reflected in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the concern for the common people, the pursuit of knowledge in science in stead of nature, and the rejection of the misunderstood.

Literature is

Literature is an autobiography of the world. Literature is insanity and want. It is love and determination. Literature is our humanity reaching out to explain who we were, are and will be. Literature is emotion put into words; it is thoughts put on paper. Literature is Grendel reaching out to the world and Beowulf saving the world. Literature is the monster inside us all. It is each and every one of us yet none of us at all. Literature is the change we make from bugs to humans. It is a woman crying for the justice of God to be heard. It is a woman’s desire. It is a little girl’s wishes and a teenagers adventure. Literature is those slow and sleepy mornings. It is the daydreams of the imagination. Literature is the thoughts we think as those preps pass in the hallway and those tears we cry as our hearts are broken. Literature is those beautifully silent evenings. It is creativity pushing against its boundaries and breaking them down. It is the fears for a grandfather’s sanity and the hopes of the perfect Christmas. It is the fear of college and the excitement for college. It is the hopes of someday being able to change the world. It is the fear of dying and the trust in advice. It the hugs from parents. Literature is me.