wish by spirit and if by yes

[winkingstar]

you're probably all bored with poetry by now, but too bad. ^^;

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anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.

women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then) they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes

women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

~ "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E.E. Cummings

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and you probably don't care about this, but i'm just going to think "out loud"...

so i have this scary oral exam in a few weeks... i have to come up with a list of texts for them to quiz me on. instructions:

You should include on this list 10-12 works from courses you have taken for the major, with no more than 2 works from a single course. You should also give us 2 or 3 issues or questions that have particularly preoccupied you and/or served to unify your interests.

um... there is no unity to my interests. -_-;; i pretty much just took whatever courses sounded interesting. so i'm now trying to remember the texts i've read for my major classes.

Comp. Lit. classes

• Intro. to Comp. Lit. ~ If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, some essays by Montaigne, excerpts from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, a few Borges stories; themes: metafiction
  
• Postcolonial Lit. in English ~ L'amour, la fantasia by Assia Djebar, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats, some poems by Derek Walcott; themes: (de)colonization
  
• Writing the Self ~ Confessions of St. Augustine, letters of Abelard and Heloise, female mystics, Confessio by St. Patrick (printed in green ink! XD!); themes: autobiography (auto + bios + graphe)
  
• Children's Lit. ~ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling, Zel by Donna Jo Napoli, a few fairy tales, some short Victorian didactic fiction for children, The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown; themes: children's literature (duh!)
  
• Philosophical Approaches to Criticism ~ lots of philosophical crap essays, Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche, Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; themes: fluidity of the center, arbitrariness of language
  
• Comp. Lit. 398 ~ "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol; themes: comparative literature (duh!)

English classes

• Historical Intro. to English Poetry I & II ~ um, lots of poetry XD
  
• Victorian Media ~ Cranford and Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell, The Rebel of the Family by Eliza Lynn Linton, Dracula by Bram Stoker, John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope, A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy; themes: growth and development of media (postal service, telephones, telegraphs, etc.), industrialization
  
• Shakespeare ~ Sonnets, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Macbeth, Twelfth Night; themes: soo~ many
  
• Renaissance Travel & Discovery ~ The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Genesis (Memory of Fire Book I) by Eduardo Galeano, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over land by Richard Hakluyt, Naufragios by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Four Voyages of Columbus, excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe and The Travels of Marco Polo; themes: colonization, discovery, history vs. history

Spanish classes

• Escritoras españolas ~ Julia by Ana María Moix, a bunch of short stories; themes: women writers
  
• Crimen y detectives ~ Los mares del sur by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Los siete hijos de Simenon by Ramón Díaz Eterovic, Luna caliente by Mempo Giardinelli, El misterio de la cripta embrujada by Eduardo Mendoza; themes: disillusionment, social commentary
  
• Cine y sociedad en España ~ Viridiana dir. by Luis Buñuel, Flores de otro mundo and Te doy mis ojos dir. by Icíar Bollaín, Bwana dir. by Imanol Uribe, Las cartas de Alou dir. by Montxo Armendáriz, Un caballero andaluz dir. by Luis Lucia, El diputado dir. by Eloy de la Iglesia; themes: minority representation in Spanish films