These last couple of days have been pretty tumultuous. So many things have been happening, and I keep forgetting what day it is because I skipped uni on Monday (ooah, naughty me). One good thing is that I've discovered Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. It is exactly what I want to read right now in my life, being very excited about my trip next year ( Read more... )

This morning I'm on hold with the Sherriff's office to see if I'm excused from jury duty. I've been on hold for 13 minutes so I thought I would start typing. My head is at a funny angle though, due to the need to keep the phone attached to my ear. So soon I will be stiff and uncomfortable but I will keep writing and listening to the hold music ( Read more... )

Hey guys, not feeling my best this week so I’m going to try and be brief. I’ve got my Nescafe by my side, the sun’s coming through the blinds, trusty hanky nearby, and Ghosts album softly playing in the background (my muse music).

I’ll start by looking at one of the questions Michael gave us this week.

“Identify the elements that give verbal/ ( Read more... )

Yay! Halfway through the semester! You can tell we are all getting a bit tired and lost because in the tutorials it's "yep... metaph.. yep. Example? I don't know.....? *Silence*" Then MG, "*frustrated sigh*". Well, hopefully easter will fix all that. Jesus died on the cross for something after all... salvation of our brains. (Oh slack, sorry ( Read more... )

A short story- Love and the Stacks.

Linda walks down the twisted staircase into the cool concrete world of the stacks. She’s at work but down here it feels like no one will ever bother her. She likes to be alone, though most of the other librarians hate it down here. They say they can feel someone watching them as they search for ancient books on ( Read more... )

Lj comment Hello! You have some interesting thoughts on The Nymph's Reply, and I agree with you in that the nymph is not necessarily cynical about love, more that she is cautious in accepting his proposal. Maybe she is older and/or has been burned by love before. She seems to wrestle with the idea of taking him up on the offer but is too driven by ( Read more... )

Week 3

This week I‘d like to discuss some of the moon imagery passages we studied in class from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (or Midnight Summer’s Dream, as the kind lady in the video shop kept calling it).


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Shakespeare and Boticelli question from tute-

Q: How are language and imagery in Shakespeare (Venus and Adonis) and Boticelli (‘s Birth of Venus) comparable? What are the features of language that animate Shakespeare’s description of the mating horses? What is the purpose of this extended description?

Firstly, Boticelli’s portrait of Venus is gentle ( Read more... )

Well here we are again! I would like to talk about Thomas Campion's 'I care not for these ladies', with Shakespeare's sonnet 130.

Campion's villanelle describes his longing for a relationship with a simple country girl who is naturally beautiful rather than the shallow ladies of court- the women on top of the social ladder who demand gifts and ( Read more... )

So I'm at work... thinking about something poetic-ish to describe. But stupid customers keep interrupting me. When will this end? Am I going to be a slave forever? Don't get me wrong, I like my job. I like the people I work with. Well, mostly. But for god's sake, I feel like I'm sweeping up the shit of society. It could only be worse in the ( Read more... )