Gook Luck to All

Hi Everyone!

Good Luck to your finals!

Reading list

Okay, so here's what I have notes on (thus stuff we covered in class, not the assignments themselves). Anything that doesn't have more specifics means either I didn't have anything marked (though I usually say so) or it was the whole thing.

Authors on the final in RED

Assorted Victorians:
Dover Beach
Invictus
Recessional
The White Man's Burden

Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott (read all from parts 1-4)
Ulysses
Tears, Idle Tears
Charge of the Light Brigade
In Memoriam A.H.H. (read parts 2, 5, 7, 27, 54-56)

Dickens (all Hard Times, obviously):
Chap. 1 - all
Chap. 2 - to top of pg. 8
Chap. 3 - First paragraph, top of 12 to "flower act," last paragraph on 13, halfway through pg. 14 ("Thomas, though I have the fact before me") to end of chapter.
Chap. 5 - up to and including rhyme on pg. 22
Chap. 11 - From top of 58 ("very well") to paragraph about Mrs. Sparsit's eyebrows, halfway down pg. 59 ("I ha' coom") to top of pg. 61 ("Tis just a muddle").
(We then discussed but did not read Book Two, Chapter Four)
Page 222 (last page of book).

George Eliot (all Middlemarch - we read pages out of order, so I present them as we read them according to my notes):
Page 3 (prelude)
Pg. 54 ("But at present this caution") to top of 55.
Pg. 123 - From start of chapter to "spiritual poverty."
Pg. 124 - Second paragraph ("Not that this" to "wadded with stupidity").
Pg. 61 - Second paragraph (short one about converging lives)
Pg. 135 - Last paragraph of chapter
Pp. 379-382 - ("You look very ill" to "a thorough inclination still subsisting" on next page; "Bulstrode felt himself helpless" on 380 to "That was the bear fact" halfway down 382)
Pg. 462 - Last two paragraohs, starting with "'God help you, Harriet!'"
Pg. 464 - "It was eight o'clock" to end of chapter.
Pg. 510 - (It appears I didn't mark this one :/ )
Pg. 514 - Last paragraph at bottom to end of book on next page.

End Victorians.

Begin 20th Century Authors.

(read poems by Hardy, Pund, Owen, Auden, Bennet, Walcott, and Boland that were just to ease us into new era, not for exam)

Joseph Conrad (all from Heart of Darkness)
Pg. 1891 - First two paragraphs
Pg. 1892 - From top ("We looked at the venerable stream") to end of paragraph on next page ("spectral illumination of moonshine"). Continued from there next class to pg. 1894, first paragraph (end with "and offer a sacrifice to").
Pg. 1894 - last paragraph, plus first on page 1895.
Pg. 1896 - Last paragraph (not marked in my book, but aparently we discussed the knitters and "sepulcheral city")
Pg. 1902 - Little paragraph in the middle ("I didn't want any more loitering")
Pg. 1908 - Top of page ("'Tell me, pray'") to halfway down ("also recommended you")
Pg. 1909 - Paragraph starting at bottom of previous page to "He was silent for a while" towards the bottom.
Pg. 1916 - Second paragraph, ending with "Truth stripped of its cloak of time."
Pg. 1941 - Death of Kurtz, from halfway down at "One evening coming in" to "The horror! The horror!"
Pg. 1947 - I don't have any other notation, but we discussed "the lie" and may well have read the whole page.

Yeats: (I must have been knitting that day, because my notes are sparse!)
The Stolen Child
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
Easter 1916 (Note: This poem begins his "middle period")
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
The Circus Animals' Desertion

Virginia Woolf: (Note: beginnings of modernism)
Pg. 2088 (From Modern Fiction, found in the Norton) - From bottom at "If we fasten, then," through most of 2089 to "little other than custom wouldhave us believe it."
From Mrs Dalloway:
Pp. 3-4
Pp. 8-9 - Halfway down at "She would not say" to lines at botom of 9.
Pg. 14 - First full paragraph (on the car attracting attention)
Pg. 16 - Third paragraph (on the car)
Pg. 86 - Full long paragraph
Pg. 88 - Last paragraph to "they had been married five years" on next page.
Pp. 99-101 - From "To his patients" to "was denied to his patients."
Pg. 121 - Last paragraph to last full paragraph on next page ("how, every instant . . .")
Pg. 126 - Paragraph starting halfway down that ends at top of next page.
Pg. 139 - Last full paragraph ("Going and coming" to "fear no more.")
Pg. 149 - "Holmes was coming upstrairs" to "bursting the door open."
Pp. 184-186 - Top at "What business" to "from the little room" 3/4 down 186.

T. S. Eliot:
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Hollow Men

Tradition and the Individual Talent: pg. 2320 (halfway down at "Tradition is a matter" to end of paragrapgh), pg. 2321 (halfway at "He must be quite aware" to "the Magdalenian draftsmen."), pg. 2322 (paragraph on analogy "of the catalyst"), pg. 2324 (halfway at "It is not in his personal emotions" to end of section.)

The Waste Land:
Part I
Part II - From "My nerves are bad tonight" on 2299 to end of part II on 2300.

Question on In Memoriam A.H.H

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering does anyone know what's the significance of In Momoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Tennyson? The only point I wrote down is "In Memoriam stanza: four line iambic tetrameter." I'm wondering what are the other points that I missed out?

FRIDAY STUDY GROUP For those not locked in their room...

This Friday at Noon, in a study room. Who is game? I know Brooke is.

MONDAY 2nd Floor Admissions Room 208 usually makes a good place to study.

I will be there at 1:00pm preparing for the English Final.

Question...

Does any of you know how we are going to be test on the novels? Are we going to be test on the whole novel or only the passages we went through in class?

Study Group

Let's be thinking of a study group a day next week...what do you say?

Mrs. D, and pure panic

Okay, I know this is heresy but is any one else finding Woolf's narration of Mrs. Dalloway somewhat like following the train of thought of someone with ADD? I can envision (somewhat) her narration working better on film than on the printed page.

Anybody up for a study group for the last paper and final?

My apologies if this is incoherent, but it's very difficult to type with a cat on my lap determined to divert me from typing by headbutting my hands.

Susan L.

I am an evil genius

I decided that to make up for my slacking over the break, I'm going to use the hours and hours of reading I need to catch up on this week as a read-a-thon fundraiser for the MS Walk. I hope we get TONS more reading to do this week. Mua ha ha. (I posted about this in my blog, just thought it'd tickle you guys.)

Sorry to wish more reading upon the masses.

Anyone else feeling like they are barely skimming the surface of Heart of Darkness?

Likeable Casaubon?

Hello all,

I'm trying to recall where it is that the narrator of Middlemarch basically says that Casaubon is basically just like us in his flights of fancy and ego. He isn't one of the characters I'm looking at, but I want to use the quote in my essay. We read this passage in class, but I don't have my notes with me this weekend and I'm going nuts trying to find that bit.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and where to find it? I don't remember any of the exact language so searches online haven't helped.

ETA: Okay, I found it on page 54 :)

Caution! MLA 2009 Updated!!!

I went online today and found out that MLA updated the way we do our work cited page.

1. No More Underlining! Underlining is no more.

2. No More URLs!

AND...

For BOOKS it'll look like this:

Carré, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1996. Print.

(I can't indent the line but the indent rule still remains the same)

Other changes please consult--

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/

Peer Review Group for Essay??

Hey y'all...

With our second paper due the Wednesday we come back from spring break, I thought it might be a good idea for some of us to get together before then and peer-review our papers. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm not getting the same grade I got on the first one again!! Plus, it would force us to get them done before Tuesday night...but I digress.

Depending on how many people wanted to do this, we could do one-way trades or bring several copies of our essays for multiple people to read. It's up to you. It would also be helpful to bring Hurley's comments from your first paper so that we won't commit those sins ever again.
A meeting place can be decided on later.

So, any takers?

Middlemarch

Does anyone else find the saintly Dorothea an incredibly rude snob? I've disliked her character from the start. She criticizes her sister for wanting to wear their mother's jewelry and calls the puppy Sir James tries to give her "parasitic." Whe she sees the portrait of Julia-Will's grandmother and Mr. Casaubon's aunt-she says Julia has a "peculiar" face. She has an incredible knack for belittleling everybody else's interests or hobbies because they not self-sacraficing enough.

Okay, I'm done. I'm only half-way through the book. I rented the BBC adaptation which helped make the story arcs clearer.

Study Group--Novels

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone wants to get together to discuss Middlemarch? (Since it's not an easy novel to go over, I think a study group might help) I'm thinking about doing the study group this weekend or the beginning of spring break if that'll work better. Any ideas?

Not quite free recording of Middlemarch

I have just purchased, via iTunes, an audiobook of Middlemarch being read by Sutekh (from a storyline in Doctor Who--in case you hadn't all confirmed my great nerdiness by now), better known as Gabriel Woolf, for roughly $2. The recording quality isn't excellent, but it's less than half what I paid for lunch today, and I need to burn through this book faster, because once again I find that I'm having a hard time oncentrating on it. The entire recording time is about 31 hours. I figure I can get through that fairly well, given that I spent about that this weekend drawing maps for a project in another class.

So if you're like me and comprehend more when listening while you read and have two bucks to spare (which is a STEAL for audiobooks!), I highly recommend checking it out.

Lady of Shalott

painting by John Waterhouse

So, today in class, we discussed "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

I found some pictures, tacky websites, and a song on youtube by Loreena McKennit that I couldn't upload here. (but the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU_Tn-HxULM).

this one's not Pre-Raphaelite, but it's interesting....

websites:

1. Works derived from "The Lady of Shalott" -by people who think about the poem a lot. http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/shalott/derivatives.html

2. Funny picture of The Lady riding a banana instead of a boat: http://www.limpfish.com/pics/46/

3. A website all about the Victorian age. http://www.victorianweb.org/

4. A really tacky website about the poem complete with midi music in the background: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7303/shallot.htm

5. Apparently, there's going to be a film : http://www.theladyofshalott.co.uk/newsite/new%20index.html


It's interesting how obsessed people can get with this poem.

So Quiet!

Yeesh, you take a midterm, get a day off, and everyone gets all quiet!

Let's talk Dickens. How's it going for everyone? Anyone have the uncontrollable urge to punch any characters yet?

I'm actually surprised by how much I'm not hating this book. I am, ehem, not a fan of Dickens, but this is the least painful book I've read by him yet! One or two small characters have been downright likable!

(Sorry if anyone here love Dickens :P)

Form terms for Blake

Hello all!

I'm reviewing notes and annotations and trying to come up with at least four terms for each piece. I'm stuck on Blake's prose pieces, though. I cannot for the life of me remember what the form of "There is No Natural Religion" and "All Religions are One" is called! I'm driven almost to distraction.

Any other terms for the other prose pieces (Keats' letters?) would also be much appreciated.

pop quiz.

What trope (or figure of speech) is at work in Line 30, The Tables Turned.

I'm a nerd. And whoever answers this is as well. Brooke? Anyone?

Tintern Abbey Audio

You must listen to this. Sit back relax and do it.

One more light-hearted link

The poem Oksana mentioned in class Wednesday, "Dover Bitch."

To lighten your studies

While everyone is worrying over Wordsworth, trying to recall the themes of each poem, and counting out beats to see if it's tetrameter, I thought we might lighten the mood a bit with this Wordsworth parody:

A Wordsworthian Nursery Rhyme

If you've grown up with Mother Goose rhymes, you should laugh when you figure out what the author is doing :) It is followed by "An Argument with Wordsworth."

Taken from this lovely website: Wordsworth.org.uk

Oscar Wilde Quote/relevant

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Nothing to do with class, but......

Hey everybody!

I'm doing this photo project and I was wondering if I could get anyone to get their picture taken with their favorite word? Or a few words that describe yourself. It's sort of literal and conceptual. For example, my friend Casey's word is "F**ck!" and I'm going to set up a scenario where she would use her word and take a picture of it. And my friend Mayalin's words are "energetic" and "talkative"- so I'm going to be using some props like her running shoes and a telephone.

So, if anyone's interested, please email me! I would be so grateful! I'll give you a copy of my prints!

Sarah Kim - elephantsnake@hotmail.com

And good luck everybody on the test!

study group today!!!

There will a study group today at the DVC library from 12 to 5. Feel free to come at any time!

We'll hopefully have a room but I don't know which ones it will be. Call or text me at (925) 588-9303 to say you're coming and so I can tell you where to go.

See you there!

Study Group!!

Hey all!!

Anybody interested in a study group(s) this weekend can email me at oyurovsky@gmail.com

I'm currently planning a study session based on those who got back to me... I'll post the date, place, and time of that when I get it figure out...

Happy studying! ;)

Poems and other things discussed in class (Who knows, maybe Mr. Hurley can clarify if there are any mistakes, uhhh ummm)\

Potential Poems on Midterm: (I would compare these with Brooke's post)

Alexander Pope (handout) 18C

· An Essay on Criticism

· An Essay on Man

Thomas Gray (handout)18C

· Elegy in a Country Courtyard

Samuel Johnson (handout) 18C

From “the Preface to Shakespeare”


Blake-(romantic period) Songs of Innocence and Experience


· All Religions are One 79-81

· There is No Natural Religion 80


· Songs of Innocence—81

o Introduction 81

o The Lamb 83

o The Little Black Boy 84

o Chimney Sweeper 85

· Songs of Experience 87

o Introduction 87

o The Chimney Sweeper 90

o The Tyger

o London 94

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

o The Voice of the Devil 112-113

o Proverbs of Hell 113 (the road of excess leads to the power of wisdom)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads 262

What is a poet? 269

Wordsworth (Romantic Period)

· We are seven (part of Lyrical Ballads 248 )story Poem.

· Lines Written in Early Spring 250

· Expostulation and Reply 250

· The Tables Turned 251

· Tintern Abby 258-262 (Lines1 258 (Tintern Abby) (ln 23) (entirety)

· My Heart Leaps Up 306

· Ode: Intimations of Immortality 307

S 2 page 308

S 5 309

S 8

S 9

S 10

· To Toussaint l’ Ouverture 318

· Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 320

· The Prelude 322-389

o Pg 324

o Pg 325

o Pg 330

§ Lines 269, 301

Pg 332, 338 344, 362, 364, 374, 377

· Preface to Lyrical Ballads 262-274(263 264 266 269 273)

· From Lyrical Ballads 274—317

· Sonnets 317

Samuel David Coleridge 424 intro (Romantic)—

§ The Eolian Harp 426

§ Rime of the Ancient Mariner—430-446

§ Biographia Literaria 474-491

John Keats—(Romantic)878-880 (ekphrasis) Writing about an artwork

· On seeing the Elgin Marbles 883

· On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 880

· The Eve of St Agnes 888 (ambiguous ending)

· La Belle Dame sans Merci (A Ballad) 899(internal Dialogue happening)

· Ode to a Nightingale 903-905

· Ode on a Grecian Urn 905-906

· From letters 942-943 George and Thomas Keats-----John Hamilton Reynolds, To Richard Woodhouse

Some help on that request below

I don't have much in my notes either. See comments for a critique pulled from DVC's literature resource center.

That link is here for future reference.

Click the Literature Resource Center(top with red star) and login using your student ID.

Questions on Wordsworth's poem

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone knows what's the "significance" about Wordsworth's poems "Expostulation and Rely" and "The Tables Turned"?

I tried to search my notes but found out I had nothing to offer for these two poems.

STUDY GROUP TODAY!! Wednesday 3/11

LIBRARY, ROOM: 207

RESERVED 1-4PM

See you there.

Read in class

As far as my notes, annotations, and memory serve me, these are the readings we've done in class:

• Alexander Pope (all excerpts in handout) - An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism
• Thomas Gray (in handout) - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
• Samuel Johnson (excerpt in handout) - "The Preface to Shakespeare"
• William Blake - "All Religions Are One," From Songs of Innocence: "Introduction," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Chimney Sweeper." (Note: I don't recall if this was discussed or not. Anyone?) From Songs of Experience: "Introduction," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Tyger," "London," "A Poison Tree." Very briefly, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (not on the reading list).
• William Wordsworth - "We Are Seven," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Tintern Abbey" (technically called "Lines"), "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Ode" (Intimations of Immortality), "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways," "The Prelude."
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "The Eolian Harp," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" (first day of class--will not be on exam), Biographia Literaria.
• John Keats - "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On Seeing the Elegin Marbles," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Letters: To George and Thomas Keats (negative capability), To John Hamilton Reynolds (Wordsworth's Poetry), To Richard Woodhouse (A poet has no identity).

Let me know of any errors or ommisions, and I'll update accordingly. Also, if anyone noted which stanzas and sections exactly we read of the longer works, I'll be forever indebted. I didn't write them down, and I can't always recall which notes were done in a class and which out.

Literary terms

Well, I meant to post today the full list of terms we should have looked up, but when I went to compile the list, I discovered that all but three of my homework assignment handouts are missing! This is all very alarming, as I tend not to remove them unless I'm immediately referencing what I'm supposed to read. So here is a very abbreviated version of the list:

Jan. 26 to Feb. 4 - neoclassicism, wit, heroic couplet, meter, elegy, romanticism, Romantic Period in English Literature, quatrain, rhyme, rhyme scheme, lyric, ballad, verse, prose.

Feb. 9 to Feb. 18 - form, structure, style, diction, poetic diction, verse, prose, ode, sonnet, the sublime, imagination.

Feb. 23 to March 4 - Theoretical criticism, practical criticism, medievalism (under medieval), aestheticism, aesthetics, Spenserian stanza.

March 9 to March 18 - negative capability

Anyone care to help fill in gaps? I can then edit to add the other terms here, so we have a full list of terms posted in one place. Next up, all the works we read in class and thus may be on the exam.

EDIT: Okay, I have found one more page. I am still missing at least one!

Midterm Preparation Study Group?

Hi all!

Since the midterm is coming up on the 16th, I was wondering if anybody wants to form a study group to help prepare for it? All of those interested could meet in one group or we can separate into smaller groups, depending one everyone's schedules and locations. It'll be fun!
Maybe I'll make zucchini bread...!

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

I think looking at John Keat's original manuscript of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" might be interesting.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia derives its name from the Ancient Greek (syn), which means “with,” and (aisthēsis), meaning “sensation.” The condition is neurologically-based in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway causes an involuntary, separate response in another sensory or cognitive pathway.

In Romantic poetry and in nineteenth-century French Symbolism, Literary synaesthesia typically contributes to some undifferentiated emotional quality characteristic of certain altered states of consciousness--"vague, dreamy, or uncanny hallucinatory moods" (Stanford)--or a strange, magical experience or heightened mystery. In some varieties of mannerist poetry, as in some modernist and seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry, by contrast, synaesthesia typically makes for a witty quality. How can we account for this contrast? According to Coleridge, imagination involves "the balance and reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities" (Biographia Literaria, ch. 4). I submit that when the "opposite or discordant qualities" are more emphasized in a poem, the effect is witty; when their "reconciliation," the effect is emotional. The poet may manipulate attention, by rhetorical means, to the discordant qualities or their reconciliation. Synaesthesia (as well as the oxymoron) violently yokes together opposite or discordant qualities, inducing tension. So, it may contribute to a witty context, metaphysical or modernist. There may be, however, elements in a context that mitigate the perceived clash of opposites, one of them being heightened emotional energy; another, imagined spatial orientation. In such instances, synaesthesia (and oxymoron) reinforces rather than disrupts emotional qualities in poetry. (1)

Source Citation: Tsur, Reuven. "Issues in literary synaesthesia." Style. 41.1 (Spring 2007): p30. Literature Resource Center. Gale. DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE. 23 Feb. 2009 .

MP3 for Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Hy everyone, I know my comprehension goes way up when I can hear what I'm reading (which is why most of my useful annotations happen in class), so I've started regularly checking Project Gutenberg and Librivox for all of the lengthier poems we read. Sadly, I was unable to find a good (safe and free) MP3 for Wordsworth's Prelude, but I just found a fantastic recording via Project Gutenberg for Rime of the Ancient Mariner here.

Even though I've read the poem before (in high school), I find that I really absorb more and recall more later if I can hear another voice speak while I read. I find myself zoning out to longer poems when I just read aloud myself.

Albatross

Hello everyone: Would anyone like to explain what they think about the albatross being killed in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? It's symbolism perhaps.

Coleridge, Wordsworth, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Click here for audio file.

Unfamiliarity

I must admit, I'm having a terrible time beginning to construct ideas of comparison between these poems. My unfamiliarity of literature is really getting to me. I will continue.

Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808"

Music???

I know we don't have enough time in class to do this, but is anyone interested in listening to some of the music of the period? It seems the musical world was undergoing the same kind of changes as the literary, thought it might be interesting to take a look.

Study tool

Hey everyone,

here's a Norton study tool.

Hi Folks: Brooke, thanks for posting your painting, but it's not the same one (by Poussin) that I posted. Yours looks like a seventeenth century Dutch seascape. Do you see classical features in it?
Tom H.

BTW, here's the link to the Poussin: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=113640&handle=li

Landscape with a Calm

Hello all!

I'm Brooke, the one with the big long Dr Who scarf who knits in class ;)

I thought having some links to the picture we looked at in class might be nice:

This one is the site we looked at.

This one is slightly larger on a dark background, but with some distracting elements around it.

Have a good weekend!

Brooke