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.