Week 8 Post

Well, we come to the last day of English Literature class.  I just turned in the last essay, it was over "A Crazed Girl" by William Butler Yeats.  It was an interesting and sad poem.  We also turned in our team project, designing a web site.  I was concerned not everyone on the team was going to contribute but the last couple of days, everyone submitted their input so all is well.  I have always wanted to start a blog, not sure if I will keep this one past this class or not.  I'm thinking not, but we will see.  If you stumble upon it, look me up.

Thank you!
Trenda

Week 7 Post

Hey there!!  Almost at the end of this Literature course.  It has been interesting.  This week we read Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. (Do you underline a book, or italicize?  I cannot remember from high school English.  That is bad and one reason I could never homeschool my kids.)  Anywhoo, we were asked what the relationship between "Stream of Consciousness" and "Psychological Realism" is.  Really?  I had no idea either one of these existed until this week.  Amazing.  The name "Septimus" from Mrs. Dalloway is interesting...reminds me of sepsis, or septic; both are unappealing.  Well, that is it for this week, one more to go then DONE!!

Week 6 Post

Hey there - how has the week been going?  For me, I was assigned to create a web page.  My group is doing a web site over each period we are studying in our UCO English Literature class.  I find it odd that I am doing a project with a group, but have never seen them before, just an observation.  Anyway, I have the Victorian Period.  I have done some things to turn in the page tonight but want to make it a little flashier before the project is turned in.  I don't have a whole lot this week, it has been busier that desired!

Week 5 Post

Hey there!!  Posting for my UCO class, anyone reading this??  This week we had an interesting poem called "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti that portrayed a horrible beating.  This poem was published in the 1862, only a few years ago ;-).  My question is, what in the world was going on then to fiend such a rendering??  It really gets the meat of the beating, very detailed.  And to top it off, it was originally a children's poem.  If this was read to me as a child, I would have hid my head under the covers for a month.  I had never heard of this poem up to this time, I find it interesting and disturbing at the same time.

Week Four Post

Sonnets, poems, excerpts...wow.  What a week of reading.  I will say this week has been the most interesting as I really liked the readings.  Alfred Tennyson's "The Woman's Cause is Man's" was an insight to women needing men and men needing women.  "Say Over Again" was about love, love, love.  The Forsaken Merman was a fantastical tale of mermaids and mermen and how they join to form a family then break apart agin.  Reminds me of the Disney movie with Ariel.  "The Last Duchess" was my favorite, with the aristocrat bragging about what he had done - what a cad!!

Posting for Week 3

This week I have read William Blake's The Shepherd.  I am puzzled as to why Blake wrote about a shepherd.  I am not interested in shepherds, so you can see my confusion.  And why does the shepherd praise the lambs?  Isn't he supposed to have a firm tone with them to keep them in line and eating?  I guess it is in an animals nature to know if the person in charge is near, and it may make them feel better and therefore produce a softer wool?  Poems confuse my anyway, with their hidden meaning.  I am a very literal person, black and white, I do not understand underlying meanings.

What it's all about!

Hey - this is my blog I set up for "English Literature Since 1800" class.  Cool, huh?  It is my first time blogging, so what a treat you are in for!  

I have read Infant Sorrow by William Blake.  What a great take on when a child enters the world.  By the title and first line, I thought it would be sad.  I assumed that a child had died, but was pleasantly surprised by it.  I have always said the newborn baby is thinking "Holy cow!  What is this place and why is it so bright and COLD?!"