Pride and despair--nice mix, no?
Okay. So, two parts to this entry.
1) Pride: I have memorized the lyrics to The Llama Song, and stumble at only one or two parts. And I can sing it almost up to speed. Yay me! I mean, yes, it's a horribly horribly STUPID thing to be proud of, but whatever! (You've all seen The Llama Song before, right? If not, I can easily link you...)
2) Despair: I have a paper due in English on Thursday. It counts as 50% of my semester grade, with Thursday's in-class, 50 question multiple choice scantron test counting the rest of my grade. The problem, besides the fact that I don't know if I can pass the scantron part, is that I have yet to come up with a topic that I can write 5 pages about.
Here's a list of the pieces I can write about. If any of you have read any of them, feel free to suggest a topic. I'd REALLY rather not have to write about Heart of Darkness, though, as I still completely and utterly detest it. ^_^;
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - T.S. Eliot
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Young Torless by Robert Musil
Demian by Hermann Hesse
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence
Right now, I'm considering doing a comparative sort of paper focusing on Eliot's "Prufrock" and Mann's Death in Venice, talking specifically about how the main character in each piece views age... or something. Prufrock is young(-ish?) and dreads old age, while Auschenbach (main chara in Death in Venice) is middle-aged, lusts after youth, and at the same time yearns for death. I may be able to add something from Death of Virgil if I manage to finish reading it. It's kicking my butt harder than any of the other pieces, though, except for Heart of Darkness.
If I can't get started on that, and really, really well, then I'm kinda screwed. *sighs* I haven't even been slacking off, really. It's just that I've had a hard time reading this stuff to begin with--lots of headaches lately, and thus it's hard to focus. Those headaches also make it hard to concentrate and think about paper topics, y'know?
Man. I really, really hope that I pass this class with at least a C. I'll hate myself (for a while, not forever) if I don't.
Anyways, I hope you all have a nice week!
1) Pride: I have memorized the lyrics to The Llama Song, and stumble at only one or two parts. And I can sing it almost up to speed. Yay me! I mean, yes, it's a horribly horribly STUPID thing to be proud of, but whatever! (You've all seen The Llama Song before, right? If not, I can easily link you...)
2) Despair: I have a paper due in English on Thursday. It counts as 50% of my semester grade, with Thursday's in-class, 50 question multiple choice scantron test counting the rest of my grade. The problem, besides the fact that I don't know if I can pass the scantron part, is that I have yet to come up with a topic that I can write 5 pages about.
Here's a list of the pieces I can write about. If any of you have read any of them, feel free to suggest a topic. I'd REALLY rather not have to write about Heart of Darkness, though, as I still completely and utterly detest it. ^_^;
Right now, I'm considering doing a comparative sort of paper focusing on Eliot's "Prufrock" and Mann's Death in Venice, talking specifically about how the main character in each piece views age... or something. Prufrock is young(-ish?) and dreads old age, while Auschenbach (main chara in Death in Venice) is middle-aged, lusts after youth, and at the same time yearns for death. I may be able to add something from Death of Virgil if I manage to finish reading it. It's kicking my butt harder than any of the other pieces, though, except for Heart of Darkness.
If I can't get started on that, and really, really well, then I'm kinda screwed. *sighs* I haven't even been slacking off, really. It's just that I've had a hard time reading this stuff to begin with--lots of headaches lately, and thus it's hard to focus. Those headaches also make it hard to concentrate and think about paper topics, y'know?
Man. I really, really hope that I pass this class with at least a C. I'll hate myself (for a while, not forever) if I don't.
Anyways, I hope you all have a nice week!