So now that I'm not in school nor am I at Char or involved in USY, I am so out of the loop about yom haatsmaut and stuff like that... It is today, right? Is anyone going to the Yom haatsmaut party at the JCC tonight? Or am I just crazy to think people are. I dunno, I've never gone because at Char, all day is fun and games, so I dont have to worry ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've actually written anything on this, but I feel I need to at some point. I am officially on break from school and work until June 23, when precamp starts for my Vaughan Camp. So naturally, i thought I would love the freedom of being able to sit on my ass and do nothing. But I'm utterly bored. I have nothing to do in ( Read more... )

The last post for this course, very sad, although it will not be my last post. For anyone reading this, I will be keeping my blog for purposes other than school ( Read more... )

So I first want to point out that I know I post really early in the week, but its so much easier for me because otherwise I would forget and not blog! And anyways, all the ideas are in my head ( Read more... )

This week's focus was TS Eliot's "The Waste Land". Before I start to rant about what parts mean and what images and themes are evident in Eliot's poem, it is important to understand certain frames of reference Eliot uses. Once you understand these, it is easier to comprehend and henceforth the poem becomes,perhaps, a little clearer. First, we have ( Read more... )

This week there wasn't a lecture, although we did watch an amazing movie about modernism and the art movements that came about around the same time period. However, really, this week is about TS Eliot. Yet, let me just say a little bit about the time period. At that time, the artists started to focus on the idea that the painting is not an illusion ( Read more... )

This week we looked at the world war one poets and the way the war impacted the British culture as well as their lives. Many of the famous poets of this time discussed masculinity, as well as patriotism and even individual alienation. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are the two poets who focused on this week. They represent the two ends of the ( Read more... )

Sincerity and Shrewdness. These are two descriptive elements of Newbolt and Kipling's poetry. To be honest, I have never read or even heard of them as poets, though I have read the Jungle Book and obviously seen the movie. Newbolt was a lawyer, novelist, playwright and magazine editor. Above all, he was a poet who championed the virtues of ( Read more... )

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are the focus this week. Many poets who marry seem to influence each other's poetry, yet if that is so in their writings, it is clearly not evident. However, one thing we can tell and know is that they both supported each other's different style of poetry immensely ( Read more... )

This week, we focused on the poetry of nature. There were three aspects of these poems that were evident and truely important: 1) the nature that these poets (the Romantics) focused on was actually REAL nature, not an alagory or a metaphor like they were in the middle ages. Coleridge and Wordsworth, two of the Romantics who wrote together, and ( Read more... )