Food and poetryneogadflySeptember 5 2006, 00:44:06 UTC
Hey, I just thought of a use for your graduate degree. Maybe you could convince the Food Network to give you a show called "Food and Poetry," where you could whip up some amazing new recipe while reciting the works of Elizabeth Barret Browning and John Dryden.
Browning, eh? So you're not limiting yourself to the 18th century?
Anyway, I reread her poem "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." I always thought it had become a cliche, like those old war horses of classical music I once wrote about. But like those pieces, it really IS that good.
Still, whenever I read or hear that poem, I am reminded of The Count from Sesame Street:
(read with Transylvanian accent) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR...
Re: Food and poetrycanivolterrianiSeptember 5 2006, 02:09:01 UTC
Hmm, sadly, I don't think the FoodNetwork would go for that. Though my backup plan is becoming a nutritional anthropologist (that is, after going back to school for about 10 more years... or more) and then taking a crack at becoming the Good Eats nutritional anthropologist.
Eh, I'll pass on "How do I love thee?" though yeah, I just reread it, and it's not as bad as the opening throughout. It's a bit like the work of hers that I'm reading right now (Aurora Leigh): quite fine in parts, but there are those certain lines that make you want to throw the book across the room. I'll take the Count over EBB.
And yeah, I'm going to make the long 18th century the very long 18th century and probably make the vickies my secondary field. It's the way most people go if they want to market themselves as a teacher of the novel. That and I hate most Vickies (critics mostly) so much that they're actually fun to study. I'm weird like that.
Aurora LeighneogadflySeptember 5 2006, 03:18:11 UTC
I started reading it (for procrastination purposes of course), and my thoughts on getting through about a third of the first book was that it's long, wordy, kvetchy, and not that good. "Of writing many books there is no end": it seems like this poem has no end. I'm impressed by your ability to get through it all. Maybe I'll try again another time when I''m not so tired and grumpy.
I like your plan, though, to do another 10 years of grad school before becoming a nutritional anthropologist. Because anything that prolongs your time in grad school and delays your having a Real Job can only be a Good Thing.
Re: Aurora LeighcanivolterrianiSeptember 5 2006, 17:44:01 UTC
Yeah, it's a rough beginning in AL, but I started to enjoy it after that first book. It's either that style curve you have to get over when reading any poetry, or else the first book really was that bad. (I think it's a bit of both.)
Though I miss having a real job. And the real world, too.
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Browning, eh? So you're not limiting yourself to the 18th century?
Anyway, I reread her poem "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." I always thought it had become a cliche, like those old war horses of classical music I once wrote about. But like those pieces, it really IS that good.
Still, whenever I read or hear that poem, I am reminded of The Count from Sesame Street:
(read with Transylvanian accent)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways:
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR...
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Eh, I'll pass on "How do I love thee?" though yeah, I just reread it, and it's not as bad as the opening throughout. It's a bit like the work of hers that I'm reading right now (Aurora Leigh): quite fine in parts, but there are those certain lines that make you want to throw the book across the room. I'll take the Count over EBB.
And yeah, I'm going to make the long 18th century the very long 18th century and probably make the vickies my secondary field. It's the way most people go if they want to market themselves as a teacher of the novel. That and I hate most Vickies (critics mostly) so much that they're actually fun to study. I'm weird like that.
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"Of writing many books there is no end": it seems like this poem has no end. I'm impressed by your ability to get through it all. Maybe I'll try again another time when I''m not so tired and grumpy.
I like your plan, though, to do another 10 years of grad school before becoming a nutritional anthropologist. Because anything that prolongs your time in grad school and delays your having a Real Job can only be a Good Thing.
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Though I miss having a real job. And the real world, too.
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