The reading questions to go with this are those for Derek Walcott and Eavan Boland (for week 9) A list of the intertextual references in Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House” are available in the course notes. Follow some of them up in some depth. Not necessarily all of them, but I strongly recommend [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Blog Question #8 (for week 9)
Posted in blog question on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Blog Question #7
Posted in blog question on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Read Seamus Heaney’s essay “Englands of the Mind.” BRIEFLY (in a paragraph or so) summarize his main arguments, focussing on the distinction he makes between Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin. Be sure you articulate and understand clearly the point he makes about language as history – this ties in with our previous reading, and will [...]
Service Announcement for Camosun Students
Posted in announcements on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Although some of the Camosun college servers are down, you can still access your online courses by typing in the URL’s directly. English 150, 160 and 286 are available on the D2L site Camosun WebCt courses can be accessed at the WebCt site
For your amusement
Posted in humour on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hopefully, you’ll “get” this, now that you’ve read the poem… Originally posted on LiveJournal in “lolauthors.” Used with permission.
Blog Question #6
Posted in blog question on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Time gentlemen please. It’s time” (Oops! right poet, wrong poem – bonus points for identifying them) What do Yeats and Eliot have to say about time (include history here)? How does this compare with what Woolf and Joyce might have said? Ooooh, this looks like it might be a significant question…
Blog Question #5
Posted in Auden, blog question, Eliot, Yeats on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Art, and its relationship to Life (and Death), is an important Modernist theme – as it is in most eras of literature. Do you see any connections between the various authors you have read and the way they deal with this topic? If you have a chance to read ahead to “The Shield of Achilles,” [...]
